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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 4d

I cannot stop thinking about this video....heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing.

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 4d

There is a matching campaign today for the Berkeley Basic Needs Center to help @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social students dealing with reduced CalFresh (SNAP) benefits. Give if you can! crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/48580

Support Basic Needs at Berkeley!

Help UC Berkeley students access food during the government shutdown.

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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 6d

fantastic - congratulations!

Ben Sivyer @bensivyer.bsky.social · 6d

We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.

Chiara Fornetto @chiarafornetto.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to share our paper now published in Cell!
'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background'

Huge thanks to @neurofishh.bsky.social & @teuler.bsky.social

@cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social

👇🏻
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background

Vertebrate eyes first evolved in water, where spectral content rapidly fades with distance. Zebrafish exploit this loss by antagonizing cone signals to suppress the background, pointing to distance es...

www.cell.com

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 10d

Run-roh! Dr. Karina Bistrong’s last day in the lab. It was celebrated Scooby-Doo style 🐾🔍 She’s off to NYU for a postdoc with the exciting new lab run by @alicemosberger@bluesky.social — onward to solving the mysteries of motor systems!

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 11d

💔🧠

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · 22d

miriam! thanks for letting us know the sad news and for the great photo.

Piali Sengupta @senguptalab.bsky.social · 23d

Neuroscientists say No Kings

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Oct 11

Appreciating the art with fellow @annualreviews.bsky.social for vision science board members Roland Fleming and @shinyanishida.bsky.social .

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Oct 9

din’t miss the video!!

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Oct 9

AMAZING!! 🎉👏👁️🧠🤓

UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · Oct 8

Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award - Berkeley News

Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

news.berkeley.edu

UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social · Oct 8

Teresa Puthussery, a UC Berkeley vision scientist whose insights into the retina could one day help those with vision loss regain their sight, has been named a 2025 MacArthur “genius” Fellow. news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

Vision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award - Berkeley News

Puthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss

news.berkeley.edu

Erik Van Dis @erikvandis.bsky.social · Oct 6

Timely piece on the importance and safety of “gain-of-function” research, from my brilliant PhD advisor Sarah Stanley www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all

Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

www.statnews.com

Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · Sep 30

The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Vision Science is now online. The most read article so far is "Behavior-Specific Computations in the Vertebrate Retina" arevie.ws/46HMEjd @serenariccitelli.bsky.social @annaintegrated.bsky.social @katrinfranke.bsky.social

TOC: arevie.ws/3Wklava

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Sep 28

a must read for anyone interested visual cortex plasticity - a fresh look at some textbook models and a fun read. congratulations to the authors!

David @dav1dcg.bsky.social · Sep 28

A Critical Look at Critical Periods

Great review of the critical period in the visual cortex. Nice evolutionary perspective, covering the key papers and mechanisms, and proposing a continuous process of plasticity that already starts before eye opening.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

A Critical Look at Critical Periods | Annual Reviews

Over the past decade and a half, a new understanding has emerged of the role of vision during the critical period in the primary visual cortex. Rather than driving competition for cortical space, visi...

www.annualreviews.org

David @dav1dcg.bsky.social · Sep 28

A Critical Look at Critical Periods

Great review of the critical period in the visual cortex. Nice evolutionary perspective, covering the key papers and mechanisms, and proposing a continuous process of plasticity that already starts before eye opening.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

A Critical Look at Critical Periods | Annual Reviews

Over the past decade and a half, a new understanding has emerged of the role of vision during the critical period in the primary visual cortex. Rather than driving competition for cortical space, visi...

www.annualreviews.org

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Sep 6

Representing @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #Neuroscience chair @danfeldman.bsky.social and @standupforscience.bsky.social at annual #BT5k fundraiser for brain tumor research. GO BEARS!

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you are a PhD student planning to graduate in Spring 2026, think about applying for a miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship. And if you are interested in development/neural circuits, I am happy to sponsor your nomination! email me....

Miller Fellowship

UC Berkeley Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

miller.berkeley.edu

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 20

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

Assistant Professor - Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 15

loved it

Santiago Rompani @santiagorompani.bsky.social · Aug 9

The lab's first paper is out!

We find that pupil constriction in mice drives strong retinal activity in vivo, and that humans can also perceive pupil-shaped stimulus. This has repercussions for anybody using pupillometry.

🧵1/n

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#neuroskyence #neuroscience #neuro

Pupil size modulation drives retinal activity in mice and shapes human perception - Nature Communications

The pupil is known to assist retinal adaptation to light level changes. Here, the authors find a mechanism for how the pupillary light reflex drives monocular and binocular retinal activity in mice an...

www.nature.com

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 7

A giant YES for @gliangel.bsky.social for this incredible honor. Great news for Angel, the lab, and the greater neuroscience ( neuroscience.berkeley.edu/grad ) and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social communities. We look forward to being a part of this fantastic community. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Mora Ogando @moraogando.bsky.social · Aug 5

Thrilled to share our new Adesnik lab paper!!
Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations
📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1
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Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 1

Turns out that the “loudest” neurons are not always the most relevant ones. Great article about a fascinating and important result by @hayleybounds.bsky.social , graduate of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social neuroscience.

Hayley Bounds @hayleybounds.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @ldattaro.bsky.social for this coverage of our recent paper!

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 31

Some neurons respond more strongly to visual stimuli than others. But the rest of the brain doesn’t prioritize signals from those neurons, according to a new study. Read more in this month’s Null and Noteworthy.

By @ldattaro.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...

Hayley Bounds @hayleybounds.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks to @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @ldattaro.bsky.social for this coverage of our recent paper!

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Jul 31

Some neurons respond more strongly to visual stimuli than others. But the rest of the brain doesn’t prioritize signals from those neurons, according to a new study. Read more in this month’s Null and Noteworthy.

By @ldattaro.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/null-and-not...

Null and Noteworthy: Downstream brain areas read visual cortex signals en masse in mice

The finding contradicts a theory that the regions prioritize neurons that are adept at identifying specific stimuli. Plus, a response to a study that questioned immune memory in astrocytes.

www.thetransmitter.org

Marla Feller @mfeller.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks to @rachanads.bsky.social and the rest of my awesome lab for hosting lawrencehallofscience.org/visitors/tee... for a day in lab.

Anne West @ennatsew.bsky.social · Jul 27

The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to west@neuro.duke.edu.

Miriam B. Goodman, PhD @wormsense.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hey 🧪 I’m looking for a sci-savvy illustrator to build a cartoon-style schematic for a paper about summer research experiences. HMU if this describes you or your side gig.

christine liu @christineliu.art · Jul 8

🧠 Join the JNeuro Early Career Advisory Board! 🧪

A great way to learn about the world of publishing and support other early career researchers by sharing your perspectives!

Apps due July 18

www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...

Call for Applications: ECR Advisory Board | Journal of Neuroscience

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