Jorge Otero-Millan
@joteromillan.bsky.social
Studying eye movements. Asst. Prof. @ Berkeley.
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Excited for our study on the importance of mobility screening and referral in AMD to be finally published! www.ajo.com/article/S000.... In it @kate-agathos.bsky.social, Dr. Don Fletcher, and I show that over half of patients screened had balance/mobility concerns.
Importance of screening for contrast sensitivity, falls, and mobility limitations in older adults with maculopathy
Falls are a major and growing concern as they are the second leading cause of unintentional
injury deaths worldwide1 and the mortality rate of falls in individuals over 65 is
increasing.2 Falls among ...
www.ajo.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Excited for our study on the importance of mobility screening and referral in AMD to be finally published! www.ajo.com/article/S000.... In it @kate-agathos.bsky.social, Dr. Don Fletcher, and I show that over half of patients screened had balance/mobility concerns.
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Our multi-sensory integration Neuro-AI paper is now published in J Neurosci
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Beyond divisive normalization: Scalable feed-forward networks for multisensory integration across reference frames
The integration of multiple sensory inputs is essential for human perception and action in uncertain environments. This process includes reference frame transformations as different sensory signals ar...
www.jneurosci.org
September 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Our multi-sensory integration Neuro-AI paper is now published in J Neurosci
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada.
First 6.....
6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute.
lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA
see thread for the next 6.
First 6.....
6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute.
lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA
see thread for the next 6.
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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July 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada.
First 6.....
6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute.
lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA
see thread for the next 6.
First 6.....
6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute.
lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA
see thread for the next 6.
So great to be in Baltimore celebrating the career or David Zee. Loved to see so many old friends and eating a bunch of crabs.
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So great to be in Baltimore celebrating the career or David Zee. Loved to see so many old friends and eating a bunch of crabs.
Special day today. Graduated my first student! So proud of Stephanie!
May 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Special day today. Graduated my first student! So proud of Stephanie!
having a great time at @vssmtg.bsky.social !
Looking forward to see many colleages again this summar at the Eye Movements GRC www.grc.org/eye-movement...
Still time to submit an application until June 8th!
Looking forward to see many colleages again this summar at the Eye Movements GRC www.grc.org/eye-movement...
Still time to submit an application until June 8th!
2025 Eye Movements Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements will be held in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
May 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
having a great time at @vssmtg.bsky.social !
Looking forward to see many colleages again this summar at the Eye Movements GRC www.grc.org/eye-movement...
Still time to submit an application until June 8th!
Looking forward to see many colleages again this summar at the Eye Movements GRC www.grc.org/eye-movement...
Still time to submit an application until June 8th!
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Supercool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A non-image-forming visual circuit mediates the innate fear of heights in male mice - Nature Communications
The neural basis underlying fear of heights is not well understood. Here the authors identify, in mice, a subcortical route for innate fear of heights, bypassing the primary visual cortex.
www.nature.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Supercool. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The research enterprise is invaluable. We can easily see its importance in the cures or technologies available today. But sometimes it's difficult to see what research brings to people in the shorter term. Here is one of our participants talking about what it's meant to her. youtu.be/Yn9ywYj3UYQ
SKERI • Iris Thanking Eye-Head Movement Lab (Subtitled Version)
YouTube video by The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
youtu.be
April 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The research enterprise is invaluable. We can easily see its importance in the cures or technologies available today. But sometimes it's difficult to see what research brings to people in the shorter term. Here is one of our participants talking about what it's meant to her. youtu.be/Yn9ywYj3UYQ
UNREAL ... why?
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April 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
UNREAL ... why?
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#BREAKING: A vehicle fire in the Caldecott Tunnel has shut down eastbound Highway 24, officials say. nbcbay.com/guz8hLD
April 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
#BREAKING: A vehicle fire in the Caldecott Tunnel has shut down eastbound Highway 24, officials say. nbcbay.com/guz8hLD
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This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale
Image display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing.
www.science.org
April 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS.
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies.
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
University of California sets hiring freeze in anticipation of Trump cuts
The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to try to mitigate the impact of sharp cuts in federal funding.
www.reuters.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze. This affects not 1 but 10 campuses (including UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, UC San Diego among others) plus 3 national labs with impact on medical and scientific research and local economies.
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...
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Anyone interested in faculty positions in Canada? If so, check out the very special Canada Excellence Research Chairs program.
www.cerc.gc.ca/home-accueil...
The next competition is about to be announced and it requires "matchmaking", i.e. specific recruitment of an identified person!
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www.cerc.gc.ca/home-accueil...
The next competition is about to be announced and it requires "matchmaking", i.e. specific recruitment of an identified person!
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Canada Excellence Research Chairs - Home
The CERC Program offers eligible Canadian degree-granting universities the opportunity to establish research Chairs at their institutions in research areas that are of strategic importance to Canada.
www.cerc.gc.ca
December 5, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Anyone interested in faculty positions in Canada? If so, check out the very special Canada Excellence Research Chairs program.
www.cerc.gc.ca/home-accueil...
The next competition is about to be announced and it requires "matchmaking", i.e. specific recruitment of an identified person!
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www.cerc.gc.ca/home-accueil...
The next competition is about to be announced and it requires "matchmaking", i.e. specific recruitment of an identified person!
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Amazing sad story
American Chestnut Full Story
YouTube video by Yankee Valley Outdoors
youtu.be
December 5, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Amazing sad story
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Have you been here? The view serves as a reminder of what we are working to protect.
December 4, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Have you been here? The view serves as a reminder of what we are working to protect.
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OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
The renamed:
Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)