Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)
@sarathomasy.bsky.social
A veterinary ophthalmologist @ucdavis, 👁 scientist, & mom looking to make the 🌎 clearer for people & animals. Co-director of CMSTP T32 for DVMs getting their PhD. Views are my own. 🐴🦜🥰
https://covsl.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/
https://covsl.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/
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Want a #PhD or #MS in #biomedical research? We conduct interdisciplinary, collaborative mechanistic & translational research in many disciplines @ucdavis. A 🧵 integrativepath.vetmed.ucdavis.edu Register for our town hall: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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Great opportunity for prospective grad students in integrative pathobiology. Info on how to register for virtual open house on October 30 below.
Prospective students, join us for our virtual open house on Oct 30 from 12-1 pm PST to get all your questions answered, register here: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Great opportunity for prospective grad students in integrative pathobiology. Info on how to register for virtual open house on October 30 below.
Prospective students, join us for our virtual open house on Oct 30 from 12-1 pm PST to get all your questions answered, register here: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Prospective students, join us for our virtual open house on Oct 30 from 12-1 pm PST to get all your questions answered, register here: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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It was Goodall's trailblazing research on the personalities and social interactions of the chimpanzees she so closely studied that changed the way we view our connection to the animal kingdom.
Jane Goodall Dies at 91 While on Speaking Tour: She Was a 'Tireless Advocate' for Nature
Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist and animal welfare advocate who became the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after spending decades studying them in the wild in Tanzania's Gombe Stream...
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October 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It was Goodall's trailblazing research on the personalities and social interactions of the chimpanzees she so closely studied that changed the way we view our connection to the animal kingdom.
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Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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It’s Thom Stark talking about the role of double cones (PR5,6) in frogs at #Visionarium2025
September 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It’s Thom Stark talking about the role of double cones (PR5,6) in frogs at #Visionarium2025
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It’s @pahlberglab.bsky.social talking about his work in the origin of dark continuous noise in rod photoreceptors at #Visionarium2025
September 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It’s @pahlberglab.bsky.social talking about his work in the origin of dark continuous noise in rod photoreceptors at #Visionarium2025
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It’s Julia Fadjukov speaking about her work Toward a Unified Typology of Mouse Amacrine Cells: Electrophysiology, Transcriptomics, and Large-Scale EM at #Visionarium2025
September 27, 2025 at 7:24 AM
It’s Julia Fadjukov speaking about her work Toward a Unified Typology of Mouse Amacrine Cells: Electrophysiology, Transcriptomics, and Large-Scale EM at #Visionarium2025
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It’s Bastien Clémot talking about his work in 3D reconstruction of insects’ movements to explore compensation for
visual noise at #Visionarium2025
visual noise at #Visionarium2025
September 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It’s Bastien Clémot talking about his work in 3D reconstruction of insects’ movements to explore compensation for
visual noise at #Visionarium2025
visual noise at #Visionarium2025
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It’s Eric Warrant talking about Australian Bogong moths use the stars and the Earth’s magnetic field as compasses for long-distance navigation at night at #Visionarium2025
September 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s Eric Warrant talking about Australian Bogong moths use the stars and the Earth’s magnetic field as compasses for long-distance navigation at night at #Visionarium2025
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It’s @vancedberg.bsky.social at #Visionarium2025 talking about Polarization vision in marine Invertebrates.
September 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It’s @vancedberg.bsky.social at #Visionarium2025 talking about Polarization vision in marine Invertebrates.
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It’s Yakir Gagnon talking about his work integrating Software Engineering and Sensory Ecology: Tools for
Understanding Animal Orientation at #Visionarium2025
Understanding Animal Orientation at #Visionarium2025
September 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It’s Yakir Gagnon talking about his work integrating Software Engineering and Sensory Ecology: Tools for
Understanding Animal Orientation at #Visionarium2025
Understanding Animal Orientation at #Visionarium2025
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It’s Noora Nevala talking at #Visionarium2025 about live zebrafish as a model to study photoreceptor phagocytosis by RPE
September 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It’s Noora Nevala talking at #Visionarium2025 about live zebrafish as a model to study photoreceptor phagocytosis by RPE
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It’s William Lunt talking at #Visionarium2025 about cephalopod’s guide to hide and seek: intensity contrast drives background choice in cephalopods
September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It’s William Lunt talking at #Visionarium2025 about cephalopod’s guide to hide and seek: intensity contrast drives background choice in cephalopods
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September 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
We had an amazing @GGIPstudents symposium with keynote @quinascience.bsky.social and @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social associate dean of research and graduate education Danika Bannasch.
September 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
We had an amazing @GGIPstudents symposium with keynote @quinascience.bsky.social and @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social associate dean of research and graduate education Danika Bannasch.
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Gave a talk @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social and one of my former @ucibiosci.bsky.social students was there! I love seeing my students continue in their education. Highlight of my day.
September 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Gave a talk @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social and one of my former @ucibiosci.bsky.social students was there! I love seeing my students continue in their education. Highlight of my day.
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Aaron is an expert on immigration policy and issues
Take this seriously
Take this seriously
September 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Aaron is an expert on immigration policy and issues
Take this seriously
Take this seriously
Super excited to contribute to this wonderful work from the Yiu lab @ucd_eyecenter and @CNPRCresearch looking at how systemic lipids and glucose affect drusen progression in a 🐒 model. doi.org/10.1167/iovs...
September 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Super excited to contribute to this wonderful work from the Yiu lab @ucd_eyecenter and @CNPRCresearch looking at how systemic lipids and glucose affect drusen progression in a 🐒 model. doi.org/10.1167/iovs...
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@ucdavis.bsky.social had a great representation at the BAVRD!
September 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
@ucdavis.bsky.social had a great representation at the BAVRD!
Super proud of Drs. Handel, Lim, and Ripolles-Garcia and Ms. Khan for representing COVSL at the Bay Area Vision Research Day! #visionscience
September 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Super proud of Drs. Handel, Lim, and Ripolles-Garcia and Ms. Khan for representing COVSL at the Bay Area Vision Research Day! #visionscience
Super proud of the great research these two STARs - Jillyan and Jennifer - did @ucdavis.bsky.social. This amazing program giving DVMs a summer research experience was partially funded by NIH but sadly no longer. #science #visionscience @altnih4science.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Super proud of the great research these two STARs - Jillyan and Jennifer - did @ucdavis.bsky.social. This amazing program giving DVMs a summer research experience was partially funded by NIH but sadly no longer. #science #visionscience @altnih4science.bsky.social
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My @i2sysbio.es colleagues, led by Javier Buceta @javierbuceta.bsky.social, published a paper in Nature Communications! They used a multidisciplinary approach to show that E. coli filaments undergo a growth-induced buckling instability. Congratulations! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🧬🧫🦠🖥 #microsky
🧪🧬🧫🦠🖥 #microsky
E. coli filament buckling modulates Min patterning and cell division - Nature Communications
Bacterial filamentation alters cell geometry, impacting spatial regulation of division. Here, the authors show that E. coli filament buckling modulates Min protein dynamics and determines division sit...
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September 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My @i2sysbio.es colleagues, led by Javier Buceta @javierbuceta.bsky.social, published a paper in Nature Communications! They used a multidisciplinary approach to show that E. coli filaments undergo a growth-induced buckling instability. Congratulations! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🧬🧫🦠🖥 #microsky
🧪🧬🧫🦠🖥 #microsky
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We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!
www.wur.nl
September 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!
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not just CDC...
Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...
Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations
Whistleblower complaints by two former top NIH officials offer their inside accounts of the Trump administration’s targeting of vaccine science.
www.statnews.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
not just CDC...