Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
@skeriresearch.bsky.social
An independent nonprofit in San Francisco working to improve understanding, diagnosis, treatment, & rehabilitation of human visual disorders and blindness. RTs≠endorsements.
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A second fellowship position at SKERI, funded for 2 years and open to all applicants, is now available! See below for details about us and the application process 👇🏼
#postdoc #neurojobs
#postdoc #neurojobs
🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A second fellowship position at SKERI, funded for 2 years and open to all applicants, is now available! See below for details about us and the application process 👇🏼
#postdoc #neurojobs
#postdoc #neurojobs
🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
Our event, Scaling Up Accessible Tactile Maps & 3D Models, showcased how visual & spatial data can be transformed into touchable formats.
Huge thanks to Mykhailo Boiko from Rivne Applied College of Information Technology, who traveled from Rivne, Ukraine, for this international collaboration.
Huge thanks to Mykhailo Boiko from Rivne Applied College of Information Technology, who traveled from Rivne, Ukraine, for this international collaboration.
November 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Our event, Scaling Up Accessible Tactile Maps & 3D Models, showcased how visual & spatial data can be transformed into touchable formats.
Huge thanks to Mykhailo Boiko from Rivne Applied College of Information Technology, who traveled from Rivne, Ukraine, for this international collaboration.
Huge thanks to Mykhailo Boiko from Rivne Applied College of Information Technology, who traveled from Rivne, Ukraine, for this international collaboration.
Join us at the Bay Area Science Festival for hands-on demos exploring neuroscience, vision, and blindness. 🧠👁️
All the event details are in the flyer below.
We hope to see you there!
#BayAreaScienceFestival #SmithKettlewell #ScienceForAll #Neuroscience
All the event details are in the flyer below.
We hope to see you there!
#BayAreaScienceFestival #SmithKettlewell #ScienceForAll #Neuroscience
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Join us at the Bay Area Science Festival for hands-on demos exploring neuroscience, vision, and blindness. 🧠👁️
All the event details are in the flyer below.
We hope to see you there!
#BayAreaScienceFestival #SmithKettlewell #ScienceForAll #Neuroscience
All the event details are in the flyer below.
We hope to see you there!
#BayAreaScienceFestival #SmithKettlewell #ScienceForAll #Neuroscience
🎉Congrats to USF psychology students Ariana Zhao & Jade Fakuade for receiving the $1,000 Changemakers stipend in recognition of their research internships in Dr. Santani Teng's Cognition, Action, and Neural Dynamics Laboratory at Smith-Kettlewell.
#USFCA #SmithKettlewell #Changemakers
#USFCA #SmithKettlewell #Changemakers
October 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
🎉Congrats to USF psychology students Ariana Zhao & Jade Fakuade for receiving the $1,000 Changemakers stipend in recognition of their research internships in Dr. Santani Teng's Cognition, Action, and Neural Dynamics Laboratory at Smith-Kettlewell.
#USFCA #SmithKettlewell #Changemakers
#USFCA #SmithKettlewell #Changemakers
🔬Two innovative accessibility studies are close to full funding!
Help push them past the finish line:
experiment.com/projects/brain-dynamics-in-braille-reading-letters-to-language
experiment.com/projects/how-can-ultrasonic-wearables-be-most-useful-for-humans
#Neuroscience #SupportScience
Help push them past the finish line:
experiment.com/projects/brain-dynamics-in-braille-reading-letters-to-language
experiment.com/projects/how-can-ultrasonic-wearables-be-most-useful-for-humans
#Neuroscience #SupportScience
Brain dynamics in braille reading: Letters to language
Blind and low-vision readers read and write text using braille, a tactile system of raised dots. In this project, we will monitor braille readers' hand movements and electroencephalographic (EEG) brai...
experiment.com
October 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🔬Two innovative accessibility studies are close to full funding!
Help push them past the finish line:
experiment.com/projects/brain-dynamics-in-braille-reading-letters-to-language
experiment.com/projects/how-can-ultrasonic-wearables-be-most-useful-for-humans
#Neuroscience #SupportScience
Help push them past the finish line:
experiment.com/projects/brain-dynamics-in-braille-reading-letters-to-language
experiment.com/projects/how-can-ultrasonic-wearables-be-most-useful-for-humans
#Neuroscience #SupportScience
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🚨 Help my lab at @skeriresearch.bsky.social advance innovative research on the technology, perception, and neuroscience of accessibility! The Teng Lab has launched a pair of campaigns through @experiment.com.
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho
Brain dynamics in braille reading: Letters to language
Blind and low-vision readers read and write text using braille, a tactile system of raised dots. In this project, we will monitor braille readers' hand movements and electroencephalographic (EEG) brai...
experiment.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🚨 Help my lab at @skeriresearch.bsky.social advance innovative research on the technology, perception, and neuroscience of accessibility! The Teng Lab has launched a pair of campaigns through @experiment.com.
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho
An excellent way to mark #FallsPrevention week with work from SKERI scientists @kate-agathos.bsky.social, @vestivisilab.bsky.social, and Dr. Don Fletcher
It's #FallsPrevention awareness week, and I'm excited to share our latest publication on raising fall risk awarenes among clinicians and patients with maculopathies www.ajo.com/article/S000...
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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 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An excellent way to mark #FallsPrevention week with work from SKERI scientists @kate-agathos.bsky.social, @vestivisilab.bsky.social, and Dr. Don Fletcher
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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.
🌍 Proud to share SKERI’s expertise at #VISION2025Florence, the 15th International Conference on Low Vision Research & Rehabilitation.
Today: James Coughlan, Brandon Biggs & Jade Guenot presented. Tomorrow: Preeti Verghese, Jade Guenot & Don Fletcher take the stage!
#LowVision #Accessibility
Today: James Coughlan, Brandon Biggs & Jade Guenot presented. Tomorrow: Preeti Verghese, Jade Guenot & Don Fletcher take the stage!
#LowVision #Accessibility
September 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🌍 Proud to share SKERI’s expertise at #VISION2025Florence, the 15th International Conference on Low Vision Research & Rehabilitation.
Today: James Coughlan, Brandon Biggs & Jade Guenot presented. Tomorrow: Preeti Verghese, Jade Guenot & Don Fletcher take the stage!
#LowVision #Accessibility
Today: James Coughlan, Brandon Biggs & Jade Guenot presented. Tomorrow: Preeti Verghese, Jade Guenot & Don Fletcher take the stage!
#LowVision #Accessibility
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🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊
Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.30.673202v1
August 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊
We are proud to celebrate our very own Dr. Joshua Miele - a brilliant scientist, inventor, and advocate whose work continues to expand equal access to information for blind and low-vision communities!
“I would rather do it and get in trouble for it than live in a world where we just accept a lack of equal access to information for blind people,” says inventor Joshua Miele. We spoke with him in April about his new book, "Connecting Dots."
A Blind Inventor’s Life Of Advocacy And Innovation
In “Connecting Dots: A Blind Life,” inventor Josh Miele recounts his life story and path to becoming an accessibility designer.
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August 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We are proud to celebrate our very own Dr. Joshua Miele - a brilliant scientist, inventor, and advocate whose work continues to expand equal access to information for blind and low-vision communities!
#Echolocation is trainable, but can learning it be optimized? In work presented to CSUN2025 and now published in @csuncod.bsky.social's JTPD vol 13, @haydeegl.bsky.social illustrates the benefits of adjusting synthetic but realistic echolocation sounds to be more perceptible by novice listeners.
🦇✨ New paper out!
Novel Stimuli to Benchmark and Train Echolocation Skills
Curious about how echolocation can be made easier to learn?
We evaluated how specific auditory temporal cues might improve spatial perception.
#Echolocation #BlindTech #AssistiveTech #Blindness
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Novel Stimuli to Benchmark and Train Echolocation Skills
Curious about how echolocation can be made easier to learn?
We evaluated how specific auditory temporal cues might improve spatial perception.
#Echolocation #BlindTech #AssistiveTech #Blindness
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May 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#Echolocation is trainable, but can learning it be optimized? In work presented to CSUN2025 and now published in @csuncod.bsky.social's JTPD vol 13, @haydeegl.bsky.social illustrates the benefits of adjusting synthetic but realistic echolocation sounds to be more perceptible by novice listeners.
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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)
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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
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If you're attending #CNS2025, check out our lab's posters in Tuesday morning's Session F! We're proud to represent @skeriresearch.bsky.social in Boston this year.
March 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
If you're attending #CNS2025, check out our lab's posters in Tuesday morning's Session F! We're proud to represent @skeriresearch.bsky.social in Boston this year.
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, mobility or related fields? SKERI’s 2025 Postdoctoral application cycle is now open! For more information visit our site: www.ski.org/what-does-fe...
December 6, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, mobility or related fields? SKERI’s 2025 Postdoctoral application cycle is now open! For more information visit our site: www.ski.org/what-does-fe...
Here are ways to participate and support SKERI's #GivingTuesday campaign this year!:
1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-...
2. Volunteer at SKERI
3. Participate in our research
4. Share our campaign on social media
1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-...
2. Volunteer at SKERI
3. Participate in our research
4. Share our campaign on social media
December 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Here are ways to participate and support SKERI's #GivingTuesday campaign this year!:
1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-...
2. Volunteer at SKERI
3. Participate in our research
4. Share our campaign on social media
1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-...
2. Volunteer at SKERI
3. Participate in our research
4. Share our campaign on social media
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Hey check this out 👇🏼
What happens to a #braille letter after it enters the somatosensory periphery through a #blind reader's fingerpad? In our new preprint 👇🏼 we showed braille and print alphabetic letters to blind and sighted readers, respectively, while recording #MEG. #Neuroskyence
What happens to a #braille letter after it enters the somatosensory periphery through a #blind reader's fingerpad? In our new preprint 👇🏼 we showed braille and print alphabetic letters to blind and sighted readers, respectively, while recording #MEG. #Neuroskyence
Touch to text: Spatiotemporal evolution of braille letter representations in blind readers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.30.620429v1
Touch to text: Spatiotemporal evolution of braille letter representations in blind readers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.30.620429v1
Visual deprivation does not silence the visual cortex, which is responsive to auditory, tactile, and
www.biorxiv.org
November 1, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Hey check this out 👇🏼
What happens to a #braille letter after it enters the somatosensory periphery through a #blind reader's fingerpad? In our new preprint 👇🏼 we showed braille and print alphabetic letters to blind and sighted readers, respectively, while recording #MEG. #Neuroskyence
What happens to a #braille letter after it enters the somatosensory periphery through a #blind reader's fingerpad? In our new preprint 👇🏼 we showed braille and print alphabetic letters to blind and sighted readers, respectively, while recording #MEG. #Neuroskyence
Natela Shanidze's Eye-Head Movement Lab currently has 2 postdoctoral fellows: Kate, who is examining how central vision loss affects spatial orientation & mobility & Christian, who is studying how noise exposure can impact balance in athletes. Learn more here: www.ski.org/labs/shanidz...
January 24, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Natela Shanidze's Eye-Head Movement Lab currently has 2 postdoctoral fellows: Kate, who is examining how central vision loss affects spatial orientation & mobility & Christian, who is studying how noise exposure can impact balance in athletes. Learn more here: www.ski.org/labs/shanidz...
Adrien, a fellow in Dr. Preeti Verghese's lab, is studying the underlying mechanisms of binocular rivalry dynamics in amblyopia, & how abnormal dynamics can be used for amblyopia diagnosis. You can learn more about research in the Verghese lab on our website: ski.org/labs/verghes...
January 17, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Adrien, a fellow in Dr. Preeti Verghese's lab, is studying the underlying mechanisms of binocular rivalry dynamics in amblyopia, & how abnormal dynamics can be used for amblyopia diagnosis. You can learn more about research in the Verghese lab on our website: ski.org/labs/verghes...
Steve Heinen’s lab studies eye movements to understand neural circuitry that moves the eyes for clear vision, & as a tool to develop non-invasive diagnosis & therapy for brain trauma & psychiatric disorders. Learn more here: www.ski.org/directory/st... & ski.org/labs/heinen-...
January 13, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Steve Heinen’s lab studies eye movements to understand neural circuitry that moves the eyes for clear vision, & as a tool to develop non-invasive diagnosis & therapy for brain trauma & psychiatric disorders. Learn more here: www.ski.org/directory/st... & ski.org/labs/heinen-...
Andrea is a visiting predoctoral fellow in James Coughlan’s lab where research is focused on developing & testing access technology for the blind and visually impaired using computer vision & other sensor technologies. Learn more about work in the Coughlan lab here www.ski.org/labs/coughla...
January 11, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Andrea is a visiting predoctoral fellow in James Coughlan’s lab where research is focused on developing & testing access technology for the blind and visually impaired using computer vision & other sensor technologies. Learn more about work in the Coughlan lab here www.ski.org/labs/coughla...
In the Teng lab, postdoc Haydée García-Lázaro is studying neural dynamics of echolocation combining psychophysics, ephys & computational techniques. Lab projects also include sensory processing during Braille reading & use of nonvisual cues for assistive tech. ski.org/labs/teng-lab
January 9, 2024 at 9:07 PM
In the Teng lab, postdoc Haydée García-Lázaro is studying neural dynamics of echolocation combining psychophysics, ephys & computational techniques. Lab projects also include sensory processing during Braille reading & use of nonvisual cues for assistive tech. ski.org/labs/teng-lab
Only 3 weeks left to apply for SKERI’s postdoc fellowship (apps due 1/31/24! www.ski.org/what-does-fe...)! To celebrate, we’re kicking off a month-long series showcasing research from our brilliant postdocs and mentors. Stay tuned! #InnovationForInclusion #VisionResearch #Fellowship
What Does a Fellowship at Smith-Kettlewell Offer? | Smith-Kettlewell
Smith-Kettlewell is a uniquely attractive place to receive postdoctoral training in vision research and related fields. Our program offers the flexibility to design an individualized training plan tai...
www.ski.org
January 7, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Only 3 weeks left to apply for SKERI’s postdoc fellowship (apps due 1/31/24! www.ski.org/what-does-fe...)! To celebrate, we’re kicking off a month-long series showcasing research from our brilliant postdocs and mentors. Stay tuned! #InnovationForInclusion #VisionResearch #Fellowship
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Seems as good a first post as any to say my R01 application got some good news yesterday 🥳🎉
December 5, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Seems as good a first post as any to say my R01 application got some good news yesterday 🥳🎉