And one of just my lab

Drone footage from the Kioloa Neuroscience Colloquium 2025 last weekend. An awesome conference promoting students and early career researchers organised by the wonderful John Bekkers of ANU.

New ocular dissection skill unlocked - hyaloid vessels! This was DIFFICULT. It’s like dissecting a spider web, only possible after an extensive tutorial by Shruti Vermaraju from the Lang Lab.

Had a great time in Cincinnati, off to Massachusetts now for FASEB.

I’m not at ARVO this year, but my fantastic PhD student is! Make sure you check out her poster today in the “Inner retina circuits and function” session at 3pm :-)

Nice melanopsin driven constriction to a bright stimulus in an rd/rd (rodless coneless) mouse.

A long weekend of building, fiddling, breaking things, fixing things, more fiddling and then testing: Cameron lab mouse pupillometer 2.0 is working 👍 (to be fair, pupillometer 1.0 was a cardboard box, so it couldn’t be worse 😂).

Sam Webster gave a great talk at Western Sydney Uni last week on anatomy teaching. His talk walked us through the evolution of online resources over the last ~30 years, from dial up internet to the present day “inshitification” of the internet! Check him out if you teach anatomy.

Dopaminergic amacrines and ipRGCs (M1s specifically) - and look how much they are wrapped up in each other 😍 #accessoryONsublayer

Obligatory Australian spider pic: #huntsman #notdeadly but #incrediblyterrifying

….and how all of those are related! I am originally from Scotland but now call Australia my home; it’s pretty great here…except for the spiders, and lack of research funding! For attention, here is a pic of the extensive dopaminergic cell plexus (green; DAPI - blue) in the bottom of the INL.

I’m here! May as well bash Twitter with my first “tweet”, “skeet”??