Microglia are dispensable for experience-dependent refinement of visual circuitry biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Having fun post-TM society dinner with great friends! Until next year!

What is the functional role of retinotopic coding atop the cortical hierarchy? nature.com/articles/s4159…

Lobbying for ARVO, NAEVR and vision research in DC...

Check this out! Structural basis for Ca2+ sensitivity of AC8.

A big thank you to David Krizaj from Moran Eye Center, for sharing your expertise as an invited speaker at our #RichLectureSeries. Your insights have enlightened and inspired!

Thank you Rafael Grytz and colleagues at the Callahan Eye Institute for the generous hosting and scintillating conversations that will stay with me for a long time. What a great place to do vision research!!!

We love visitors to UAB – David Krizaj is THE expert on mechanoreceptors in the front and back of the eye! And dining with Rafael Grytz and Konark Mukerjee at Bocca in downtown Birmingham was great fun. 😋 Glad you could join us, David! UAB Callahan Eye; UAB Heersink School of Medicine; David Krizaj;

Quick, what have we learned from the BRAIN Initiative? One sentence or less please.

Obituary: Frans de Waal (1948–2024), primatologist who questioned the uniqueness of human minds go.nature.com/3PZvuGq

The costs of adding more administrators adds to the financial costs. Yet, even with more administrators *most* of the burden still falls on the researchers…adding to burnout, stealing time from the job they’re paid to do, etc. This is the dumb choice we are making as a society.

New research led by Carolyn Ott, a senior scientist Lippincott-Schwartz Lab, provides the most detailed & comprehensive description yet of cilia in the mouse visual cortex, giving scientists new insights into the formation & function of this small & elusive organelle. 🔗doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Chris Rudzitis on the left, channeling the nobility of the sage, the scientist and someone on his way to great things.

Gain of function mutations in the TRPV4 #ionchannel cause a variety of musculoskeletal and neurological diseases, but the mechanism is unclear. A new paper shows the role of endothelial cells in blood-CNS barrier breakdown. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I read the Bronze Age Pervert book; weird and entertaining. Stripped to its essential point is this passage here, echoing Marx's idea of false consciousness.

New paper on how the plasma membrane #phospholipid PIP2 modulates the activity of the TRPC3 #ionchannel nature.com/articles/s4146…

“A new study from Stanford shows remarkable differences between female and male brains. The researchers found no overlap between male and female, and rejected the idea of a "continuum."”

10/ Bill Watterson explains how selling out is actually buying in: “Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules & rewards” Buying into someone else's system of values is how you lose your soul

Universal free school meals amount to redistribution directly to families and they lower local grocery prices for everyone. That alone seems to be enough to justify them, but they might also come with other benefits that make them even more beneficial and worth promoting.

Remarkable study, shaking the field a bit. nature.com/articles/s4159…