I’m very excited to announce that a part of my PhD thesis project is now a preprint! In this paper, we show how spontaneous activity prior to visual experience shapes neural circuits in the retina. (1/11)
I started my day when it was dark, recorded all day in the dark and now am leaving lab when it’s dark…when will my retina see light????
#retinalphysiology
Did you hear? The PEERing into Science podcast is out now! Go listen wherever you listen to podcasts! #scicomm #science
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This is my son’s soccer teammate. This is heartbreaking to watch, no kid should go through this. I know his parents, they are good people. No family should endure this. The cruelty and evil actions of the trump administration and ICE are tearing families and communities apart.
I think this is my best lab costume yet #kimwipes #kimtech #halloween
@ninaluong.bsky.social is really upping her costume game this year. And she can still work in it!
It’s been a 24 hour traveling day from Portland to Pécs, which includes 2 planes, a bus, a metro, a train & a car.
I am so excited to be at ERM2025 and to be selected as a speaker in the New Perspectives, Tools and Resources session!
Congratulations to Dr. Teva Bracha on his successful dissertation defense!
Thanks to OPB for doing a feature on the PREP program at OHSU.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
With all the chaos and destruction of academic research going on in the US right now, it feels a little weird to post this. But....
New preprint from the lab is now live: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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If you show a mouse a movie, you may just learn a lot about the visual cortex!
Thank you @karissawaddick.bsky.social for sharing our recent publication of the most complete functional map of an animal brain yet in @usatoday.com.
🧠📈 Read the article: www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
I completely forgot what day it was. @ninaluong.bsky.social got me!
I’d back you up on that one too…🫣
1/ There it is! 😊 Published today in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Vollum scientists study the cells that make myelin, shown in this image, which are destroyed in multiple sclerosis. This work is critical to understand how to repair the nervous system in disease and injury.
DONATE to protect biomedical research: bit.ly/4i3RhsF
Executive orders & changes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) would be catastrophic to our ability to perform groundbreaking research and train the next generation of scientists. Learn more about the Vollum: www.ohsu.edu/vollum-insti...
A bizarre-looking fish with a huge mouth on the top of its head, and a lure hanging off its head.
The same bizarre fish but now in the palm of somebody's hand, where it can be seen to be no more than a few inches long.
Anglerfish turn out to be considerably less frightening once you know how tiny they are.
Finally, while we first learned about this with F31 predoctoral fellowships and diversity supplements, this is also occurring for F32 postdoctoral, K99/R00 and F99/R00 postdoctoral transition awards, and R01s with explicit diversity language.
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And now back to our regularly scheduled $hitshow
The dismantling of NIH programs to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce and the abhorrent treatment of talented young scientists
My feed is overwhelmed with scientists right now calling out the catastrophic consequences of the NIH indirect cost order from last night. If those same people aren't also speaking out against the anti-trans, anti-DEI, anti-immigrant orders...we are lost. The only path forward is solidarity.
As someone who wants to stay in academic research, how is it even possible to stay optimistic right now…
Thanks Kenny, I really hope so too 😂
It’s 8pm. I’ve been in my dark room recording since 8am…my vision is getting blurry but I don’t want to give up yet 🥲
Flyer for a visual neuroscience course with colorful images of scientific data and model species.
I am thrilled to announce that Rich Kramer and I are co-directing a BRAND NEW hands-on visual neuroscience course at the MBL. August 1-16, 2025. Details in this flyer. Trainees please apply. And everyone, please spread the word!
I created a simple flow chart to help my lab trainees choose the most appropriate stats test in Prism (*for single-factor comparisons only). Feel free to share with your group if you think it could be helpful first start.
Happy to share my first preprint from the McCormick Lab!
If you're interested in mesoscale 2-photon imaging and the relationship between neocortical activity and movement/arousal, check it out! A thread...🧵
#neuroskyence #neuroimaging
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I still can't believe I work in a laboratory.
