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Great talk by Telma Laurentino on inclusive evolution education @evokeproject.bsky.social !

Kate, a yellow lab guide dog wearing her harness, poised as she stands beside her handler.

Happy #InternationalGuideDogDay to our friends at @guidedogsuk.bsky.social and to all the wonderful canine helpers who support blind and partially sighted people!

More optional highlights:
Join us for dinner and/or a guided tour at UNESCO heritage sites: Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral.

Book an excursion to Beamish, the Living Museum of the North.

Or pay a visit to our beautiful Botanic Garden

For more info see:
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She is finally published. Small sample but valuable insights. We've been studying audio-haptic integration in sighted and early- vs. late-blind (EB/LB) people. EB integrate optimally, while LB don't (likely switch cues).
Here, we're exploring the neural mechanisms of audio-haptic integration...

Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals The ability to reduce sensory uncertainty by integrating information across different senses develops late in humans and depends on cross-modal, senso…

Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @meike-scheller.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social et al.

EvoKE Webinar: Telma G. Laurentino 2nd May 2025 4PM CET/10 AM EST Telma G. Laurentino Informal Educator  Attend webinar at  EvoKE webinars are held on the first Friday of every month at 4 PM CET/10 AM EST (check&…

How can we make #evolution education truly inclusive?
Join our next EvoKE Webinar “Biodiversity for Belonging” with Telma G. Laurentino, as she shares 5 years of multisensory outreach breaking barriers in science education.
📅May 2nd, 2025 |4pm CET / 10am EST
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OPEN for Vision Impairment Research - Recent Research Summaries Participant Permanence and Improving Research Involvement for People with Vision Impairment Through an Online Network

Check it out - New research summary on Participant Permanence and Improving Research Involvement for People with Vision Impairment Through an Online Network sites.google.com/view/open-vi...

See here for a thread about our recent publication on the Online Participant Engagement Network for Vision Impairment Research @openviresearch.bsky.social

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Researchers can support by making accessible research findings and acknowledging participants with vision impairments as active contributors throughout the research process.

We spoke with research participants with visual impairments and identified key areas for improvement. Based on this, our paper provides guidelines for researchers.

OPEN for Vision Impairment Research Online Participant Engagement Network (OPEN) for Vision Impairment Research Welcome to the OPEN for Vision Impairment Research home page. This is a website dedicated to creating connections between p...

Online Participant Engagement Network (OPEN) for Vision Impairment Research aims to make research accessible to all, including those with visual impairments. sites.google.com/view/open-vi...

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Excited to share our open access paper on enhancing research involvement for UK adults with vision impairment via our online interface! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A natural history of vision loss: Insight from evolution for human visual function Research on the origin of vision and vision loss in naturally “blind” animal species can reveal the tasks that vision fulfills and the brain's role in…

(2022) A natural history of vision loss: Insight from evolution for human visual function www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @alealisousa.bsky.social @orlinst.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social

Figure showing how an expert blind echolocator can locate and identify an object (in this case a tree) by producing mouth clicks and listening to the returning echoes.

Nice story by Livia Dyring on human echolocation in today's online edition of "The Otter". Pleased to see a mention of our fMRI work on the activation of primary visual cortex (V1) by echoes in expert blind echolocators.
theotter.ca/seeing-with-...

OPEN for Vision Impairment Research - Get Involved In Research Evaluating an online experience sharing platform for blind and partially sighted people

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OPEN for Vision Impairment Research - Advertise Your Study Advertise your study If you would like to advertise recruitment for a study you are conducting, please fill out the Research Registration form below.

If you would like to advertise recruitment for a VI study you are conducting, Research Registration form here. sites.google.com/view/open-vi...

OPEN for Vision Impairment Research - Recent Research Summaries Seeing Art Differently: Design Considerations to Improve Visual Art Engagement for People with Low Vision.

Check it out - recent research summarised here! sites.google.com/view/open-vi...

OPEN for Vision Impairment Research - Get Involved In Research Evaluating an online experience sharing platform for blind and partially sighted people

Get involved in Research ! sites.google.com/view/open-vi...

Deafblind PhD student aims for Everest www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women - Sara Dell’Erba, Meike Scheller, Alexandra A. de Sousa, Michael J. Proulx, 2024 Introduction: Visual experience has a substantial effect on how individuals construct a template of their own bodies in space. Whether the absence of total or p...

New paper! We studied how media, other social pressures, and our senses contribute to how we feel about our bodies by focusing on people with or without visual impairments. This work is open access and free for all to read journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @alealisousa.bsky.social

Our paper on Visual impairment, visual media exposure, and body image -- I am catching up here 🦋