@roordalab
Obsessed with vision and optics. Opinions (have many but share few) are my own and most posts are from my labs at The University of Waterloo (Canada) and UC Berkeley (USA). Oh...and that's my retina in the profile picture.
Today I took my @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social optometry students on a field trip (actually, just outside our building) to observe polarization in the wild. Bottom line? Are polarizing sunglasses 😎 worth it? I think these future optometrists would say YES.
Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!!
featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social
#visionscience
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...
Every respectable vision scientist has to use a bite bar at least once in their career (Marty Banks' words, not mine). I take that advice very seriously.
Feels great to be back in the bite bar at #UCBerkeley, doing experiments with my postdoc @shangbangluo.bsky.social and PhD student Jason Wong.
#adaptiveoptics
#AOSLO
#visionscience
#AOOCT
Striking example characterizing a paradoxical decoupling between the retinal image and perception. Thanks @josiedangelo.bsky.social for all the hard work to get this paper past the finish line.
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
The Lick Observatory is one of the most beautiful, historical, and scientific treasures of the Bay Area and a jewel in the crown of University of California Observatories. Best wishes for a full recovery.
Indulging in some actual building today. This will ultimately be a system for splitting broadband, supercontinuum light into 5 separate spectral channels. But for today, it's just lego blocks for scientists!
#AOSLO
#adaptiveoptics
New opportunity for top-tier researchers to move to the great country of Canada 🇨🇦. @uwaterloo.ca will have multiple openings. Chairs come with either $1M/yr or 0.5M/yr for 8 years+. If you are a top-tier #visionscience researcher, let's talk.
www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...
I found that papers with the -NC (non-commercial) condition was a barrier if anyone ever wanted to reproduce a figure in a review paper for a for-profit publisher (eg Elsevier). I default to the CC BY which is least restrictive. (and I will never write another review for a for-profit journal)
Happy thanksgiving to all my American friends. Just a normal working day here at @uwoptometry.bsky.social. Picture from my bike commute this morning. And remember, there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.
Just received my deformable mirror from ALPAO! There's no turning back now.
#AOSLO @uwaterloo.ca
Also, trichromatic cone mosaics.
I always knew that Teresa Puthussery was a genius...this just confirms it!
#visionscience
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
My boss/mentor Teresa Puthussery won a MacArthur genius grant today! She shares the award with Oakland novelist Tommy Orange (read There There! It's awesome!), resource recovery chemist William Tarpeh, and 22 others. Congratulations Teresa! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Congratulations @leahgjohnston.bsky.social for winning the @optica-fvm.bsky.social YIA!
Most #visionscience folks know that stabilized retinal images fade. Fewer know that stabilized, but flickering, images also fade. Even fewer know that the flicker-fading doesn't take place in the retina.
Seems that a small earthquake knocked our #AOSLO #AOOCT system out of alignment. It may be time to engage to the air suspension.... One of the perils of doing research at #ucberkeley.
www.sfgate.com/news/article...
Hannah works hard every on her PhD, doing very cool #visionscience every day in my lab at #UCBerkeley. But does she go home and put up her feet every night? Nope! She is speed-puzzling phenom, heading to the world championship later this month. Go Hannah!
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...
Apparently, you never include snacks with shipments to Canada. My colleague doesn't get them either.
Hey @thorlabs.bsky.social, where are my snacks? Is it because I'm in 🇨🇦?
🇨🇦 This sign calls to me every morning on my commute to @uwaterloo.ca. Question is: blow off work and head west to Lake Cowichan BC or east to Cappahayden NFLD? @transcanadatrail.bsky.social
www.tctrail.ca
My CV in ceramic.
When your bike ride takes you north of Waterloo.
#mennonitecountry
✨Our newest eLife paper is out!✨
👉 elifesciences.org/articles/98662
When retinal cells die, who cleans up?
Non-invasive imaging shows microglia👇 rush to help but don’t recruit neutrophils from the bloodstream. @urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social
@elife.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday
Spotted this morning outside of the stunning Daniels Building at the University of Toronto, where I'm attending @iccp-conference.bsky.social. Nothing computational here, just a regular photo.
Super excited to see the hawk...but that rat is huuuge!
one more thing..... apply soon, but don't worry too much about the deadline of July 31.
We're flexible.
I just moved back here (after ~30 years in the US) so feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Reasons to move to Univ of Waterloo
1. 12 mo salary
2. Multidisciplinary research environment
3. Top Canadian university in areas of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Comprehensive Research
4. Traditional pension plan
5. Universal Health Care
6. Stable sources of research funding (NSERC, CIHR)
6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada.
First 6.....
6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute.
lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA
see thread for the next 6.
Yep. When can you start?
Lots of room for growth at @uwaterloo.ca. 🇨🇦 And were hiring 6 new faculty in #optometry and #visionscience. Spread the news. Contact me if you want to learn more.
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