Soile Nymark

Brian, we are thrilled to have you here! Amazing, that you and other colleagues came all the way from the States😍

An image showing each of the short listed nominees for the Nature Inspiring Women in Science Award with the award logo at the top. "Meet the shortlists for the Inspiring Women in Science Award" is in the middle. The Estee Lauder logo is at the bottom.

We are excited to present the shortlists for the 2025 Nature Awards for Inspiring Women in Science. Congratulations to the thirteen excellent candidates who made it to this year’s shortlist. Read more about the candidates and learn more about the award: go.nature.com/46nlAWy #WomeninStem

We are pleased to announce that Webvision has been fully migrated to our new home at the University of Pittsburgh. www.webvision.pitt.edu

All traffic should not automatically be redirected from the old URLs, but please update your links.

Heads up: @pittophthalmology.bsky.social

Vision scientist Alecia Gross at the lectern talking about retinal degeneration

It’s @alecia144g.bsky.social talking about her work in retinal degeneration at #RD2025

Beautiful image! I feel like I recognize this from our amazing tour in Prague😎

It’s #NationalPostdocAppreciationWeek! Postdocs are at the heart of discovery and innovation, pushing the boundaries of research and making a lasting impact on science and society. Join us in celebrating their invaluable contributions! #NPAW #Postdocs #FASEB

Kun on tässä seurannut tutkimusrahoitukseen liittyvää ns. keskustelua, niin ei voi välttyä ajatukselta, että olemme menossa kohti ankeita aikoja. Ymmärrys rahoituksen roolista tutkimukselle, korkeakoulutukselle ja maan tulevaisuudelle on monilta täysin hukassa. Pieni ketju aiheesta. 1/18

Come to the second edition of the world wide sodium channel conference! Submit an abstract by September 26.

Awards & Prizes - International Society for Eye Research ISER The 2025 nomination period for the von Sallmann Prize will open October 1, 2025.

Vision Science Folks!

Time is running out to nominate a worthy colleague for an @iser.bsky.social International Prize!

Deadline for the Balasz, Bárány, and Kayser awards is September 8! Get nominatin'!

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Top: Inhibition of mTOR signaling rescues cilia formation in Wnt activated cells. RPE1 cells stably expressing mCherry-GFP-LC3 were treated with Co-CM and Wnt3a-CM and fixed 16 h after serum starvation for direct fluorescence analysis of mCherry and GFP signals. Representative images show GFP+mCherry+ foci (yellow dots, autophagosomes). Bottom: Model of how Wnt signaling affects ciliogenesis. Basal Wnt signaling promotes cilia formation, whereas Wnt hyperactivation prior to ciliogenesis delays this process by increasing mTORC1 activity and impairing the removal of OFD1 from centriolar satellites. M, mother centriole; D, daughter centriole.

The #PrimaryCilium regulates several signaling pathways, but what role do these pathways play in #cilium formation? This study shows that modulating Wnt & mTOR signaling affects #ciliogenesis in human retinal epithelial cells @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/45Yg5gB

🌍✨ Call for Nominations: ISER International Prizes ✨🌍
@iser.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for its prestigious international prizes! 🏆
📅 Deadline: September 8, 2025
🔗 lnkd.in/eUQMFGsr

Don’t miss the chance to recognize excellence in our field — submit your nomination today!

90-vuotias | Seppo Lindblom tietää, miten talous saadaan kasvuun: satsaamalla tieteeseen ja tutkimukseen ”Vahva tiedepolitiikka on ainoa tepsivä tuottavuustemppu, joka lopulta auttaa velka- ja puolustuskuluissa”, Seppo Lindblom sanoo.

Viisautta ja sivistystä huokuu tästä synttärihaastattelusta. Seppo Lindblom puolustaa velanhoidon ja puolustuksen pinteeseen jäänyttä hyvinvointia. Ja tutkimusta!

Paras on silti tämä:
”-Mitä sanoisit 20-vuotiaalle itsellesi?
-En kaksikymppisenä kuuntelisi näin vanhojen miesten neuvoja.”

Extremely interesting work. Congrats to the team!

Sounds fabulous indeed! I’m sure that the course will be extraordinarily good. My student was admitted but couldn’t come because of the visa interview freeze, which was really unfortunate. Hopefully the course will be organized next year as well.

Generated image of cross section of a yellow channel in a plasma membrane

You still got time!
🚨Call for papers - Ion channels and channelopathies🚨
Deadline: 27 October 2025 #BMCBiology

Guest Editors:
Zhuo Huang, Peking University
Soile Nymark @snymark.bsky.social, Tampere University

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#ImmunoSky #NeuroSky #calcium 🧪

Awesome work by @gregdfield.bsky.social et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Projection Targeting with Phototagging to Study the Structure and Function of Retinal Ganglion Cells | bioRxiv

Tributes paid to pioneering eye researcher Professor Pete Coffey Tributes have been paid to one of the world’s top eye researchers, Professor Pete Coffey, who has sadly passed away after a long illness.

It’s incredibly hard to express what Professor Pete Coffey meant to so many of us. The Macular Society has written a beautiful tribute to Pete and I'm honoured to have contributed a few words.

Thank you, my friend, for so many happy days.

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This is indeed a beautiful tribute to Pete. Many thanks, Amanda, for sharing this. And my warmest condolences to you.

Auditorion lavalla Iso-Britannian tiedeministeri

Brittien tiedeministeri Patrick Vallance avaa Metascience-kokouksen Lontoossa valtavan inspiroivalla puheella tieteestä, sen roolista, tehtävistä ja mahdollisuuksista.

”We cannot make a new world with old tools.”

Science matters

Eureka! The brain science behind lightbulb moments Experiences of insight come with a burst of brain activity — and a memory boost.

Scientists studying moments of insight — also known as eureka moments — have used the tools of #neuroscience to reveal which regions of the brain are active and how they interact when discovery strikes. A feature in Nature highlights this work. 🧪

Likewise!

Suomen Akatemian suurilta tuntuvat myönnöt herättävät keskustelua. Saako tutkija tosiaan yli puoli miljoonaa veronmaksajien rahaa omaan taskuun? Miksei niillä rahoilla hoideta vanhuksia?

Seuraa pitkä ketju siitä, mihin Akatemian myöntämä tutkimusrahoitus oikeasti menee ja miten raha kulkee.

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Testing for trans-saccadic prediction error signaling by foveal SC neurons. Top: Monkeys generated a delayed, visually-guided saccade towards an extrafoveal target. The authors used a delayed paradigm to make sure that there was a stable visual image upon saccade generation. In some trials, the saccade target was unchanged throughout the whole trial (high spatial frequency grating embedded within a circular patch for this shown example). In other trials, they detected saccade onset and immediately flipped the saccade target to another feature (from a low to a high spatial frequency texture in the shown example). Bottom: The authors only selected foveal SC neurons with response fields (RF’s) not extending towards the pre-saccadic extrafoveal stimulus location. In this example, the RF was almost entirely contained within <2 deg eccentricity. Each black dot is a stimulus onset location during RF mapping, and the white circle (3 deg radius) shows the extent of the saccade target if it was perfectly foveated post-saccadically. The target covered the RF post-saccadically but not pre-saccadically. The z-axis indicates the visual response strength of the neuron at each stimulus location.

Why don't #saccades disrupt our continuous #visual experience? This study shows that neurons of the #SuperiorColliculus are sensitive to the pre-movement peripheral appearance of the eye movement targets, potentially explaining the experienced perceptual stability @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/44cxQIe

10 cool facts about vision very well summarized in this thread.

Enjoy your intense science weeks! I’m sure FASEB will be excellent. Unfortunately, it was impossible for me to travel there but let’s have a zoom meeting once you are back to Australia.

We’ve tried it with the cultured RPE (works if the antibody is really good) but not with the mouse eyecups. We definitely need to try your method (and the Nav1.4 antibody) with the mouse samples. We already use the poly-L-lysine coated coverslips in patch clamp recordings.

Beautiful work! Method worth trying with our RPE samples as well (that have Nav1.4 at their cell-cell junctions).

Brain implantation of soft bioelectronics via embryonic development - Nature A soft mesh microelectrode array can seamlessly integrate in developing brains, enabling long-term, stable mapping of how single-neuron activity and population dynamics emerge and evolve during brain ...

What if you could implant electrodes in the developing brain, so it grows around them?

Researchers at Harvard implanted Axoft’s soft bioelectronics onto the neural plate — an early sheet of stem cells. As the brain grows and folds, the electronics became embedded within it.

Wow, this is big news! Congratulations, Bryan!