Natela Shanidze
@vestivisilab.bsky.social
Visual/vestibular scientist at The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. Proud Ukrainian 🇺🇦🌻
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🌍 Today is World Philanthropy Day!
For over six decades, SKERI has advanced research that expands accessibility & independence for people who are blind or have low vision.
If you believe in science that makes a real-world impact, consider supporting our work: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
For over six decades, SKERI has advanced research that expands accessibility & independence for people who are blind or have low vision.
If you believe in science that makes a real-world impact, consider supporting our work: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
Donate to The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Help support The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute by donating or sharing with your friends.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🌍 Today is World Philanthropy Day!
For over six decades, SKERI has advanced research that expands accessibility & independence for people who are blind or have low vision.
If you believe in science that makes a real-world impact, consider supporting our work: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
For over six decades, SKERI has advanced research that expands accessibility & independence for people who are blind or have low vision.
If you believe in science that makes a real-world impact, consider supporting our work: www.paypal.com/donate/?host...
So proud of the lab for their award winning pumpkin carving entry of Vlad the VOR pumpkin with eye misalignment but intact vestibular periphery. @kate-agathos.bsky.social And thanks for @echodislocation.bsky.social and @skeriresearch.bsky.social for hosting!
October 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So proud of the lab for their award winning pumpkin carving entry of Vlad the VOR pumpkin with eye misalignment but intact vestibular periphery. @kate-agathos.bsky.social And thanks for @echodislocation.bsky.social and @skeriresearch.bsky.social for hosting!
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🚨 Help my lab at @skeriresearch.bsky.social advance innovative research on the technology, perception, and neuroscience of accessibility! The Teng Lab has launched a pair of campaigns through @experiment.com.
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho
Brain dynamics in braille reading: Letters to language
Blind and low-vision readers read and write text using braille, a tactile system of raised dots. In this project, we will monitor braille readers' hand movements and electroencephalographic (EEG) brai...
experiment.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🚨 Help my lab at @skeriresearch.bsky.social advance innovative research on the technology, perception, and neuroscience of accessibility! The Teng Lab has launched a pair of campaigns through @experiment.com.
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho
🧠 experiment.com/braille
🦇 experiment.com/robinecho
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It's #FallsPrevention awareness week, and I'm excited to share our latest publication on raising fall risk awarenes among clinicians and patients with maculopathies www.ajo.com/article/S000...
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Importance of screening for contrast sensitivity, falls, and mobility limitations in older adults with maculopathy
Falls are a major and growing concern as they are the second leading cause of unintentional
injury deaths worldwide1 and the mortality rate of falls in individuals over 65 is
increasing.2 Falls among ...
www.ajo.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It's #FallsPrevention awareness week, and I'm excited to share our latest publication on raising fall risk awarenes among clinicians and patients with maculopathies www.ajo.com/article/S000...
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Excited for our study on the importance of mobility screening and referral in AMD to be finally published! www.ajo.com/article/S000.... In it @kate-agathos.bsky.social, Dr. Don Fletcher, and I show that over half of patients screened had balance/mobility concerns.
Importance of screening for contrast sensitivity, falls, and mobility limitations in older adults with maculopathy
Falls are a major and growing concern as they are the second leading cause of unintentional
injury deaths worldwide1 and the mortality rate of falls in individuals over 65 is
increasing.2 Falls among ...
www.ajo.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Excited for our study on the importance of mobility screening and referral in AMD to be finally published! www.ajo.com/article/S000.... In it @kate-agathos.bsky.social, Dr. Don Fletcher, and I show that over half of patients screened had balance/mobility concerns.
Walgreens' commentary on the times is spot on.
September 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Walgreens' commentary on the times is spot on.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers
Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...
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July 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.
With @texastribune.org
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having a great time at @vssmtg.bsky.social !
Looking forward to see many colleages again this summar at the Eye Movements GRC www.grc.org/eye-movement...
Still time to submit an application until June 8th!
Looking forward to see many colleages again this summar at the Eye Movements GRC www.grc.org/eye-movement...
Still time to submit an application until June 8th!
2025 Eye Movements Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements will be held in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
May 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
having a great time at @vssmtg.bsky.social !
Looking forward to see many colleages again this summar at the Eye Movements GRC www.grc.org/eye-movement...
Still time to submit an application until June 8th!
Looking forward to see many colleages again this summar at the Eye Movements GRC www.grc.org/eye-movement...
Still time to submit an application until June 8th!
The research enterprise is invaluable. We can easily see its importance in the cures or technologies available today. But sometimes it's difficult to see what research brings to people in the shorter term. Here is one of our participants talking about what it's meant to her. youtu.be/Yn9ywYj3UYQ
SKERI • Iris Thanking Eye-Head Movement Lab (Subtitled Version)
YouTube video by The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
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April 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The research enterprise is invaluable. We can easily see its importance in the cures or technologies available today. But sometimes it's difficult to see what research brings to people in the shorter term. Here is one of our participants talking about what it's meant to her. youtu.be/Yn9ywYj3UYQ
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Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals.
So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD
So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD
‘I really wanted something to happen.’ The students behind the Stand Up for Science protests
New group hopes to turn out researchers for 7 March demonstrations against Trump administration policies
scim.ag
February 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals.
So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD
So far, they have attracted more than 100 volunteers from some 30 states who are hoping to rally support for research as a public good. scim.ag/4328LAD
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Fellow scientists, please consider speaking w/ media about what this means for "regular Americans." The link below is to contact a reporter who's collecting stories about the unfolding NIH situation - pls share anonymously or on record. @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/people/annie...
January 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fellow scientists, please consider speaking w/ media about what this means for "regular Americans." The link below is to contact a reporter who's collecting stories about the unfolding NIH situation - pls share anonymously or on record. @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/people/annie...
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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
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If you’re negatively impacted by these NIH developments find a congressperson here and let them know 👇spoiler alert you’re all impacted science.house.gov/committee-me... here’s a relevant senate committee too www.commerce.senate.gov/members
Committee Members - House Committee on Science Space & Tech - Republicans
science.house.gov
January 23, 2025 at 1:11 AM
If you’re negatively impacted by these NIH developments find a congressperson here and let them know 👇spoiler alert you’re all impacted science.house.gov/committee-me... here’s a relevant senate committee too www.commerce.senate.gov/members
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If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
January 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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Hey Bluesky, looking for a postdoc? Interested in vestibular function, eye movements, mobility, and sensory integration? Apply with me!! www.ski.org/labs/eye-hea...
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, mobility or related fields? SKERI’s 2025 Postdoctoral application cycle is now open! For more information visit our site: www.ski.org/what-does-fe...
December 6, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Hey Bluesky, looking for a postdoc? Interested in vestibular function, eye movements, mobility, and sensory integration? Apply with me!! www.ski.org/labs/eye-hea...
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"I break my fast with a stick of yak butter, straight from the cooler. The benefits are endless: increased focus, libido, productivity, arithmetic, echolocation, foosball skills."
I’m Not on a Diet, I’m Fasting
I’m not on a diet, I fast intermittently using principles derived from 22 peer-reviewed studies. Girls diet, and I am a man. What, do you guys, lik...
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January 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"I break my fast with a stick of yak butter, straight from the cooler. The benefits are endless: increased focus, libido, productivity, arithmetic, echolocation, foosball skills."
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Detroit gets a bad rap, but its cultural institutions, like the Detroit Institute of the Arts, are world-class.
Take in a massive mural by Diego Rivera, through the door to find Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh, Monet & Renoir, then linger in the Great Hall. Glad this gem survived the city's hard times.
Take in a massive mural by Diego Rivera, through the door to find Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh, Monet & Renoir, then linger in the Great Hall. Glad this gem survived the city's hard times.
December 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Detroit gets a bad rap, but its cultural institutions, like the Detroit Institute of the Arts, are world-class.
Take in a massive mural by Diego Rivera, through the door to find Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh, Monet & Renoir, then linger in the Great Hall. Glad this gem survived the city's hard times.
Take in a massive mural by Diego Rivera, through the door to find Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh, Monet & Renoir, then linger in the Great Hall. Glad this gem survived the city's hard times.
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Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, mobility or related fields? SKERI’s 2025 Postdoctoral application cycle is now open! For more information visit our site: www.ski.org/what-does-fe...
December 6, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, mobility or related fields? SKERI’s 2025 Postdoctoral application cycle is now open! For more information visit our site: www.ski.org/what-does-fe...
Hey Bluesky, looking for a postdoc? Interested in vestibular function, eye movements, mobility, and sensory integration? Apply with me!! www.ski.org/labs/eye-hea...
Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, mobility or related fields? SKERI’s 2025 Postdoctoral application cycle is now open! For more information visit our site: www.ski.org/what-does-fe...
December 6, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Hey Bluesky, looking for a postdoc? Interested in vestibular function, eye movements, mobility, and sensory integration? Apply with me!! www.ski.org/labs/eye-hea...
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Name a Quasi-Moon! Contest sponsored by @radiolab.bsky.social and the International Astronomical Union to attach a more poetic moniker to the celestial body currently known as (164207) 2004 GU9.
radiolab.org/quasi-moon
Finalists include:
Bakunawa
Cardea
Ehaema
Enkidu
Ótr
Tarriaksuk
Tecciztecatl
radiolab.org/quasi-moon
Finalists include:
Bakunawa
Cardea
Ehaema
Enkidu
Ótr
Tarriaksuk
Tecciztecatl
December 5, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Name a Quasi-Moon! Contest sponsored by @radiolab.bsky.social and the International Astronomical Union to attach a more poetic moniker to the celestial body currently known as (164207) 2004 GU9.
radiolab.org/quasi-moon
Finalists include:
Bakunawa
Cardea
Ehaema
Enkidu
Ótr
Tarriaksuk
Tecciztecatl
radiolab.org/quasi-moon
Finalists include:
Bakunawa
Cardea
Ehaema
Enkidu
Ótr
Tarriaksuk
Tecciztecatl
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Here are ways to participate and support SKERI's #GivingTuesday campaign this year!:
1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-...
2. Volunteer at SKERI
3. Participate in our research
4. Share our campaign on social media
1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-...
2. Volunteer at SKERI
3. Participate in our research
4. Share our campaign on social media
December 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Here are ways to participate and support SKERI's #GivingTuesday campaign this year!:
1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-...
2. Volunteer at SKERI
3. Participate in our research
4. Share our campaign on social media
1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-...
2. Volunteer at SKERI
3. Participate in our research
4. Share our campaign on social media
Reposted by Natela Shanidze
Only 3 weeks left to apply for SKERI’s postdoc fellowship (apps due 1/31/24! www.ski.org/what-does-fe...)! To celebrate, we’re kicking off a month-long series showcasing research from our brilliant postdocs and mentors. Stay tuned! #InnovationForInclusion #VisionResearch #Fellowship
What Does a Fellowship at Smith-Kettlewell Offer? | Smith-Kettlewell
Smith-Kettlewell is a uniquely attractive place to receive postdoctoral training in vision research and related fields. Our program offers the flexibility to design an individualized training plan tai...
www.ski.org
January 7, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Only 3 weeks left to apply for SKERI’s postdoc fellowship (apps due 1/31/24! www.ski.org/what-does-fe...)! To celebrate, we’re kicking off a month-long series showcasing research from our brilliant postdocs and mentors. Stay tuned! #InnovationForInclusion #VisionResearch #Fellowship
Seems as good a first post as any to say my R01 application got some good news yesterday 🥳🎉
December 5, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Seems as good a first post as any to say my R01 application got some good news yesterday 🥳🎉