#Vision & trade were at the heart of today’s #AGRIFISH

🇪🇺 agri-food depends on global markets. With fair rules, reliable partners, strong safeguards for our farmers. That’s how we’ll move forward—expanding our network of trade agreements & diversifying partners
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https://nitter.net/CHansenEU/status/2038672381384757681#m

#Salud #Retina #Vision #Envejecimiento

https://www.nei.nih.gov/espanol/informacion-sobre-la-salud-ocular/enfermedades-y-afecciones-de-los-ojos/degeneracion-macular-relacionada-con-la-edad

https://cupe.ca/cupe-mourns-passing-stephen-lewis

We all get to be more like Stephen Lewis!

In fact, the world needs us to. Losing him and Catherine O'Hara so close together is a call for allllll of us to step up!

#integrity
#dignity
#service
#vision

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnabybc #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp

"Thalamic activation of the visual cortex at the single-synapse level", Chen et al. 2026.
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aec9923

There was earlier work using a much coarser technique which found the same result:

"Specificity of monosynaptic connections from thalamus to visual cortex", Reid and Alonso, 1995.
https://www.nature.com/articles/378281a0

Compare figure 3 in Reid & Alonso 1995 with Fig 5E in Chen et al. 2026.

But as Chen et al. 2026 says:

"Earlier experiments that used paired recordings of an orientation-selective L4 neuron in the cat visual cortex and a corresponding dLGN cell (5 [Reid and Alonso, 1995]) suggested, but could not prove, a synaptic connectivity scheme consistent with the H&W model. Our approach enabled the identification and characterization of nearly the complete set of active dLGN synaptic inputs to a single orientation-selective L4 neuron. The spatial alignment of receptive field centers of dLGN inputs matched the preferred orientation of the corresponding neuron. Thus, our findings directly validate core predictions of the connectivity proposed by the H&W [Hubel and Wiesel's] model."

By the way, Clay Reid was a trainee of H&W.

#neuroscience #OrientationSelectivity #VisualCortex #vision

Why Iran invested in Yemeni Houthis: 🗺️

*Not just oil out, but also produce, grains, and such coming in.

https://us.cnn.com/2026/03/30/business/saudi-oil-war-strait-houthis

#strategy #vision #planning #Iran #Yemen #Houthis #SaudiArabia #oil