How does #blindness affect #bodyimage? 😎 Are blind women and men more 'protected' against the effects of sociocultural pressures to conform with 'ideal' body images?
Find out in our recent study, with @SarettaD91@AleAliSousa@MichaelProulx
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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
(2022) A natural history of vision loss: Insight from evolution for human visual function sciencedirect.com/science/ar… by @AleAliSousa @OrlinTSH @MichaelProulx; "Visual loss is related to the enhancement other senses and the extent to which other senses are represented neurologically"
ALT A woman (me) stands outside Bath Spa train station beside a large display board featured in the University of Bath’s Images of Research 2025 exhibition. The board showcases a collaborative project with Karin and Michael focused on identifying barriers and enablers when organizing accessible events for youth with vision impairment. The poster includes a collage of three classroom photos showing students with partial or total vision loss actively engaging with virtual reality headsets. In the left photo, a male student lies on the floor wearing a VR headset while a female student observes nearby. In the top right, the same female student wears the headset, raising her hands to interact with the virtual environment. In the bottom right, a group of students—including a blonde girl and a boy with ginger hair—wear VR headsets and raise their hands, with an adult smiling faintly in the background. The classroom has teal walls and an exit sign is visible.
CORTICAL EVOLUTION CONFERENCE
June 15-17, 2026
Organizers: Verónica Martínez Cerdeño, Fernando García Moreno, Elena Vecino, and Stephen Noctor.
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𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 for Cortical Evolution 2026 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟲𝘁𝗵.
If you're planning to join us in Bilbao (June 15–17), this is the moment.
Don’t miss the reduced fee — and don’t miss the conversation.
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Reading Recognition in the Wild -- open source!
What's great about @RealityLabs? Interdisciplinary collaboration, industry-academic partnerships, breakthrough findings, and advancing the field by sharing open source data. It's all here with @meta_aria - check it out!
Reading Recognition in the wild is a large-scale multimodal dataset comprising 100 hours of reading and non-reading videos captured in diverse and realistic scenarios using Project Aria from 100 participants.
Download the dataset and model at explorer.projectaria.com/rit….
🔗projectaria.com/datasets/rea…
📰arxiv.org/abs/2505.24848
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 |4pmCET/10amEST
🔗bit.ly/3EopIvw
I am excited to announce that The Integrative Biology of Brain Evolution (TIBBE) seminar series launches tomorrow April 22, 2–3pm UTC, bringing together presentations by 2 outstanding evolutionary neuroscientists followed by an interactive discussion with the audience @eseb_org
Join us for the first TIBBE seminar: Brain size, neuron number and connectivity. April 22, 2–3pm UTC This event brings together 2 outstanding evolutionary neuroscientists who will present their work, followed by an interactive discussion with the audience crowdcast.io/c/brain-size-ne…
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/ful…
Researchers can help through better access to research results and recognizing participants with VI as active contributors throughout the research process.
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-v…
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/ful…