Santani Teng
PI at Smith-Kettlewell; vision and non-vision science, plasticity, echolocation, sound, braille
ski.org/labs/teng-lab
@echodislocation on X
- Reposted by Santani TengGetting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
- Reposted by Santani TengI need everyone to go read this thread, because @echodislocation.bsky.social gave a very detailed response (with linked articles!) to @pedroblack42.bsky.social orginal question, asking if bats percieved an 'image' when echolocating! This is such a fascinating area of research! #batsky 🦇🧪🌎
- Reposted by Santani TengGreat culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
- Reposted by Santani TengAsking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!
- Reposted by Santani Tengperiodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
- Reposted by Santani TengA second fellowship position at SKERI, funded for 2 years and open to all applicants, is now available! See below for details about us and the application process 👇🏼 #postdoc #neurojobs
- 🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨 Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
- We (the Institute) now have TWO fellowship openings! -1-year T32 slot, apply by 12/10/25 -2-year unrestricted slot, apply by 1/30/26 Otherwise process is the same: Find a lab you want to work with, propose a project with your mentor, submit application. #postdoc #neurojobs
- 🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨 Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
- Reposted by Santani TengWindows 10 end of life is today, and a lot of people don't want to switch to 11 because they fucking hate it but didn't know what they could do to get the Extended Security Updates; well it seems like this might be something:
- Reposted by Santani TengKyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
- Do a postdoc with us in San Francisco! A fellowship slot in vision science, clinical vision, blindness, or rehabilitation is available via a NEI T32 slot: 👇🏼
- 🚨Postdoc fellowship alert! Applications due Dec. 10🚨 Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, brain plasticity, mobility or related fields? A 1-year #NIH T32-funded opening, extensible contingent on funding, has become available in SKERI’s #postdoc #fellowship program. #neurojobs
- Reposted by Santani TengPlease repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
- I'm super lucky to have bright, curious, and diligent interns in the lab - especially since we don't have our own students, so they come to us from places like @usfca-pr.bsky.social. Well deserved recognition for Ariana and Jade!
- 🎉Congrats to USF psychology students Ariana Zhao & Jade Fakuade for receiving the $1,000 Changemakers stipend in recognition of their research internships in Dr. Santani Teng's Cognition, Action, and Neural Dynamics Laboratory at Smith-Kettlewell. #USFCA #SmithKettlewell #Changemakers
- Reposted by Santani Teng🔬Two innovative accessibility studies are close to full funding! Help push them past the finish line: experiment.com/projects/brain-dynamics-in-braille-reading-letters-to-language experiment.com/projects/how-can-ultrasonic-wearables-be-most-useful-for-humans #Neuroscience #SupportScience
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- Reposted by Santani Teng(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!
- Reposted by Santani TengNew paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’! Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves! Demos in thread👇 [1/6]
- Reposted by Santani TengThis is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
- 🚨 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
- One project measures the #EEG dynamics of naturalistic braille reading. The other explores artificial ultrasonic #echolocation for blind and low-vision travelers. Every contribution helps the lab develop equipment, recruit participants, and prepare future grants. Visit the project pages for details!
- Reposted by Santani TengExcited to share that our paper "Continuous affect tracking reveals that overestimation during the recollection of affect is idiosyncratic and stable" is out now in @ARVOJOV ! doi.org/10.1167/jov.... A short thread on the findings below 👇🏽📷(1/7)
- Reposted by Santani TengThis is one of the many reasons why we must fund #science.
- Reposted by Santani TengI cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:
- Reposted by Santani TengVariance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why. @martinhebart.bsky.social @gallantlab.org diedrichsenlab.org/BrainDataSci...
- Reposted by Santani TengMy lab at UCLA is hiring 1-2 PhD students this cycle! Join us to work at the intersection of cognitive science and AI applied to pressing societal challenges like climate change. More info about me: rachit-dubey.github.io My lab: ucla-cocopol.github.io Please help repost/spread the word!
- 🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊
- Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- @haydeegl.bsky.social presented blind experts and sighted novices with click trains of varying length, asking them to lateralize the echoes. Psychophysics and EEG tracked evidence accumulation (or lack thereof) successive clicks, independent of low-level acoustics or repetition suppression.
- Reposted by Santani Tengincredible Ada Lovelace quote highlighted in a talk by Steve Furber. She spells out the dream of computational neuroscience, 2 centuries ago. The sheer ambition 🤩
- Reposted by Santani Tenghi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- Reposted by Santani TengI started a list about films about neurology and the brain: letterboxd.com/ericleonardi... Let me know if any others come to mind and I can add them too!
- Reposted by Santani Teng*Please read and share!* My NIH funds at UCLA were suspended last week. It's hard to find the words to describe the impact of these grant suspensions. I have felt speechless and heartbroken that people in my lab, my friends, colleagues, researchers, trainees, and undergrads 1/9
- Reposted by Santani TengThank you #imrf2025 for providing the space to share ideas and to all the people who were interested in our Kalman Filter-based echolocators and provided valuable comments. The poster session was a blast! And thanks @echodislocation.bsky.social for capturing only the best facial expressions!
- Reposted by Santani TengThe right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before? That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators. My how times change ...
- Reposted by Santani Tengthis figure from 1944 is cited as the first topoplot, from Koiti Motokawa. in an era where only handful of EEG channels across space were used, he measured the mean alpha amplitude for 90 points across the scalp. ❗ (compiling a presentation about the evolution of topoplots, cool stuff out there 🙂)
- Reposted by Santani TengICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
- Reposted by Santani TengI'd like to make a list of PhD programs that (1) are in Europe (which does include the UK); (2) offer opportunities in systems neuroscience; and obviously (3) pay a stipend. Please share and/or respond to add your suggestions?
- Reposted by Santani Teng"This Court rules that the challenged directives . . . are arbitrary and capricious." "They are of no force and effect." "They are illegal and so are each of the terminations before this Court"
- Reposted by Santani TengExclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows reut.rs/3ZvxVoY
- Reposted by Santani TengNormal 2025 way of communicating
- Reposted by Santani Teng🦇✨ New paper out! Novel Stimuli to Benchmark and Train Echolocation Skills Curious about how echolocation can be made easier to learn? We evaluated how specific auditory temporal cues might improve spatial perception. #Echolocation #BlindTech #AssistiveTech #Blindness lnkd.in/gVe4VWqu
- Reposted by Santani Teng#Echolocation is trainable, but can learning it be optimized? In work presented to CSUN2025 and now published in @csuncod.bsky.social's JTPD vol 13, @haydeegl.bsky.social illustrates the benefits of adjusting synthetic but realistic echolocation sounds to be more perceptible by novice listeners.
- 🦇✨ New paper out! Novel Stimuli to Benchmark and Train Echolocation Skills Curious about how echolocation can be made easier to learn? We evaluated how specific auditory temporal cues might improve spatial perception. #Echolocation #BlindTech #AssistiveTech #Blindness lnkd.in/gVe4VWqu
- Reposted by Santani TengWhoa...how about some *great* Friday night news instead??? The 14-day temporary restraining order blocks admin from: 🛑 Any further DOGE order to "cut programs or staff" 🛑 Executing existing RIFs 🛑 Issuing further RIFs ...in connection to EO, OMB memo, reorg plans. See page 40 here:
- Reposted by Santani TengThis is a terrible update to We Didn't Start the Fire
- Reposted by Santani TengI really wish I could describe GenZ what it felt like growing up in a miracle. My grandfather on my mother's side was a dentist. He had a grand encyclopedia collection and it was just this incredible thing. You could pick up a random book and go to a random page and just be regaled with information
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- Reposted by Santani TengDOGE was never about efficiency gains. DOGE is an ideological attack on government, which would have been impossible to wage if done through the regular means of government funding--the legislature. Couching it as "efficiency" was a strategic play by the executive to consolidate power.
- Reposted by Santani TengI got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.
- Reposted by Santani TengMIT following Harvard's lead here
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- Reposted by Santani TengTHREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
- Reposted by Santani TengThere have been many lab leak articles in the media recently, but none had actual new data In a new preprint, @zachhensel.bsky.social and I analyze early COVID-19 cases sequence data that have been overlooked so far. These new data continue to point to a natural origin ▫️1/7 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Santani TengDr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s. Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
- If you're attending #CNS2025, check out our lab's posters in Tuesday morning's Session F! We're proud to represent @skeriresearch.bsky.social in Boston this year.
- F75: Auditory masking release indexes human click-based echolocation performance F77: Modeling target search in blind echolocators using a Kalman Filter with realistic exploratory behavior simulations F114: Time-resolved EEG decoding of neural text representations during naturalistic braille reading
- Reposted by Santani TengIf Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.
- Reposted by Santani TengDisappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
- Reposted by Santani TengThere are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
- Reposted by Santani TengWhen they said “history repeats itself” I didn’t realize they meant beat for beat Honestly embarrassed to be a Columbia alum right now
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- Knowing things is good. #standupforscience2025
- Amazing turnout for #standupforscience2025 and we even got inspirational words from Nobel Prize winner Dr. Carolyn Bertozzi!
- Reposted by Santani TengReally wish people would stop talking about the problem with Science under Trump as “budget cuts”. No. Budgets are set deliberatively by elected members of congress. Budgets haven’t been cut. What’s happening are *purges* and *censorship*.
