Hi everyone I hope you are all doing well. You will have likely seen Tony's email last Wednesday, which marked YNiC's 15th year since opening - this is also the same date as Professor Gary Green's birthday, who was YNiC's first Director! YNiC celebrations will be postponed to a future date, when we hope to be reunited with you all under happier and safer circumstances. *Congratulations* Here's some good news during these strange times - congratulations to our IT wizard Joe Lyons and his wife Emma, who gave birth to their second child, Samuel, on the 16th May. We look forward to meeting him in the future! *Journal Club* This week we'd like to promote a webinar that is being hosted by the OSA Color Technical Group this Thursday at 5pm UK time (12pm East Coast USA time). Registration is free, and the talk is being given by Prof Michael Webster from University of Nevada, Reno. Details and link to register are found below: *Title: Seeing Color Through Different Eyes - Individual Differences in Human Color Perception* *Hosted by:* OSA Color Technical Group *Date and time*: 4 June 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 ET *Registration*: https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/webinar/2020/seeing_color_through_differ… *Summary* Even among observers with normal color vision, color sensitivity and perception can vary widely. These differences arise at many levels, from well-characterized variations in the spectral sensitivities of the cone receptors to still-mysterious factors affecting how people experience and name colors. In this webinar hosted by the OSA Color Technical Group, Professor Mike Webster (University of Reno, Nevada) will provide an overview of individual differences in color vision, how they can be studied, and why they matter for understanding or working with color. The webinar will also explore visual processes that compensate for sensitivity variations, contributing to constancy in color percepts both within and between observers despite seeing the world through different eyes. *What You Will Learn:* - Basics of human color vision - Individual differences in how we see color - Implications of individual differences for color discrimination and color appearance *Who Should Attend:* - Students, researchers and professionals interested in color vision - Anyone interested in understanding how color vision and color perception differs between individuals *About the Presenter*: Prof. Michael Webster, University of Nevada, Reno Michael Webster is a vision scientist who studies the cognitive and neural processes that underlie how we see. Much of his work focuses on characterizing how our perception adapts when the environment changes (e.g we move to a drier climate) or we change (e.g. as we age). He has discovered a number of novel and influential forms of adaptation, affecting how we see colors, how we correct for blurry vision, and how our perception of someone's face depends on the faces we have seen previously. *Logging out of the Remote Desktop* We would like to remind users about the importance of *logging out* to end remote desktop sessions at the end of the day. You should treat the remote desktop in the same way as the open plan PCs: save your work and log out as you normally would once you finish for the day (i.e. Applications > Log Out) - once you've logged out your session should automatically terminate, but if not, you should also terminate the session on the x2go client. Any remote desktop sessions that have been suspended (not opened or used) for more than ten days will be terminated to free up space. *Support* If you have any questions or need assistance, no matter how minor, please send an email to support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk, rather than to specific individuals, as this will be the best way to get help quickly. I hope you all have a good week and enjoy the last of the sun before the much-needed rain begins this week (allegedly). Take care, Lauren -- Lauren Welbourne, PhD Senior Research Technician lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk York Neuroimaging Centre University of York Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY