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Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech's robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/skild-ai-ceo-robotics-brain-davos

Skild AI's CEO on building one brain for every robot
My full Sources Live interview with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak from Davos.

A new study suggests that #dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain.
Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive,
disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue.
When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned.
This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in …

Scientists found a way to restore brain blood flow in dementia
A new study suggests that dementia may be driven in part by faulty blood flow in the brain. Researchers found that losing a key lipid causes blood vessels to become overactive, disrupting circulation and starving brain tissue. When the missing molecule was restored, normal blood flow returned. This discovery opens the door to new treatments aimed at fixing vascular problems in dementia.

😵‍💫 Targeted ultrasound can shape the brain's reward-seeking mechanisms
#ultrasound

Targeted ultrasound can shape the brain's reward-seeking mechanisms
The nucleus accumbens is a tiny element of the human brain triggered when we experience something enjoyable, and used to help us learn behaviors that lead to rewards. A new study has shown for the first time that its influence on human behavior can be altered using transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS).

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Nasal spray as noninvasive brain tumor treatment developed by researchers
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5663293-nasal-drops-fight-deadly-brain-cancer-research/

#Birds #birdwatching The reason for superiority: https://neurosciencenews.com/birdwatch

Expertise Protects Against Cognitive Decline - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

#Ultrasound gives the brain a nudge in the right direction https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-news/ultrasound-gives-the-brain-a-nudge-in-the-right-d…

Ultrasound gives the brain a nudge in the right direction | Radboud University
Neuroscientist Soha Farboud of the Donders Institute at Radboud University has succeeded in adjusting activity in specific brain areas using a new technique.

How to improve memory, mitigate dementia & reverse brain aging:
1️⃣ Take a multivitamin daily.
2️⃣ Increase choline intake. (Eggs)
3️⃣ Eat more blueberries. (1 cup/daily)
4️⃣ Aerobic exercise (60% of max heart rate)

▶️ The Fastest Way to Reverse Brain Aging (Science-backed)
https://

😵 Diesel exhaust particles disrupt the function of brain's immune cells, study shows
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-diesel-exhaust-particles-disrupt-function.html

Diesel exhaust particles disrupt the function of brain's immune cells, study shows
Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent study led by the University of Eastern Finland. The findings, published in Environment International, shed light on how traffic-related air pollution could contribute to brain inflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 63448 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

An #earworm popping up in my brain lately. A poem I was made to memorize when I was 14. It re-emerges every couple years, for no reason I can figure. tbh, I usually only remember verbatim the first few lines or so, and have to look it up again. It’s one of those things, like advertising jingles from many years ago, that have lodged in my memory. 🎶You’ll wonder where the yellow went when you brush y…

Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein (Sharon Otterman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/nyregion/columbia-nobel-winner-epstein-resigns.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260225/p42#a260225p42

To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-flexibly-organize-thought-the-brain-makes-use-of-space-0120

To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space
MIT researchers tested their theory of spatial computing, which holds that the brain recruits and controls ad hoc groups of neurons for cognitive tasks by applying brain waves to patches of the cortex.

RE: https://mastodon.xyz/@xkcd/116134642695834637
why does the compsci have a woolly hat? don’t they need a brain heatsink?
when i go out cycling in wintry subzero weather, i wear a fleecy band that stops my ears from getting frostbite, but still allows my…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116132930980342790
It’s gonna be so funny when it turns out that Alzheimer’s is a post-viral syndrome of Varicella (brain Shingles!) and we turn out to have cured it inadvertently in recent decades by developing…

E-waste chemicals are appearing in dolphins and porpoises #environment

E-waste chemicals are appearing in dolphins and porpoises
Liquid crystal monomers (LCMs) are critical components of laptop, television, and smartphone screens. Given their ubiquity in the environment, these compounds are considered persistent pollutants, posing threats to marine life that scientists want to understand. Research published in Environmental Science & Technology provides initial evidence that LCMs from household electronics or electronic waste (e-waste) can accumulate in dolphin and porpoise tissues, including blubber, muscle, and brain, …

I like where this is going.
I think #ai has analyzed my brain 🧠
🧐🤣

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Study Finds 40% of fMRI Brain Scans Misread Neural Activity
https://ground.news/article/study-finds-40-of-fmri-brain-scans-misread-neural-activity_7aa5a7

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

The God’s Eye Fallacy: Why Computation Fails Biology
#philosophy

The 500-Million-Year-Old Refutation of Artificial Intelligence
A brain structure has persisted for 500 million years across fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The basal ganglia should tell us something fundamental about intelligence itself. Yet when viewed through the computational lens, it makes no sense at all. The problem isn't the basal ganglia. The problem is that

What I mean by that is I doubt there is even one single truly “neurotypical” person on this Earth whose brain is actually average in every important dimension of brain variation.
2/

Brain implants: What's standing in the way of pivotal trials, FDA approval #BCI

Source: Sam Altman's Merge Labs, which seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of LA-based nonprofit Forest Neurotech (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interf…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

“Brain Drain” or Temporary Wartime Realities? How the Number and Quality of Applicants to Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions Have Changed Since the Start of the Full-Scale Invasion: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/brain-drain-or-temporary-wartime.html

I just scrolled through #LinkedIn and read my feed for the first time in 2 months. *shudders*
Enough internet for the day, I need a book and some tea to earn my brain cells back.
(In all seriousness I was shocked by just how homogenous everyone’s writing style is: every post had the same rhythm and the same uncanny, unnatural cadence. That’s not how anyone speaks! Or writes! Every sentence just reads like the author is blowing smoke up their own ass)
(Also - I didn’t see a single new idea that I hadn’t seen a year ago when I used to actually scroll through LinkedIn every day)

If you’ve never been into exercise or considered yourself “a gym person,” the idea of starting exercise in midlife can feel daunting, or even futile.
But here’s the good news:
from a scientific standpoint, your 40s may be one of the most powerful times to get started.
When it comes to bone, muscle, metabolism, heart health and even brain function, it is never too late to start exercising.
In fact, your body is remarkably responsive to change at this stage of life, and y…

The physio is in: Midlife is not about decline, it can be the turning point for your health
Health writer and chartered physiotherapist Stephen O’Rourke explains why muscle, bone, heart and mind respond remarkably well to exercise in midlife — and why it’s never too late to start.

A scientifically important fMRI study of a deceased salmon won an IgNobel Prize a while back. It’s still important.
Bennett et al. "Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction" Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 2010

IgNobel Prize in Neuroscience: The dead salmon study

The image just popped into my head of a PCBA manager in a Smokey Bear hat taking his blue-coated SMT technicians out for a morning run around the factory grounds singing cadence at them
I don't know but it's been said
Vintage solder's made of lead
Some say RoHS is a pain
But I kinda like my brain
Aoyue irons make me sad
But my Metcal ain't half bad

#LaVCa: LLM-assisted visual cortex captioning https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13606 using "large language models (LLMs) to generate natural-language captions for images to which voxels are selective"; to be presented a…

LaVCa: LLM-assisted Visual Cortex Captioning
Understanding the property of neural populations (or voxels) in the human brain can advance our comprehension of human perceptual and cognitive processing capabilities and contribute to developing brain-inspired computer models. Recent encoding models using deep neural networks (DNNs) have successfully predicted voxel-wise activity. However, interpreting the properties that explain voxel responses remains challenging because of the black-box nature of DNNs. As a solution, we propose LLM-assiste…

Four fast, weird songs on this EP from 2025 via Buffalo's synth punk freaks HAVANA SYNDROME. Love the guy's voice, he sounds totally unhinged. I love singers that sound unhinged. 😂
https://swimmingfaithrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kill-your-brain

PIME: Prototype-based Interpretable MCTS-Enhanced Brain Network Analysis for Disorder Diagnosis
Kunyu Zhang, Yanwu Yang, Jing Zhang, Xiangjie Shi, Shujian Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21046 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21046 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21046
arXiv:2602.21046v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent deep learning methods for fMRI-based diagnosis have achieved promising accuracy by modeling functional connectivity networks. However, standard approaches often struggle with noisy interactions, and conventional post-hoc attribution methods may lack reliability, potentially highlighting dataset-specific artifacts. To address these challenges, we introduce PIME, an interpretable framework that bridges intrinsic interpretability with minimal-sufficient subgraph optimization by integrating prototype-based classification and consistency training with structural perturbations during learning. This encourages a structured latent space and enables Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) under a prototype-consistent objective to extract compact minimal-sufficient explanatory subgraphs post-training. Experiments on three benchmark fMRI datasets demonstrate that PIME achieves state-of-the-art performance. Furthermore, by constraining the search space via learned prototypes, PIME identifies critical brain regions that are consistent with established neuroimaging findings. Stability analysis shows 90% reproducibility and consistent explanations across atlases.
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South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report when they admit patients with measles-related illnesses.
Available data shows that only 2% of the state’s measles cases have resulted in hospitalizations. Some infectious disease experts fear significant underreporting.
Some doctors say they lack information about the severity of measles complications as it spreads around them.

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark.
Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, brain swelling and other serious complications.

New Virus
There is a new virus going around called WORK. If you receive any sort
of WORK, whether via e-mail, Internet, or simply handed to you by a
colleague, do not open it. Those who have opened WORK have found that
their social life is deleted and their brain ceases to function
properly.
If you do encounter WORK via e-mail or are faced with any WORK at all,
purge the virus by sending an e-mail to your boss with the words 'This
is too much for…

In der Juristerei wird das Aufkommen der LLMs begeistert gefeiert. Man versucht sich zu profilieren. Man ist vielleicht besorgt, dass die Stundensätze herunter gehen könnten. Aber sonst? Und dann diese Studie, die zeigt, dass bei Benutzung von LLMs die cognitive Kapazität und damit auch die Qualität dauernd nach unten zeigt. Kurz: Ein LLM-Anwalt bietet teure 0815-Soße, die man auch ohne Anwalt haben kann.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

I want to emphasize: the graphic details of what ICE did this morning are •extremely• disturbing. It is important to know what is happening, but that does not necessarily mean having every traumatic detail burned into your brain. Please take care of yourself, and be mindful of how you absorb details as they emerge.

Boston-based Neurable, which builds an OS for brain-computer interfaces, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, bringing its total raised to $65M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/12/19/neurable-r…

Exclusive: Neurable raises $35M for brain-computer interface AI
The company plans to kick off another raise next year, despite having 18 months of runway.

The surprising way to handle a big moment like the NFL playoffs? Change nothing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994027/2026/01/24/nfl-playoffs-pressure-handle-big-moments/

Unhinged doesn't even cut it anymore... This speech & rhetoric needs a superlative to describe it... sheer brain rot! And yet, instead of a group walk out, a standing ovation at the end... unbelievable!

Surprise !
https://futurism.com/health-medicine/kim-kardashian-doctor-finds-holes-brain-low-activity

EPA Repeals Regulations for Mercury and Toxic Air Pollutants From Power Plants
Environmental and health groups said the change will make people sicker and supports a dying industry
https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/02/epa-rep…

EPA repeals Biden-era coal rules aimed at limiting brain-harming pollution
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repealed Biden-era regulations that forced power plants to cut harmful pollutants including brain-damaging mercury and particulate matter, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Friday.

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Did you know that I have a brain?
Yes.
No.
Pic or didn't happen.

My brain looked at this log and merged the last two plugin names into "yiffing".
I've clearly spent too much time on the internet.

ChatGPT about a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for people born blind: "For early-blind people, a Neuralink-style cortical visual prosthesis is very unlikely to be meaningfully available in the 2020s or 2030s." https://chatgpt.com/share/694e5e8a-ee78-8004-91fc-9ed48e261…

ChatGPT - Neuralink Blindsight Implant Timeline
Shared via ChatGPT

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Fascinating article in @…:
https://www.thetransmitter.org/defining-ce

From genes to dynamics: Examining brain cell types in action may reveal the logic of brain function
Defining brain cell types is no longer a matter of classification alone, but of embedding their genetic identities within the dynamical organization of population activity.

'Brain the size of a walnut': Bessent goes off on Newsom (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/scott-bessent-gavin-newsom-the-conversation-00742777
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p10#a260123p10

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/3]:
- Functional Continuous Decomposition
Teymur Aghayev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20857 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/116130499236089653
- SpatiaLQA: A Benchmark for Evaluating Spatial Logical Reasoning in Vision-Language Models
Xie, Zhang, Shan, Zhu, Tang, Wei, Song, Wan, Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20901 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130845273808954
- Some Simple Economics of AGI
Christian Catalini, Xiang Hui, Jane Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econGN_bot/116130470423837005
- Multimodal MRI Report Findings Supervised Brain Lesion Segmentation with Substructures
Yubin Ge, Yongsong Huang, Xiaofeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20994 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116130212832138624
- MIP Candy: A Modular PyTorch Framework for Medical Image Processing
Tianhao Fu, Yucheng Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21033 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130864279556063
- Empirically Calibrated Conditional Independence Tests
Milleno Pan, Antoine de Mathelin, Wesley Tansey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21036 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/116130690605113562
- Is Multi-Distribution Learning as Easy as PAC Learning: Sharp Rates with Bounded Label Noise
Rafael Hanashiro, Abhishek Shetty, Patrick Jaillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21039 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130572661848449
- Position-Aware Sequential Attention for Accurate Next Item Recommendations
Timur Nabiev, Evgeny Frolov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21052 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/116130263323086316
- Motivation is Something You Need
Mehdi Acheli, Walid Gaaloul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21064 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130680774678580
- An Enhanced Projection Pursuit Tree Classifier with Visual Methods for Assessing Algorithmic Impr...
Natalia da Silva, Dianne Cook, Eun-Kyung Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21130 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130610674573081
- Complexity of Classical Acceleration for $\ell_1$-Regularized PageRank
Kimon Fountoulakis, David Mart\'inez-Rubio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21138 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOC_bot/116130547076073836
- LUMEN: Longitudinal Multi-Modal Radiology Model for Prognosis and Diagnosis
Jiang, Yang, Nath, Parida, Kulkarni, Xu, Xu, Anwar, Roth, Linguraru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21142 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116130871488694585
- A Benchmark for Deep Information Synthesis
Debjit Paul, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21143 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130692571594706
- Scaling State-Space Models on Multiple GPUs with Tensor Parallelism
Anurag Dutt, Nimit Shah, Hazem Masarani, Anshul Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21144 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_bot/116130520888343997
- Not Just How Much, But Where: Decomposing Epistemic Uncertainty into Per-Class Contributions
Mame Diarra Toure, David A. Stephens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21160 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/116130618512594211
- Aletheia tackles FirstProof autonomously
Tony Feng, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21201 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116130705679345625
- Squint: Fast Visual Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-Real Robotics
Abdulaziz Almuzairee, Henrik I. Christensen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21203 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_bot/116130765974498223
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“How can one mutation cause such different effects?”
Pera explained. “It comes down to genetic background.
Each strain has a unique genetic makeup that can either protect against or magnify the impact of that mutation.”
To confirm these findings in living organisms, Pera introduced the same mutations into live mice from the same eight strains.
Remarkably, the neurons in the brains of these mice phenotypically matched what he had seen in the petri dish,
providin…

What stem cells tell us about autism and other developmental brain disorders
By pairing stem cell technology with genetic diversity, JAX researchers uncover why identical mutations can lead to severe disease in some—and no symptoms in others.

Thus far about the only known advantage of a visual cortical prosthesis (brain implant for restoring vision) over visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is that you get to see blobs of light (phosphenes) if late-blind https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops using the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek system-on-a-chip, which could come in H1 2026 (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wants-to-be-the-brain-of-co…

I once again have the feeling that Randall Monroe can see directly into my brain (especially the mouseover text):
https://xkcd.com/3210/

Your Brain Doesn’t Magically Finish Developing at 25. Here’s What Actually Happens
https://scitechdaily.com/your-brain-doesnt-magically-finish-developing-at-25-heres-what-actually-happens/

🐭 High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
#brain

High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
A research team from the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has achieved a breakthrough in brain imaging by developing the world's first technology to capture high-resolution images of the brains of awake experimental mice in a nearly noninvasive manner.

(LinkedIn) Romina Nejad, former clinical trials lead at Neuralink, has left Neuralink to join Salma Health as vice president clinical research https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432841671396040704/

LinkedIn | Romina Nejad
I’m excited to share that I’ve joined Salma Health as Vice President of Clinical Research. We’re building a new kind of brain health system — one that is connected, precise, and designed around the whole person. In close partnership with providers and researchers, our goal is to deliver more accurate diagnoses, personalized treatment plans, and truly coordinated care for even the most complex patients. This is just the beginning, and I’m proud to be part of a team working to build …

What does Neuralink want — to help people with paralysis, or prepare for a war with AI? https://archive.ph/c96dg Conflicting rhetoric from Elon Musk's company impedes brain implants' ability to gain traction as medical devices, competitors say";

💊 Faster to trials? Low-dose THC plus celecoxib improved cognition in Alzheimer's model mice
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-faster-trials-dose-thc-celecoxib.html

Faster to trials? Low-dose THC plus celecoxib improved cognition in Alzheimer's model mice
In recent years, research into cannabis and its main psychoactive ingredient, Δ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), has unearthed medical benefits including anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties. However, THC is also known to negatively affect learning and memory, limiting its potential clinical usefulness, particularly in disorders of the brain.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[4/6]:
- Neural Proposals, Symbolic Guarantees: Neuro-Symbolic Graph Generation with Hard Constraints
Chuqin Geng, Li Zhang, Mark Zhang, Haolin Ye, Ziyu Zhao, Xujie Si
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16954 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102434757760085
- Multi-Probe Zero Collision Hash (MPZCH): Mitigating Embedding Collisions and Enhancing Model Fres...
Ziliang Zhao, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17050 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102517335590034
- MASPO: Unifying Gradient Utilization, Probability Mass, and Signal Reliability for Robust and Sam...
Fu, Lin, Fang, Zheng, Hu, Shao, Qin, Pan, Zeng, Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17550 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102581561441103
- A Theoretical Framework for Modular Learning of Robust Generative Models
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Yutao Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102582216715527
- Multi-Round Human-AI Collaboration with User-Specified Requirements
Sima Noorani, Shayan Kiyani, Hamed Hassani, George Pappas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.17646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116102592047544971
- NEXUS: A compact neural architecture for high-resolution spatiotemporal air quality forecasting i...
Rampunit Kumar, Aditya Maheshwari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.19654 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/116125610403473755
- Augmenting Lateral Thinking in Language Models with Humor and Riddle Data for the BRAINTEASER Task
Mina Ghashami, Soumya Smruti Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10385 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/112472190479013167
- Watermarking Language Models with Error Correcting Codes
Patrick Chao, Yan Sun, Edgar Dobriban, Hamed Hassani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10281 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/112636307340218522
- Learning to Control Unknown Strongly Monotone Games
Siddharth Chandak, Ilai Bistritz, Nicholas Bambos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00575 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/112715733875586837
- Classification and reconstruction for single-pixel imaging with classical and quantum neural netw...
Sofya Manko, Dmitry Frolovtsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12506 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/112806295477530195
- Statistical Inference for Temporal Difference Learning with Linear Function Approximation
Weichen Wu, Gen Li, Yuting Wei, Alessandro Rinaldo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16106 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/113350611306532443
- Big data approach to Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials
Abel Lacabanne, Daniel Tubbenhauer, Pedro Vaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01283 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathRT_bot/113587812663608119
- MoEMba: A Mamba-based Mixture of Experts for High-Density EMG-based Hand Gesture Recognition
Mehran Shabanpour, Kasra Rad, Sadaf Khademi, Arash Mohammadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17457 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessSP_bot/114069047434302054
- Tightening Optimality gap with confidence through conformal prediction
Miao Li, Michael Klamkin, Russell Bent, Pascal Van Hentenryck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04071 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114120074927291283
- SEED: Towards More Accurate Semantic Evaluation for Visual Brain Decoding
Juhyeon Park, Peter Yongho Kim, Jiook Cha, Shinjae Yoo, Taesup Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06437 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114142690988862508
- How much does context affect the accuracy of AI health advice?
Prashant Garg, Thiemo Fetzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.18310 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_econGN_bot/114414380916957986
- Reproducing and Improving CheXNet: Deep Learning for Chest X-ray Disease Classification
Daniel J. Strick, Carlos Garcia, Anthony Huang, Thomas Gardos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06646 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/114499319986528625
- Sharp Gaussian approximations for Decentralized Federated Learning
Soham Bonnerjee, Sayar Karmakar, Wei Biao Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08125 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114505047719395949
- HoloLLM: Multisensory Foundation Model for Language-Grounded Human Sensing and Reasoning
Chuhao Zhou, Jianfei Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17645 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/114572928659057348
- A Copula Based Supervised Filter for Feature Selection in Diabetes Risk Prediction Using Machine ...
Agnideep Aich, Md Monzur Murshed, Sameera Hewage, Amanda Mayeaux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22554 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/114589983451462525
- Synthesis of discrete-continuous quantum circuits with multimodal diffusion models
Florian F\"urrutter, Zohim Chandani, Ikko Hamamura, Hans J. Briegel, Gorka Mu\~noz-Gil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01666 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_quantph_bot/114618420761346125
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budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…

WIRED: Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit, Forest Neurotech https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-brain-computer-interface-merge-labs-spin-out-nonprofit-forest-neurotech/ Focus on usin…

Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup that seeks to read brain activity using ultrasound, is being spun out of Forest Neurotech, a Los Angeles nonprofit.

The unusual electronic and optical properties of #perovskites have long been touted as useful for improving solar cells and television screens,
but these materials have never quite hit the big time.
Existing approaches have hoovered up all the investment and attention, and perovskites remain confined to specialist applications.
Now researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico…

Perovskite nanocrystal computer components inspired by brain cells
Researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico di Milano are developing a new type of computer component that is more powerful and easier to manufacture than its predecessors. Inspired by the human brain, it is designed to process large amounts of data fast and in an energy-efficient way.

Daniels was looking at just 10 easily quantifiable body measurements. How many important dimensions of variations are there in a human mind? How hard are they to measure? How likely is it that even one single “average” mind exists on Earth?? The odds are vanishingly small.
[Napkin sketch: assume there are a paltry 20 dimensions of brain variation. (Surely that’s low.) Assume there’s a 1 in 5 change of being completely “normal” in each. (Surely that’s high.) Even that absurd hypothetical gives a 1 in 11,490 chance that a •single• completely average mind exists in a population of 8.3 billion.]
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IEEE Spectrum: These hearing aids will tune in to your brain #BCI

Hearing Aids Will Use Biosignals to Ease Mental Strain
Could smart hearing aids that read brain waves and eye movements be the answer to fatigue-free listening?

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…

Donald Trump sounded like a fascist dictator
suffering from a brain bleed
during his speech yesterday
at Davos.
It was a national embarrassment
even by the lowly standards of modern American politics.
The president’s showing in Switzerland was so shabby that I feel compelled to share some thoughts about it.
First of all, despite what cable news chyrons would have you believe,
Trump’s screed was chillingly aggressive.
He began the Gree…

American embarrassment. Global pariah.
Trump's Davos debacle marked a new low.

Fortunately my brain is quite slow, so as long as I'm healthy I won't need an invasive BCI (brain implant) to output faster than I can type or talk (with or without AI), and I'll use a headset or smartglasses for AR/XR.

🤯 Brain activity goes to extremes in soccer fans, neuroimaging reveals
#sports

Brain activity goes to extremes in soccer fans, neuroimaging reveals
Studying brain patterns in soccer fans, researchers found that certain circuit regions of the brain were activated while viewing soccer matches involving their favorite team, triggering positive and negative emotions and behaviors, according to a new study published in Radiology. The researchers say these patterns could apply to other types of fanaticism as well, and that the circuits are forged early in life.

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/17/research-cuts-fuel-scientific-brain-drain-american-science-shattered/ "A large part of what we loved about the United States i…

Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave U.S. behind
“A large part of what we loved about the United States is no longer there”: Amid talk of a brain drain, some scientists leave the U.S. behind.

Lego unveils the Smart Play platform, with a brick powered by a custom chip that connects to compatible minifigures and tags for interactive lights and sounds (Jeremy White/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/lego-smart-brick-new-digital-brain/

Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain
The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and sound to the Lego experience—including the Minifigs.

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Doctors made a custom CRISPR therapy to treat an infant with a rare genetic disease
A baby, named KJ, was born with a deficiency in carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS1).
This deficiency means his liver couldn’t convert ammonia
– which is made naturally when the body breaks down proteins
– into urea, damaging his brain and liver.
Babies born with CPS1 deficiency often end up staying in the hospital until they’re eligible for a liver transplant.
They h…

🧠 Human-like Working Memory from Artificial Intrinsic Plasticity Neurons
#ai #llm

Human-like Working Memory from Artificial Intrinsic Plasticity Neurons
Working memory enables the brain to integrate transient information for rapid decision-making. Artificial networks typically replicate this via recurrent or parallel architectures, yet incur high energy costs and noise sensitivity. Here we report IPNet, a hardware-software co-designed neuromorphic architecture realizing human-like working memory via neuronal intrinsic plasticity. Exploiting Joule-heating dynamics of Magnetic Tunnel Junctions (MTJs), IPNet physically emulates biological memory v…

Postdoc position in brain plasticity (blindness/deafness) at Georgetown University, Washington DC #neuroscience

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

"A high acuity is trivially obtained at the expense of field of view through suitable enlarging optics, so whenever a high acuity is claimed for a visual prosthesis one must also check if the corresponding field of view is better than tunnel vision." https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink

✨ Noninvasive approach to treating stroke by boosting the brain's lymphatic system
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-noninvasive-approach-boosting-brain-lymphatic.html

Noninvasive approach to treating stroke by boosting the brain's lymphatic system
Scientists from Monash University are partnering with colleagues at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., to develop a new, high-tech approach for treating ischemic stroke by enhancing removal of toxic waste products from the brain.

"Why I don't think '#Neuralink' will ever be profitable" https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-think-neuralink-will-e…

Vivani subsidiary Cortigent to present Orion Visual Cortical Prosthesis System at NANS 2026, January 23, 2026 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/vivani-subsidiary-cortigent-present-orion-120000709.html 60 cortical surface electrodes, based on Argus II…

Vivani Subsidiary Cortigent to Present Orion System’s Advanced Brain Implant Technology in Poster Session at NANS 2026
Cortigent is a leading developer of brain interface devices based on precision neurostimulation technology The company’s new Orion cortical stimulation...

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Crossmodal interaction of flashes and beeps across time and number follows Bayesian causal inference #SiFI

Crossmodal interaction of flashes and beeps across time and number follows Bayesian causal inference - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Multisensory perception requires the brain to dynamically infer causal relationships between sensory inputs across various dimensions, such as temporal and spatial attributes. Traditionally, Bayesian Causal Inference (BCI) models have generally provided a robust framework for understanding sensory processing in unidimensional settings where stimuli across sensory modalities vary along one dimension such as spatial location, or numerosity (Samad et al., PloS one, 10 (2), e0117178, 2015). However…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 71604 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

Neuralink set to launch 'high-volume' brain implant production as competitors weigh in https://thedebrief.org/neuralink-set-to-launch-high-volume-brain-implant-production-as-competitors-weigh-in/

Neuralink Set to Launch ‘High-Volume’ Brain Implant Production as Competitors Weigh In
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Revolutionary 65,536-electrode wireless brain-computer interface #BCI

Revolutionary 65,536-Electrode Wireless Brain-Computer Interface
In a groundbreaking development poised to revolutionize the field of neurotechnology, researchers have unveiled a sophisticated brain-computer interface (BCI) that integrates an impressive array of

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

The market opportunities for invasive visual prostheses such as the much hyped Neuralink Blindsight brain implant are slowly eroding, in favor of smart glasses with AI scene description, talking OCR and visual-to-auditory sensory substitution.

Toward real-time fMRI? Exploring the sensitivity limits of neuronal current imaging with MRI and MEG in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.17.706369v1 Local magnetic field amplitudes of ∼0.07 nT still below detection threshold of 0.2 nT at 3T; …

Wireless device uses light patterns to deliver information directly to the brain https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-12-wireless-device-patterns-brain.html
Patterned wireless transcranial optogenetics generates artificial perception (in mice)

Wireless device uses light patterns to deliver information directly to the brain
In a new leap for neurobiology and bioelectronics, Northwestern University scientists have developed a wireless device that uses light to send information directly to the brain—bypassing the body's natural sensory pathways.

The next frontier for AI is the human brain #noninvasive

The Next Frontier For AI Is The Human Brain
Brain-computer interfaces will play a central role in defining how human intelligence and artificial intelligence fit together.

Paid research opportunity for blind participants. Must be blind from birth or infancy, and live within 50 miles of Washington DC https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccpnHzLPO1RlBQAa3UNGXJ9hjQn_jHRv5GvIb6hqM7-caj-A/viewform

Interest form - volunteering for a SAMP Lab study
Welcome to the Sensory and Motor Plasticity Lab volunteer interest form, and thanks for showing an interest in our research! We are currently recruiting for a study of brain plasticity in people with blindness. Have you ever wondered about the way your brain reorganized to optimize touch, hearing, and memory, compared to your sighted family and friends? Georgetown University Medical Center is seeking individuals who are blind from birth or early infancy to participate in a new behavioral an…

Dynamic reversal of IT-PFC information flow orchestrates visual categorization under perceptual uncertainty https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.17.695044v1 Quite a mouthful to say that "the brain actually reverses its information flow when things get blurr…

Can a visual neuroprosthesis communicate with the brain? https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/can-visual-neuroprosthesis-communicate-brain-2025a1000yhe Archived at

Can a Visual Neuroprosthesis Communicate With the Brain?
A closed-loop cortical implant generates functional percepts of shape, motion, and letters in two individuals with acquired blindness.

Brainwaves meet spatial computing: Cognixion Vision Pro #noninvasive

Mishti Broor - 23. Brainwaves Meet Spatial Computing: Cognixion + Vision Pro
The partnership between Cognixion and Apple Vision Pro represents something bigger than a clever product integration. It represents the maturation of non-invasive brain-computer interface technology reaching beyond laboratory settings into a mainstream platform with millions of potential users. In

(YouTube) China's first brain-computer cluster in Shanghai sees vision implants and ultrasound brain therapy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGcXdkqNbek "Mindtrix BCI founder Liu Bing is developing an implant and smart glasses that could help blind patients “see”. Clinical trials may start…

Visual and tactile motion cues enhance the categorisation of novel object shapes #multisensory

Visual and tactile motion cues enhance the categorisation of novel object shapes - Experimental Brain Research
Object categorisation is a fundamental cognitive process, involving the integration of information across the senses. We investigated, using smartphones, whether visual and tactile motion cues could enhance object category learning and generalisation to novel object shapes. Two categories of similar shapes were associated with specific correlated visual and tactile vibration motion cues. After learning object categories, participants were assessed on categorisation of learned and novel objects …

Perhaps the good thing about The vOICe vision BCI is that it is not easy but hard, preventing AI brain rot #AI

The ethical frontiers of brain-computer interfaces #BCI

The Ethical Frontiers of Brain-Computer Interfaces
The challenge is not just to minimize harm, but to make choices that expand human flourishing rather than reduce us to more efficient workers or more predictable consumers.