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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that
bacteria can learn from past experiences,
store memories across generations
and adapt their behavior to changing environments
all without a brain or nervous system
https://www.cmu.edu…

Bacteria Can Learn and Form Memories Without a Brain
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that bacteria can learn from past experiences, store memories across generations and adapt their behavior to changing environments all without a brain or nervous system.

Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution may be the supplemental "glue" needed to make brain implants for restoring vision shine: textures and shading, undistorted visual feedback, fill-in for failing electrodes, etc https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

Scientists Are Building Electronics That Stretch Like Human Skin and Learn Like a Brain
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-are-building-electronics-that-stretch-like-human-skin-and-learn-like-a-brain/

Endlose Selbstüberschätzung …
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain's 'Core Algorithm' - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/06/08/0418226/jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-wild-hunt-for-the-brains-cor…

Behind the Blog: Rare Books and Baseball Brain https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-rare-books-and-baseball-brain/

EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/02/eu-approved-pesticide-found-to-have-potential-effects-on-brain-development
…

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

The silence around actual progress with the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind is deafening, and its opaqueness is blinding too. #BCI #hype vs #transparency &

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper and living document comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

Something to help cool your brain.
#RockyMountainNationalPark #naturephotography #elkOfMastodon

My brain tricked me again... 🤣

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Cypress Hill:
🎵 Insane in the Brain
#CypressHill
https://matijaweiss.bandcamp.com/track/cypress-hill-insane-in-the-brain-kasabian-cover-matija-richard-elcox-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6DtVPEJXQxDp7nn3Kp076o

@… But but but that’s where I keep my brain

"EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Pesticides

EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development
New study on fluazinam’s neurotoxicity comes up with different findings from earlier report based on manufacturer’s data

Mum Brain
Join TV news journalist Estelle Griepink as she consults the collective mum brain to get you the answers you need to know in ten minutes or less...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/mum-brain/

Having tinnitus, I found this interesting .
#tinnitus

Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health #nutrition

Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health
Could something as simple as vitamin C help support a healthier aging brain? In a study of more than 2,000 older adults in Japan, researchers found that people with lower vitamin C levels in their blood also tended to have less gray matter and weaker connections in a key brain network involved in memory, attention, and other cognitive functions.

Can a brain implant restore vision? Elon Musk says yes https://www.dhakatribune.com/feature/tech/416707/can-a-brain-implant-restore-vision-elon-musk-says This is actually a decent news article by not just regurgitating Musk's unsubs…

I spent the drive up to Little York working on a lecture about the magic of blessings which primed me such that every time someone said "Enjoy the 4th of July" it exploded in my brain like a firework
#photo #photography

1/10
#MathsMonday
This article was referred to me - https://puzzlewocky.com/brain-teasers/probability-puzzles/ever…

And yet another reply, “But the human brain works just like an LLM!”
Yes, famously we fully understand how human brains work, maybe just some minor details left to figure out.

Former Cowboys edge rusher Marshawn Kneeland diagnosed with CTE after death at age 24

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/marshawn-kneeland-cte-diagnosis-after-death/

Third successful implantation of wireless visual prosthesis brain implant advances the frontier of artificial vision #ICVP (intracortical visual prosth…

Third successful implantation of wireless visual prosthesis brain implant advances the frontier of artificial vision
In a major milestone for the field of neurotechnology, the Intracortical Visual Prosthesis (ICVP), a revolutionary wireless brain implant that bypasses the retina and optic nerves to connect directly to the brain’s visual cortex to provide artificial vision, has been successfully surgically implanted in the ICVP study’s third participant. This surgery, performed at Rush University Medical Center, underscores the scalability and robustness of the system, marking a new chapter in advancing …

Former Dallas Cowboys defensive end Kneeland had early stage CTE at time of death https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/former-dallas-cowboys-defensive-end-kneeland-had-early-stage-cte-at-time-of-death

Well, I have just written my first software, and created my first pull request, since April. It's not rocket science but perhaps my brain is recovering from fog.

#OpenSource
#AmWriting

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

Brain activity under anesthesia challenges what we know about consciousness | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260624025514.htm
The unconscious brain appears to be far more capable than scientists once believed. Researchers found that…

Brain-Computer-Interface: ALS-Patient nutzt Hirnimplantat 19 Monate lang
Ein ALS-Patient hat ein Brain-Computer-Interface fast zwei Jahre lang täglich zu Hause genutzt. Die Studie liefert wichtige Belege für die Alltagstauglichkeit.

Brain-Computer-Interface: ALS-Patient nutzt Hirnimplantat 19 Monate lang
Ein ALS-Patient hat ein Brain-Computer-Interface fast zwei Jahre lang täglich zu Hause genutzt. Die Studie liefert wichtige Belege für die Alltagstauglichkeit.

"Europe needs stronger enforcement, greater transparency, and more independent scrutiny of industry science. When credible evidence points to risks for children’s neurological development, public health must come before commercial interests."
https://www.

EU-approved pesticide found to have potential effects on brain development
New study on fluazinam’s neurotoxicity comes up with different findings from earlier report based on manufacturer’s data

On the seductive promise of phrenology and its progeny
https://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/popular_science

🕵️ Your brain's immune system isn't fighting the implant. It's listening to it. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/your-brains-immune-cells-are-eavesdropping Post 15 in the Why BCIs Fail series;

🕵️ Your Brain's Immune System Isn't Fighting the Implant. It's Listening to It.
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 15

Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain #health

Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain
Losing weight may involve rewiring the gut and the brain at the same time. In a study of obese adults, an intermittent fasting-style diet led to significant weight loss, healthier metabolic markers, and notable shifts in gut bacteria. Brain scans also revealed changes in regions tied to appetite, cravings, and self-control. The results suggest the gut microbiome and brain may work together to influence weight-loss success.

Flourish, which is building Cortex AI, a brain-like synthetic intelligence system that uses less power than LLMs, raised $500M, including $100M from Jeff Bezos (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-wild-hunt-for-t…

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.

Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland had CTE, analysis concludes https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/07/cowboys-de-marshawn-kneeland-cte-analysis-stage-1/90832762007/

Focusing on brain implants for restoring vision to the blind feels like Republicans supporting Trump no matter the cons, following the money and influential power https://bioniclab.substack.com/s/why-bcis-fail Invasive BCIs are not the only game in town, by a long shot.

Why BCIs Fail | Takashi (T.K.) Kozai | Substack
Over the next few weeks, I'll walk through the main reasons BCIs fail. Some are mechanical. Some are biological. Some are conceptual. The way we've been thinking about the problem has been incomplete. I'll try to be honest about uncertainty and direct about implications. If you build neurotechnology, fund it, regulate it, or depend on it, this is for you. And if you're simply curious about how the brain responds when we try to interface with it, I hope you find this useful. Click to read Takas…

Yes, I abuse f-strings in python because "print(f'" will always make more sense to my C-poisoned brain than "print('".

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

• Edison
• Brain
• Tetris
• Farting With A Walkman On

エジソン - Edison by WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

Sorry, brain fart and typo. Part of the problem with trying to do philosophy when mentally ill is I have a lot of brain fog, and can't really evaluate how good my ideas are.
However, when I typed 'survival', what I meant to type (and thought I had typed, was 'society'.

I've never been a breakfast person. Back when I smoked I was a coffee-and-a-cigarette person, now Im just a coffee and I-hate-everyone-until-this-kicks-in person.
But every now and then Ill get this weird craving for granola in a bowl with milk (GF eats granola every day pretty much).
me: now remember, everytime you get a craving for granola you never finish half of it.
also me: shut up brain I know what Im doing.
me: that's way too much
also me: alr…

Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours, study finds - Neurology | UCLA Health
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/drug-reverses-autism-like-brain-changes-adult-mice-within
– via

Creativity is so intimate.
You're literally letting us see how your brain works.
Via @… on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/nasibov.me/post/…

Ramin Nasibov (@nasibov.me)
Creativity is so intimate. You're literally letting us see how your brain works.

Auf Anregung von @… habe ich mal versucht, meinen Workflow von #Logseq auf #Orgmode umzubauen.
Der erste Ansatz mit org-roam sah vielversprechend aus. Aber schon nach ku…

A treasure trove of daily puzzles: https://puzzleship.com
All free, new ones daily!

Happy 250th, America 🇺🇸
Hopefully this is your awkward, lashing-out-at-all-good-things teenage years and not your the-world-should-burn-because-of-my-brain-worms boomer years.

Remember the vacuum tube train? The car tunnels? The brain implant chip? The humanoid robots? Making government “efficient”? An AGI based on… tweets (wtf)?
But sure, colonizing Mars is totally real.

Aldon Smith's brain donated to CTE Center as family's attorneys investigate his death at age 36 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/wcbk/aldon-smiths-brain-donated-to-cte-center-as-familys-attorneys-invest…

💧 Hydraulic brain: Body motion linked to fluid movement in the brain
#brain

Hydraulic brain: Body motion linked to fluid movement in the brain
The brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated, scientists report in Nature Neuroscience. Through a study using mice and simulations, the team found a potential biological mechanism underlying why exercise is thought to benefit brain health: abdominal contractions compress blood vessels connected to the spinal cord and the brain, enabling the organ to gently move within the skull. This swaying facilitates the surrounding cerebrospinal fluid to flow over the bra…

Thanks to @… I've been playing around with this website. I'm happy to find that my name and handles are most absent. I'm either a "fictional character from the YA novel and film adaptation 'The Spectacular Now'" or a character from Star Trek.

IN THE WEIGHTS
The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?

It has belatedly emerged that a 6-year-old girl in China who had a rare genetic disease
died a week after receiving the world's first brain gene-editing treatment.
The researchers released animal test results in the international journal Nature this year ahead of the treatment,
but did not disclose the already conducted clinical trial and the patient's death in the paper.
The international journal Science and the research-ethics outlet Retraction Watch reported…

China conceals child death after first brain base-editing trial, spurring ethics uproar - CHOSUNBIZ
China conceals child death after first brain base-editing trial, spurring ethics uproar Parents paid $860,000 as Shanghai Jiao Tong teams undisclosed base-editing trial ends in a childs death, prompting global ethics scrutiny

I woke at 2am and it's now 3am and my brain is still swirling. Unlike my usual insomnia routine, I am choosing to read my masto feed in the hope that my brain changes direction and settles down. Good luck to anyone else awake and struggling to sleep.

Replaced article(s) found for eess.IV. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.IV/new
[1/1]:
- Fifty Years of SAR Automatic Target Recognition: The Road Forward
Zhou, Liu, Liu, Li, Yang, Peng, Song, Kuang, Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22159 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115286713174854296
- PSI3D: Plug-and-Play 3D Stochastic Inference with Slice-wise Latent Diffusion Prior
Wenhan Guo, Jinglun Yu, Yaning Wang, Jin U. Kang, Yu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18367 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115768023276010735
- Harmonizing MR Images Across 100 Scanners: Multi-site Validation with Traveling Subjects and Rea...
Savannah P. Hays, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19474 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116447231958934365
- Delta-Diffusion: Modeling Longitudinal Brain Amyloid-PET Trajectories via Conditional Poisson Dif...
Yongheng Sun, Minhui Yu, Mengqi Wu, Maureen Kohi, Mingxia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22216 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116798571844191200
- Endo-NeRF : Uncertainty-Aware Neural Rendering with Multi-Resolution Hash Encoding for Dynamic S...
Gousia Habib, Laura Ruotsalainen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27825 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/117013453170771213
- MODEST: Multi-Optics Depth-of-Field Stereo Dataset
Nisarg K. Trivedi, Vinayaka A. Belludi, Li-Yun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20853 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115621075809273744
- Attention Fusion for Bridge Deck Delamination Detection
Alireza Moayedikia, Amirhossein Moayedikia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20113 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115773982683458537
- Label-Free Target-Domain Adaptation for Unconstrained Event-Image Feature Matching via Dual-Stage...
Zhonghua Yi, Hao Shi, Qi Jiang, Yufan Zhang, Kailun Yang, Kaiwei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10082 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116917499198780916
toXiv_bot_toot

Just saw that #genAI models now have a "how to protect the environment" suggestion... which suggests to use different genAI models 😇🤣🤦
You want to know the best way to save energy and protect the environment?

• do not use genAI (use your own brain, or your friends')
• while you're at it, protest all the data centers that are getting built to support all that "energy-saving"…

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

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit #nutrition

Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit
Fish oil supplements successfully delivered omega-3s to the brain, but a two-year study found no meaningful benefits for memory, cognition, or Alzheimer’s-related brain changes. The results challenge the idea that fish oil pills can help prevent Alzheimer’s and shift attention toward overall diet and lifestyle instead.

Primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to cortical reorganization in congenital sensory loss #LGN …

Primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei make distinct contributions to cortical reorganization in congenital sensory loss
Congenital sensory loss reveals how experience shapes the brain organization, yet most accounts of such plasticity have focused on cortex rather than the thalamic systems that link sensory input, cortical development, and distributed networks. Here, we tested whether primary and higher-order thalamic nuclei show distinct relationships with thalamocortical organization after early sensory loss. In congenital blindness, structural differences were focal to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), th…

Jeff Bezos has just become the only tech billionaire investing across multiple layers of neurotech https://insidebci.com/opinion/2026-06-07-bezos-multiple-layers-neurotech-only-tech-billionaire-velco-dar/

Jeff Bezos has just become the only tech billionaire investing across multiple layers of neurotech
In June 2026 Bezos's capital crossed into brain-inspired AI (Flourish, close to $100M at $2.5B) and basic neuroscience (Allen Institute family gift, $100M). With Bezos Expeditions in Synchron, no other tech billionaire spans this many neurotech layers.

China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated "brain-to-robot" platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trend…

BrainCo claims mind-to-robot link at China’s World AI Conference
Hangzhou-based firm says users can control robots using only their thoughts via EEG headsets, marking a leap in embodied AI tech.

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'`,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
SUX:
🎵 Brain Dead
#SUX
https://suxmusic.bandcamp.com/track/brain-dead
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HFFo5hZInkgtfitv1azeK

A tiny eye implant invented by a Stanford scientist is helping blind people read again https://archive.ph/9uSfP "Patients can’t see immediately and need months of training with the glasses to teach their brain to recognize this new form of vision. They also generally recover a narrow field of central vision — so…

Nearly 300 studies link the common pesticide chlorpyrifos to multi-organ damage, DNA disruption, and chronic disease https://usrtk.org/healthwire/chlorpyrifos-multi-organ-damage-dna-disruption-and-chronic-disease/

Nearly 300 studies link the common pesticide chlorpyrifos to multi-organ damage, DNA disruption, and chronic disease 
A sweeping review of nearly 300 studies finds the pesticide chlorpyrifos damages the brain, hormones, DNA, the liver— even at "safe" exposure levels.

I just read the sentences "[nyc garbage] Bins will destroy the character of neighborhoods. We will have fewer cars and more dumpsters," and
a) I want my brain cells back
b) if your neighborhood character is "cars", then is it really a neighborhood, or is it a parking lot?

Advanced developers describe a new kind of fatigue with generative artificial intelligence:
"vibecoding fatigue"
or "AI brain fry".
This could affect all language professions, from journalists to lawyers to translators.
https:/…

La « vibecoding fatigue » : épuisés par l’IA, les développeurs informatiques inventent leurs propres parades
Les développeurs les plus en pointe avec l’intelligence artificielle générative décrivent une fatigue d’un genre nouveau : la « vibecoding fatigue » ou l’« AI brain fry ».

Giants' Cam Skattebo on viral backflip fail, wild reputation: 'They wanna say I'm brain-dead ... who cares?'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cam-skattebo-backflip-b…

China has approved the world's first invasive brain-computer chip - here's what's next https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/01/1138133/china-world-first-brain-chip/ (archived at

China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next
The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process.

New Study Challenges What We Know About Consciousness and the Brain
https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-challenges-what-we-know-about-consciousness-and-the-brain/

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

New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a $34M Series A led by a16z and a $6M seed led by Sequoia (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/excl…

Exclusive: A founder who went from pressure washing to Wharton just raised $40 million to put AI to work for plumbers, electricians, and HVAC crews
Sequoia and a16z are betting Probook will be the AI operating system powering home services.

Scientists discover the brain can rewire itself to truly multitask https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-the-brain-can-rewire-itself-to-truly-multitask/ Implications for sensory substitution? Sensory overload?
Extensive experienc…

Scientists Discover the Brain Can Rewire Itself To Truly Multitask
Extensive practice can rewire the brain so a learned skill runs more automatically, making some forms of true multitasking possible.

WATCH: Cowboys last-chance bookends getting Hall of Fame assist https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/03/tyron-smith-joins-cowboys-tackles-for-drill-work-at-otas/90395451007/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gears:
🎵 Teenage Brain
#TheGears
https://thedefog.bandcamp.com/track/fears-for-a-teenage-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2nuY8QtC890uJH9fCWuTAm

Elon Musk's bandwidth argument for Neuralink has a problem: the brain itself https://glitchwire.com/news/elon-musks-bandwidth-argument-for-neuralink-has-a-problem-the-brain-itself/ The 10 bits per second problem (for decision m…

Elon Musk's Bandwidth Argument for Neuralink Has a Problem: The Brain Itself
Musk's latest X post frames Neuralink as the solution to human cognitive bottlenecks. New neuroscience research suggests the limitation isn't the interface, it's the architecture.

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'`,…

Brain computer interfaces boot up multipronged legal issues https://www.afslaw.com/perspectives/news/brain-computer-interfaces-boot-multipronged-legal-issues "BCIs may be implantable or noninvasive", "Can neural data ever …

Brain Computer Interfaces Boot Up Multipronged Legal Issues | ArentFox Schiff
Forget science fiction — the race to connect computers directly to the human brain is already underway, and it is accelerating. In recent months, neurotechnology companies have expanded human clinical trials and attracted substantial investment.

A map of the imagined: topographic principles of sensory simulation in the human parietal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.03.742540v1 "visual imagery preferentially manifested in posterior regions, auditory imagery in ventral regions" of le…

A Map of the Imagined: Topographic Principles of Sensory Simulation in the Human Parietal Cortex
The cerebral cortex forms a structured landscape in which the location of brain regions shapes their cognitive functions. Based on this cognitive topography, brain regions are not isolated modules but embedded within a macroscale terrain where both cortical geometry and connectivity jointly shape cognition. If cortical locus does modulate cognition, then even internally generated processes (e.g., imagery) might obey topographical constraints. This predicts a neurofunctional arrangement in which…

Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4M round to take brain-powered sight implant into the clinic https://bmmagazine.co.uk/get-funded/revision-implant-4m-funding-brain-visual-prosthesis/ Brain implant for restoring vision to the blind;

Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4m round to take brain-powered sight implant into the clinic
Belgian neurotech ReVision Implant secures an oversubscribed €4m round to bring cortical visual prosthesis manufacturing in-house ahead of first-in-human trials in Q3 2026.

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'`,…

If you compare the challenges that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision still has to overcome with the challenges for The vOICe (sound-guided mental imagery)... https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Supporting independent and open science

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

Brain rewires to stabilize walking during visual impairment https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-rewires-sensorimotor-walking-blindness-30721/
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the effects of visual status on walking-relate…

Brain Rewires to Stabilize Walking During Visual Impairment - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

In modern times, most journalists merely regurgitate news releases and billionaire farts, with zero critical thinking or fact (fart?) checking https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/te

Elon Musk: I am confident that Neuralink will restore hearing one day, just as we will restore eyesight with our ...
Tech News News: Elon Musk has predicted new capabilities for the Neuralink brain implant chip. In a recent post shared on the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter),.

By linking up visual and auditory processing in the human brain, The vOICe vision BCI can act as both a fully noninvasive visual prosthesis for the totally blind and as a research vehicle for macroscopic neuroscience https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

China clears brain-computer interfaces for commercial use: Is it time for a global coalition? https://thedebrief.org/china-clears-brain-computer-interfaces-for-commercial-use-is-it-time-for-a-global-coalition/

China Clears Brain-Computer Interfaces for Commercial Use: Is It Time for a Global Coalition?
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

#Brain2Qwerty v2: a model to decode natural sentences from non-invasive magnetoencephalography (#MEG) recordings https://facebookresearch.github.io/brain2qwerty/ via @…

Convicted Harvard scientist rebuilds career in China through controversial brain-computer interface lab https://thedebrief.org/convicted-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-career-in-china-through-controversial-brain-computer-i…

Convicted Harvard Scientist Rebuilds Career in China Through Controversial Brain-Computer Interface Lab
Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

Shanghai-based BCI startup raises RMB330 million in record-setting angel round https://technode.com/2026/08/03/shanghai-based-bci-startup-raises-rmb330-million-in-record-setting-angel-round/ ~$50 million for 主动科技 ("Act…

Shanghai-based BCI startup raises RMB330 million in record-setting angel round · TechNode
Shanghai-based brain-computer interface startup Active Technology (our translation of 主动科技, the company’s Chinese name) has completed a RMB330 million

Inside BCI on #Gestala https://insidebci.com/market/2026-07-03-gestala-china-ultrasound-bci-62m-angel-plus-shanghai-headquarters/

Gestala closes US$62 million Angel+ round for ultrasound BCI, opens Shanghai NeuroAI headquarters
Gestala (格式塔科技), a Chinese non-invasive ultrasound brain-computer interface company led by founder and CEO Phoenix Peng, announced on 3 July 2026 that it had closed a US$62 million Angel+ financing round and formally opened a Shanghai NeuroAI headquarters. The company is the third Chinese ultrasound BCI startup to disclose funding within ten days, alongside Sisen Technology (1 July 2026) and Huachao Shenkong.

Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/16/neural-bypass-brain-implant-paralysed-man-feed-himself-drink-from-cup "Keith Thomas can move ar…

Brain implant helps paralysed man to feed himself and drink from cup
Keith Thomas can move arms and hands, and feel sensation of touch after ‘double neural bypass’ and months of training

Working in BCI: Culture, Purpose, & Vision #BCI #NeuroTech

Working in BCI: Culture, Purpose, & Vision
Motif Neurotech's Jacob Robinson, Neurosoft's Nicolas Vachicouras, Precision Neuroscience's Benjamin Rapoport, Science Corp's Max Hodak, Paradromics' Matt Angle, Synchron's Tom Oxley, weigh in on culture in brain-computer interface

A computer model predicted which human brain implant channels would fail #invasive

Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy #BCI

Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy
Researchers have been working for decades on brain-computer interfaces to help those suffering from paralysis, blindness and hearing loss.

Seeing and imagining are handled by the same brain cells https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/05/12/seeing-and-imagining-are-handled-by-the-same-brain-cells/
"Researchers make advances in understanding how human brains ar…

Building brain-computer interfaces: the 3 pillars of #Paradromics https://paradromics.com/blog/building-brain-computer-interfaces-3-pillars/ referencing TK Kozai (2015…

Building Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
We treat safety, performance, & durability not as tradeoffs but as minimum thresholds. Learn how the Connexus BCI was designed to meet all 3.

#Paradromics: From brain implants to neuroprosthetics | Making sense of brain-computer interface terminology https://www.paradromics.com/insights/from-brain-implants-to-neuropr…

Brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727967v1 "prefrontal cortex coordinated brain dynamics through synergistic interactions independently of sensory modality and previous sensory e…

Paradromics blog post on intracortical BCIs vs. ECoG (electrocorticography) https://www.paradromics.com/blog/intracortical-versus-ecog-bci-modalities Note that for restoring vision, intracortical BCIs do not necessarily offer better performance than noninvasive…

Intracortical vs. ECoG | When going deeper pays off
Intracortical vs. ECoG: Discover why implant depth is the key determinant of BCI modality performance and why intracortical devices deliver richer neural signals, larger vocabularies, and superior outcomes for high-functioning brain-computer interfaces.

Lucid dreaming shows that the human brain can go into a state of vivid mental imagery. If and once we can effectively tap into that, sound-guided mental imagery will restore veridical vision to the blind https://www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm

The science behind The vOICe vision BCI
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe.

Human-machine learning boosts noninvasive brain-computer control in untrained users https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-human-machine-boosts-noninvasive-brain.html "working on noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to develop technology that is…

Myelin emerges as an active regulator of brain plasticity, not only a structural insulator https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/myelin-emerges-as-an-active-regulator-of-brain-plasticity-not-only-a-struct…