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Brain-Computer-Interface: zunehmender Einsatz, Risiken, lückenhafte Rechtslage
BCIs können helfen, motorische Fähigkeiten und Kommunikation wieder zu ermöglichen. Das Potenzial ist enorm, Rechtslage und Ethik noch weitgehend ungeklärt.

🎧 Earbuds can be used to monitor brain health
#sensors

Earbuds can be used to monitor brain health
An international research team has uncovered the next frontier in monitoring brain health, and the key is in technology that millions of people are already using every day—earbuds. The world-first study found that commercially available earbuds have the capability to detect and classify brain activity, simply by measuring subtle changes in users' hearing. The team used acoustic sensors in earphones to assess cognitive load—the mental effort that shapes learning, task performance and early c…

Interesting
#ai

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications

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'`,…

Deepinder Goyal, who stepped down as Zomato's CEO, raised $54M at a $190M valuation for Temple, which aims to make high-performance wearables for elite athletes (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/after-zoma…

After Zomato, Deepinder Goyal returns with a $54M brain-monitoring bet | TechCrunch
Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal's new wearable startup Temple has raised $54 million in a friends-and-family round at a post-money valuation of about $190 million.

🤯 Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice
#fat

Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice
Researchers at WashU Medicine have identified a potent pathway that begins in the brain and leads to loss of all body fat without reducing food intake. The study is reported in Nature Metabolism.

AI at Meta: TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), an #AI model of the human #brain, predicting neural responses to sight, sound and language https://aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/

Behind the Blog: Using Your Brain https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-using-your-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'`,…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Flea:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#NowPlaying #Flea
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://officialflea.bandcamp.com/track/maggot-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/3poJZBl2yoeWbMMxX63YcE

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://

🦥 Long-term calorie restriction may slow normal brain aging
#diet …

Long-term calorie restriction may slow normal brain aging
As the brain ages, cells in the central nervous system experience metabolic dysfunction and increased oxidative damage. These cellular issues impair the ability to maintain the myelin sheath (the protective covering around nerve fibers), which leads to age-related white matter degradation.

#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.

Seeing a lot of people getting into tiled and scrolling window managers.
I actually like my desktop with overlapping windows and being a bit in a chaotic state and slightly different all the time.
My brain needs some variety and breaks from orderly processes, because I'm a human being and I've evolved to work best in semi-chaotic circumstances.
Obviously you do you but I'm considering this trend at least to some degree productivity wankery.

That moment when it is 7:00am and you have it strongly in your brain that YOU HAVE A MEETING AT 8:00 AM... and yet your phone's calendar doesn't show it.
So... ASSUMING the calendar failed, as they do sometimes... you pull out your computer... and find the 8am appt is NOT there either...
... and then you remember that **YOU** MOVED IT TO MONDAY! 🤣🤦‍♂️
The good news is that I now have an hour more this morning for work than I thought I did an hour ago! 🤣

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.

Spinning my brain up for our last day at PaxEast (my wife’s birthday is this weekend so have to finish prep)
Anyone on my socials happens to see me (very tall, black leather jacket, with matching harpy pins on collar) feel free to say “howdy!”

Never put any important information in a pop-up. The thumb is trained to close the box before the brain has a chance to take it in.

Thx Paul for a very informative and inspired Brain Inspired.
#neuroscience

You know you're an Internet old timer if you remember Gene Ray, self described "Cubic and Wisest Human"
That's right, the infamous Time Cube! Look it up and try to comprehend such simple math with your oneist brain noobs :-)

(YouTube) Your brain is a dream machine | Anil Seth on the neuroscience of active inference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYUoS0GkGCs That's what sensory substitution for the blind is tapping into: we see with the brain, not the eyes (Paul Bach-y-Rita).

🧠 Bioengineered neuronal 'circuit board' mimics conditions of the human brain
#brain

Bioengineered neuronal 'circuit board' mimics conditions of the human brain
A new bioengineered neuronal circuit board "BioConNet" allows scientists to artificially engineer human brain-like wiring at scale and can be used to engineer any possible circuit. The fully programmable, open-source system allows generation of large-scale circuits, while maintaining the ability to focus on single connections between neurons.

For those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
https://…

The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.
Scientists mapped a fruit fly’s 139,255 neurons in extraordinary detail. Then a startup turned that milestone into a story about brain…

Meta FAIR: KI-Zwilling für menschliche Neuronen
TRImodal Brain Encoder in zweiter Version veröffentlicht. Meta FAIR kann damit vorhersagen, wie das menschliche Gehirn reagiert.
https://www.heis…

Measuring the consequences of plastic contamination #environment

Measuring the consequences of plastic contamination
Plastic pollution is everywhere—including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, scientists are working to measure the consequences of this contamination. There's the pollution you can see—on the beach, on the roadside and in open-air landfills. And then there's the pollution you can't—on the peak of Mount Everest, deep inside the Mariana Trench, in clouds, in buildings, and in our water supply, food, blood and brain.

"When every student in a class processes information through the same language model, they are learning to reason through the same system. This introduces a new threat vector on the developing mind.
The model's statistical biases become the student's default framing. The model's reasoning structure becomes the student's reasoning structure. LLMs homogenize not just language but also perspective and reasoning strategies. "

Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective - Michael Sharwood-Smith
https://www.routledge.com/The-Human-Mind-Revealed-A-Biological-Perspective/SharwoodSmith/p/book/9781032971292

The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective
This book provides readers with a new working model of the human mind  based on contemporary trends in cognitive science. Taking a distinct biological approach, the book presents mind and brain as two sides of the same coin while at the same time emphasizing the need for separate accounts.  The reader is introduced step by step to the mind account showing how it operates. The text explores the mind's basic architecture examining how its family of eleven systems interact flexibly and collaborat

Fernando Mendoza explains what he wants to learn most from Tom Brady if he's drafted No. 1 by the Raiders

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/fernando-mendoza-nfl-draft-raiders-tom-b…

The more I use FreeCAD, the more I understand the nature of the specific and profound brain damage required to use it effectively, but I'm still getting lost. Stuff I would have had done in 20 minutes in Inventor has taken me all evening!

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.

Brian Schottenheimer Opened the Door for Offense in 2026 NFL Draft https://insidethestar.com/brian-schottenheimer-opened-the-door-for-offense-in-2026-nfl-draft

Somebody send help i just looked up at some elongated fuzzy clouds and my brain went "wow i need to tweak the stigmators"

#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.

😯😯😯
https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/whole-brain-emulation-achieved-scientists-run-a-fruit-fly-brain-in-simulation/
Thanks @…

Whole Brain Emulation Achieved: Scientists Run a Fruit Fly Brain in Simulation | RathBiotaClan
Scientists ran a real fruit fly brain in simulation using the FlyWire connectome, achieving the first working whole brain emulation.

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'`,…

#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…

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

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…

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…

Seeing with the Brain (not the eyes) #LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) over visual cortex for a visual prosthesis.

Seeing with the Brain - Eye & Ear Foundation of Pittsburgh
Xing Chen, PhD, James Herman, PhD, and J. Patrick Mayo, PhD, shared their expert insights in the Eye & Ear Foundation’s March 10th webinar, “Seeing with the Brain.” First up [...]Read More... from Seeing with the Brain

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…

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

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…

Is brain rot real? Why don’t you read a paper about it and join us this upcoming Monday at Victory Cafe, 440 Booor St. W. here in Toronto for the monthly @… edition, where we will discuss it? The Luma listing has a link to the paper: https://

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.

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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"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."

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

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.

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, …

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.

One of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.
Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.
Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).
You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum

💡 Our brains may learn more from rare events than from repetition
#brain

Our brains may learn more from rare events than from repetition
More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists have assumed the dog learned this through repetition. The more times the dog heard the bell and then got fed, the better it learned that the sound meant food would soon follow.

“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.

Cowboys front office explains their 'brain works' NFL Draft scouting outlook https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-front-office-explains-brain-works-n…

Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/bci-startu…

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch | TechCrunch
This is the largest early-stage funding in China’s brain computer interface industry.

Visual prostheses (brain implants, retinal implants) for the blind typically require high contrast scenes for good results. AI depth mapping with foveal enlargement can help get around that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe AI depth view toggle in menu …

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…

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

IEEE Spectrum: At-home brain stimulation for depression is just the start https://spectrum.ieee.org/flow-neuroscience-tdcs-depression-fda "Flow's headset is the first tDCS device approved by the FDA", "a noninvasive, nondrug treatment option for depres…

FDA Approves tDCS for Depression Treatment
Could a simple headset be the future of depression treatment? Discover how tDCS is changing the game for mental health care.

Microplastics may be quietly damaging your brain and fueling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s #health

Microplastics may be quietly damaging your brain and fueling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Tiny plastic particles may be quietly threatening brain health. New research suggests microplastics—now widely found in food, water, and even household dust—could trigger inflammation and damage in the brain through multiple biological pathways. Scientists estimate adults may consume about 250 grams of these particles each year, and some can accumulate in organs including the 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'`,…

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

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…

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.

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'`,…

Sparring with ChatGPT AI: Pretend that you are Elon Musk, and you see that The vOICe is a formidable noninvasive competitor for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind. What would you do? https://chatgpt.com/share/69a0798d-1b74-8004-8f08-fdeeeed4f046 🤔

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.

(YouTube) I don't have that white garden chair anymore, but The vOICe AI depth view would have made it still easier for Jens Naumann, blind former recipient of a Dobelle brain implant, to find the chair in my garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GsDfWqCMq

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.

(YouTube, 2024) Towards a smart bionic eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhEEEyYAegA on the Orion I brain implant and AI, with Jason Esterhuizen; "It's sort of like learning a new language. And the closest I could explain what I see is like looking up at the stars at night."

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 study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)
https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themselves pushed to their cognitive limits. Participants in a recent study described a “buzzing” feeling or a mental fog with difficulty focusing, slower decision-making, and headaches. The authors call this phenomenon “AI brain fry,” defined as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight…

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://theconversation.com/how-psychedelics-push-your-brain-to-dream-while-awake-new-study-276708 Now how to nudge the brain of blind people to see through sound-guided mental image…

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake – new study
How psychedelics induce intense visuals.

⚡ Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
#brain

Newly identified brain circuit and cells link prior experiences to appetite
Our past experiences shape how much we eat and where and what we choose to eat. Using preclinical models, researchers from Mass General Brigham and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified brain cells that translate contextual information into appetite control.

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-psychedelics-brain.html "psychedelics make the brain more likely to 'see' images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it"; mental imagery

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake: New study
A new study in mice suggests psychedelics make the brain more likely to "see" images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it.

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.

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

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.
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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.

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

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?

Article on the ReVision Implant brain implant originating from China (WeChat): WeChat #BCI #NeuroTech

Milestone: Flexible Electrodes Implanted in Cerebral Cortex Offer Glimmer of Hope for Restoring Sight to the Blind; Brain - Computer Interface Gets FDA Breakthrough Device Designation
Recently, ReVision Implant, an innovative Belgian brain - computer interface firm, declared that its core product, the Occular visual reconstruction brain - computer interface, got the "Breakthrough Device Designation" from the US FDA.

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'`,…

(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 …

March 25, 2026: Conscious vision and its restoration in blindness https://neuronline.sfn.org/scientific-research/conscious-vision-and-its-restoration-in-blindness

Conscious Vision and Its Restoration in Blindness

What does a sensory stimulus have to achieve in the brain to enter into conscious awareness? The speaker was drawn to neuroscience to answer this question and to understand how the brain rewires during learning.

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";

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

Nature: China approves brain chip to treat paralysis — a world first #Neuracle

China approves brain chip to treat paralysis — a world first
Chip allows people with paralysis to control a soft robotic hand.

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...

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.

Brain-computer interfaces for vision recovery in precortical vision loss https://www.dovepress.com/brain-computer-interfaces-for-vision-recovery-in-precortical-vision-lo-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-EB …

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