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@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-24 13:28:06

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

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-24 06:01:28

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)
fortune.com/2026/06/23/excl…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-24 05:05:43

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gears:
🎵 Teenage Brain
#TheGears
thedefog.bandcamp.com/track/fe
open.spotify.com/track/2nuY8Qt

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-23 16:34:36

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks (in mice) nature.com/articles/s41586-026 "communication between distant brain regions that is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes";

@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2026-06-18 15:13:31

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…

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-05-24 15:45:34

Neuroscientists being “surprised” that the brain doesn’t work like a computer, episode 244:
nature.com/articles/d41586-026

@ripienaar@devco.social
2026-04-24 18:55:27

Obsidian but free and with native MCP Server. Not tried but would be glad to be rid of obsidian
tolaria.md

@erk709@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-23 01:00:12

"Your brain is on fire."
"How could you ever know?"
"From what comes out of it... for sure..."
#humor #idiocracy #BrainOnFire

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-06-23 20:12:03

Reading an article shared by a reputable source about accessible scrollable tables and the article indicates words that relate to the code by using color-coded underlines that are not links and my brain broke before I saw all the encoded px and LTR-only styles and yeah fine whatever close tab sigh.

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-06-15 16:54:00

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.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-04-24 06:33:05

Gotta Go
A show for people who are juggling family, work, relationships, and the never-ending to-do list that lives rent-free in your brain...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/gotta-

Gotta Go   
Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-21 00:00:05

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'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023). 2956 nodes, 116922 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_larva
@morituri@berlin.social
2026-05-24 07:28:38

Heute, wie auch gestern, bin ich mit meinem alten Schatz, der Nikon D7200 und dem Sigma 150–600 unterwegs. Nach dem ganzen Schwall an Automatik-, Motiv- und Fokusprogrammen der hippen spiegellosen Systemkameras ist es so etwas wie ein Brain-Reset!
Eine Wohltat, sich mit den Basics der Fotografie zu beschäftigen. Keine Automatik, alles von Hand regeln und einstellen. Einfach den Moduswähler auf M stellen und selbst zu entscheiden, wie etwas auszusehen hat.
Ich geh dann mal malen … mit Licht!

@hllizi@hespere.de
2026-03-24 16:04:42

I still remember the abject horror I felt when some "ConservaMom" on twotter back in the day 'pointed out' to those who wanted free and universal health care that a Ferrari would no more have value if everyone had one.
I don't know what exactly I replied, but it got me an instant block and I'd be ashamed of myself if it hadn't.
It really is a brain worm. But is there any hope for the affected? I think even in my most demented free-market-believer day…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-04-15 17:07:45

💢 MRI scans reveal how the brain processes toxic workplace abuse
#mri

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-23 06:26:10

Sensory restoration via brain-computer interfaces: A unified 2×2 framework and convergence roadmap arxiv.org/html/2606.15091v1
"Community Siloing: Research remains siloed. Teams developing high-density invasive stimulation interfaces rarely collaborate with teams building non-invasive se…

@raysofred@discordian.social
2026-04-24 16:41:37

#shitpost #meme #cat

your brain tricks you
into thinking
@arXiv_eessIV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-06-23 08:52:50

Delta-Diffusion: Modeling Longitudinal Brain Amyloid-PET Trajectories via Conditional Poisson Diffusion Bridge
Yongheng Sun, Minhui Yu, Mengqi Wu, Maureen Kohi, Mingxia Liu
arxiv.org/abs/2606.22216

@Kingu@sakurajima.moe
2026-05-22 18:40:53

Who Are The Brain Police?

@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social
2026-05-21 22:47:58

@… Be careful and don't load yourself up with stuff too soon. The brain fog can become *permanent* and you don't want that 😬

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-05-17 23:38:34

New Study Challenges What We Know About Consciousness and the Brain
scitechdaily.com/new-study-cha

The “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,
pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 p…

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-24 15:02:43

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #JarvisCockersSomedayService
Flea:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#Flea
officialflea.bandcamp.com/trac
open.spotify.com/track/3poJZBl

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-16 19:18:14

Aldon Smith's brain donated to CTE Center as family's attorneys investigate his death at age 36 foxsports.com/articles/wcbk/al

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-04-11 15:57:17

No! No no brain, no brain. no brain. Toot toot toot toot [unintelligible] like-like-like-like YeAH toot. boost. toot. boost. toot. toot toot toot toot like-like-like-like mastodon no brain. mastodon no brain. boost-toot-boost-toot. never! never! never! brain. boost toot boost toot. Never think!

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-05-20 13:45:08

LOL, f’kin Woz
instagram.com/reel/DYfgIwoRbYp

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-24 16:37:30

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

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2026-04-19 07:47:00

Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind bbc.com/future/article/2026041

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-17 07:25:51

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an "early sign" of generalization, surprising researchers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/202…

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-05-09 17:56:19

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

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-06-21 10:57:55

A new spinning illusion. Once your brain figures it out, you can switch the spin direction on command. Reminds me of the old stereoscopic images from the 80s.
#illusions

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-04-20 06:00:04

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'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023). 2956 nodes, 116922 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_larva
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-13 23:29:08

Well, that's probably been the worst day for #Depression of the whole bloody year, but I did not get nothing done.
I finished an essay, and I think it's an important one.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-04-15 01:01:11

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I'm Dr. Jesus Christ (Albert Burneko/Defector)
defector.com/president-extreme
memeorandum.com/260414/p150#a2

@sherold@mastodon.online
2026-05-21 20:52:52

Not entirely sure what my brain was up to, but it prompted Nano Banana to generate an “Overly Concerned Drafthorse,” and well, that’s that.

A cartoon-style illustration of an anxious, sweating brown horse standing inside a futuristic, sci-fi spaceship hangar or laboratory.

The horse has an anthropomorphic, worried facial expression with wide eyes and sweat drops flying from its head, highly reminiscent of the art style from *Bojack Horseman*. It is wearing a leather harness connected to metal chains and electronic devices strapped to its back. A bright purple electric arc shoots from a large machine in the background, striking o…
A cartoon-style illustration of an anthropomorphic brown draft horse looking highly stressed and overwhelmed at an office desk, drawn in a style reminiscent of *Bojack Horseman*.

The horse wears wire-rimmed glasses, a blue plaid button-down shirt, and a brown herringbone vest. It has wide, anxious eyes and visible sweat drops on its forehead, holding one hoof to its brow in a gesture of panic while clutching crumpled papers in its other hoof.

The cluttered wooden desk is filled with stack…
@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2026-04-21 18:50:58

Now, unwelcome in my brain, has arisen this hideous tongue twister:
I'm not the gristle throbber
I'm the gristle throbber's son
And I'm only throbbing gristle
Till the gristle throbber cums.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-06-14 15:53:11

Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children, chronic disease and other health problems #environment

@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.org
2026-05-20 14:49:40

I am preparing a workshop on how to organise novel events and I am having so much fun.
Drawing the event as an organism (a friendly monster)

Interaction design (muscles) 

Outcomes (brain) 

Facilitation (lung) 

Atmosphere (heart) 

Purpose (backbone) 

Participants (nervous system) 

Structure (skeleton)
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-06-16 13:29:39

Family to have Smith's brain checked for CTE espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/490814

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2026-06-17 12:55:48

Recovering from (minor) brain and spine injury, I'm hand writing the same text phrase in eight distinct scripts (five new to me), with consecutive writings in "dissimilar" scripts to force my brain and hands to think each time. My goal is to repeat the whole octet 1250 times (total 10K). 🍎🏋️‍♂️🧠
#wip #wipWednesday #health

@shaun@mastodon.xyz
2026-05-21 02:05:45

Rest area on I-55 had this ridiculously blatant #MountainDew knockoff. They even lifted the color scheme. My brain registered it as the real thing, until I looked again. I don’t think I’ve ever come closer to actually confusing one brand for another; wonder how many tired travelers have bought this thinking it was the real thing.

A bottle of “Arctic Rain” soda in a vending machine on interstate 55 in Mississippi. At first glance you’d easily mistake it for Mountain Dew, the color scheme is the same as the real McCoy.
@jackie@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-21 20:16:53

do you think transgender robots have discourse between those that choose to modify their robot bodies and those who choose to transfer their brain-drives into a completely new robot body
"no you don't get it, I *like* the visible welding marks, it shows closeted bots that it's safe to be yourself!"

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-06-20 21:41:34

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.
🧵 1 of 3
#USpol #Iran #kegseth

A post by Molly Ploofkins titled "Understanding Trump's Surrender to Iran: A Quick Guide." The tweet contains a table comparing the Obama (JCPOA, 2015) and Trump (2026) agreements with Iran. The table has three columns: the first column lists categories such as Unfrozen Iranian assets, Iran's uranium stockpile, Iran's enrichment program, Iran sanctions, Hormuz Strait, American lives lost to get to deal, American injuries to get to deal, Direct costs to get to deal, Additional geopolitical risk,…
screenshot of a post by Oz Katerji @OzKaterji 

I also think it was obvious, basically everyone with sense said that Iran could win the war simply by outlasting US resolve, and they did precisely that. Trump basically thought the Iranians would fold like the Venezuelans did after Maduro, he was wrong. 

[quote post] 
Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom 

Unless you're an brain-wormed partisan,
"Iran is an evil regime," "this preventive war was stupid and should never have been launched," and "this peace …
screenshot of a post by Michael McFaul 
@McFaul 

This agreement is far worse than I expected.
To reopen the strait— a strait that was open before the war- we and our partners are transferring billions to the autocrats. We get nothing else— no elimination of enriched uranium, missiles, or terrorist support. And to add one final gift, we agree to not help the Iranian people pursue their democratic aspirations. Just incredible. 

[quote post] 
Farnaz Fassihi @farnazfassihi 

The full text of the …
screenshot of a post by Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly 

Donald Trump took us to war without a plan.
Families have lost loved ones. Billions of dollars have been spent. For what? This "deal" he signed leaves Iran stronger and in control of the Strait, but does little to advance US interests. The "master deal maker" just made one of the worst deals in US history. This is a total capitulation! What's next, the Russians get Alaska? 

Jun 18, 2026 • 2:23 AM UTC
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-21 10:41:54

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

Finite element model predicts strains in brain tissue surrounding implanted Utah array that result from micromotions. (a) Geometry of 10 × 10 array (top) and brain tissue (bottom). Scale bar = 1 mm. (b) Mesh of 10 × 10 array embedded in cortical tissue with applied boundary conditions. The top face of the array was prescribed a displacement of 10 µm in the Y direction. The bottom face of the brain tissue was held fixed. Sliced model (bottom) shows the fine mesh surrounding the tips of the shank…

Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger,
but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world.
Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events
—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-19 08:54:53

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

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-13 12:05:30

"none of these legacy behaviours are rational. They arise out of that bundle of behaviours inherited from our two billion years of sexually selected ancestors... If our ancestors had not had these behaviours, we would not be here. Our ancestors were not, in the sense we mean here, rational... A purely rational being — a being created ab initio rational — would not have these behaviours.
No one is proposing to build an AI with a lizard brain. It won't happen."

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-04-21 06:00:05

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 112890 edges.
Tags: Biol…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0. 1015 nodes, 112890 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/budapest_connectome#female_1m
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-23 11:32:46

Paralyzed artist paints again: how one brain implant drives two pathways to recovery #NeuroXess #BCI

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-04-04 20:06:21

🤯 The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
#brain

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-27 19:54:00

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.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-06-13 17:06:14

Required reading for programmers
aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does

Neuroscientists long theorized that bilingual speakers must process different languages with separate patterns of brain activity.
In a new study, however, researchers found that these patterns were more alike than had been expected.
When deciding how to make a word singular or plural, for instance,
bilingual people exhibit strikingly similar brain activity regardless of whether they are speaking in their first or second language.
“It wasn’t obvious that it was going to…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-04-15 14:11:42

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Flea:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#Flea
officialflea.bandcamp.com/trac
open.spotify.com/track/3poJZBl

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-19 05:16:54

Brain-computer interfaces in healthcare: building the picks and shovels company while the giants fight over gold #BCI

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-01 05:50:57

An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)
wired.com/story/meet-the-man-m

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-06-04 12:23:33

Intermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain #health

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-21 11:00:04

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…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0. 1015 nodes, 121755 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/budapest_connectome#all_1m
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-22 08:38:27

Companies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-12 16:07:15

I seem to have written a wee essay about #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence #AGI
It's probably not in its final form yet, I'll probably revise a bit. Comments welcome.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-24 18:28:45

#MIRAGE: Robust multi-modal architectures translate fMRI-to-image models from vision to mental imagery journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol

MIRAGE vs MindEye2 reconstructions of an imagined image from fMRI brain activity
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-20 10:30:48

A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent (Nikita Ostrovsky/Time)
time.com/article/2026/06/18/ru

One of the world's top centers for brain science is taking a huge gamble on a tiny, transparent fish.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus near Washington, D.C., has announcedan effort to use artificial intelligence and an unusual fish called Danionella to understand how the brain controls complex behaviors like social interaction.
Janelia plans to triple the space dedicated to fish to 6,000 square feet, which will make room for thousands of new t…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-04-19 17:00:04

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

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis). 205 nodes, 2903 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/cintestinalis
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-23 09:47:09

Intracortical BCI performance is robust to changes in attentional load during dual-tasking #NeuroPort

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-20 19:30:37

Seeing and imagining are handled by the same brain cells simonsfoundation.org/2026/05/1
"Researchers make advances in understanding how human brains ar…

An illustration of a large mind’s eye that shows an apple in the brain and in the eye.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-05-19 15:00:05

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

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis). 205 nodes, 2903 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/cintestinalis
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-19 17:50:20

Convicted Harvard scientist rebuilds career in China through controversial brain-computer interface lab thedebrief.org/convicted-harva

Ibogaine, a naturally occurring compound from a shrub native to Africa, is used to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and brain trauma. 
Because it's illegal in the United States, Americans have been traveling to unregulated clinics, often in Mexico or the Caribbean, to take the drug. 
Trump intends to sign the executive order as soon as this week, to allow its use in research
The administration doesn't plan to reclassify the drug …

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-23 02:13:17

Simply sticking electrodes into primary visual cortex (V1) to evoke phosphenes ignores the feedback loops from higher visual areas back to V1. A Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will almost certainly perform very poorly. Engineering is one thing, biology/neuroscience another.

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
cmu.edu…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-17 09:07:21

Designing implants that don't scar the brain neurosciencenews.com/flexible- "Surprisingly, making probes 'ultra-thin' or allowing them to 'float' wirelessly didn't…

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-04-20 01:00:05

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 93708 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0. 1015 nodes, 93708 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/budapest_connectome#male_1m
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-05-22 00:00:05

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

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020). 21739 nodes, 4259624 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_hemibrain
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-15 22:46:53

Max Hodak's Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/max- biohybrid

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-20 14:55:45

The brain's code seems to be in constant flux. Neuroscientists are baffled nature.com/articles/d41586-026 "Neurons fire much more erratically than researchers thought." Required for "time stamping" of events for long-term memories?

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-12 14:49:15

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

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-04-18 00:00:06

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 80270 edges.
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budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0. 1015 nodes, 80270 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/budapest_connectome#male_200k
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-14 20:53:17

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

Graphical text reading "From brain implants to neuroprosthetics".
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-22 12:03:12

RE: mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116770
(YouTube, 2010) Paul Bach-y-Rita on the Brain Machine Interface

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-17 13:10:06

#Paradromics and University of Michigan complete first #Connexus BCI implantation for the FDA-approved Connect-One clinical study

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-14 13:35:03

Myelin emerges as an active regulator of brain plasticity, not only a structural insulator msn.com/en-us/health/other/mye

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-21 07:46:39

Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant will grab public attention for a while, until attention gets diverted to the next hype.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-18 11:25:18

"We don't see with our eyes, we see with our brain" - Paul Bach-y-Rita seeingwithsound.com/BCI.html

"We don't see with our eyes, we see with our brain" - Paul Bach-y-Rita
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-15 07:05:58

Spatial transcriptomics on an expanded dataset at the brain-electrode interface: exploration of variability and identification of novel biomarkers frontiersin.org/journals/neuro "…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-18 15:13:55

Would getting a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision be worth it? #BCI

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-21 05:47:53

SciAm: U.S. scientists are being lured abroad - and they aren't looking back scientificamerican.com/article

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-21 17:12:59

Lucid dreaming is fascinating for its vividness and visual realism, but sound-guided mental imagery may have more immediate practical applications (for the blind). Can the human brain learn new tricks and even switch states as in awake vs asleep, now for veridical hallucinations?

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-21 06:20:47

Review: The role of sensory experience in the maturation of prefrontal cortical circuits frontiersin.org/journals/neuro

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-14 12:38:38

Implanted brain-computer interface functionality during nighttime in late-stage amyotrophic lateral sclerosis nature.com/articles/s41598-026 "When applied to night data, daytime decoders caused unintentional BCI activations in 100% of nights."

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-14 20:24:09

PhD position at University of Glasgow on ultra-high field brain imaging of mental imagery and aphantasia findaphd.com/phds/project/full

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-20 15:25:41

(YouTube) The biology of brain-machine interface failure #BCI #NeuroTech

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-16 18:34:12

Discovering functionally selective brain regions with a deep topographic multimodal model #AI #NeuroAI

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-01 19:25:30

China has approved the world's first invasive brain-computer chip - here's what's next technologyreview.com/2026/06/0 (archived at

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-16 10:23:23

What does sound do to your brain's gene expression, RNA?
Prenatal acoustic communication triggers adaptive vascular programming in the developing avian brain journals.biologists.com/jeb/ar

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-16 11:57:08

Neuroscientists take major step in development of brain-computer interfaces for patients with paralysis nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-15 16:29:54

Brain-computer interfaces and patients' rights: some key principles, according to Science Corporation's Alex Feerst science.xyz/news/bci-principle What happens once the implant fails? Long-term support, thinking of Argus II, Dobelle?

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-15 08:56:22

#Cortigent about their Orion visual cortical prosthesis system (brain implant for restoring vision to the blind) cortigent.com/orion "It is intended to deliver meaningful perception of motion and light.&…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-12 08:36:03

After flying with virtual wings for one week, the brain learns to accept the impossible #noninvasive

Credit: Image generated by the editorial team using AI for illustrative purposes.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-08 10:44:49

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 artificialvision.com/neuralink

AI-generated video clip. Developers of brain implants for restoring vision are unlikely to admit it, but The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution may be the supplemental "glue" needed to make brain implants for restoring vision shine: adding textures and shading to an otherwise edges-only (to avoid seizures) brain implant view, undistorted visual feedback (also during vision rehab training), filling-in with veridical (not interpolated) visual information for failing electrodes, etc.