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@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-02 18:24:31

Imagination is not just replaying what we see and hear sciencenews.org/article/imagin "Conjuring a nonspecific scene or sound pings brain networks that respond to more than one sense"

@lpryszcz@genomic.social
2026-07-02 17:56:46

"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."

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-06-03 20:03:04

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'.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-06-02 17:05:35

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.

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-07-01 12:59:33

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

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-02 18:12:41

Brain prioritizes "sound offsets" during hearing repair neurosciencenews.com/auditory-
Noise-induced reduction and early recovery of superior paraolivary nucleus sound-offset responses

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-05-01 21:00:04

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

A study in Nature Health finds that microplastics and nanoplastics
were at a higher level in brain tumour samples from living patients
than in healthy human brain samples from cadavers,
with a correlation between microplastic surface area and tumour proliferation. go.nature.com/4cuBK4I

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-05-03 03:36:08

"You wouldn't normally buy this pile of dogshit, but what if we mixed all this dogshit together with shit from other animals and put a pretty bow on it and called it a cupcake? Would you buy it then?"
beige.party/@maxleibman/116507

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-04-30 21:36:07

Not the usual stuff I post.

Four panel meme. Is brain gonna sabotage your sleep?
Panel 2: Brain says, “Are you going to sleep?”
Panel 2: Person lying in bed says, “Yes, now shut up.”
Panel 3: Brain says, “You did a great job surviving today and I’m so proud of you.”
Panel 4: Person lying in bed, smiling, asleep.
@Xavier@infosec.exchange
2026-07-02 17:02:39

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.

@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.social
2026-04-30 07:45:04

I am currently discovering step by step the work of Mark Hallett :
thetransmitter.org/brain-stimu
Quite a long journ…

@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

@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2026-05-03 01:55:24

A shoutout to the systems engineers that made Microsoft Windows so fragile, that a single file browser (explorer.exe) freezing causes my Edge downloads to pause, and closing the frozen file browser closes all my file browsers.
My ADHD brain needed those open file browsers so I could keep track of all my in-progress tasks. How do I resume now? Yeah, I suppose I could come up with a better system than that.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-30 01:02:08

Massachusetts-based brain implant company Axoft raised a $55M Series A and says it tested its device in a Shanghai patient, with plans for more trials in China (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

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
@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…

@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.com
2026-05-01 16:34:28

No brain today. Just be.

@sherold@mastodon.online
2026-06-30 13:53:11

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

@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.

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
2026-05-03 10:18:26

It's a week since my last #PostScarcitySoftware entry. The version of eval/apply copied from `0.0.6` still doesn't compile, let alone work. There are reasons. I've been ill — my brain really is fucked — and I've had urgent outdoor work.
There is progress. I am cleaning up bits of old cruft as I go. But I don't think copying the old code was a good decision. I…

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-05-31 04:31:33

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
SUX:
🎵 Brain Dead
#SUX
suxmusic.bandcamp.com/track/br
open.spotify.com/track/2HFFo5h

@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-06-02 22:29:42

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Funkadelic:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#Funkadelic
derrok.bandcamp.com/track/gusa
open.spotify.com/track/5WJU527

@hllizi@hespere.de
2026-05-01 15:25:25

Sweet jesus, I think the brain worms have worked on this one beyond remedy. The whole thing is toast.

Dan Abrams slams Jeffries over
'illegitimate' Supreme Court remark
Mediaite founder Dan Abrams sharply
criticized House Minority Leader Hakeem
Jeffries for calling the Supreme Court
'illegitimate' after its Voting Rights Act ruling.

Abrams argued that while disagreeing with
rulings is fair, labeling the court illegitimate
risks a constitutional crisis by eroding its role
as a neutral arbiter. He noted he has criticized
conservatives for similar rhetoric and said
both sides must avoid undermini…
@newstik@social.heise.de
2026-07-01 16:42:52

Wow
neurosciencenews.com/culture-e

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-03 20:12:33

(YouTube, 2025) The surprising way the brain is wired youtube.com/watch?v=9939jVJIZYo "What if vast areas of the brain contribute to many different functions and its connectivity is far more intricate than we once believed?"

@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2026-06-01 07:46:06

Once more I have woken up with Killing Joke rattling around my brain.
Nine tenths of the law that is sick
Is possession
Life expressed in matter is a blasphemy
Success defined by acquisition stinks
So busy trying to make a living I forget about living, yes, I do
So busy trying to make a living, I forget about life

@jdrm@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-01 12:33:15

En la mani del #1deMayo un compañero me ha hablado de este artículo sobre la salud del uso de la #ia en el entorno laboral. No lo he leído aún pero me ha dicho que es muy interesante lo que plantea

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

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

@hex@kolektiva.social
2026-07-01 04:06:51

I had a weird dream where I was talking to someone at some kind of ceremony, I think a funeral, where I had timidly painted my face with clay as part of some ritual. This person was talking about how far society has come while our brains have not caught up.
Imagine if your ancient cave dwelling ancestors were dropped into this world of cars, office hours, budgets, climate change, and AI. They would be absolutely freaking out and struggling to understand things all the time... Just like you are now.
Society teaches us to suppress these emotions. You're supposed to be OK with giant metal boxes flying around you in rumbling stampedes, but you feel it in unexplained anxiety. You're supposed to just fit your life into tight little bounds that ignore weather and season, but you feel it in more unexplained anxiety and depression. We are all part of something so big and complicated we can't make sense of it, we cannot possibly comprehend it all, it is simply too much to fully grasp the implications of our individual actions within global capitalism. Should we be surprised by our urge to simply destroy it, by the anger and desire to simply "smash" something far more complex than can be met with simple violence?
Some part of my brain was trying to remind me to be compassionate to myself. Perhaps that reminder can be useful to you as well.

@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-04-28 08:14:02

EyeBrain: Left and Right Brain Lateralization Activity Classification Through Pupil Diameter and Fixation Duration
Ko Watanabe, Pooja Pol, Nicolas Gro{\ss}mann, Shoya Ishimaru, Andreas Dengel
arxiv.org/abs/2604.23562 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23562 arxiv.org/html/2604.23562
arXiv:2604.23562v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The relationship between brain lateralization and cognitive functions is well-documented. The left hemisphere primarily handles tasks such as language and arithmetic, while the right hemisphere is involved in creative activities like drawing and music perception. Eye-tracking technology has shown the potential to reveal cognitive states by measuring ocular metrics such as pupil diameter and fixation duration. However, the ability to distinguish lateralized brain activity using these ocular metrics remains underexplored. Here, we demonstrate that pupil diameter and fixation duration can effectively classify left and right brain hemisphere activities. We obtained a considerably high classification performance, with an F1 score of 0.894. The results suggest that ocular metrics are robust indicators of lateralized brain activity and can be applied in cognitive monitoring and neurorehabilitation. Our future work expands on this by integrating these methods into real-time applications EyeBrain, potentially broadening their use across various cognitive and neurological domains.
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@qbi@freie-re.de
2026-06-25 08:44:20

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…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-04-30 08:50:50

How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (Shalini Ramachandran/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/us-news/education/y…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-29 16:19:46

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

@skaverat@skaverat.net
2026-06-30 15:25:17

Every time I see the avatar thumbnail of @… in my timeline, my brain somehow parses it as him wearing a belly-free crop top of some sorts

@danyork@mastodon.social
2026-05-30 12:01:03

Many years ago, a friend said he was following “The S Diet”. It was very simple and memorable:
——
No Sweets or Seconds, except on Saturday and Sunday.
——
Simple… easy… and it actually worked for me as a way to help maintain or reduce weight (along with some mild level of exercise).
My challenge is that in the intervening years, my brain fought that and changed it to:
——
No Sweets or Seconds, except on days ending in ‘y’.
——
🤣🤦‍♂️
Un-doin…

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-05-28 15:00:15

multi-trillion dollar company showing off their multi-trillion dollar PhD-level galaxy brain technology

@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

@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza
2026-04-29 19:30:00

Two days in R-studio has made my brain an utter mess. Doing extra work on the side at night feels more heavy than ever. But sooon - I see a vaccation in the horizon

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-01 07:49:04

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

AI-generated video clip:
"I really think you should consider getting a brain implant for your vision."
"Absolutely not, I'm not putting a chip inside my head!"
@scottmiller42@mstdn.social
2026-06-01 15:29:31

It probably says a lot about how my brain works that last night, I overheard a commercial featuring "I Saw the Sun" by Ace of Base, and immediately of Roger from American Dad.
youtube.com/watch?v=Fsrrf7P8Y_E

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-30 02:21:04

How US schools' overreliance on YouTube for educational content encourages students to drift into endless video scrolling on school-issued devices (Shalini Ramachandran/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/us-news/education/yout

@doubtfulprism@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-01 12:35:25

open.substack.com/pub/ndintech

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

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

@sofia@chaos.social
2026-04-28 09:57:24

"there is basically two sides in the #freeWill debate: compatibilists and those who find it very regrettable that they have a brain."
#compatibilism

@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

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-06-27 14:47:45

one way mastodon continues to absolutely whip bluesky's ass by an order of magnitude is by having a proper edit function, which means i didn't have to delete/redraft my mastodon post because my morning brain confused robert wilson & robert anton wilson.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-04-30 00:00:05

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

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…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-29 15:08:31

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

@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-04-28 08:05:29

Triple Configuration of Brain Networks Based on Recurrent Neural Networks: The Synergistic Effects of Exogenous Stimuli, Task Demands, and Spontaneous Activity
Binghao Yang, Guangzong Chen
arxiv.org/abs/2604.23525 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23525 arxiv.org/html/2604.23525
arXiv:2604.23525v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The foundation of cognitive flexibility and higher-order intelligence lies in the functional structure and activity of brain networks, which can be dynamically configured by both external environments and internal states. However, decoding these dynamics from high-dimensional neural data remains a challenge. In this study, we propose a computational framework using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) with neural dynamic constraints to model source-localized resting-state EEG data from $114$ participants. We aim to clarify the "triple brain network configurations" driven by exogenous and endogenous factors, including external stimuli, information processing tasks, and spontaneous activities. Our model identifies the parietal network as a critical hub supporting these multiple configuration patterns. Furthermore, we reveal that the anterior and posterior parietal regions exhibit distinct functional specializations under different stimulus modalities. By formalizing a triple configuration framework, this work separates latent factors of brain dynamics and underscores the computational significance of parietal regions in orchestrating higher-order intelligence.
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@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!

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-30 10:15:44

How Kosovo's tech industry, driven by local companies like business outsource provider SPEEEX, is helping cut youth unemployment and changing Pristina's skyline (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-02 07:32:37

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 artificialvision.com/literatur

@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
2026-05-02 07:28:44

(YouTube) China's government-backed BCI push could bring brain-computer tech to the masses within 3 to 5 years #BCI

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-31 08:48:48

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)... artificialvision.com/neuralink Supporting independent and open science

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

🤯 The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
#brain

@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-04-29 07:52:32

A geometry aware framework enhances noninvasive mapping of whole human brain dynamics
Song Wang, Kexin Lou, Chen Wei, Zhiyuan Sheng, Jiahao Tang, Kaining Peng, Xinke Shen, Shuhao Mei, Liang Chen, Dongfeng Gu, Quanying Liu
arxiv.org/abs/2604.25592 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25592 arxiv.org/html/2604.25592
arXiv:2604.25592v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Non-invasive electrophysiology lacks methods that accurately reconstruct whole-brain spatiotemporal dynamics while incorporating individual cortical geometry, leaving current electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography source imaging limited by simplistic or biologically implausible priors. Here, we show that embedding participant-specific Geometric Basis Functions (GBFs), eigenmodes derived from each individual's cortical surface, provides a powerful anatomic constraint that resolves the inverse problem and improves reconstruction fidelity. The method reconstructs neural sources as linear combinations of geometric basis functions, thereby aligning source estimates with the geometric organization of neural dynamics. We validate GBF across the Meta-Source Benchmark, task-evoked data, resting-state networks, intracranial stimulation, and epilepsy data. The results demonstrate that GBF yields high localization accuracy and captures fast spatiotemporal dynamics consistent with anatomical pathways. These findings suggest that both spontaneous and evoked whole-brain activity can be described by hundreds of geometric modes, providing a compact yet accurate representation of neural sources. By linking cortical geometry to electrophysiological dynamics, GBF offers a versatile source imaging tool for both scientific and clinical applications.
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-25 11:00:04

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
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-27 17:44:15

A brain implant for depression is about to be tested in humans #BCI

@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…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-03 08:31:34

Trying to draft a kind of "graphical abstract" on visual prosthesis BCI options... brain implants with electrodes, ultrasound with optogenetics or nanoparticles, and noninvasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution. Suggestions for improvement? #neuroscience

Draft graphical abstract on visual prosthesis BCI options

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
2026-04-27 17:28:51

The mature brain and the neuroscience of wisdom psychologytoday.com/us/blog/be by William Haseltine; "A late-maturing bra…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-01 07:08:02

It's not that The vOICe vision BCI is so good, it's that invasive BCIs for (restoring) vision are far worse than often claimed. The human brain is not plug-and-play. chatgpt.com/share/69f448a9-de0

AI-generated image of a blind woman looking very disappointed about the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant.
@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…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-03 10:01:11

Paradromics blog post on intracortical BCIs vs. ECoG (electrocorticography) paradromics.com/blog/intracort Note that for restoring vision, intracortical BCIs do not necessarily offer better performance than noninvasive…

@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2026-04-28 08:14:38

Integrative neurocybernetic modeling in the era of large-scale neuroscience
Il Memming Park, Ayesha Vermani, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja, Juan \'Alvaro Gallego, Kathleen Esfahany, Shreya Saxena, Michael Orger, Auke Ijspeert, Matthew Dowling, Daniel McNamee, Srinivas C. Turaga, Zachary Mainen, Joseph J. Paton, Alfonso Renart
arxiv.org/abs/2604.23903 arxiv.org/pdf/2604.23903 arxiv.org/html/2604.23903
arXiv:2604.23903v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale neuroscience is generating rich datasets across animals, brain areas and behavioral contexts, yet our modeling efforts remains fragmented across isolated experiments. We argue that understanding behavior requires integrative neurocybernetic models: understandable dynamical models that capture the closed-loop coupling of brain, body and environment, treat the brain as a controller pursuing latent objectives, represent structured variation across scales, and scale to heterogeneous datasets. Such models shift the goal from predicting neural recordings in isolation to inferring the organizing principles that govern neural and behavioral dynamics. We outline a practical route toward this goal by combining nonlinear state-space models and meta-dynamical extensions with scalable inference, knowledge distillation, mixed open- and closed-loop training, and connectomics-informed architectures. By pooling complementary constraints from recordings, behavior, perturbations and anatomy, integrative neurocybernetic models can provide statistical amplification, few-shot generalization, and mechanistic insight into shared dynamical structure, individual variation, and the control objectives that govern behavior. This agenda offers a model-centric path from fragmented data to a mechanistic science of how brains produce behavior.
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@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-27 10:44:40

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

@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
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-26 09:33:24

Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4M round to take brain-powered sight implant into the clinic bmmagazine.co.uk/get-funded/re Brain implant for restoring vision to the blind;

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-30 22:46:36

US company Paradromics on brain-computer interfaces: China's recent developments and what they mean for the US paradromics.com/blog/china-bci Seems at odds with how the US administration keeps eroding the scientific ecosystem in the US;

@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
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-29 12:42:41

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

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-28 09:28:42

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 artificialvision.com/neuralink

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-01 07:27:56

Low-level "visual" perception with visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is at least on par with brain implants for restoring vision. It's the higher-level visual perception where there remain many open questions. Much more scientific effort should go into that. #BCI #blindness

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-07-01 19:42:46

Ocular speech tracking persists in blindness, but its dynamics and oculo-cerebral connectivity depend on visual status eneuro.org/content/early/2026/ "ocular speech tracking seems to respond selectively to acoustic features o…

@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…

@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";

@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…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-31 14:33:54

Brain implants for restoring vision to the blind need to stimulate large numbers of neurons with electrodes, many times per second. So... bioniclab.substack.com/p/what- The stimulation paradox: Activating neurons starves them of…

@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

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-31 10:12:13

Vision restoration: From prostheses to genetic-based brain-machine interfaces sciencedirect.com/science/chap "Classically, visual prostheses were made of electrode arrays", in Handbook of …

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-28 07:35:25

Brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2 "prefrontal cortex coordinated brain dynamics through synergistic interactions independently of sensory modality and previous sensory e…

@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

@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…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-30 10:19:12

(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex frontiersin.org/journals/neuro So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-30 06:55:31

The dismantling of US science (funding) by the US administration very likely also negatively impacts new studies based on The vOICe sensory substitution approach, no matter how much more promising it is than the development and use of brain implants for restoring vision.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-30 06:42:17

(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals.

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

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

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-29 09:25:19

Relevant for brain implants? Frequency-specific effects of pulsed magnetic field on BV2 microglial cell function tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10 "pulsed magnetic field can effectively regulate microglial phagocytosis, migration,…

@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
2026-05-14 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
2026-06-23 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…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-06-28 16:09:42

Once you realize that a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision will not be available for at least another decade, consider your other options more seriously.

@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
2026-04-28 20:46:00

Fake AI-generated video clip of an elderly blind man seeing his wife after receiving a brain implant for restoring his vision. Will we still know what is real? Reminiscent of the Argus II media coverage before the rise of generative AI youtube.com/watch?v=CiyGOUHD2nI

@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