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#Paradromics on brain vision https://paradromics.com/platform/#brain-vision "Send visual information directly to the brain to restore sight and potentially enable new forms of vision, from e…

Platform
Modular brain-computer interface platform. Biocompatible, scalable architecture for communication, motor control, and neurological disorders.

Work is mostly good for our brains.
The evidence is strong that cognitive decline speeds up after retirement.
Now some people with hard physical jobs simply can’t keep them up.
The point here is what retirement means.
If you move from your job to other work such as volunteering,
new leisure activities,
learning new and complex skills,
then that’s actually not retirement.
You’re still at work.
Retirement to the couch and Netflix is a …

Let your mind wander, don’t retire and stop worrying: surprising ways to help save your brain from the cognitive cliff
In his new book The Brain Cliff, Dr Norman Swan outlines the science of brain ageing and strategies for staving off cognitive decline

AI scientist and Google researcher Ray Kurzweil joins BCI startup Subsense, which develops non-surgical BCI tech involving inhaled nanoparticles, as an advisor (Alexei Oreskovic/Fortune)
https://fortune.c…

AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles
Subsense’s brain computing interface could compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, but would not require surgery.

The Aging Brain Isn't Declining – It's Adapting, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-aging-brain-isnt-declining-its-adapting-study-finds

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'`,…

Aren't you worried about mind control? Limits of brain computer interfaces https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/arent-you-worried-about-mind-control "People keep asking whether writing to the brain means controlling minds."

Aren't you worried about mind control?
Limits of Brain Computer Interfaces

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

エジソン - Edison by WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA
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We have to be patient with Mitch McConnell's absence. It's hard to connect what's left of his brain to the RoboMitch armor suit.

My brain refuses to do work, today

#WritersCoffeeClub 5 October. What haunts the narrative of your current work?
My concept (a satirical look at the brain as a haunted mansion) is full of ghosts.
The question is how the staff can keep doing their jobs, even as the Mansion is haunted and the lights flicker.
What does it take to keep the lights on?
There are real, burning questions underneath the laughs.

“But the intellectual muscle that’s exercised in everyday writing is the same one used for the writing that matters. We become better writers by the constant effort that mundane writing demands.”
Some good perspectives here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04…

Thalamic dysconnectivity and negative symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorder https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.04.756569v1 "highlights specific thalamic subnetworks as potential targets for circuit-based interventions." Phosphoenix opportunity?…

Thalamic Dysconnectivity and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder
Background and Hypothesis Negative symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorder (SSD) are associated with poor functional outcomes and reduced quality of life; however, effective treatments remain limited. A better understanding of the underlying brain mechanisms is needed to develop better treatments. Neuroimaging studies implicate multiple brain networks in negative symptoms, though findings remain heterogeneous, potentially reflecting the multidimensionality of both symptoms and brain network…

Sonnet 086 - LXXXVI
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him wi…

Having tinnitus, I found this interesting .
#tinnitus

Dopamine, emotional regulation, healing, health and more - a great episode of Hidden Brain on 'what art does for your brain' with Daisy Fancourt and of course Shankar Vedantam
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-art-does-for-your-brain/

What Art Does For Your Brain - Hidden Brain Media
Think about the last time a piece of music stopped you in your tracks, or a novel kept you up late at night. Why do these experiences feel so powerful? 

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

Aus aktuellem Anlass eine Studie von 2025:
ChatGPT macht Sie alle dumm.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

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…

Phase Lock - A manifesto on brain-computer interfaces and preserving human agency in the age of AI https://phaselock.satpugnet.com by @…; "The fastest path to execute this…

Phase Lock
A manifesto on brain-computer interfaces and preserving human agency in the age of AI.

#WordWeavers 5/10: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?
I think the Mansion staff had better stick to their jobs. The brain is incredibly malleable, and regions can, in some cases, adapt to perform functions they weren't originally assigned. But I fear that if Amygdala and Prefrontal Cortex switched places—or Hippocampus and Ventra…

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260721000822.htm

I'm on a deep programming binge right now. My least favorite thing to do when I'm like this is trying to have coherent conversations with anyone. It's hard to string more than three words together right now.
I can still write just fine. It's interesting that it's mostly my verbal abilities that are affected. A friend of mine who used to be a developer once asked me in all seriousness, "Does programming cause brain damage? Do you recover from this?"

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

"Hindbrain" is going to be a pretty epic insult
Human brain is two separate organs, research finds https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-human-brain.html

Human brain is two separate organs, research finds
For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years.

Replaced article(s) found for eess.IV. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.IV/new
[1/1]:
- Fifty Years of SAR Automatic Target Recognition: The Road Forward
Zhou, Liu, Liu, Li, Yang, Peng, Song, Kuang, Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22159 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115286713174854296
- PSI3D: Plug-and-Play 3D Stochastic Inference with Slice-wise Latent Diffusion Prior
Wenhan Guo, Jinglun Yu, Yaning Wang, Jin U. Kang, Yu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18367 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115768023276010735
- Harmonizing MR Images Across 100 Scanners: Multi-site Validation with Traveling Subjects and Rea...
Savannah P. Hays, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19474 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116447231958934365
- Delta-Diffusion: Modeling Longitudinal Brain Amyloid-PET Trajectories via Conditional Poisson Dif...
Yongheng Sun, Minhui Yu, Mengqi Wu, Maureen Kohi, Mingxia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22216 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116798571844191200
- Endo-NeRF : Uncertainty-Aware Neural Rendering with Multi-Resolution Hash Encoding for Dynamic S...
Gousia Habib, Laura Ruotsalainen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27825 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/117013453170771213
- MODEST: Multi-Optics Depth-of-Field Stereo Dataset
Nisarg K. Trivedi, Vinayaka A. Belludi, Li-Yun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20853 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115621075809273744
- Attention Fusion for Bridge Deck Delamination Detection
Alireza Moayedikia, Amirhossein Moayedikia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20113 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115773982683458537
- Label-Free Target-Domain Adaptation for Unconstrained Event-Image Feature Matching via Dual-Stage...
Zhonghua Yi, Hao Shi, Qi Jiang, Yufan Zhang, Kailun Yang, Kaiwei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10082 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116917499198780916
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Schottenheimer's Mea Culpa: Tells Cowboys 'I messed up' https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/10/04/dallas-cowboys-head-coach-bria…

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

I don't know why, but my brain associates "Omarchy" with "menarche".

TIL what BFS stood for. #linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Fuck_Scheduler

New research shows that what we call the human brain is actually two ancient, independent nervous systems assembled side by side over hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary history.
“We’ve shown for the first time that the front of the brain arises from a totally different progenitor cell than the back of the brain,”
said Kyle Loh, Ph.D., associate professor of developmental biology at Stanford Medicine and senior author of the study.
“Our discovery means that we can …

The Brain Is Two Separate Organs Joined by Evolution - Neuroscience News
Neuroscience News provides research news for neuroscience, neurology, psychology, AI, brain science, mental health, robotics and cognitive sciences.

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

Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/987936/anker-eufy-mindba…

Anker’s new MindBase is an AI-powered brain for your smart home
The company also announced a new Eufy video doorbell with VR features and a window camera.

(2019, Amazon) My brain implant for bionic vision: the first trial of artificial sight for the blind #BCI

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mark McGuire:
🎵 Brain Storm (For Erin)
#MarkMcGuire
https://editionsmego.bandcamp.com/track/brain-storm-for-erin
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IHvEylNC3bk3EwxxKAnkG

Dopamine, emotional regulation, healing, health and more - a great episode of Hidden Brain on 'what art does for your brain' with Daisy Fancourt and of course Shankar Vedantam
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-art-does-for-your-brain/

Wer mich liest, weiß, daß ich dem Einsatz generativer #KI durchaus sehr kritisch gegen­überstehe, aus einer Reihe unter­schiedlicher Gründe. Und die Berichte und Studien über Brain Rot und Verlust von Fähigkeiten weisen sicher auf relevante Probleme hin.¹
Aber der Aufschrei unsere Kinder würden jetzt alle verblöden erscheint mir übertrieben². Wir hatten: Computerspiele verblöden Kinder, TV, Co…

"The testing data Six Flags handed over to inspectors was informed by safety standards from a committee composed of theme park operators and ride manufacturers, the outlet reported." Why do we keep relying on #Industry developed #SafetyStandards? Yes, industry reps must participate - b…

Rollercoaster at LA’s Six Flags shut after two riders suffered brain injuries, inquiry finds
X2 ride at Magic Mountain has been closed for a month after one rider experienced brain compression and another remains in coma

"The testing data Six Flags handed over to inspectors was informed by safety standards from a committee composed of theme park operators and ride manufacturers, the outlet reported." Why do we keep relying on #Industry developed #SafetyStandards? Yes, industry reps must participate - b…

Rollercoaster at LA’s Six Flags shut after two riders suffered brain injuries, inquiry finds
X2 ride at Magic Mountain has been closed for a month after one rider experienced brain compression and another remains in coma

Nature does something surprising to the brain beyond relieving stress https://www.earth.com/lifestyle/nature-does-something-surprising-to-the-brain-beyond-relieving-stress/

Nature does something surprising to the brain beyond relieving stress
Nature may do more than relieve stress, with evidence suggesting it can improve mood and thinking even when people already feel fine.

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

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

For my own notes, These are the apps I use on my #Pebble Time 2
* [Brain Dump](https://apps.repebble.com/brain-dump-index01-for-your-pebble_e4f66f24bb0a4…

(YouTube) Reality check with BCI, AI? Could brain-computer interface chips in the future detect anomalous experiences from hallucinations? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y06nvzdEjA Paradromics CEO Matt Angle.

Good grief, my brain and I don't get along today.

The main contender for Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind is not yet another brain implant, but something entirely different that is 100% biocompatible, noninvasive, affordable and scalable https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html

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

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

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

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) Intracortical microstimulation (#ICMS) patterns affect cell-specific myelination, so myelin insulation is not a fixed given in brain stimulation https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tkozai_nih-f31-neuroengineering-share-7501087539794161664-sFwA/

Takashi (T.K.) Kozai | Substack | TK Kozai
🎉 Camila Garcia Padilla is now principal investigator on her own NIH grant. NINDS issued the Notice of Award for her F31 in August 2026 (F31NS147846) (she joined the lab 2022, as an ARCS Scholar). 🧠 Her fellowship links stimulation pattern to cell-specific myelination, and myelination to cognitive outcomes in Alzheimer's disease. Oligodendrocytes wrap cortical axons in myelin, and device engineers have treated that myelin as fixed insulation while stimulation stayed a neuronal problem. C…

WIRED: A new neurotech startup launches to rival Sam Altman's Merge Labs https://www.wired.com/story/bridge-neurotech-startup-rival-sam-altman-merge-labs/ Bridge Neurotech; "My vision is focused on noninvasive interfaces," Biederman says. …

A New Neurotech Startup Launches to Rival Sam Altman’s Merge Labs
Bridge Neurotech is planning to build a wearable brain-computer interface that uses ultrasound.

“On 11 separate days, more than three million travelers flowed through the American flies, they, they, uh … American skies were loaded up with planes,” Trump, 80, said while seated at the Resolute Desk.
It’s clear that Trump meant to say “American skies,”
but that his "brain" got in the way
https:…

Trump, 80, Totally Garbles Attempt to Brag About Tourism in U.S.
Apparently travelers “flowed through the American flies.”

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

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

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

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/117372636492888852
Given the current level of hype about BCI developments, The vOICe vision BCI should have been going viral. Or is it the lack of blood and brain surgery with unknown outcomes and patient misery with fail…

#PennedPossibilities 1146 Does romance ever feature in your work?
Not in my WIP, how'd that even work? We're inside a brain in my WIP.
In other stories, I do write about romance. It's usually a part of the human condition, to be infatuated, enamoured, becharmed, or smitten by someone. But it is also a part of the human experience to be rejected, ignored, or forgo…

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

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

For the believers: Towards interstellar brain-computer interfaces #BCI

Project Overview ‹ Towards Interstellar Brain-Computer Interfaces – MIT Media Lab
Currently, we are seeing more and more robotics and AI efforts in space. However, to scale human activity and energy in space, we need humans in space — and we…

RE: https://flipboard.com/@gothamist/gothamist-igeoft02z/-/a--fp4NrplT0qcynd8L64X8w:a:3807498986-/0
NYC car-brain continues..

#Subsense: Interview with CEO and co-founder Tetiana Aleksandrova about non-surgical brain-computer interfaces https://pulse2.com/subsense-profile-tetiana-aleksandrova-interview/

Subsense: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Tetiana Aleksandrova About Non-Surgical Brain-Computer Interfaces
Subsense is developing NanoBCI, a bidirectional brain-computer interface designed to read neural signals, decode them, and eventually send information back to the brain without requiring brain surgery. The company is initially targeting medical applications such as Parkinson’s disease, with a longer-term vision of creating a consumer brain-computer interface for communication, AI interaction, and digital environments. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Subsense CEO and Co-Founder Tetiana Aleksandrova to l…

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

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

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

#WordWeavers 2. Which character knows your MC better than your MC knows themselves?
That is a hard question because the MC doesn't know themselves as good as they think they do, and almost everyone in The Mansion know them very well. I'm almost inclined to say 'Who doesn't know them better than they do themselves?' actually, though Fronty Front Brain bark might take off…

Chinese Academy of Sciences names brain-computer interfaces a priority field in its 2026 to 2030 plan https://insidebci.com/policy/2026-09-30-chinese-academy-of-sciences-15th-five-year-plan-bci-priority-field-cebsit-stairm…

Chinese Academy of Sciences names brain-computer interfaces a priority field in its 2026 to 2030 plan
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China's top state research body, announced on 28 September 2026 that it had released its 15th Five-Year development plan covering 2026 to 2030. The plan lists brain-computer interfaces among its 'important priority fields' (重要优先领域), alongside integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, quantum science and technology, life sciences and biotechnology, and controlled nuclear fusion. CAS will organise research around a '3+4+X' regional layout wit…

A deep dive into on-device and data center inference for robots, including a primer on robot models, deployments, supply chains, the "network wall", and more (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/a-brain-too-big-to-carry-on-device

Where Does a Robot Think — On-Device vs Datacenter Inference
Robot Models, Silicon Efficiency, Jetson Thor vs. B300 TCO, Deployments, The Network Wall

The 60-second history of brain tech (from lobotomies to Neuralink) https://www.neurotechmag.com/p/the-60-second-history-of-brain-tech "What happens to a paralyzed patient’s device when the company that made it runs out of funding?"

The 60-second history of brain tech (from lobotomies to Neuralink)
A hundred years ago doctors were carving into frontal lobes with tools barely better than kitchen utensils. Now paralyzed patients type by thought alone. Here's how we got from one to the other.

Cortigent: "Our goal is to help the profoundly blind regain visual perception" https://www.cortigent.com/orion Orion brain implant with 60 electrodes (like Argus II retinal implant); Cortigent may lack the resources for a major redesign (upgrade);

1 big thing: Brain implants stoke U.S.-China rivalry #BCI

🧠 Brain implant rivalry

Ghost in the Shell to Neuralink: Inside the 2026 brain-computer interface trials turning cyberbrains into reality https://goearlybirdlab.com/2026/09/27/ghost-in-the-shell-to-neuralink-inside-the…

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

(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail. #BCI #blindness

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

(image) AI-generated impression of what happens once a brain implant for restoring vision starts to fail, versus The vOICe sensory substitution alternative #BCI

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

Chinese Premier Li Qiang publicly names brain-computer interfaces a 'blue ocean' on a Shanghai inspection tour https://insidebci.com/policy/2026-09-23-li-qiang-shanghai-brain-computer-interfaces-blue-oce…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang publicly names brain-computer interfaces a 'blue ocean' on a Shanghai inspection tour
China's Premier Li Qiang, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, spent Tuesday 22 September 2026 on a Shanghai inspection tour of two innovation venues. At the second, the Shanghai Future Kick-off Community (上海未来启点社区) sci-tech innovation and incubation platform for future industries, he inspected technology products in two named categories: brain-computer interfaces and quantum computing. He then framed future industries as 'a potential blue ocean for advanced manufacturi…

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

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

A new framework for how the brain compresses our noisy world https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-framework-for-how-the-brain-compresses-our-noisy-world-20260824/ "An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understand…

A New Framework for How the Brain Compresses Our Noisy World | Quanta Magazine
An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine than a filing cabinet.

Government strategy is shaping the global brain-computer interface race https://neurotechreports.com/news/government-strategy-is-shaping-the-global-brain-computer-interface-race

Government Strategy Is Shaping the Global Brain-Computer Interface Race   - Neurotech Reports
Three events converged this year to turn brain-computer interfaces from a research curiosity into a subject of government strategy. China moved a product to market, having already built the machinery to pay for it. The U.S. funded a founder. The European Union asked its regulators to study a problem. This is not an accident of timing. It reflects fundamentally different beliefs about what a government should do when a new technology can read, and may soon write to, the human brain.  

Merge Labs and Butterfly Network partner to advance ultrasound-based brain-computer interfaces https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260901999280/en/Merge-Labs-and-Butterfly-Network-Partner-t…

What if the brain doesn't create consciousness? Christof Koch proposes it might be the fabric of reality itself https://www.sciencealert.com/what-if-the-brain-doesnt-create-consciousness-scientist-proposes-i…

What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself
For decades, neuroscientists have searched the brain for the biological basis of consciousness, assuming our thoughts, emotions, and subjective experiences emerge from networks of neurons.

The vOICe vision BCI is the ultimate testcase for human brain plasticity https://artificialvision.com/literature.htm

(LinkedIn) Missing out on relevant scientific literature on artificial vision for the blind through (too) narrow choice of keywords and key phrases is a recurring theme: cf. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7510965546209693697/,

#bci #blindness | Peter Meijer
(Review, from China) Emerging promise in artificial vision research: unveiling transformative potential through brain-computer interfaces https://lnkd.in/e9QDzARr No mention of sensory substitution due to literature search on too narrow choice of keywords and key phrases? #BCI #blindness Note: not finding literature on non-invasive sensory substitution for the blind is not for lack of scientific literature on the topic: https://lnkd.in/eN4DeTn

(LinkedIn) Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through August 2026) https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7498061682275950592/

#implantable #invasive #bci #neurotech | Peter Meijer
Neuralink cumulative human brain implants - actual vs originally projected (through August 2026), according to ChatGPT https://lnkd.in/erCDJkMT Still zero reported Neuralink Blindsight brain implants for restoring vision in blind humans https://lnkd.in/e5ge8iZU #implantable #invasive #BCI #NeuroTech

Building brain-computer interfaces at a neurotech company https://www.thetransmitter.org/frameshift/building-brain-computer-interfaces-at-a-neurotech-company/ on Blackrock Neurotech;

Building brain-computer interfaces at a neurotech company
At Blackrock Neurotech, Spencer Kellis develops implantable devices that help people with brain and spinal cord conditions communicate, move and more.

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

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

Stanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brain https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/stanford-researchers-discover-a-language-specific-network-hidden-in-the-human-brain/

Stanford researchers discover a language-specific network hidden in the human brain
The brain language network can be mapped from fMRI activity even while people rest or perform tasks unrelated to language.

Toward accessible, real-time brain decoding: Introducing ENIGMA https://www.alljoined.com/blog/introducing-enigma "a new multi-subject decoding model that reconstructs seen images from EEG signals with state-of-the-art accuracy"
ENIGMA: EEG-to-image in 15 minutes using…

(YouTube) AI-generated: "How the brain constructs reality" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV9nPxNip4g based in part on ideas of David Eagleman

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

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

Updated white paper (living document) on brain implants for restoring vision and noninvasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution #BCI

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

Psychedelics align brain activity with context https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10910-z Under psilocybin, "the separation between internal models and sensory context on which predictive processing depends" dissolves.
Brain-wide reconfiguration of burst firin…

Psychedelics align brain activity with context - Nature
The psychedelic psilocybin reorganizes brain activity into structured, context-aligned patterns that integrate internal and external processing, providing a neural basis for the felt continuity between self and world, elucidating how the psychedelic state translates into psychological change.

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke #BCI

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke
Implantable brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) with single-neuron resolution are showing great promise for restoring mobility and communication in individuals with spinal cord injury or motor neuron disease. Stroke is the most common cause of acquired brain injury and a major contributor to long-term disability, making chronic stroke a highly relevant indication for iBCIs. However, whether stable intracortical recordings can be obtained from the structurally lesioned human brain is unknown. We r…

Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from brain https://www.newscientist.com/article/2588451-bursts-of-pink-noise-during-sleep-seem-to-help-flush-waste-from-brain/ (archived at

Bursts of ‘pink noise’ during sleep seem to help clear waste from brain | New Scientist
The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process

(LinkedIn) According to some, China takes global lead in regulated brain-computer interfaces, speeding US medtech's regulatory race https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/china-takes-global-lead-regulated-brain-computer-interfaces-panda-yu-agy…

China Takes Global Lead in Regulated Brain-Computer Interfaces, Speeding U.S. Medtech’s Regulatory Race
China’s Strategic Lead in the BCI Medtech Landscape ### 1. Regulatory Leadership & Rapid Commercialization Pathways ### 2.

From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1928223/full

Frontiers | From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology
Brain implants, including deep brain stimulation (DBS) systems, brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), and speech neuroprostheses, are moving from the proof-of-co...

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

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

#Neuralink on representational drift (until recently): "Users spend an average of 55 minutes per week calibrating simply to maintain control." https://neuralink.com/updates/pretraining-on…

Pretraining on 50,000 Hours of Unlabeled Brain Data
How self-supervised encoders kept neural decoders working for weeks without recalibration and set an 11.32 BPS record.

(2022) Using the Orion brain implant for restoring vision, "Three years on, I can now make out fireworks, the birthday candles on my cake, and spot the lights and darks when doing laundry." https://www.thatslife.com.au/real-life/brain-implant-blindness…

Jason was blinded in a car crash – then a brain implant changed his life
Jason got a second chance at sight thanks to brain surgery where a surgeon implanted a device on his visual cortex.

Elon Musk, it's October 2026. Why can Neuralink still not even show a video clip of a monkey performing a blind reaching and grasping task using its Blindsight brain implant? #BCI