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(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.

Can red-light therapy treat brain injuries? Some research shows 'striking' results https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7581642/2026/09/11/red-light-therapy-brain-injuries-journal-of-neurotrama/

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

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Wah Wah Wah:
🎵 Brain Overload
#WahWahWah
https://wahwahwah.bandcamp.com/track/brain-overload
https://open.spotify.com/track/0cYBQxqkQdlWLqqC2x4Odv

The problem with adaptive DBS https://tmrwedition.com/2026/09/12/the-problem-with-adaptive-dbs/ Critique on closed-loop brain stimulation for treating Parkinson's disease: over-reliance on the beta signal. Should also monitor tremor, gait, balance and dyskinesia fo…

The Pros and Cons of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation (aDBS)
Explore the pros and cons of Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation, highlighting patient control issues and potential for better real-world data integration.

me:
my brain: Bran from Game of Thrones was stark raven mad

not gonna be my top issue this election because my focus is guaranteeing $100m a year for affordable housing (yes on I!), but
the car-brain push to turn Sunset Dunes back into a road is very dumb!
https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/sf-prop-g-great-h…

Reopening the Great Highway would cost $9.8M and up to $1.9M annually, controller says
The majority of the one-time cost would be used to add new traffic signals at eight intersections on the road.

Troy Aikman confesses about his "ridiculous" daily routine to protect brain after surviving 10 career concussions https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/troy-aikman-concussions-daily-…

"The rise of blue-space therapy: how the sea is helping people deal with trauma, anxiety and addiction"
#Nature #Environment

The rise of blue-space therapy: how the sea is helping people deal with trauma, anxiety and addiction
‘Sea cures’ are not new but the idea that exposure to oceans, rivers and lakes can be medicine for the brain is gaining traction

One downside of enforced brevity in social media is that it leads (ironically) towards redundancy when one creates threads. The brain has a tendency to loop back to recent prior ideas and one can end up saying basically the same things but structured and worded upside down and inside out.

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

Wer nutzt #orgmode für #Journalling?
Ich komme von #Logseq und lege mir dort bei jedem Tag einen Eintrag an. Dieser ist mit einem Hauptthema verlinkt. So komme ich vom Hauptthema zum Tag oder vom Tag zum H…

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.

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

Matt was a long time hero of mine. It's been wild to watch his brain cook and totally fall from a place of being worth any respect over the last few years.
I think I have 2 - 3 people remaining from the early web I still look too and I wish them luck.
And I wish myself luck in seeing people make mistakes and still finding value in their good ideas.

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg reportedly placed on leave
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg claims the company’s chief financial officer “conspired” with board members to place him on leave, 404 Media reports. 

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Horse Lords:
🎵 Brain of the Firm
#HorseLords
https://horselords.bandcamp.com/track/brain-of-the-firm
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DHt1bMH83gSBStd1aNj36

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? 

Male Fruit Fly Brain Trained to Play Doom - Slashdot
https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/09/11/2022239/male-fruit-fly-brain-trained-to-play-doom

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

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…

Right. My brain is fried so it’s time to head home. But I got 95% of my new website reviewed, proofed and updated, so I’m delighted with that. We’re still on course for a go-live next week. 🎉 #WorkToots

Please read this superb post by @deevybee.bsky.social
I agree with every word of it.
Science is endangered by the demand for speed and by AI slop.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-leap-into-future-or-off-cliff.html

The Brain and The Chip 2026, October 26-28, Spain #BCI

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

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

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

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…

Spotted this in the 9yo's new classroom, and told the teachers that I appreciate it!
#NoAI #FuckAI

The House of Da Vinci (Multi, XP'd on PC) An explosion rocks the tower after a guard gives you a note from Leonardo. Follow his trail and uncover the secrets before it's too late.
Back to the thinky pain games, this time with more of a hidden object type game. Find and open hidden panels, unlock doors, manipulate and combine objects you find to create tools, etc.
Nice setting for this one, Renaissance Italy is always a cool place to check out, and traipsing through Le…

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

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

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

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

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

Do non-language regions become language regions? The case of deprived sensory cortices https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article/doi/10.1093/brain/awag242/8728959 "Deprived sensory cortices, contrary to many claims, do not become language regio…

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

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

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

I really have a love/hate relationship with specifications. They are so taxing to write for my executive dysfunction riddled brain, but also "Look at it go, generating a 60 pages LaTeX document with all the features and diagrams and the comments and everything I have made and everything I need to make"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Funkadelic:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#Funkadelic
https://derrok.bandcamp.com/track/gusano-funkadelics-maggot-brain-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5WJU527RQNyMLuKecjsL8V

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

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

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

#OpenSource
#AmWriting

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

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

Octopus Brains Defy a Long-Held Rule About Why Animals Evolve Intelligence : ScienceAlert
Octopus Brains Defy a Long-Held Rule About Why Animals Evolve Intelligence : ScienceAlert https://www.sciencealert.com/the-size-of-cephalopod-brains-se…

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

エジソン - Edison by WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA
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"Question your brain, but never question your gut." - Henry Winkler
▶️ Henry Winkler on getting fired by Tom Hanks: "I didn't handle it well"
#henrywinkler #tomhanks #turnerandhooch

NERVE Attacks: breaking AI-powered brain-computer interfaces #BCI #AI

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.

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/

A burst of "pink noise" may lead to more restorative sleep https://news.mit.edu/2026/pink-noise-burst-may-mean-more-restorative-sleep-0909

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

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'`,…

The plague stalking pro football
Apple News, The Week, Health & Science
Excerpt From
“The plague stalking pro football”
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https://apple.news/AsYtB6G95RDOnrsx0CMI1NA
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Millions take omega-3 fish oil for brain health but a new study found no benefit #nutrition

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
SL2:
🎵 Way In My Brain
#SL2
https://nowdanceseries.bandcamp.com/track/way-in-my-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/0KvgBit47j0y5bjtv7zNuj

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.

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…

'How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian': Use AI to explore. Use libraries to verify. Use your brain to evaluate.
(Do people really cite articles they haven't read, as in the opening story?)
https://www.llrx.com/2025/12/how-to-spot-a

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

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

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

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

Conjecture: Human #qualia are not (so much) linked to relational structures, symmetries, sensorimotor invariants etc within perceptual content, but rather linked to a small set of specific discrete brainwave constellations evoked by the perceptual input. The idea is that the brain supports a small set of brainwave "resonant modes", and perceptual (or even imagined) content thrown at the brain ma…

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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 ».

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

Review of brain-computer interface technology in ophthalmology: Current status, challenges and future directions https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667376226000314 Discussing noninvasive BCIs yet not mentioning sensory substitution for vision? Review…

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

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

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

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'`,…

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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'`,…

What progress would be made if all consciousness researchers started working on voluntary mental imagery? A blind person does not need a brain implant to see if visual content is conveyed via other means and then visualized. Visual access and experience.

(YouTube, Spanish) UMHTV – Recuperación inesperada de la visión de una persona ciega mediante microestimulación cerebral (Unexpected recovery of vision in a blind person through brain microstimulation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLJBxeLo20

Ethical considerations for implantable human brain–computer interfaces #BCI

Ethical considerations for implantable human brain–computer interfaces - Nature Neuroscience
Implanted brain–computer interfaces hold great promise for restoring communication and other functions and for revealing new aspects of human brain physiology. Yet as the number of implantations in humans expands, ethical clarity must keep pace with technical ambition. We propose that this should involve distinguishing research participation from patient care, ensuring long-term support for study participants, ensuring that research participants do not bear disproportionate risks for benefits…

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.  

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.

Postdoc position at the University of Pittsburgh related to visual cortical prostheses (brain implants for restoring vision) https://cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/pitt_faculty_external_pd/jobdetail.ftl?job=26005332 via @…

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.

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

🧠 Brain implant rivalry

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…

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

(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

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

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…

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…

(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.

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.

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.

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