2026-07-01 12:59:33
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 #nutrition
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)... https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Supporting independent and open science
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'`,…
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. https://go.nature.com/4cuBK4I…
Creativity is so intimate.
You're literally letting us see how your brain works.
Via @… on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/nasibov.me/post/…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
SUX:
🎵 Brain Dead
#SUX
https://suxmusic.bandcamp.com/track/brain-dead
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HFFo5hZInkgtfitv1azeK
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…
No brain today. Just be.
Would getting a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision be worth it? #BCI
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
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsrrf7P8Y_E
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.
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
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
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…
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…
Many years ago, a friend said he was following “The S Diet”. It was very simple and memorable:
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No Sweets or Seconds, except on Saturday and Sunday.
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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:
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No Sweets or Seconds, except on days ending in ‘y’.
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🤣🤦♂️
Un-doin…
My wife and kids are away for a couple of days leaving me alone at our place [well me and the cat]. This morning I woke up and on autopilot I made two coffees (I always make a coffee for my wife, since I get up first). Only when I finished did I realise what I had done.
On the plus side, two coffees for me! And apparently I needed two anyway for my brain to work properly.
The takeaway from this story is that everything worked out just great.
💧 Hydraulic brain: Body motion linked to fluid movement in the brain
#brain
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)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/excl…
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:/…
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. https://chatgpt.com/share/69f448a9-de04-83eb-9720-98a2f66ca7e5
ADHD Families Podcast
This podcast delivers practical strategies for parenting kids with ADHD, supporting executive function development, reducing overwhelm, and building systems that work with the ADHD brain...
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Aldon Smith's brain donated to CTE Center as family's attorneys investigate his death at age 36 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/wcbk/aldon-smiths-brain-donated-to-cte-center-as-familys-attorneys-invest…
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.
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…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kane Strang:
🎵 Two Hearts And No Brain
#NowPlaying #KaneStrang
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bwxXTxB0wYq8CndfxFYXJ
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'`,…
I check out @… every now and then but I think I just don't like the format of short videos. It's sort of a jarring experience and (nothing against loops) I don't know if it's a good thing for my brain.
Contrast that to Pixelfed where it is still images, and there is a stillness to it... it's a image, no motion, no sound, and you can stare at …
New Study Challenges What We Know About Consciousness and the Brain
https://scitechdaily.com/new-study-challenges-what-we-know-about-consciousness-and-the-brain/
I'm not exactly sure what peptides are, but I assume it's brain worm food. :neocat_woozy:
#coffeeSnob
I don't want a coffee that "notes hints of cherry and cocoa."
I want a coffee that walks into my brain, flips a table over, and says, "Get up. We have responsibilities."
Just saw that #genAI models now have a "how to protect the environment" suggestion... which suggests to use different genAI models 😇🤣🤦
You want to know the best way to save energy and protect the environment?
Hmm, a brain haemorrhage - I wonder if that will show up in his plastination:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjlnrn47lwo
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 …
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Orb:
🎵 A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld
#TheOrb
https://theorb.bandcamp.com/track/a-huge-ever-growing-pulsating-brain-that-rules-from-the-centre-of-the-ultraworld-orbital-dance-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3sX6nwEUXjpejtqNvQAl3p
Well, that's probably been the worst day for #Depression of the whole bloody year, but I did not get nothing done.
I finished an essay, and I think it's an important one.
https://www.
Mate, which is developing a platform to allow AI agents to detect, respond to, and proactively hunt threats, raised a $35M Series A led by Canaan Partners (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryb30q8bge
#Brain2Qwerty v2: a model to decode natural sentences from non-invasive magnetoencephalography (#MEG) recordings https://facebookresearch.github.io/brain2qwerty/ via @…
Brain implants for restoring vision to the blind need to stimulate large numbers of neurons with electrodes, many times per second. So... https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/what-happens-to-blood-flow-when-you The stimulation paradox: Activating neurons starves them of…
¿Quién se va a escuchar "Brain damage" y "Eclipse" todos los días de aquí al 12 de agosto?
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…
Vision restoration: From prostheses to genetic-based brain-machine interfaces https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/handbook/abs/pii/B9780443222122000173 "Classically, visual prostheses were made of electrode arrays", in Handbook of …
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…
Neuroscientists being “surprised” that the brain doesn’t work like a computer, episode 244:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01554-0
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
…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gears:
🎵 Teenage Brain
#TheGears
https://thedefog.bandcamp.com/track/fears-for-a-teenage-brain
https://open.spotify.com/track/2nuY8QtC890uJH9fCWuTAm
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
"none of these legacy behaviours are rational. They arise out of that bundle of behaviours inherited from our two billion years of sexually selected ancestors... If our ancestors had not had these behaviours, we would not be here. Our ancestors were not, in the sense we mean here, rational... A purely rational being — a being created ab initio rational — would not have these behaviours.
No one is proposing to build an AI with a lizard brain. It won't happen."
Revision Implant lands oversubscribed €4M round to take brain-powered sight implant into the clinic https://bmmagazine.co.uk/get-funded/revision-implant-4m-funding-brain-visual-prosthesis/ Brain implant for restoring vision to the blind;
(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853/full So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…
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 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.
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
https://www.cmu.edu…
Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children, chronic disease and other health problems #environment
(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals.
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 https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm
budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 93708 edges.
Tags: Biolo…
One of the world's top centers for brain science is taking a huge gamble on a tiny, transparent fish.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus near Washington, D.C., has announcedan effort to use artificial intelligence and an unusual fish called Danionella to understand how the brain controls complex behaviors like social interaction.
Janelia plans to triple the space dedicated to fish to 6,000 square feet, which will make room for thousands of new t…
Relevant for brain implants? Frequency-specific effects of pulsed magnetic field on BV2 microglial cell function https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15368378.2026.2694326 "pulsed magnetic field can effectively regulate microglial phagocytosis, migration,…
It’s been a brutal tactic deployed by local and federal law enforcement officials time and time again over the past year:
using teargas, rubber bullets and pepper spray to control protests outside ICE detention centers or during enforcement operations.
Now, a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd-control weapons during
anti-immigration demonstrations across the US,
including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries.
Brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.26.727967v1 "prefrontal cortex coordinated brain dynamics through synergistic interactions independently of sensory modality and previous sensory e…
Neuroscientists long theorized that bilingual speakers must process different languages with separate patterns of brain activity.
In a new study, however, researchers found that these patterns were more alike than had been expected.
When deciding how to make a word singular or plural, for instance,
bilingual people exhibit strikingly similar brain activity regardless of whether they are speaking in their first or second language.
“It wasn’t obvious that it was going to…
Brain rewires to stabilize walking during visual impairment https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-rewires-sensorimotor-walking-blindness-30721/
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study on the effects of visual status on walking-relate…
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/
A computer model predicted which human brain implant channels would fail #invasive
Convicted Harvard scientist rebuilds career in China through controversial brain-computer interface lab https://thedebrief.org/convicted-harvard-scientist-rebuilds-career-in-china-through-controversial-brain-computer-i…
Seeing and imagining are handled by the same brain cells https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/05/12/seeing-and-imagining-are-handled-by-the-same-brain-cells/
"Researchers make advances in understanding how human brains ar…
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.
Some archived AI model responses to questions relating to vision for the blind, brain implants for restoring vision, visual-to-auditory sensory substitution (The vOICe) https://www.seeingwithsound.com/archive/index.html ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, Consensus, Perplexity, …
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…
Why brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy #BCI
Sensory restoration via brain-computer interfaces: A unified 2×2 framework and convergence roadmap https://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…
Building brain-computer interfaces: the 3 pillars of #Paradromics https://paradromics.com/blog/building-brain-computer-interfaces-3-pillars/ referencing TK Kozai (2015…
#Paradromics: From brain implants to neuroprosthetics | Making sense of brain-computer interface terminology https://www.paradromics.com/insights/from-brain-implants-to-neuropr…
(YouTube) Jacques Carolan — The mission to get breakthrough brain treatments to everyone #neuromodulation
Human-machine learning boosts noninvasive brain-computer control in untrained users https://techxplore.com/news/2026-07-human-machine-boosts-noninvasive-brain.html "working on noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to develop technology that is…
White paper and living document: Comparing The vOICe vision BCI with Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision to the blind https://www.artificialvision.com/BCI.html
(YouTube video clips) Recent developments with The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution includ…
When will @… write about Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? Still nothing in sight. #BCI
Non-invasive mapping of the temporal processing hierarchy in the human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014434 by @…
Myelin emerges as an active regulator of brain plasticity, not only a structural insulator https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/myelin-emerges-as-an-active-regulator-of-brain-plasticity-not-only-a-struct…
Companies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness
#Paradromics and University of Michigan complete first #Connexus BCI implantation for the FDA-approved Connect-One clinical study
Visual field position shapes input sampling and output routing in the superior colliculus (in mice) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.27.728073v1 Likely nonfunctional with brain implants in V1 for restoring vision
Thalamic oscillations distinguish natural states of consciousness in humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02446-z Might thalamic and other oscillations also determine if experiences appear visual or from another sensory modality? Looking for brain state control for senso…
Topographic reorganization of EEG complexity during visual mental imagery: Insights from Lempel-Ziv complexity in high-density EEG https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10548-026-01238-y "Visual mental imagery is the process of reconstructing perceptual experience…
The vOICe vision BCI is an alternative for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant. Recent developments include a live AI depth view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE3ElPNA21g, AI scene description
China has approved the world's first invasive brain-computer chip - here's what's next https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/01/1138133/china-world-first-brain-chip/ (archived at