@ErikUden@mastodon.deFor those who have been hearing of a Fly Brain being uploaded, the work you've been hearing of is impressive, yet as always the pop science media has warped what happened a bit:
„The Fly Brain Breakthrough Is Real. The “First Brain Upload” Narrative Is Not.”
https://…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itNo! No no brain, no brain. no brain. Toot toot toot toot [unintelligible] like-like-like-like YeAH toot. boost. toot. boost. toot. toot toot toot toot like-like-like-like mastodon no brain. mastodon no brain. boost-toot-boost-toot. never! never! never! brain. boost toot boost toot. Never think!
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@seeingwithsound@mas.toWhy brain implants are more than a sci-fi fantasy #BCI
@UP8@mastodon.social💧 Hydraulic brain: Body motion linked to fluid movement in the brain
#brain
@adamhotep@infosec.exchangeNew research suggests brain-controlled hearing technology can help people single out a voice in a crowd, hopefully covering the largest deficiency of hearing aids.
https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-controlled-hearing-aid-60465/
Paper (open access):
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decintestinalis: 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
@cdarwin@c.imThe “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,
pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 p…
@david@boles.xyzHands as the Language of Thought: Correcting a Kant Attribution
There is a line about hands that travels well. It reads cleanly, carries an air of philosophical dignity, and arrives in print wearing the name of Immanuel Kant. "The hand is the visible part of the brain," runs the most common English form, or, in an older rendering, "the hand is the outer brain of man." The phrase appears in publishing copy, in teaching materials, on Goodreads quotation pages, in popu…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioMy brain is breaking by vibe bros discovering that Tailwind is shit and it’s better to use external CSS with classes (because it uses “fewer tokens”)
@seeingwithsound@mas.toAfter flying with virtual wings for one week, the brain learns to accept the impossible #noninvasive…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzYour AI Use Is Breaking My Brain https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.canow it's time to reset my brain a little... by shovelling rocks. #español
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The order of the JSON.
https://blog.almaer.com/the-order-of-the-json/
saved 2019-08-16 https://dotat.at/:/J5LA…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaThere are so many things I want to speak abt irl with clarity and intelligence that I think "I should have an Anki deck for what I'd like to say" then brain goes blank
@fgraver@hcommons.socialYour AI Use Is Breaking My Brain https://archive.is/U2YIx
@grumpybozo@toad.socialEveryone should listen to this week’s Hidden Brain (NPR.)
Some academic named Dave is making the solid case for “radical acceptance “ grounded in design thinking.
I concur with his core argument: reality is the only place where anything can work. Seems like a good place to start, to accept it. That doesn’t mean endorsing reality, just that we live in a broken world and should try to skip the “stages of grief “ in navigating adversity.
@fathermcgruder@jorts.horseEverybody's King Joffrey on here.
https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116377687987470957
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Jenna Sutela:
🎵 Pond Brain
#JennaSutela
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI bet the galaxy brain strategy will be to replace him with someone even more right-wing and then for some reason completely lose any remaining popular support they might still have
@servelan@newsie.social"But, given that this new research also reports that this additional brain-fluid sloshing includes an increased flow of electrolyte ions like sodium and potassium, I’m going to go ahead and give you permission to think of this as your brain swishing salt water around to clean itself up. It’s a bedtime classic rinse. Your brain is (metaphorically) gargling."
Scientists Watch Brain’s Self-Cleaning Process During Sleep in Real Time
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-watch-brains-self-cleaning-process-during-sleep-in-real-time-2000743073
@nohillside@smnn.chEndlose Selbstüberschätzung …
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain's 'Core Algorithm' - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/06/08/0418226/jeff-bezos-is-funding-a-wild-hunt-for-the-brains-cor…
@lanefu@social.linux.pizzaSo there was something about Github culture over time, and maybe just tech and linkedIn culture that started poising my brain.
This idea that when I make stuff... it's gotta be _for other people_ or designed to be consumed by other people... and you have to have a little marketing pitch and sell it... drive adoption etc... That's the narrative that got wedge into my skull.
Open source use to be you published a tar balls for people to download.
Anyway.... I'm b…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toOccipital and parietal non-invasive brain stimulation enhances perceptual learning and transfer: evidence from high-frequency tRNS https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1794676/full
@Dragofix@veganism.socialIntermittent fasting triggers surprising changes in the brain #health
@UP8@mastodon.social🤯 The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
#brain
@cdarwin@c.imResearchers 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…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOne symptom for me of having a bad brain day is that Siri doesn’t understand me as well (I’m using it exclusively to set timers and today both times it misunderstood me on the first try).
@lpryszcz@genomic.socialHaving screen-free time and mindful walks (or and other mindful activity) is great.
#mindfulness
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/n
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@wraithe@mastodon.socialFor a moment, I mistakenly thought two posts were the same thread and my brain was busy trying to parse what cattle smuggling had to do with the choosing of the astronauts on the Artemis mission
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euChatGPT, is brain okay?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SyiDgPACZVc
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_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'`,…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toRepetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for visual snow syndrome: symptoms relief and changes in brain dynamics. A case report #rTMS
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Demolition Hammer:
🎵 .44 Caliber Brain Surgery
#DemolitionHammer
https://masshypnosia.bandcamp.com/track/44-caliber-brain-surgery-demolition-hammer-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0aMqAaZaFz8iD2IsUfMzkt
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6G4PaS9BNkIuGqMo44rbfZ
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
@seeingwithsound@mas.toScientists build 'mind-reading' hearing system for noisy environments https://www.sci.news/medicine/mind-reading-hearing-system-noisy-environments-14757.html "a device that reads brain signals to automatically amplify the voice a list…
@servelan@newsie.socialScientists Are Building Electronics That Stretch Like Human Skin and Learn Like a Brain
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-are-building-electronics-that-stretch-like-human-skin-and-learn-like-a-brain/
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialNot the usual stuff I post.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotSorry, brain fart and typo. Part of the problem with trying to do philosophy when mentally ill is I have a lot of brain fog, and can't really evaluate how good my ideas are.
However, when I typed 'survival', what I meant to type (and thought I had typed, was 'society'.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeMy brain tricked me again... 🤣
@seeingwithsound@mas.toRE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116376643109925361
A new study helps explain how the brain creates mental images
@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.socialI am currently discovering step by step the work of Mark Hallett :
https://www.thetransmitter.org/brain-stimulation/remembering-mark-hallett-leader-in-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation/
Quite a long journ…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116529331753494872
This study raises a lot of “methodology vs conclusions” red flags — or at least what I’m seeing doesn’t jibe with how it’s being presented.
(It comes off like “using AI causes brain damage!!” but the actual experiment seems more like it shows that if you let people use a calculator on a test and then yank it away without warning 3/4 of the way through, they get pissed off and bail.)
I’m all for dunking on AI in education, but maybe take this one with a dose of skepticism until the dust settles.
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Cypress Hill:
🎵 Insane In The Brain
#NowPlaying #CypressHill
https://demloxx.bandcamp.com/track/cypress-hill-insane-in-the-brain-demloxx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6DtVPEJXQxDp7nn3Kp076o
@cheryanne@aus.socialI woke at 2am and it's now 3am and my brain is still swirling. Unlike my usual insomnia routine, I am choosing to read my masto feed in the hope that my brain changes direction and settles down. Good luck to anyone else awake and struggling to sleep.
@hex@kolektiva.socialI hope the world still exists when my NDAs expire. I hope my brain hasn't imploded by then.
@Jyoti@mas.toZionism = fascism.
Zionists are racial supremacists who support genocide, apartheid and collective punishment.
What about that is "complicated?"
Fuck all unless your brain has been rotted by Western media propaganda.
#IsraelIsATerroristState #BoycottIsrael
@jake4480@c.imOne thing they don't tell you (or perhaps know) about antidepressants is that you can and likely will continue to have the brain zaps later, even when you've stopped taking them for a while-- I'm talking months later. Not that antidepressants don't work- they can, and do. But just something to be prepared for.
#MentalHealth
@outer@mas.toO Gods! I had a brain worm one-hit wonder pop song stuck in my head last night. This morning it came back. So I started to think of an Offenbach song to counter it -- now they're BOTH going at the same time! I better practice some new music, quick.
Jeez. Next time I'll make sure they're in highly incompatible time signatures!
#Music
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_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
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Pink Floyd:
🎵 Brain Damage
#PinkFloyd
https://deejaymrblondie.bandcamp.com/track/pink-floyd-brain-damage-cover-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/05uGBKRCuePsf43Hfm0JwX
@seeingwithsound@mas.toI'm looking for quantifiable measures of effective information bandwidth from auditory to visual areas in the human brain. Has anyone tried that using what is now known about the human connectome? Next question will be how sensory experience may affect this bandwidth through functional re-routing (non-physical "rewiring").
#blindness
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @cdarwin@c.im"Ghost Murmur" was described as a futuristic CIA tool
that could detect a heartbeat from vast distances.
Physicists say the public story clashes with the basic limits of magnetic sensing
Orzel struggles to see how a Ghost Murmur could work.
“There is really fascinating work being done using quantum magnetometry to measure heart rates,
and magnetic brain scans can now catch the tiny flickers of firing nerves.
“But none of that is something that …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_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'`,…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toNeuroXess eyes mass BCI production with new unit coming online in H2 #BCI
@hex@kolektiva.socialI have some sketches of an essay that I need to write, but I think it's worth brain-dumping a bit more in the mean time.
#LLMs are an attempt to make tech grow forever. But like, how many "your mom/a friend, but done by a precarious worker instead" apps do we really need? Everything right now is in the AI grift hole, but there's almost nothing of interest (even if you ignore the ethical concerns). Like, no, I don't fucking want a robot to lie to me about my groceries. That doesn't sound like a useful feature. There's a lot of useless shit being pumped out to prop up the bottom line, and a lot of people just want to be able to use their old phone for more than a couple of years.
No one is happy with this. No one wants this. Except the billionaires who are forcing us all to drink the capitalism koolaid, because they'd rather exterminate life on earth than live in a world where they experience consequences.
Nothing grows forever. That's not how literally anything in reality works, or has ever worked, at all in history. Some people think that the universe itself may work like that, but that's only an educated guess. Finite things don't grow forever. Every organism, every society, every technology, every dynamic and adaptive system we have ever known goes through a growth phase and then goes in to a stabilization phase. Or, following a Malthusian pattern, grows until it reaches a catastrophic point and collapses. Like lemmings. Or reindeer. Or cancer.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThe platform revolution: Why BCI needs its developer ecosystem https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/platform-revolution-why-bci-needs-its-developer-alvin-chan-phd-lmucc/ "The future of BCI belongs not to any single company, but to thos…
@UP8@mastodon.social💢 MRI scans reveal how the brain processes toxic workplace abuse
#mri
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(LinkedIn) The BCI race: innovation vs. scale (and why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bci-race-innovation-vs-scale-why-us-might-lose-war-panda-yu-6ba5c/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decintestinalis: 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
@seeingwithsound@mas.toVisual-to-auditory sensory substitution may be the supplemental "glue" needed to make brain implants for restoring vision shine: textures and shading, undistorted visual feedback, fill-in for failing electrodes, etc https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioAnd yet another reply, “But the human brain works just like an LLM!”
Yes, famously we fully understand how human brains work, maybe just some minor details left to figure out.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to#CorTec Gets FDA breakthrough nod for Brain Interchange BCI System https://www.mpo-mag.com/breaking-news/cortec-gets-fda-breakthrough-nod-for-brain-inter…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toRE: #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(LinkedIn) "The failure we observe in chronic BCI recordings is not purely a materials problem or a surgical problem. It is partly a cellular biology problem. And cellular biology problems have biological solutions." https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tkozai_…
@UP8@mastodon.social🧠 Bioengineered neuronal 'circuit board' mimics conditions of the human brain
#brain
@cdarwin@c.imA 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…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOne of those things about claims of “AGI” is that to really build a human-like intelligence we’d have to simulate a human brain as whole because 1. it’s the only thing we know that produces human intelligence and 2. no one knows how it actually works.
Because of (2) it’s irrelevant what anyone says about LLMs or any other technology (with the exception of simulating a whole brain)—you can’t know if a technology is intelligent like a human because we don’t know what that means or how that works.
Fun thing, it turns out it’s impossible to simulate a whole brain with the resolution required (basically quantum physics level), and you’d have to emulate a chemical and physical environment for the brain as well (it will also need a body etc.).
You’d also have to simulate other humans with brains from which the brain can learn; but to simulate those you’d have simulate evolving humans from single-cell organisms first etc etc ad infinitum
@seeingwithsound@mas.toHuman #echolocation works step by step https://www.sciencenews.org/article/human-echolocation-blind-brain "A study reveals how individual tongue clicks and their echoes …
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_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'`,…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThird successful implantation of wireless visual prosthesis brain implant advances the frontier of artificial vision #ICVP (intracortical visual prosth…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toA retinotopic wiring principle of the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.716412v1 "well-known perceptual asymmetries correspond to systematic asymmetries in connectivity within early visual cortex"
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_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'`,…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toChina 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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.defly_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
@seeingwithsound@mas.toClinical trial: Home-based vision rehabilitation guided by brain imaging (#BRIGHT) https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07635329 "identify neural pathways that support training-induced visual plasti…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toFocusing on brain implants for restoring vision to the blind feels like Republicans supporting Trump no matter the cons, following the money and influential power https://bioniclab.substack.com/s/why-bcis-fail Invasive BCIs are not the only game in town, by a long shot.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toA brain implant for depression is about to be tested in humans #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThe mature brain and the neuroscience of wisdom https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/best-practices-in-health/202603/the-mature-brain-and-the-neuroscience-of-wisdom by William Haseltine; "A late-maturing bra…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to🕵️ Your brain's immune system isn't fighting the implant. It's listening to it. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/your-brains-immune-cells-are-eavesdropping Post 15 in the Why BCIs Fail series;
@seeingwithsound@mas.toImagination is not just replaying what we see and hear https://www.sciencenews.org/article/imagination-perception-overlap-brain-neuroscience "Conjuring a nonspecific scene or sound pings brain networks that respond to more than one sense"
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(YouTube) #Neuralink: Accessing new brain regions with surgical robotics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93yWGUiYFEk Totally naive: "Every problem has a specific location in your brain";
@seeingwithsound@mas.toSeeing with the Brain (not the eyes) #LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) over visual cortex for a visual prosthesis.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBrain prioritizes "sound offsets" during hearing repair https://neurosciencenews.com/auditory-repair-noise-damage-30639/
Noise-induced reduction and early recovery of superior paraolivary nucleus sound-offset responses
@seeingwithsound@mas.toRevision 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;
@seeingwithsound@mas.toHow psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://theconversation.com/how-psychedelics-push-your-brain-to-dream-while-awake-new-study-276708 Now how to nudge the brain of blind people to see through sound-guided mental image…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toHow psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-psychedelics-brain.html "psychedelics make the brain more likely to 'see' images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it"; mental imagery
@seeingwithsound@mas.toWould getting a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision be worth it? #BCI
@seeingwithsound@mas.toIf 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
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBrain 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…
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(YouTube, 2025) The surprising way the brain is wired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9939jVJIZYo "What if vast areas of the brain contribute to many different functions and its connectivity is far more intricate than we once believed?"
@seeingwithsound@mas.toDesigning implants that don't scar the brain https://neurosciencenews.com/flexible-brain-implants-polyimide-biocompatibility-30538/ "Surprisingly, making probes 'ultra-thin' or allowing them to 'float' wirelessly didn't…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toJeff Bezos has just become the only tech billionaire investing across multiple layers of neurotech https://insidebci.com/opinion/2026-06-07-bezos-multiple-layers-neurotech-only-tech-billionaire-velco-dar/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBrain-computer interfaces in healthcare: building the picks and shovels company while the giants fight over gold #BCI
