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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-01 05:50:57

An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)
wired.com/story/meet-the-man-m

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-02-28 15:23:25

🤯 Specific brain signals rapidly eliminate body fat in mice
#fat

@vform@openbiblio.social
2026-03-01 15:39:23

Hm, Doom läuft inzwischen auf Zahnbürsten und nun lernen pythonprogrammierte Gehirnzellen das Spielen von Doom in einer Wochen. Hey, was soll schief gehen, Skynet hat auch mal klein angefangen ;) :D
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week:

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

Not the usual stuff I post.

Four panel meme. Is brain gonna sabotage your sleep?
Panel 2: Brain says, “Are you going to sleep?”
Panel 2: Person lying in bed says, “Yes, now shut up.”
Panel 3: Brain says, “You did a great job surviving today and I’m so proud of you.”
Panel 4: Person lying in bed, smiling, asleep.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-05-01 21:00:04

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023). 2956 nodes, 116922 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_larva
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-05-01 07:49:04

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

AI-generated video clip:
"I really think you should consider getting a brain implant for your vision."
"Absolutely not, I'm not putting a chip inside my head!"

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

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2026-02-28 07:17:45

Interesting
#ai

@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-03-01 23:58:21

Canadians, do you think, like Canadaland's Stephen Marche, that Canadian nationalism is a 1960s - Waffle, I guess - phenomenon?
"I just don't think of that period [post-WWI] as being hyper-nationalistic. I think of nationalism as born in 1965 from Margaret Atwood's brain."
As a historian, I know that left nationalism in the 60s was an important phenomenon, but the notion that some might think that Canadian nationalism was born then hurts my brain.

@sherold@mastodon.online
2026-04-01 17:08:57

A wandering mind is not the enemy of focus. It is the foundation of it. Your brain does not run on intensity. It runs on rhythm.
#NeuroScience

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-02-27 17:46:58

🎧 Earbuds can be used to monitor brain health
#sensors

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

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

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-27 19:54:00

Brain-Computer-Interface: zunehmender Einsatz, Risiken, lückenhafte Rechtslage
BCIs können helfen, motorische Fähigkeiten und Kommunikation wieder zu ermöglichen. Das Potenzial ist enorm, Rechtslage und Ethik noch weitgehend ungeklärt.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-03-01 17:11:51

You try and help. You try and make things a little better in whatever small way you can. You think, “hey, maybe at least there will be some respite now… maybe things can start to get better” and, just as your foolish little brain starts to believe it, the fuckers who fuck everything up for everyone but themselves – and somehow are never held to account for any of it – go and fuck things up even further. It’s fucking depressing. I mean I don’t know how we’re not all just fucking depressed eve…

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

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023). 2956 nodes, 116922 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_larva
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-27 16:31:25

Behind the Blog: Using Your Brain 404media.co/behind-the-blog-us

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

No brain today. Just be.

@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-03-01 19:05:53

reluctantly bidding adieu to albuquerque & the brilliant freaks of the grateful dead scholars' caucus, a just exactly perfect escape from consensus reality. mind & heart full, brain & body crisped. presentations described in alt text! #deadscholarsunite

Graeme Boone presents about the scales that produce the Bird Song melody
from Julie DeLong's presentation on the Dead and camp, depicting Bob Weir meme POV you're a woman 11 1/2 deet tall weighing approx 320 pounds
Presentation by Annabelle Walsh resale value of Dead bootleg shirts
Brian Dyke presents on using Dark Star as healing modality for non-Deadheads in withdrawal
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-27 16:01:50

Deepinder Goyal, who stepped down as Zomato's CEO, raised $54M at a $190M valuation for Temple, which aims to make high-performance wearables for elite athletes (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/afte

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

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

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

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

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

Abrams argued that while disagreeing with
rulings is fair, labeling the court illegitimate
risks a constitutional crisis by eroding its role
as a neutral arbiter. He noted he has criticized
conservatives for similar rhetoric and said
both sides must avoid undermini…
@Speckdaene@nrw.social
2026-02-26 18:50:56

#Birds #birdwatching The reason for superiority: neurosciencenews.com/birdwatch

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

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

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-28 09:00:04

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023). 2956 nodes, 116922 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_larva
@fennek@cyberplace.social
2026-03-02 04:37:48

My brain just made a weak fart noise and shrunk a bit.
flipboard.com/@flipboarduk/mid

@ErikUden@mastodon.de
2026-03-12 06:10:10

For 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.”

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2026-02-27 07:31:46

How to improve memory, mitigate dementia & reverse brain aging:
1️⃣ Take a multivitamin daily.
2️⃣ Increase choline intake. (Eggs)
3️⃣ Eat more blueberries. (1 cup/daily)
4️⃣ Aerobic exercise (60% of max heart rate)

▶️ The Fastest Way to Reverse Brain Aging (Science-backed)

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

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

AI-generated image of a blind woman looking very disappointed about the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-26 06:06:03

Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech's robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)
sources.news/p/skild-ai-ceo-ro

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2026-02-27 14:28:28

Never put any important information in a pop-up. The thumb is trained to close the box before the brain has a chance to take it in.

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

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

@trezzer@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-30 19:21:54

I need to rewire my brain for my hobbies, I think. Too often I'll sit down to research something and I never run out of things to read. Meanwhile the project doesn't progress and I end up postponing it to another day (where I'll often have to start over because I forgot where I was). Brought to you by researching PiStorm and self-hosting.

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

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

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-04-02 07:18:03

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Flea:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#Flea
#newRelease 🆕 album
officialflea.bandcamp.com/trac
open.spotify.com/track/3poJZBl

@chiraag@mastodon.online
2026-03-11 13:55:56

😯😯😯
rathbiotaclan.com/whole-brain-
Thanks @…

@sherold@mastodon.online
2026-03-31 12:28:29

Help! I've been thinking so much about decentralized platforms and open protocols lately that my brain has become completely decentralized itself. 🙃
Time to go touch some grass.
#Fediverse #Mastodon

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-02-22 14:28:47

"We're just going to run a physical simulation of a human brain to achieve AGI"
"Won't the brain die instantly if it's without a body and oxygen supply etc?"
"Well, we'll just also simulate a body."
"Won't the body die instantly if it's in a vacuum?
"Fine, we'll just simulate an atmosphere too."
"Won't the body die if it's without food and light and gravity and stimulation?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate all the physical processes on the Earth."
"Won't the Earth just freeze instantly without the Sun being there?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the sun, too."
"Will the solar system work properly if there's only the sun? What about gravitational influences of other mass in the galaxy, what about cosmic rays?"
"Fine, we'll just simulate the whole universe, too."

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

open.substack.com/pub/ndintech

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-03-27 20:30:27

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Flea:
🎵 Maggot Brain
#NowPlaying #Flea
#newRelease 🆕 album
officialflea.bandcamp.com/trac
open.spotify.com/track/3poJZBl

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
2026-02-27 01:30:51

Somebody send help i just looked up at some elongated fuzzy clouds and my brain went "wow i need to tweak the stigmators"

@villavelius@mastodon.online
2026-02-28 09:08:09

The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective - Michael Sharwood-Smith
routledge.com/The-Human-Mind-R

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-02-19 12:25:58

“Brain Drain” or Temporary Wartime Realities? How the Number and Quality of Applicants to Ukrainian Higher Education Institutions Have Changed Since the Start of the Full-Scale Invasion: benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/brain

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-27 16:46:41

Fernando Mendoza explains what he wants to learn most from Tom Brady if he's drafted No. 1 by the Raiders

cbssports.com/nfl/news/fernand

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

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

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

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

@MolemanPeter@neuromatch.social
2026-03-26 14:16:25

Thx Paul for a very informative and inspired Brain Inspired.
#neuroscience

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2026-04-11 15:57:17

No! No no brain, no brain. no brain. Toot toot toot toot [unintelligible] like-like-like-like YeAH toot. boost. toot. boost. toot. toot toot toot toot like-like-like-like mastodon no brain. mastodon no brain. boost-toot-boost-toot. never! never! never! brain. boost toot boost toot. Never think!

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

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

EPA Repeals Regulations for Mercury and Toxic Air Pollutants From Power Plants
Environmental and health groups said the change will make people sicker and supports a dying industry
thenewlede.org/2026/02/epa-rep

@samerfarha@mastodon.social
2026-03-29 17:03:55

Alton Brown just called Jägermeister “German amaro” and my brain melted

@davej@dice.camp
2026-02-27 02:09:11
Content warning: CW: auspol, Grace Tame, “difficult” women. 😬

Of course #GraceTame’s difficult.
She’s a tireless campaigner for women and other overlooked and marginalised people. Were she meek and pliant, she’d be ignored; being difficult’s the only way to get her point across.
Our political class—Albo included—is too intransigent and dismissive and self-absorbed. We need more difficult women like Tame to puncture the Bubble and prod them to gover…

@heiseonline@social.heise.de
2026-03-26 13:03:00

Meta FAIR: KI-Zwilling für menschliche Neuronen
TRImodal Brain Encoder in zweiter Version veröffentlicht. Meta FAIR kann damit vorhersagen, wie das menschliche Gehirn reagiert.
heis…

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-02-27 03:30:35

E-waste chemicals are appearing in dolphins and porpoises #environment

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-27 17:28:51

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

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-02-25 15:15:52

Leader of Columbia Brain Institute Quits Over Friendship With Epstein (Sharon Otterman/New York Times)
nytimes.com/2026/02/25/nyregio
memeorandum.com/260225/p42#a26

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

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted

cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis). 205 nodes, 2903 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/cintestinalis
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-30 10:15:44

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

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-03-27 14:46:26

🧠 Bioengineered neuronal 'circuit board' mimics conditions of the human brain
#brain

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-25 09:52:35

#Ultrasound gives the brain a nudge in the right direction ru.nl/en/research/research-new

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2026-03-15 19:02:27

One 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

@chiraag@mastodon.online
2026-02-09 16:17:53

Fascinating article in @…:
thetransmitter.org/defining-ce

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-03-15 22:45:31

Microplastics may be quietly damaging your brain and fueling Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s #health

@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-02-26 19:21:18

💡 Our brains may learn more from rare events than from repetition
#brain

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-27 20:54:16

(YouTube) Your brain is a dream machine | Anil Seth on the neuroscience of active inference youtube.com/watch?v=HYUoS0GkGCs That's what sensory substitution for the blind is tapping into: we see with the brain, not the eyes (Paul Bach-y-Rita).

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-26 06:00:05

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 63448 edges.
Tags: Biolo…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0. 1015 nodes, 63448 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/budapest_connectome#female_20k

The “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,
pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 p…

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

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

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-28 07:00:06

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

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020). 21739 nodes, 4259624 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_hemibrain
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-01 08:51:44

The vOICe vision BCI app for Android crossed the 600,000 cumulative installs mark from Google Play play.google.com/store/apps/det Compare this to the number of Neuralink Blindsight brain implants in humans to date (spoiler: zero).

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

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

If you’ve never been into exercise or considered yourself “a gym person,” the idea of starting exercise in midlife can feel daunting, or even futile.
But here’s the good news:
from a scientific standpoint, your 40s may be one of the most powerful times to get started.
When it comes to bone, muscle, metabolism, heart health and even brain function, it is never too late to start exercising.
In fact, your body is remarkably responsive to change at this stage of life, and y…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-24 13:28:06

Seeing with the Brain (not the eyes) #LGN (lateral geniculate nucleus) over visual cortex for a visual prosthesis.

The unusual electronic and optical properties of #perovskites have long been touted as useful for improving solar cells and television screens,
but these materials have never quite hit the big time.
Existing approaches have hoovered up all the investment and attention, and perovskites remain confined to specialist applications.
Now researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-26 17:18:55

Brain implants: What's standing in the way of pivotal trials, FDA approval #BCI

Mike Willis at his home. Karis Beaumont for STAT.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-02-26 20:00:05

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

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020). 21739 nodes, 4259624 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_hemibrain
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-04-01 09:00:04

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
networks.skewed.de/net/fly_hem
Ridiculogram:

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-02-23 02:01:09

Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops using the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek system-on-a-chip, which could come in H1 2026 (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wants-to-b

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

🤯 The brain region associated with moral inconsistency
#brain

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-27 10:34:39

AI at Meta: TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), an #AI model of the human #brain, predicting neural responses to sight, sound and language aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-03-26 08:00:04

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023). 2956 nodes, 116922 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_larva
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-17 07:25:51

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an "early sign" of generalization, surprising researchers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/202…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-27 20:36:04

IEEE Spectrum: At-home brain stimulation for depression is just the start spectrum.ieee.org/flow-neurosc "Flow's headset is the first tDCS device approved by the FDA", "a noninvasive, nondrug treatment option for depres…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-12 09:02:02

Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/bci-

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-23 16:34:36

Astrocytes connect specific brain regions through plastic networks (in mice) nature.com/articles/s41586-026 "communication between distant brain regions that is mediated by plastic networks of gap junction-coupled astrocytes";

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-03-28 15:00:04

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 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0. 1015 nodes, 121755 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/budapest_connectome#all_1m
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-20 17:09:26

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake theconversation.com/how-psyche Now how to nudge the brain of blind people to see through sound-guided mental image…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-28 22:37:26

To ChatGPT: Elon Musk focuses on scalable technologies, also for the upcoming Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind. At some point these implants will start to fail in patients. Will Neuralink's handling of failing brain implants prove scalable? chatgpt.com/share/69c85655-c24

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-27 10:06:59

Sparring with ChatGPT AI: Pretend that you are Elon Musk, and you see that The vOICe is a formidable noninvasive competitor for a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind. What would you do? chatgpt.com/share/69a0798d-1b7 🤔

AI-generated image of a blind woman holding a white package labeled "Neuralink Blindsight", looking worried or sad.
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-08 22:41:00

A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause "AI brain fry", a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity (Harvard Business Review)
hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-17 12:30:50

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03 "psychedelics make the brain more likely to 'see' images from memory rather than what's actually in front of it"; mental imagery

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-24 21:56:13

Thus far about the only known advantage of a visual cortical prosthesis (brain implant for restoring vision) over visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is that you get to see blobs of light (phosphenes) if late-blind artificialvision.com/neuralink

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-17 09:07:21

Designing implants that don't scar the brain neurosciencenews.com/flexible- "Surprisingly, making probes 'ultra-thin' or allowing them to 'float' wirelessly didn't…

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-19 05:16:54

Brain-computer interfaces in healthcare: building the picks and shovels company while the giants fight over gold #BCI

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-24 08:56:41

Fortunately my brain is quite slow, so as long as I'm healthy I won't need an invasive BCI (brain implant) to output faster than I can type or talk (with or without AI), and I'll use a headset or smartglasses for AR/XR.

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-28 20:46:00

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

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-23 10:13:28

"Why I don't think '#Neuralink' will ever be profitable" theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.

Brain on a dish, by Amel Uzunovic https://www.pexels.com/photo/brain-model-on-plate-15410078/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-26 18:01:30

(LinkedIn) Romina Nejad, former clinical trials lead at Neuralink, has left Neuralink to join Salma Health as vice president clinical research linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-04-15 22:46:53

Max Hodak's Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/max- biohybrid

@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-02-26 17:35:50

What does Neuralink want — to help people with paralysis, or prepare for a war with AI? archive.ph/c96dg Conflicting rhetoric from Elon Musk's company impedes brain implants' ability to gain traction as medical devices, competitors say";

Neuralink founder Elon Musk. Samuel Corum/Getty Images.
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-03-20 08:05:14

Article on the ReVision Implant brain implant originating from China (WeChat): WeChat #BCI #NeuroTech