If you are interested in neural manifolds, dimensionality, brain states, and/or top-down modulation you are gonna like this one! 🧠🙈💫🧪 "Neural manifolds in V1 change with top-down signals from V4 targeting the foveal region" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... Also enjoy this animation :) #SciArt #neuroskyence

A blind person recovered low vision within a few days of being implanted with a Utah array and receiving electrical stimulation in the visual cortex. An unexpected and exciting discovery by @umh.es researchers 👀🧠 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

#NEUmap: Large-scale mapping of artificial perceptions for neuroprostheses using spontaneous neuronal activity in macaque and human visual cortex www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193... by @lozaneuro.bsky.social et al.; #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

As #neurotechnology scales toward high-resolution implantable devices, new challenges emerge: how will users calibrate visual implants with thousands of channels? Learn how by reading our paper, co-first-authored with Dr. Xing Chen, now published at Brain Stimulation! tinyurl.com/Large-scale-...

🧠 From NIH-funded discovery → game-changing brain implants → NEW science that was impossible before. This loop = cures, jobs & American tech leadership 🇺🇸 Join me MONDAY 12/8, 1pm ET: "Next-Gen Neural Interfaces → Next Scientific Revolution” 🚀 #NeuroTech #BCI #NIH #BrainTech #TaxpayerWin

Honored to be appointed the Ernest E. Roth Professor at Pitt. Grateful for the trainees, collaborators, and colleagues advancing neural engineering and glial biology. Thank you to the Dean for supporting our UP NExT vision, engineering fundamental neuroscience discovery to improve lives.

Presenting “Human in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” again this afternoon at #SfN!! Come discuss! An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group at UMH and @bionicvisionlab.org

Presenting “Human in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” again this afternoon at #SfN!! Come discuss! An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group at UMH and @bionicvisionlab.org

Our final poster at #SfN2025 explores human-in-the-loop optimization for intracortical microstimulation, presented by @lozaneuro.bsky.social, in collaboration with @umh.es: PSTR450.20 Nov 19 at 1:00 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171... #SfN25 #VisionScience #NeuroTechnology

I will be presenting the poster “Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” at the Early Career Poster Session #SfN as a TPDA awardee! Nov. 15, 2025 18:45–20:45 (PT) Poster: G5 SDCC Halls C–H Come discuss!

🧠 🤖 #SfN25 - these amazing trainees are pioneering multifunctional brain-computer interfaces and deep inference of multi-area dynamics!

A big push for #BCI and #neurotechnology in Europe! We implanted our second microelectrode array #BCI @tum.de. Huge thanks to our pioneer and to fantastic colleagues in #Neurosurgery and #Robotics #Machine #Intelligence 🧠🦾🧪 #neuroskyence @neuroengineering.bsky.social www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

Super exciting opportunity!!

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg: #psychskysci #neuroscience doi.org/10.1101/2025...

For a long time, some have daydreamed about whether neural networks can learn to effectively synthesize stimulation patterns to write information into the brain. Introducing 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Had a great first day at the Bernstein workshop on control theory uses in neuroscience! I presented some of our work on control theory behavior assays for movement, and approaches to designing BCIs.

Undecided which workshop to attend at #BernsteinConference ? We put together a stellar lineup for a satellite workshop on the effects of top-down signals on neuronal dynamics! 🧠✨📣 Join us tomorrow in room 0.101 ! bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co... With @ackurth.bsky.social

Now also 1024 electrodes in V1 + V4 + IT www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...

Our new paper on anterior prefrontal role of 'social metacognition' (projection of one's own introspection to imagine others' thought) is just out at Nature Communications rdcu.be/d6Tcg

Every time I get a new subscriber on substack I get an email, and it's so nice to see familiar names from the present and the past. There's a warm fuzzy feeling to know that people appreciate that I periodically clog their inbox with my 3000+ word ramblings

#NEUmap: Large-scale RF mapping without visual input for neuroprostheses in macaque and human visual cortex www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... by @lozaneuro.bsky.social @aitormg.bsky.social et al.; "a rapid, largely automated method for phosphene mapping"; #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience

The energy savings of fish that swim together. https://elifesciences.org/articles/96129?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Great set of activities around C. elegans modeling. nature.com/articles/s43... see summary: nature.com/articles/s43...

That's a wrap! I hope you enjoyed some of my very subjective choice of comp neuro papers! Happy holidays to y'all! 🥳🎄✨️

More holiday reading! We argue that BCIs should be classified based on their intended application, and that this language is best for the public, regulators, policy makers, etc.

1/ In March 2023, I received a lumbar puncture. This was key to receiving my chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy #cidp diagnosis. This 🧵 is on my experience with identifying and treating #autoimmunedisease. I'll also be sharing some 🧵s I posted previously on the Other Place.

DAY 15: Advent of Comp Neuro 🎄🤖🧠🧪 Heterogeneity of neural properties can improve some computational functions, but homogeneity also has its advantages! It's complicated 😅 “Neural heterogeneity controls computations in spiking neural networks” @rgast.bsky.social et al www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

computational/theoretical neuroscientists, how important it is to you that you can be in the same building w/ experimentalists who are interested in conducting new studies to directly test your ideas / predictions? or u think outside collaborators + analyzing existing datasets are just as well?

We have a new PhD position available; please spread the word and repost. The project will combine retina recordings, computational modeling, and optogenetics to help further develop vision restoration therapy. See here for more information: retina.uni-goettingen.de/join-the-lab/

DAY 9: Advent of Comp Neuro 🎄🤖🧠🧪 The shape and speed of neural trajectories, as wells as manifold orientation are shaped by the network structure and inputs, which we can control! 💫 "Dynamic control of neural manifolds" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

DAY 4: Advent of Comp Neuro 🎄🤖🧠🧪 Travelling waves seem to be everywhere in the brain. Detecting them is now easy and reproducible with Cobrawap! 🤠🐍 "A modular and adaptable analysis pipeline to compare slow cerebral rhythms across heterogeneous datasets" www.cell.com/cell-reports...

A population transformer for iEEG. Solid results hinging on better spatial aggregation through a contrastive task. openreview.net/forum?id=hVY...

How can we build BCIs that operate robustly in the face of nonstationarities? Our @neuripsconf.bsky.social Datasets and Benchmarks paper introduces the Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark! Led by Brianna Karpowicz and @joelye.bsky.social

Excited to be able to share our (Robert Gaunt, Alberto Vazquez, Omar Gharbawie, Mac Hooks, Chengcheng Huang) recent work to the University of Pittsburgh Provost and Vice Chancellor of Research, as well as the Board of Trustees. news.engineering.pitt.edu/power-moves/

🚀 We’re hiring! Forest Neurotech is looking for a Software Engineering Lead to build the core systems powering our ultrasound neurotech platform. As a nonprofit FRO, we're advancing science for public good. If you’re excited about neurotech & impact let’s talk. 🌍🧠 forestneurotech.org/jobs

In relation to a recent discussion on how to support women in science organized by the German embassy in Prague, I wrote a blog post reflecting my thoughts on this topic. In short, I stress 3 aspects: self-confidence, role models and flexible parental leave. neam.mff.cuni.cz/blog/post5_w...

This is a great initiative, thank you @aitormg.bsky.social!

Together with some friends we built an optical Brain Machine Interface to see if cortical activity (PPC) can control behaviour in real time, without animals having to learn to use it. Here's what happened: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

too late :p it’s a great book btw

🚨 Big news for #PRIMA's journey to restore vision! The PRIMAvera clinical trial has cleared all Data Safety Monitoring Board standards, paving the way for #PRIMA's CE mark approval in the EU. 🧠🧪 Read more: science.xyz/news/prima-d... #BionicVision #NeuroTech #blindness

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

There has been a lot of interest in Neurotech/Neuroscience for AI Safety, but the field has been in dire need of an actionable roadmap. Can't wait to dig into this.

why is episodic memory rich in sensory details in (most) humans, while in ML 'replays' tend to be just symbolic? what good is projecting the highly sparsified engram code back to smooth sensory space? 🧠

A few pictures from yesterday's hike in Rigi

Fun to see this place coming a bit more alive! I tried my hand at a starter pack for neural engineering & computationally-leaning (systems) neuroscience. Super not exhaustive, so if you want to be added (or removed), just ping me. I'm still working on finding folks here. go.bsky.app/Ty3ftme

Created a Neural Engineering feed if this is useful to anyone. #BCI #Neurotech #NeuralInterface #NeuralEngineering #Neuroengineering #Neuroelectronics bsky.app/profile/did:...

BCIs list! Still finding folks on here so please message me if you'd like to be added.