Sumner L. Norman
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CEO of Forest Neurotech // ultrasound & BCI
Thrilled to finally share this work on how ultrasound BCIs function under the hood. 🧠 It was an honor working with Whitney the pièce de résistance of his PhD work at
@caltech.edu
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Our sister FRO E11 Bio is well on their way to mapping every neuron in the brain. Check out their work on PRISM out today!
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Andrew Payne
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E11 Bio is excited to unveil PRISM technology for mapping brain wiring with simple light microscopes. Today, brain mapping in humans and other mammals is bottlenecked by accurate neuron tracing. PRISM uses molecular ID codes and AI to help neurons trace themselves. Read more:
e11.bio/blog/prism
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Convergent Research
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This June, we kicked off our first-ever UK FRO Founder Residency as an Activation Partner for the United Kingdom’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA),
@aria-research.bsky.social
. Read more:
www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the...
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Inside the UK FRO Founder Residency with ARIA
a big step forward in how we source and incubate new FRO projects
https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the-uk-fro-founder-residency
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
2 months ago
(YouTube podcast) The history and future of brain computer interfaces
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBBa...
Interview with
@sumnerln.bsky.social
, CEO of Forest Neurotech
forestneurotech.org
; wonder what he thinks of Nudge (phased-array tFUS,
nudge.com
)?
#ultrasound
#BCI
#NeuroTech
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The History And Future Of Brain Computer Interfaces
YouTube video by Core Memory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBBawTBRnDg&t=37s
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Another new job alert! We're hiring a Manufacturing Engineer. I told you it was coming soon. 😉 🔗 [Forest's Website]/jobs
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🚨 Forest Neurotech is hiring across domains and levels! 🚨 We just added a Hardware Test Engineer role and have open roles for SWEs and EEs. More coming soon. If you (or someone you know) is mission driven, high IQ, and low ego, let's talk!
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E11 Bio
5 months ago
E11 Bio is launching Volara: an open-source Python library for block-wise processing of large volumetric microscopy datasets! 🧪🔬 Volara features block-wise task abstractions, making scalable image processing more accessible, robust, and repeatable. Read more:
e11.bio/blog/volara
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New work from Alan Urban
@openfus.bsky.social
& team shows that functional ultrasound neuroimaging and neural spiking rates are well correlated. [Recording with fUS and neuropixels...] "fUS images can be interpreted as a robust estimator of local spiking activity"
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Harrison Specht
5 months ago
🧪 Transforming biomedical discovery needs proteomics that is specific and accurate, but also faster and cheaper
@parallelsq.bsky.social
is proud to introduce 9-plex PSMtags: a new mass tag that improves sequencing and increases throughput in sensitive proteomics 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jason Derks
5 months ago
We are excited to introduce ‘time’ as a new domain for proteomics multiplexing! It enables: -Label-free multiplexing -Combinatorial multiplexing with plexDIA Using combined 9-plexDIA and 3-timePlex we demonstrate 27-plex DIA 🚀
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Increasing throughput in mass spec proteomics requires new ways to model the increased complexity of the spectra. We are delighted to share JMod, our new open source software developed at
@parallelsq.bsky.social
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.22.655512v1
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Academic friends: If you're a PI facing the need to let one or more trainees go because of canceled funding due to NIH or other cuts, please DM me.
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🚨 Forest Neurotech is hiring an EE Lead! 🚨 If you've shipped 3+ product lifecycles of small/mixed-signal devices, let's talk. We're looking for mission driven, high IQ+low ego. If you/someone you know matches this description, please reach out.
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Emily Mullin
6 months ago
KJ Muldoon was born in August with a rare, life-threatening metabolic disease. Six months later, he received a Crispr treatment made just for him to address the disease-causing misspelling in his DNA. My latest for
@wired.com
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www.wired.com/story/a-baby...
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A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time
Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon’s rare genetic disorder within six months. It could be a blueprint for potentially life-saving, gene-editing Crispr therapies.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-baby-received-a-custom-crispr-treatment-in-record-time/
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Legislation proposed to regulate neurotech and neurodata has captured interest from state and federal lawmakers. Bloomberg Law shares more: "The compliance costs [of] privacy laws could limit businesses to certain states or solely to the academic realm."
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New FRO just dropped! Welcome
@imprintlabs.bsky.social
! Welcome Forensic Immunology! 🥳
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New results from meta are 🔥🔥🔥 "neural activity recorded from over 7,400 electrodes implanted in the brains of 46 children, teenagers, and adults for epilepsy monitoring, as they listened to an audiobook version of “The Little Prince”."
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IMPRINT
6 months ago
Looking for a job in immunology or biotech research? ✨IMPRINT is
#hiring
! ✨ Join us to help revolutionize how we decode the body’s immune memory, uncover the causes of chronic diseases, and drive breakthroughs in autoimmunity and neuropsychiatric research.
#BiotechJobs
#Immunology
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Jobs — Imprint FRO
Join our team—current openings at Imprint
https://www.imprint.org/jobs
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Bahareh Tolooshams
6 months ago
We have released VARS-fUSI: Variable sampling for fast and efficient functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) using neural operators. The first deep learning fUSI method to allow for different sampling durations and rates during training and inference.
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Bahareh Tolooshams
6 months ago
Joint work with Lydia Lin, Thierri Callier, Peter Wang, Sanvi Pal, Aditi Chandrashekar, Claire Rabut,
@zongyili.bsky.social
, Chase Blagden,
@sumnerln.bsky.social
,
@azizzadenesheli.bsky.social
, Charles Liu,
@mikhailshapiro.bsky.social
, Richard Andersen,
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"Fungi and archaea represent some of the most fascinating yet understudied branches of the tree of life. [...] There’s little doubt that we’ve barely scratched the surface of their capabilities." So stoked for this project from
@cultivarium.bsky.social
and
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
!
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7 months ago
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Wearable acoustic sensors + ML for silent speech recognition. 🔊🗣️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Machine learning-assisted wearable sensing systems for speech recognition and interaction - Nature Communications
Voice communication faces challenges from noise and obstructions. Here, the authors present a flexible PMUT-based wearable sensor, focusing on signal capture, noise resistance, and applications in HMI...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-57629-5
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Protocol Labs
8 months ago
What if we could program our moods?
@sumnerln.bsky.social
, CEO of Forest Neurotech, is capitalizing on ultrasound physics to monitor and stimulate areas of the brain to push it towards more healthy states.
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What if we could program your mood? #protocollabs #neurotechnology #neuroscience
YouTube video by Protocol Labs
https://youtube.com/shorts/M75LOKXCCb4?feature=share
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🚨 Two Postdoctoral Fellows in Ultrasound Neuromodulation and Neuroimaging! 🚨 Supervised by @EFouragnan at @PlymUni. If you're an expert in MRI, fMRI, MRS, DTI, or TUS -- we want to hear from you! 🔗 Links below 👇
9 months ago
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Convergent Research substack "Essential Technology" is live! Check out post #1 from Adam Marblestone "Scientific research has been held back by the very systems driving it..." 🔗👇🏽
9 months ago
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Fascinating article from
@jennykleeman.bsky.social
highlighting Nolan's experience of "telepathy" as the first Neuralink user. 👌🏽🔥 Check it out at
@theguardian.com
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https://neuralink.com/blog/a-year-of-telepathy/
https://t.co/3OL0ao0n8b
9 months ago
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Seriously cool stuff from our sister FRO
@e11bio.bsky.social
drastically accelerating brain mapping. 🧠 🧠 🧠
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📰 Featured in The Guardian: With support from ARIA's investment in precision neurotechnologies, we’re thrilled to announce Forest Neurotech's role in the UK’s first NHS clinical trial of an ultrasound-powered whole-brain interface. 🧠
10 months ago
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Jacques Carolan
10 months ago
🚨I’m super excited to announce the teams we’re funding as part of our Precision Neurotechnologies programme.🚨 They’ll work on the next-gen tech that’ll allow us to understand + treat a wider range of brain disorders than ever before. Read more below (1/3)
@aria-research.bsky.social
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Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)
10 months ago
We’re excited to announce the 18 teams we’re funding in Precision Neurotechnologies 🧠 They’ll work to unlock new ways to interface with the brain at the neural circuit level, with unprecedented precision. (1/3)
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Hundreds of Caltech and Caltech/Nasa Jet Propulsion Lab scientists, professors, and students have lost their homes in the LA fires. The Disaster Relief Fund is organized to help. Please share.
giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...
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The Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund
https://giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-support/relief
10 months ago
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You know something has gone horribly wrong when flights depart eastbound from
#LAX
It’s not natural.
10 months ago
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Jacob Robinson
10 months ago
I wanted to share my rationale for our recent comment in Nature BME proposing an application-based taxonomy for BCI (unrolled from LinkedIn): Why we should consider labeling BCI based on its intended use.
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Inbox | Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/brainjacob/p/why-we-should-consider-labeling-bci?r=3uctud&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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“Superintelligent tools could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond what we are capable of doing on our own, and in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity.”
blog.samaltman.com/reflections
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Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective...
https://blog.samaltman.com/reflections
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Chethan Pandarinath
10 months ago
Looking to start off the new year with a bang? How about a postdoc position in intracortical BCIs to restore speech, as part of the BrainGate clinical trial? Come join us!!
snel.ai/positions/sp...
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Postdoc: Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces to restore Speech | snel.ai
Postdoc in intracortical speech iBCI for people with paralysis (Full-time, Emory / GA Tech)
https://snel.ai/positions/speechbci_postdoc/
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Thanks for sharing! Non paywall version here:
rdcu.be/d4y2u
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11 months ago
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Can you think of a more controversial Christmas dinner topic than "What is a BCI?" Today in Nature BME, we propose an application-based taxonomy -> Clearer language for patients, regulators, and innovators alike. Proud to collaborate with
@jacobrobinson.bsky.social
and an incredible team! 🎁
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Amy Orsborn
11 months ago
What do we mean when we say BCI? As neuro technologies mature, it's important for scientists to use cohesive language to talk about them with the public. Here's a nice commentary piece where Jacob Robinson and co. lay out a proposal. Just in time for the holidays 😂
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Amy Rochford
11 months ago
Excited to attend tonight’s launch of Cambridge NeuroWorks, powered by ARIA. An awesome initiative aiming to advance precision neurotechnologies for human therapeutics. Great to see Cambridge becoming a hub for Neurotech in the U.K.! 🇬🇧 🧠 ⚡️
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🚀 Functional ultrasound imaging (fUSi) of the human brain is moving quick! Sadaf Soloukey and the Kruizinga lab (Netherlands) just demonstrated ultrasonic brain imaging in patients with ultrasound-transparent skull/cranioplasty. Incredible work! 🧠🔊
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Congrats to two of the Forest Neurotech team, Tyson Aflalo and Charles Guan on publishing their work from Caltech in Nature Biomedical Engineering! "Improving Brain–Machine Interfaces with Machine Learning" 🧠⚡️
www.caltech.edu/about/news/i...
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Improving Brain–Machine Interfaces with Machine Learning
Through machine learning, Caltech researchers have improved the performance and lifetime of implants for brain–machine interfaces.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/improving-brain-machine-interfaces-with-machine-learning
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We're also hiring Electrical Engineers! Specifically, we're looking someone to lead the definition and design of the digital and embedded system architecture in our ultrasound neurotechnology platform. Please share!
forestneurotech.org/jobs
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺
11 months ago
An optical brain-machine interface reveals a causal role of posterior parietal cortex in goal-directed navigation (in VR, in mice)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
via
@hritz.bsky.social
;
#BCI/#BMI
#NeuroTech
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An optical brain-machine interface reveals a causal role of posterior parietal cortex in goal-directed navigation
Cortical circuits contain diverse sensory, motor, and cognitive signals, and form densely recurrent networks. This creates challenges for identifying causal relationships between neural populations an...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.626034v1
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🚀 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
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Jobs — Forest Neurotech
Forest Neurotech
https://forestneurotech.org/jobs
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Sophia Sanborn
11 months ago
A differential path towards AI safety, leveraging a new era of large-scale neuroscience research. New white paper from
@patrickmineault.bsky.social
and the Amaranth Foundation, with contributions from Enigma.
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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.
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Amy Orsborn
12 months ago
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
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