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We Are Massively Underinvesting in the Human Brain. Episode 7 of the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast with Dr. Adam Marblestone is out! Full episode.👇

PRIMA is one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026. As the first brain-computer interface approved for commercial use in Europe for the restoration of central vision, PRIMA has given clinical trial patients with geographic atrophy the ability to read letters, numbers, and words again.

Long-lasting privacy tech is expensive. And implementation of the latest cryptography primitives could take ages. Discover what kind of neo-cypherpunk life you can live by listening to @juanbenet talk from @protocollabs.bsky.social at our Congress in Buenos Aires: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B08I...

There's a shift coming to empirical science: from AI helping run the experiment, to AI designing the ML research itself. @adammarblestone.bsky.social on what that could mean for the bio and chemistry world. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/X0B_GWTuEFo

@adammarblestone.bsky.social uses quantum computing as a model for what a healthy field looks like, and shares the ingredients that get you there. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/X0B_GWTuEFo

@adammarblestone.bsky.social says mapping a whole mouse brain once looked like about a $10B, 15-year project. He argues that's now down to $100–200M and a few years, with a focused effort — and lays out why. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/X0B_GWTuEFo

Adam Marblestone on a neuroscience gap: structure and function are rarely measured comprehensively on the same brain. His take: the connectome could be neuroscience's genome — a comprehensive reference of each brain. On the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast: youtu.be/X0B_GWTuEFo

“We couldn't have predicted that the fly brain ring attractor is an actual ring without looking at those neurons.” On the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast, Adam Marblestone explores how mapping brain wiring could inform AI, from continual learning to memory. >>> youtu.be/X0B_GWTuEFo

@bsky.app is scaling open social. 40M+ users. 270K+ self-verifying via domains. 2,000+ community-run servers. Two-way account migration. Verification and decentralization are moving from principles to practice.

Every wafer that leaves Science Foundry must pass our engineers' inspection.

Everything about this room exists to protect the flexible substrate at the heart of our Biohybrid neural probes.

@allisondman.bsky.social on how timelines could become irrelevant with cryopreservation — a possible path to surviving diseases untreatable today. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/knM7yHFH67o

@allisondman.bsky.social on brain emulation as an interpretable window into the mind — and the precise interventions it could enable, restorative, but also augmentative. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/knM7yHFH67o

"I don’t think we have an amazing track record at identifying life that demands our moral consideration." @allisondman.bsky.social on why now might be the time to stop assuming AI is just a tool. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/knM7yHFH67o

"They mind meld to share a lifetime in what looks like seconds.” One of the most exciting things @allisondman.bsky.social imagines for the future: emulated minds, per Greg Egan's Permutation City, who "have known each other for eons." More on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> youtu.be/knM7yHFH67o

@allisondman.bsky.social runs the Foresight Institute, which backs frontier technology for the flourishing of life. In Ep 6 of the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast, she makes the case for existential hope and picturing the futures we want so we actually build them. Full episode: youtu.be/knM7yHFH67o

A team at @aria-research.bsky.social is testing a gene therapy that lets neurons recognize the early signs of a seizure and quiet themselves down. The brain regulates the brake on its own. Full conversation on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> youtu.be/YpqVcD6tc5U

“We get to levels of self-knowledge, interaction, communication and positivity that we couldn't do before.” Tom Oxley argues BCIs could become a new tool for human expression. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/0gvHqRv8gTg

Recording from 100 neurons at once used to be heroic. Now one device reads thousands, and that number doubles every six years. Catch the full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

Artificial neurons sum their inputs to produce an output. Real neurons are considerably more complicated. Full conversation with Konrad Kording (@kordinglab.bsky.social) on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

"From evolution's perspective, we're clearly breaking out of the sandbox." Konrad Kording’s question: If humans escaped evolution’s objectives, should we worry about AI escaping ours? Full conversation with @kordinglab.bsky.social on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

“Our simulations are barely worth the papers we print them on.” @kordinglab.bsky.social on the tiny worm with just 300 neurons that scientists still can't simulate — even with every connection mapped. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

great 2h discussion on neuroscience and simulation -- very introductory.

Konrad Kording argues that the best way to understand the brain may be to read its wiring directly rather than infer it from the outside. @kordinglab.bsky.social joins @juanbenet.bsky.social for Ep 5 of the Juan Benet Podcast. Full episode: youtu.be/FHQfmJEpRmU

Treating a stroke has long meant dissolving a clot and hoping for the best. Until we learned how to grab the clot and pull it out. "If you do that within a few hours, it's the most incredible thing you'll see in medicine." Tom Oxley on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/0gvHqRv8gTg

“We get to levels of self-knowledge, interaction, communication and positivity that we couldn't do before.” Tom Oxley argues BCIs could become a new tool for human expression. Full conversation on the @juanbenet.bsky.social Podcast >>> youtu.be/0gvHqRv8gTg

Synchron has built a brain-computer interface that reaches the motor cortex through a blood vessel, borrowing the techniques that brought stents and pacemakers to the heart. Founder Tom Oxley joins @juanbenet.bsky.social on the Juan Benet Podcast. Full episode: youtu.be/0gvHqRv8gTg

A team at @aria-research.bsky.social is testing a gene therapy that lets neurons recognize the early signs of a seizure and quiet themselves down. The brain regulates the brake on its own. Full conversation on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> youtu.be/YpqVcD6tc5U

DBS has been FDA-approved for 25 years and is covered by most insurance. But only ~ 0.1% of Parkinson's patients receive it. Jacques Carolan at @aria-research.bsky.social is working to close the gap. Full conversation on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> youtu.be/YpqVcD6tc5U

Sonalis is testing whether the acoustoelectric effect can read and write electrical signals anywhere in the brain, without opening the skull. Full conversation on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> bit.ly/49q8mup

Ep 3 of the podcast is out. My guest: @jacquescarolan.bsky.social, a founding Program Director at @aria-research.bsky.social. He directs two neurotech programs developing tools and systems to interface, at scale, with the human brain. Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/RAmigpsKCQY

Consumer neurotechnology is coming. We need to talk about it 👇

Every brain runs the same grammar but different words and accents. ML helps BCIs translate, turning your neural code into the control signals you want. Full conversation with Ben Rapoport of @precisionneuro.bsky.social on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> bit.ly/49puuoC

What key principles should govern the rights of BCI patients? Our Chief Legal Officer Alex Feerst wrote about it here science.xyz/news/bci-pri.... Today he is joined by Science's Director of BCI Research Emma Zhou at The Cognitive Frontier in San Francisco to discuss.

For decades, neuroscience chased the action potential — the one-millisecond spike of an individual neuron — by penetrating the cortex with microelectrodes. Precision Neuro made another bet. Full conversation with Ben Rapoport of @precisionneuro.bsky.social on the Juan Benet Podcast: bit.ly/49puuoC

Genomics didn't just improve medicine, it turned biology into a computer science problem. Precision Neuroscience's Dr. Benjamin Rapoport thinks that's what's starting to happen with the brain. The data is starting to prove him right.

“What the technology allows us to do… is to decouple the invasiveness of the surgery from the total amount of information that you can exchange with the brain.” Full conversation with Ben Rapoport of @precisionneuro.bsky.social on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> bit.ly/49puuoC

Sequencing the first human genome cost millions and rewrote medicine. Once the code was readable, computer science reshaped biology in new ways. Neuroscience is at a similar edge. Full conversation with Ben Rapoport of @precisionneuro.bsky.social on the Juan Benet Podcast >>> bit.ly/49puuoC

Ep 2 of my new podcast is out today! My guest is Ben Rapoport, co-founder and CSO of @precisionneuro.bsky.social, which has built Layer 7, an innovative BCI that reads from the cortex surface without penetrating it. Hope you enjoy the conversation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-9...

I recently launched a podcast on the future of neurotech, computing, & intelligence First guest: @maxhodak.bsky.social, founder & CEO of @science.xyz building PRIMA, a retinal prosthetic restoring meaningful vision for patients with age-related macular degeneration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24CM...

Our CEO Max Hodak joined Juan Benet for a conversation about BCI breakthroughs at Science and how they will benefit patients.