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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

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!

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

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...

(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

Another new job alert! We're hiring a Manufacturing Engineer. I told you it was coming soon. 😉 🔗 [Forest's Website]/jobs

🚨 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!

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

🧪 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...

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 🚀

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 , which enables new multiplexing approaches. 1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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.

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: www.wired.com/story/a-baby...

New FRO just dropped! Welcome @imprintlabs.bsky.social! Welcome Forensic Immunology! 🥳

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 #sciencejobs

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. biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/

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, @anima-anandkumar.bsky.social. 2/

"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!

Wearable acoustic sensors + ML for silent speech recognition. 🔊🗣️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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.

Seriously cool stuff from our sister FRO @e11bio.bsky.social drastically accelerating brain mapping. 🧠 🧠 🧠

🚨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

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)

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...

You know something has gone horribly wrong when flights depart eastbound from #LAX It’s not natural.

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. open.substack.com/pub/brainjac...

“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

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...

Thanks for sharing! Non paywall version here: rdcu.be/d4y2u