Brandon Coventry
bscoventry.bsky.social
Brandon Coventry
@bscoventry.bsky.social
Neuroengineer and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Institute for Translational Neuroengineering. Studying deep brain stimulation and neuromodulation therapies. Alumni: BSEE #SLU, MS PhD #Purdue ECE/BME. He/him
New paper alert! Published in the Journal of Neural Engineering! Focal thalamic infrared neural stimulation propagates dynamical
transformations in auditory cortex. doi.org/10.1088/1741...
Focal thalamic infrared neural stimulation propagates dynamical transformations in auditory cortex - IOPscience
Focal thalamic infrared neural stimulation propagates dynamical transformations in auditory cortex, Coventry, Brandon Steven, Luu, Cuong Phuoc, Bartlett, Edward L
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Our new preprint showing that at the most common electrode implant location, the sympathetic trunk is frequently conjoined with the vagus within the carotid sheath in rodents. This may help explain complicated #vagusnervestimulation dosing for multiple conditions.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Advances in neural sensing arrive by fundamental technology development. Very excited to have my latest paper out today in Nano Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Self-Aligned Multilayered Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Nanoparticles for High Spatial Resolution Magnetometry of Microelectronic Currents
Nitrogen vacancy diamond nanoparticles (NVNPs) are increasingly integrated with methods for optical detection of magnetic resonance (ODMR), providing new opportunities spanning the visualization of magnetic fields in microelectronic circuits, environmental sensing, and biology. However, only a small number of studies utilize aggregates of NVNPs for surface-wide magnetometry, with the fact that spin orientations in aggregate NVNPs are inherently misaligned, precluding proper magnetic field detection, compared with expensive monocrystalline diamonds. A post-processing method for layering NVNPs with aligned center orientations can potentially facilitate superior NV magnetometry by allowing sensitive detection with a simplified probe preparation. We present novel technology for creating densely stacked NVNP monolayers with inherent interlayer alignment for sensitive measurement of local field perturbations in microelectronic traces. We establish spatial characteristics of deposited aggregates and demonstrate their ability to capture dipoles from conducting microwires via ODMR. Our approach forms a novel accessible protocol that can be used for broad applications in micromagnetometry.
pubs.acs.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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In the preprint, we discuss means for rapidly documenting partially finished projects, as well as publishing ‘as you go’ to prevent future problems in an uncertain environment.

We emphasize solutions that can be done quickly and on a limited budget.
May 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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About 20 Pounds xkcd.com/3085
May 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Hey #deconvolution fans! 👀 We’ve got an exciting new publication for you: a benchmark of 6 popular deconvolution methods on a multimodal human brain #DLPFC dataset 🧠🧬
Now out in Genome Biology: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

@lieberinstitute.bsky.social @jhubiostat.bsky.social
Benchmark of cellular deconvolution methods using a multi-assay dataset from postmortem human prefrontal cortex - Genome Biology
Cellular deconvolution of bulk RNA-sequencing data using single cell/nuclei RNA-seq reference data is an important strategy for estimating cell type composition in heterogeneous tissues, such as the h...
doi.org
April 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Government for Dummies: If your cuts decrease federal revenues more than the amount of the cut, you actually increase the budget deficit!

This has been a public service announcement.
April 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL
Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious
scim.ag
April 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research
Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.
www.npr.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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New eNeuro(@sfnjournals.bsky.social) 📄! 🤩
"Promoting Open Discussions of Scientific Failure within the Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference"

w/ @kristinbigos.bsky.social @flagel-lab.bsky.social @amayoco.bsky.social @drxilma.bsky.social @comm4rigor.bsky.social

www.eneuro.org/content/eneu...
March 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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0000 more HHS employees spanning FDA, NIH, CDC and Center for Medicaid Services to be let go by Friday. There is zero way this hasty and ill-considered continued hatchet job doesn't directly impact the healthcare for your family and hurt the economy.

www.reuters.com/business/hea...
US health department announces major overhaul under health secretary Kennedy
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it will cut about 10,000 full-time jobs and close half of its regional offices.
www.reuters.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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This is horrifying.
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
March 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The Silent Saboteur: How Mitochondria Shape the Long-Term Fate of the Injured Brain. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.19.644244v1
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The culmination of my infrared neural stimulation work is now out on preprint!
Focal Infrared Neural Stimulation Propagates Dynamical Transformations in Auditory Cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642906v1
March 14, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Focal Infrared Neural Stimulation Propagates Dynamical Transformations in Auditory Cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.12.642906v1
March 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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In an 1997 AI class at UT Austin, a neural net playing "infinite-board" Tic-Tac-Toe found an unbeatable strategy:


Choose moves billions of squares away, causing your opponent's to run out of memory and crash, forfeiting their turn.


The winning move was to kill your enemy.
March 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Just a reminder that PMC is mirrored in Europe europepmc.org

I honestly am having trouble believing it has come to this 🧪
March 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Two days ago, Deepseek surprised everyone with an "undefined-behavior" PTX optimization speeding up particular ML workloads on a Hopper NVIDIA GPU Kernel.

Let's reverse engineer the hack, implement it ourselves, and benchmark the speedup on an H100.
February 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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If we could record all neurons we still would not know how they communicate: medium.com/@kording/628...
Would recording all neurons reveal their interactions?
For years, I was captivated by the idea that if we could record the activity of every neuron in the brain, we’d eventually crack the code…
medium.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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We're hiring a Full Professor of Computational Neuroscience in Bristol!!!! (...... or Data Science, AI, Digital Health etc). Come join us in a vibrant city and thriving place for neuroscience and AI research. Please share :-)
February 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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87% Of Loud Crashing Noises Are Nothing, Report Top Experts From Other Room
theonion.com/87-of-l...
February 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Call 1x/day. Say dismantling of US science will hurt America's & hurt US competitiveness

www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

www.house.gov/representati... (use both home & work address)

www.usa.gov/state-governor (governors can direct lawsuits)

www.usa.gov/state-attorn... (esp if your AG is elected)
February 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Tens of thousands of government employees laid off tonight including at Veterans Affairs, National Institutes of Health and the CDC in what is already being dubbed the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...
Thousands of probationary employees fired as Trump administration directs agencies to carry out widespread layoffs | CNN Politics
The Trump administration broadened its effort to terminate thousands of probationary workers on Thursday, instructing agencies on a call to move forward with the layoffs.
amp.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
New from the Ludwig lab!
Field-Programmable Gate Array Based Ultra-Low Power Discrete Fourier Transforms for Closed-Loop Neural Sensing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.637868v1
February 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM