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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 20d

Big new result out today from us at Science! New optogenetic actuators so sensitive that they respond robustly to regular indoor office lighting!

Alex Naka @gottapatchemall.bsky.social · 20d

My group at Science has been running a big campaign to engineer new channelrhodopsins.

Excited to share the first results from it today: a suite of highly sensitive new opsins.

We call them "WAChRs".

Everyday indoor office lighting is enough to activate them pretty strongly.

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 27d

As we get closer to market approval for our breakthrough retinal prosthesis, it's time for a Science patient registry.

If you or a family member have late stage macular degeneration (AMD), retinitis pigmentosa, or Stargardt disease, please consider getting in touch!

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Connecting the Blind to Groundbreaking BCI Vision Restoration Technology Through Science Corporation’s Patient Registry for Retinal Diseases | Science Corporation

Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Jun 19

a take on the Truman show, but told following a bunch of people on the outside world watching it as it airs, and the huge cultural conversations that ensue, eventually leading to a Supreme Court case which ultimately allows it to continue

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · Mar 13

first batch of scifi headstages shipped out this week, including to our internal BCI lab! 🙊

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a pink stuffed octopus with a neural probe adapter on its head, connected over usb-c to a digital headstage

not pictured and hopefully deleted forever: giant neural recording cart

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Mar 13

man remind me to never piss off the humans

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Feb 8

at least only speaking for myself, my goal is still the culture

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Feb 8

is this thing on

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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · Feb 4

Why is it so hard to reverse engineer the brain's 86 billion neurons? What is the future of communication between brains? Join me with special guest Max Hodak, founder of Science Corp, a company pioneering new methods in brain computer interfaces.
eagleman.com/podcast/90
#brain #BCI

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Dec 22

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Dec 6

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Dec 5

well that was one way to figure out that none of the meshtastic radios are configured properly

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 29

united are you ok

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 29

the books don’t form a single narrative, they’re all different stories set in the same overall universe. By the “first book” I assume you mean Consider Phlebas; you might find Player of Games better, or maybe Surface Detail or Excession. All very different stories.

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 29

me and others often talk about a "bright future" on the horizon that is attainable, but that can feel pretty vague. in practical terms, the vision of the Culture I think captures it best

we may be much closer than most people think

youtu.be/peSPZnFR_bI

Iain M. Banks, The Culture Series

YouTube video by The Orbital Array

youtu.be

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 28

I wish there was a way to have an LLM propose Zotero collection organization for me to accept or reject, or add a Cursor-like chat drawer running PaperQA2 on the local library directly in the UI. Lots of opportunities here!

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 28

i've been noticing this too with the firefox extension! i increasingly have to download the pdf separately and add it to the record.

Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 28

suddenly zotero's browser plugin is failing to fetch open access pdfs... did something change to break it?

Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 26

do you remember html image maps?

a simpler, happier time

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 26

Next stop, applying for the CE mark so we can make it available to patients in Europe (where the trial was done).

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · Nov 26

The last step in the PRIMA retinal prothesis clinical trial was for the Data Safety Monitoring Board to vote on whether the data showed it was safe as well as effective, and I'm excited to report that on 11/13 -- they did!

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PRIMA Clinical Trial Data Safety Monitoring Board Votes to Recommend PRIMA Device for Submission for European Approval | Science Corporation

Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

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