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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · 4d

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

Whitney Griggs @whitneygriggs.bsky.social · 4d

🧠Excited to share our latest ultrasound & neurotech paper @natureportfolio.nature.com

🦾 Our previous papers demonstrated the HOW of an ultrasonic brain-machine interface in monkeys and humans. This paper highlights WHY it works.

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · 7d

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!

Andrew Payne @andrewcpayne.bsky.social · 7d

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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Andrew Payne @andrewcpayne.bsky.social · 7d

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 @convergentresearch.bsky.social · 22d

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...

Inside the UK FRO Founder Residency with ARIA

a big step forward in how we source and incubate new FRO projects

www.essentialtechnology.blog

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · Aug 29

(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

The History And Future Of Brain Computer Interfaces

YouTube video by Core Memory

www.youtube.com

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · Jun 25

Another new job alert! We're hiring a Manufacturing Engineer.

I told you it was coming soon. 😉

🔗 [Forest's Website]/jobs

Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨 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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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨 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 @e11bio.bsky.social · May 29

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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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 28

These results are ~consistent with the findings from @carandinilab.net & team in "Neural correlates of blood flow measured by ultrasound"

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 28

Read more here:

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https://direct.mit.edu/imag/article/doi/10.1162/IMAG.a.34/131016/Functional-ultrasound-imaging-and-neuronal

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 28

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 @harrisons.bsky.social · May 28

🧪 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...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jason Derks @jasonderks.bsky.social · May 28

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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kmcdonnell.bsky.social @kmcdonnell.bsky.social · May 28

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.

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 24

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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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 16

Please share/amplify!

Apply now: www.forestneurotech.org/jobs
📍 Location: Bay Area, CA

Jobs — Forest Neurotech 2025

Forest Neurotech

www.forestneurotech.org

Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 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 @emilymullin.bsky.social · May 15

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...

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.

www.wired.com

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 15

Read more here (including a couple of comments from me):

news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

Brain Data Companies Brace for Patchwork of Privacy Regulations

Health gadgets and medical devices that track brainwaves—and the companies that make them—are at the core of a next-level debate over privacy protections.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 15

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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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 15

New FRO just dropped!

Welcome @imprintlabs.bsky.social! Welcome Forensic Immunology! 🥳

IMPRINT @imprintlabs.bsky.social · May 15

🧵 Today, IMPRINT, a pioneering new nonprofit initiative, is announcing $15 million in philanthropic funding to advance our work to decode the body's immune memory and uncover the causes of chronic diseases.

#Immunology #Biotech #BiotechResearch

Press Release May 2025 — Imprint FRO

Imprint FRO launches with $15M in funding

www.imprint.org

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 14

More about it here:

ai.meta.com/research/pub...

Data is not available except by request, unfortunately

Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain | Research - AI at Meta

A few million words suffice for children to acquire language. Yet, the brain mechanisms underlying this unique ability remain poorly understood. To...

ai.meta.com

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Sumner L. Norman @sumnerln.bsky.social · May 14

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 @imprintlabs.bsky.social · May 1

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

Jobs — Imprint FRO

Join our team—current openings at Imprint

www.imprint.org

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