Sumner L. Norman

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

Inside the UK FRO Founder Residency with ARIA a big step forward in how we source and incubate new FRO projects

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 video by Core Memory The History And Future Of Brain Computer Interfaces

(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

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

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Read more here:

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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"

🧪 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.

Jobs — Forest Neurotech 2025 Forest Neurotech

Please share/amplify!

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

🚨 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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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

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."

New FRO just dropped!

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

More about it here:

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

Data is not available except by request, unfortunately

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”."

Jobs — Imprint FRO Join our team—current openings at Imprint

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!

Machine learning-assisted wearable sensing systems for speech recognition and interaction - Nature Communications Voice communication faces challenges from noise and obstructions. Here, the authors present a flexible PMUT-based wearable sensor, focusing on signal capture, noise resistance, and applications in HMI...

Wearable acoustic sensors + ML for silent speech recognition. 🔊🗣️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Protocol Labs What if we could program your mood? #protocollabs #neurotechnology #neuroscience

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.