Neuroscientist. @UCSBpsych @NGPMichigan @UCSF @neuralink alumni. Expertise in neural correlates of consciousness, now advancing BCIs and neurotherapeutics.
San Francisco, CA
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Michael Anthony Brito, PhD retweeted
1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… (led by @HesseJanis, with @FrankLanfranchi, @_conor_mcgrory, @Yuelin_Shi, and @EngelTatiana)
While China invests heavily in science and engineering, we gut funding in the United States and allow politicians to determine what should be funded at all. Our Sputnik wake up call will come too late, we've already lost the race. – at South San Francisco, CA
Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorpe gave the day’s first warning about the rise of science in China.
He says he can see it in the papers researchers are trying to get published in the top scientific journal he edits.
"Submissions from China continue to increase, not just in number but in quality, and submissions from the U.S. are going down,” Thorpe said.
He later added: “The atmosphere there (China) is just so much more pro-science than it is here.”
Here is a video.
Michael Anthony Brito, PhD retweeted
The AI consciousness discourse (feat. The Pope) really highlights how spiritually barren the tech scene is. All those psychedelics and somatic experiencing workshops have nevertheless produced a culture that is internally utterly vacuous.
Michael Anthony Brito, PhD retweeted
yeah so basically trump got cocky after succeeding with venezuela and had a hot hand and decided to double down and strike iran in february thinking they could take over the country in a couple of weeks despite everyone telling him it was a bad idea and would drag on
nothing really happened and then Iran learned that they can actually close the strait of hormuz and were unsure if it would even work but now its become obvious they can do it and feel empowered. the iranians have a longer history as a culture and are slow walking trump as much as possible as they know that higher oil prices are going to ruin his odds in the midterms and weaken him
not only that but now higher energy prices are putting upward pressure on inflation and bond yields which has made the job of his new fed chair warsh who came in under a premise of potential rate cute but because of the iran war were entering a rate hiking cycle
the only person in the room who was trying to juggle all of this was scott bessent but after trying to juggle everything for so long he decided he was going to try and fight the bond vigilantes to lower bond yields and declared himself as the house. but he showed up to the bond fight with hardly any ammunition and now the bond market is calling his bluff and now the bond auctions are going terrible and he looks like a fool now
so now bond yields are surging export bans on diesel are being put in place as an act of desparation midterms are a total write off and the trump admin is about to spend the next two years probably fighting impeachment hearings while things continue to detoriorate and the funny thing about all of this is he won the presidency off the idea of no more foreign wars but its his own foreign war with iran that started this whole mess and now the free market is testing them all
Michael Anthony Brito, PhD retweeted
Through the VOICE trial, Terry is using his Neuralink implant to help fine-tune a brain-to-voice interface for himself and others who can’t speak. He trained the algorithm first by miming speech as best he could, then by simply thinking the words and hearing them come out in his own natural voice.
Powered by Grok Voice from @spacexai
Exciting new work from Eddie Chang's lab! – at Brisbane, CA
The revolutionary brain-computer interfaces that help people with severe paralysis speak, type, move prosthetic limbs, and more are typically specialists, using sensors to pick up activity from select brain areas to perform a single function.
Now, scientists have shown just one neural implant—in this case, a grid of minielectrodes surgically placed on the top part of the cortex—can do double duty, successfully “decoding” brain signals from paralyzed people as they attempt to speak as well as gesture with their upper bodies.
The technology can create a computer-animated image of the user in real time, which can do things such as say hello while waving, or nod while saying yes.
Learn more: scim.ag/4Ac98XJ
ALT Single brain implant lets paralyzed people both talk and gesture via an avatar
Everything made by AI that people have tried to convince me looks cool is objectively derivative dogshit. – at Brisbane, CA
i gave astra access to @fal's h3 director and asked it to create a fighting game that was fun and entertaining.
it ran experiments for over 12 hours and I think its almost ready for playtesting tonight. let me know if you want to give it a try.
obviously i asked another astra to generate a montage video from all the video game footage that was created
Michael Anthony Brito, PhD retweeted
"small potatoes"
JUST IN: President Trump agrees with VP JD Vance in refusing to call the months-long U.S. military action in Iran a war, instead calling it a "military conflict" and describing the whole thing as "small potatoes" to the United States.
"Well, I'll tell you what. A lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing."
Legalization has saved countless lives, keeping them out of a criminal justice system that destroys future prospects, boxes them out of society and promotes recidivism. We can debate health risks of marijuana, there is no debate about the failure of criminalization as a solution. – at South San Francisco, CA
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A beautiful day in San Francisco. What a sweet place to work, right by Oracle Park! – at San Francisco, CA
Writing grants definitely falls into the category of things I thought I'd never do again or ever miss moving to industry. I was wrong, though. For some of us, the academic impulse never leaves. – at San Francisco, CA
Michael Anthony Brito, PhD retweeted
Engineers in Ed Boyden's lab have developed a microscope that captures electrical activity across an entire zebrafish brain at millisecond speed—revealing how neurons coordinate as an emergent whole. mcgovern.mit.edu/2026/08/14/…
Michael Anthony Brito, PhD retweeted
#82: Doris Wang – Adaptive DBS, the Rhythm of Walking, and Restoring Human Movement stimulatingbrains.org/?p=414…
The latency of conscious perception still surprises me. – at Millbrae, CA
Conscious vision isn't a live stream—it’s a delayed, edited movie! 🎬 New research in PLOS Biology from EPFL reveals that researchers have identified two successive patterns of brain activity that may distinguish unconscious visual processing from the formation of a unified percept:
1️⃣ Unconscious Encoding (~200ms): Early occipital activity tracks individual visual events outside conscious access.
2️⃣ Conscious Perception (~450ms): Later central-parietal activity integrates these signals into the unified experience we actually report.
Through the phenomenon of "postdiction," events occurring later can retroactively reshape how we perceived earlier moments. Read the study: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio…
#Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #Consciousness #Vision #Psychology #BrainResearch #Perception #EEG
LOOOOOOOOOL – at South San Francisco, CA
I love Michigan and am so proud to have put up my hand to serve. I spoke with Abdul a few moments ago to offer him my full support as we work to defeat Mike Rogers this November.
Thank you, Michigan. haleyformi.com/news/haley-st…
