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Turn Your Body Signals into Interactive Inventions! The spiker:bit lets anyone control creations using brainwaves, heartbeats, and muscles—no coding needed! Back us today for discounted price (exp Nov 2025, Retail: $100)

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  A web-based Blocks / JavaScript code editor for themicro:bitpowered by Microsoft.
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  DIY Neuroprosthetic Kit Technical Schematic

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Human-Human Interface

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Human SpikerBox

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Book: How Your Brain Works

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2025/02/06

New BYB Intern Studies How Fast Venus Flytrap Plans for Its Next Meal

Hello! My name is Matías Morales. I am studying biochemistry in the neuroscience laboratory at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (also called USACH). We study the NKCC1 channel role in the hippocampus in a model of autism in rats using electrophysiology methods. During hippocampal development, the concentrations of the channels responsible for regulating intracellular […] Read Full Post

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2025/01/06

How Vaping Roaches Can Teach Data Science

We may have been the ones who set cockroaches loose in the classroom. Which makes us thrilled to see ever more creepy-crawlies being enlisted to help democratize neuroscience! A new Arizona State University-led study, released just last month, shows how simple behavioral roach experiments can pair with free, open-source machine learning to make high-level science […] Read Full Post

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2024/10/25

Spiker (Wo)Men & Knitted Bugs: Backyard Brains at SfN 2024

There’s always a good deal of creativity, laughter and general joie de vivre at our booth, but this year’s SfN (Society for Neuroscience) conference got another layer of novelty: knitted bugs and brains in wheelbarrows. If you’re thinking that we’ve started making 3D knitted swag, you’re in the wrong. These were in fact gifted to […] Read Full Post

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2024/09/18

High Schoolers Teach Neuroscience to 4th and 5th Graders: Meet Our New Chilean Interns!

There’s something special about our new Chilean interns: They are high schoolers who teach neuroscience to elementary school kids! This is their blog post. Read Full Post

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2024/09/11

Brain Awareness Week Grants Are Back – Get Up to $1,250 for 2025!

Calls for applications for 2025 Brain Awareness Week are out! Apply by 31st October to get up to $1,250 towards your BAW event that will highlight the importance of neuroscience for our societies. As you may know already, Brain Awareness Week takes place mid-March annually in just about every corner of the planet. In 2025, […] Read Full Post

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The spiker:bit

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Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit

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DIY Neuroprosthetic Kit Technical Schematic