Max Hodak
maxhodak.bsky.social
Max Hodak
@maxhodak.bsky.social
Reality engineer
Very excited that the clinical trial results for our PRIMA retinal prosthesis are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine! This is the first time that patients who are blind due to photoreceptor loss have been able to intuitively see again.

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A global mission to restore vision | PRIMA by Science
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October 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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The New England Journal of Medicine (@nejm.org) today published a peer-reviewed original paper with the results of a landmark clinical trial of our PRIMA brain-computer interface (BCI) retinal implant.

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The New England Journal of Medicine Reports Science Corp.’s PRIMA BCI Implant Restores Functional Central Vision to Patients with Geographic Atrophy Caused By Age-Related Macular Degeneration | Scienc...
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.
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October 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Big new result out today from us at Science! New optogenetic actuators so sensitive that they respond robustly to regular indoor office lighting!
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.
September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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!

science.xyz/news/science...
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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September 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
June 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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first batch of scifi headstages shipped out this week, including to our internal BCI lab! 🙊

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March 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
man remind me to never piss off the humans
March 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
is this thing on
February 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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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
February 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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December 6, 2024 at 1:55 AM
well that was one way to figure out that none of the meshtastic radios are configured properly
December 5, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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united are you ok
November 29, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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
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November 29, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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!
November 28, 2024 at 5:46 PM
suddenly zotero's browser plugin is failing to fetch open access pdfs... did something change to break it?
November 28, 2024 at 5:43 PM
do you remember html image maps?

a simpler, happier time
November 26, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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!

science.xyz/news/prima-d...
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.
science.xyz
November 26, 2024 at 3:05 PM
now that our major programs are mostly disclosed, it’s fun to get to start building more in public!

youtu.be/zIJi6dXN6Zc
The Age of Neural Engineering (ft. Science Corp.)
YouTube video by S3
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November 25, 2024 at 6:19 PM
if you found the events of the last month to be extremely surprising, you might enjoy Years and Years on HBO
November 24, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Bluesky should add an optional ability to provide a user DID when requesting a custom feed to allow personalization and learning from likes etc
November 24, 2024 at 9:18 PM
I had an idea way back in college which I've long thought could be, in many ways, the ultimate BCI technology. What if instead of using electrodes, we used biological neurons embedded in electronics to communicate with the brain?

Enter biohybrid neural interfaces: science.xyz/news/biohybr...
Biohybrid neural interfaces: an old idea enabling a completely new space of possibilities | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.
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November 23, 2024 at 7:49 PM
the fact that the scientific primary sources are considered valuable corporate assets rather than an intellectual heritage belonging to all of humanity feels insane and actually pretty evil
November 21, 2024 at 7:19 PM
is there a way to find out if you are in any starter packs? curious where these new follows are coming from
November 21, 2024 at 5:44 AM