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Backyard Brains
@backyardbrains.bsky.social
On a mission to democratize brain research by developing DIY neuroscience tools for K-12 and college. Let's start the #NeuroRevolution!

https://backyardbrains.com/
🤩 “My goal wasn’t best functioning but low cost, for people who can’t pay more than 200-300 Euros to be able to do simple things like grabbing a cup of coffee or a paper, a ball and the like.”

More in our new blog post 👇👇
blog.backyardbrains.com/2025/03/low-...
March 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
You're looking at a functioning myoelectric robotic prosthetic hand custom-built for a person born without left-hand fingers! The engineer: student Jorge Iglesias Costas from Barcelona, who made it using our EMG sensor from Human Spikerbox. Blog post coming soon! #neuroskyence
📷 Jorge IC
March 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Kids can do amazing things as scientists, if we only give them a nudge! Throwback to our report on an incredibly brave teen scientist from Tucson AZ and her research of stress tolerance in first responders. Kudos to her mentors too! #edusky #neuroskyence

👉 blog.backyardbrains.com/2024/05/stre...
March 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Brain Awareness Week 2025 is coming soon! 🧠 ✨

We'll be sharing some brain facts online and in person!

Who's excited?!? 🥳

@backyardbrains.bsky.social @sfnottawa.bsky.social @danafoundation.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
#BrainAwarenessWeek2025 is almost upon us! What exciting activities do you have planned for March 10-16? Make sure to tag us if you're using our kits. 🧠🎊
February 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Check out our intern trying to elicit a response from our Venus flytrap. Turns out, the plant isn't easily fooled. Why do you think he's being so finicky? #edusky #neuroskyence #venusflytrap

More on the project 👉 tinyurl.com/VenusFlytrapMeal

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FlyTrap Recording with Backyrd Brains! 😱😱
YouTube video by El polinujo
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February 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Meet Renfield, our ravenous Venus Flytrap! Intern Matías is currently investigating how quickly this fly-loving plant plans for its next meal. (Okay, he isn't really called Renfield. But he does like his flies. 🤫)

More in Matías' blog post 👇👇
tinyurl.com/VenusFlytrapMeal
February 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
After 15+ years of sticking with our ancient website that started as a dorm room project, we (finally!) made a new one. Check it out!

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Backyard Brains
Want to understand more about how the brain works? Now you can bring the world of Neuroscience to your classroom and home.
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February 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Throwback to the full video tutorial for this classic sleep-cycle EEG experiment! Success guaranteed as you'll likely to have more than one subject willing to catch some Zs in class.

#edusky #eeg #neuroskyence #neuroscience

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Measuring your Brain Rhythms during sleep
YouTube video by Backyard Brains
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January 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Tag us in your brainy quests, where'er you may go,
#NeuroscienceEverywhere — let the whole wide world know!
January 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I love @backyardbrains.bsky.social so glad to find them here!
January 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
From our co-founder's speech at Congreso Futuro, Chile's largest conference on science and technology. Check out the video if you speak Spanish! Tim's live demo of Iron Man's gauntlet a.k.a. The Claw begins at 1:55:04.
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#congresofuturo2025 #neuroscience
January 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Nothing beats hearing your first spike! 🧐
January 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Wishing you a nice and calm holiday season and a very brainy 2025! 🎁❄️🎄
December 27, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Our proudest moment in 2024? 🌱 Seeing a peer-reviewed study published by high-schoolers we mentored. They started an open-source library of plant electrophysiological responses. A prime example of the #openscience spirit that we so cherish!

#edusky #neuroskyence
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tinyurl.com/HiSchoolPaper
December 20, 2024 at 8:41 PM
A little birdie told us this is a good place to be. Hello #neuroskyence and #edusky!
December 15, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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can roaches be part of the solution to making neurophysiology, a typically very elite field, more accessible?

in Arizona, @ulisesricoy.bsky.social & colleagues are using the critters to create low cost educational experiments

also ft. @backyardbrains.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2024/12/10/c...
Researchers are betting on cockroaches as the cure to elitism in neuroscience
Cockroaches are a hardy pest, and often elicit disgust. But they do have a few things going for them: They are cheap, can be raised in a space as small as
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December 10, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Their backpacks may be more powerful but ours look better in the classroom 🧐
December 15, 2024 at 5:32 PM