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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

Sharing from Frank, who doesn't Tweet: "In a new pre-print, we demonstrate a BCI that can decode imagined handwriting movements in real-time". 1/2

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Sergey Stavisky

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3 years

I’m so happy to be able to now announce: I’ve accepted an offer to become an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, Department of Neurological Surgery!!

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"It doubles our prior record for communication rate by achieving 90 characters per minute at high accuracies (> 99% with a general purpose autocorrect)!" 2/2

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

I’m very happy to be supported with an NIH DP2! Our group is going full speed ahead to carry out this research plan aimed at understanding and restoring speech production. 🧠🗣

UC Davis Health

@UCDavisHealth

2 years

Congrats to neuroscientist Sergey Stavisky ( @sergeydoestweet ) who was selected by @NIH_CommonFund as a recipient of the Director’s New Innovator Award. He will receive $2.3 million to further his research on brain implants to restore speech. #NIHHighRisk

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Sergey Stavisky

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3 years

Bittersweet feeling on my last day at @StanfordBrain ! I’ve learned so much here and have made amazing friends. Tomorrow: Day 1 as @ucdavis faculty, taking my neuroprosthetics dreams to the next level! 🤩 Thank you everyone who’s made this place so special ❤️ (& I won’t be far!)

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2 years

💫 Big news for the UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab! We've officially launched the UCD site of the @BrainGateTeam BrainGate2 pilot clinical trial, with an immediate focus on developing neurotechnology to restore speech.

Clinical trial aims to develop new methods to restore speech with brain-computer interface

UC Davis Health is recruiting people for a clinical trial, BrainGate2, with the goal of building a “neurological prosthesis” for restoring speech to people who have lost — or are losing — the ability...

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

The new year is a good time to celebrate the completion of our lab renovation! It took longer and required way more of my time and energy than I hoped, but I'm pleased with the result. I aspired to a startup vibe since most of our time is spent writing code and analyzing data. 1/

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

I'm happy to have been selected as one of the winners of the inaugural MIND Prize! 💫 Big congrats to the other awardees, I look forward to meeting you all in the fall 🤩

MIND Prize

@MindPrize

1 year

Sergey Stavisky, PhD at @ucdavis . @sergeydoestweet ’s project provides a novel path to treating and improving the quality of life of those with neurodegenerative diseases through the development of next-gen brain-computer interfaces to restore human brain function. #MINDPrize2023

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8 months

@DrDavidBrandman and I started the UCD Neuroprosthetics Lab 2 years ago... and today our team led by @NS_Card & @Maitreyee_W won the 2023 BCI Award! 0 to recognized as some of the best work in the field 🥲 Left: me getting keys to our empty lab last year. Right: just now🙌🎉

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Happy that now I can share good news #3 /3: I've been named a Searle Scholar! ! I'm especially looking forward to meeting the other winners and learning from them.

Home

The Searle Scholars Program supports high risk, high reward research across a broad range of scientific disciplines.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Last night we tried Sacramento’s newest Michelin ⭐️ restaurant, Localis, to celebrate 3 recent achievements. The food and atmosphere were amazing. Looking forward to sharing the good lab news in the next few weeks! 🥂

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1 year

More good news for the lab - @DrDavidBrandman and I recently received a $2M CDMRP ALS Pilot Clinical Trial award, multi-site together with @BrainGateTeam . 🧠🗣️

UC Davis Neurological Surgery

@UCDneurosurgery

1 year

. @sergeydoestweet received prestigious awards totaling $3.5M, funding his research that seeks to restore the speech of stroke survivors and people with ALS. Congratulations on the awards! 🎉

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Sergey Stavisky

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3 years

I'm honored to have been awarded this year's Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation for my research developing brain-computer interfaces to restore lost speech! Thank you @Regeneron for supporting and recognizing PhD students and postdocs in the biomedical sciences.

Regeneron

@Regeneron

3 years

Congrats to the winners of the 9th annual Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation, Sergey D. Stavisky of @StanfordMed and Nitsan Goldstein of @Penn , who were recognized for their outstanding research.

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Sergey Stavisky

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3 years

🗣️Please RT! @DrDavidBrandman and I are hiring a software engineer to help develop high-performance brain-computer interfaces to restore speech and movement. Feel free to contact us to learn more, and apply through 1/

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

🎊 The UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab is now officially part of the BrainGate consortium 🤝. We're excited to be part of the largest (now 4 sites) and longest-running intracortical brain-computer interface clinical trial to restore speech and movement.

BrainGate Team

@BrainGateTeam

2 years

So pleased to announce @EmoryUniversity and @UCDavis have joined the #BrainGate Team! Yet another exciting partnership with our #iBCI colleagues to advance neurotechnology research for people with paralysis. @BrownUniversity @MGH_CNTR @VAResearch @Stanford

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@SergeyStavisky

7 months

The next frontier in speech brain-computer interfaces is instantaneous voice synthesis, which introduces many challenges over briefly-delayed text or synthesis decoding. Come listen to the very impressive progress Maitreyee has made 🎧👇🏼

Maitreyee Wairagkar

@Maitreyee_W

7 months

I'll present a poster at #SfN23 on "brain-to-voice" #BCI where we synthesise speech in closed-loop from intracortical signals with real-time audio feedback in a person with ALS. @SergeyStavisky @DrDavidBrandman Visit us on Wednesday AM (PSTR488.14/JJ25)

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

(now in my own voice): This is SO COOL!!! Worth emphasizing, this is >2x communication BCI performance solely through clever neuroscience, task choice, and algorithms. The comparison video shows the same participant, and if anything the hardware (arrays) are bit worse 3 years out

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

A lot of students ask me for good ways to prepare for a PhD/postdoc in systems neuroscience or neuroengineering. Every time I list Neuromatch Academy as one of the best investments of your time. 👇

Neuromatch

@neuromatch

2 years

Student and TA applications are now open for NMA 2022! 🧠 💻 🌏🌍🌎 Submit your application through the portal on our website. You can register for either the Computational Neuroscience or Deep Learning course, and the deadline for submission is April 20.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

🎉 Sharing good news about two recent internal awards: 1⃣ I’m honored to have won one of two UCDavis Early Career Faculty Awards for Creativity and Innovation to support our speech brain-computer interface project!

UC Davis Research

@UCDavisResearch

2 years

Congratulations to Priya Shah and @sergeydoestweet for receiving this year's #UCDavis Early Career Faculty Awards for Creativity and Innovation. Learn about their projects in the link below. #viruses #neuroscience #speech #MachineLearning

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@SergeyStavisky

3 years

First grant for the brand new lab🎇! Thank you @SCglobalbrain for supporting our efforts to understand the multi-area neural ensemble dynamics that plan and produce human speech!

Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

@SCGlobalBrain

3 years

Excited to announce SCGB's new projects and to welcome new PIs: @sergeydoestweet , @gmishne , @takaki_komiyama , @lucasmpinto , @Neurrriot , @KanakaRajanPhD , @neuroamyo , @SaraASolla

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

Lab renovation has started! Wish us luck for the next 5 weeks 🤞🏼

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Our lab is proud to have been awarded a Seed Grant from the @alsassociation to support our development of a speech synthesis brain-computer interface. Thank you for your support!

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Our group is hiring a #neurotech research assistant to help make our speech brain-computer interface more useful for participants during day-to-day use. Details and apply at . Please RT🔁!

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

7 months

I'm on my way to Boston and looking forward to speaking at the MIT Neurotech 2023 symposium on Monday 🛫

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

3 years

🎓Prospective PhD students interested in brain-computer interfaces and human neuroscience: @DrDavidBrandman and I will be taking grad students next year. Deadlines for the UC Davis Neurosciences and BME programs are Dec. 1 ⌛️. More about our group at

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

6 years

LFADS paper is finally out! Congrats @chethan , @djoshea , @collinsljas , @EricMTrautmann , @MattAntimatt , @shenoystanford , @SussilloDavid , and others!

Inferring single-trial neural population dynamics using sequential auto-encoders

Nature Methods - LFADS, a deep learning method for analyzing neural population activity, can extract neural dynamics from single-trial recordings, stitch separate datasets into a single model, and...

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@SergeyStavisky

4 years

TIL you can edit your Google Scholar profile to add co-equal author stars in the author list! Yay, small but meaningful step towards properly crediting cooperative projects.

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@SergeyStavisky

8 months

I had a blast being back on Stanford campus and telling the story of our intracortical speech brain-computer interface project. Thank you for the privilege of representing the Institute’s alumni.

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute

@StanfordBrain

8 months

An intracortical speech neuroprosthesis: from early proof-of-principle to working prototype From @StanfordMed PhD student to @StanfordBrain postdoc to @ucdavis lab, @SergeyStavisky shares the evolution of his lab's work to build brain-computer interfaces to restore lost speech.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

Now out in @NatureNeuro , with open data at 🎊

Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

3 years

Neuropixels ~~in people~~! An important step towards bringing this transformational tool to human neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, and clinical use.

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3 years

@CousinAmygdala In my experience and observation, the biggest factors in time to PhD is luck (whether things work fast or not) and strategy (good choice of projects vs. not). I won't say I never worked late or weekends, but I had plenty of rest and numerous trips/vacations and it was fine. 1/2

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3 years

⭐️small but meaningful #newPI milestone for @DrDavidBrandman and I: our lab's first recorded data! Not bad for month 2 and a good note to end the week on 😊

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@SergeyStavisky

3 years

The discoveries I contribute to as an academic scientist are just the first step towards widespread clinical adoption. Thus, I find it very encouraging that methods I developed in my PhD and postdoc were recently licensed by medical device industry! 👇

Paralyzed Individuals Will Soon Type With Only Their Thoughts - New BCI Platform To Be Released By...

/PRNewswire/ -- Blackrock Neurotech, the leader in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, has announced plans to commercialize a BCI platform in 2022, with...

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@SergeyStavisky

8 months

My department @ucdavis is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Emphasis on human but also animal models, for computational folks OR experimentalists who don't need wetlab space (e.g. research in the EMU, OR, scanner, etc.). 👇 1/2

UC Davis Center for Neuroscience

@UCDavisCNS

8 months

@UCDavisCNS & @UCDneurosurgery invite applications for a TT faculty position in cognitive and/or computational neuroscience focused on addressing how cortical and subcortical networks generate complex human behavior in both health & disease.

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@SergeyStavisky

3 years

Neuropixels ~~in people~~! An important step towards bringing this transformational tool to human neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, and clinical use.

Angelique C Paulk

@ACPaulk

3 years

Really proud to share our preprint on the work, and lessons learned, in using Neuropixels to understand the human brain with an incredible team. @EricMTrautmann @sergeydoestweet @MGHNeurosurg @MGHNeurology @shenoystanford @RMarkRichardson @MGH_CNTR

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

Kicking off the season at the ‘Neuroengineering Haus’ ski lease that @DrDavidBrandman , Lee Miller and I got for the winter 😁🏔️. Less than two hours from Davis.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

7 months

Overflow crowd at the @BciSociety social tonight - evidence of a booming field. The tradition of cocktail menu drinks named after prominent BCI researchers continues. 🍹… and my career goal remains unfulfilled 😜

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Look what's in today's New York Times science section - thanks @MindPrize !

Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

I'm happy to have been selected as one of the winners of the inaugural MIND Prize! 💫 Big congrats to the other awardees, I look forward to meeting you all in the fall 🤩

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

10 months

@PresNCM To Sliman's trainees - if you want to talk my email/DM is open and I'd be happy to get on the phone. I've gone through a somewhat similar experience when my PhD advisor died. Please take care of yourself and each other and also know that you will be supported professionally. 🫶

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

10 months

I'm excited about our new brain-computer interface software platform. Noteworthy that a small team of amateur (academic) programmers built a platform that outperforms what big tech has put out (e.g. Meta LabGraph). It's battle-tested and quite the enabler. Check it out.

Chethan Pandarinath

@chethan

10 months

Our new platform for closed-loop experiments that use deep networks! Collaboration with @DrDavidBrandman @PresNCM @sergeydoestweet @BrainGateTeam

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

The lab is proud to celebrate our first graduates! Congrats to Maryam Vahdati Nia and Suvi Varshney for earning their Masters in Computer Science from @UCDavisCOE

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

BCI Society Meeting is happening next week, and it's going to be a blowout. I'm especially looking forward to our workshop on speech with talks by @ju_berezutskaya , @HerffC , @WillettNeuro , @Maitreyee_W , @AngrickM , @sarah_wandelt , and @AtDavidMoses . [all-on-Twitter - a first?!]

BCI Society

@BciSociety

1 year

Safe travels to the #BCIMeeting . See you all on June 6.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

10 months

I’m back from Australia and now in Atlanta for the annual @BrainGateTeam summit. @chethan kicking things off as host this year. Our consortium is bigger than ever - 63 people here!

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

It's 72F outside in February in Davis... am I doing @UCDavis_Neuro graduate interviews right? 🌴☀️😎

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

5 years

I’m extremely happy to share this good news: I won a BWF CASI award! Honored and grateful to the foundation, and a huge congrats to the other awardees!

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

@BWFUND

5 years

Congratulations to the 2019 Career Award at the Scientific Interface recipients. This award recognizes scientists conducting interdisciplinary research to answer challenging biological questions. #bwfcasi @miquellachavez #research #philanthropy #biomedical

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

👇Check out the lab's first SfN poster. You might think "oh this looks familiar, I've seen some recent ECoG/sEEG /hand-motor-Utah) speech reconstruction." This is different! @Maitreyee_W is (offline) synthesizing attempted speech by a person with ALS who *cannot speak*. 1/

Maitreyee Wairagkar

@Maitreyee_W

2 years

I’ll be presenting our poster at #SfN2022 on “Decoding intracortical neural activity from motor cortex to synthesise speech” with @sergeydoestweet @DrDavidBrandman and @neuroleigh @BrainGateTeam . Visit us on Tuesday 15 Nov 8am-12pm poster# 475.11. (board JJ2) to learn more.

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Lab photo day! [got all but one member of the current team, who was on vacation] .

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

@ucd_neuroeng @UCDavisHealth Thank you! Also I'll take a screenshot of the "Associate" typo in this, which I assume is legally binding and thus I'm now tenured? 😉

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

7 months

If you liked our BCI Award presentation about brain-to-text speech BCI, but wished it was ~10x even more accurate, you may enjoy Nick's poster.

Nicholas Card

@NS_Card

7 months

If you're attending SfN 2023 and you're interested in speech decoding, come check out my poster on Wednesday morning! We demonstrate a very high accuracy and rapidly calibrating brain-to-text BCI for restoring communication. PSTR488.12 / JJ23

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@SergeyStavisky

4 years

So proud of my sister, who worked on the suits and Crew Dragon at @SpaceX !! Huge congrats.

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@SergeyStavisky

5 years

Happy to report that this now published: A big thank you to our three superb reviewers for their help in improving the manuscript!

Neural ensemble dynamics in dorsal motor cortex during speech in people with paralysis

Neurons in human dorsal motor cortex, an area involved in controlling arm and hand movements, are also active – and show similar ensemble dynamics – during speaking.

elifesciences.org

Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

5 years

#tweeprint of our new preprint: we found speech-related neural activity obtained using multielectrode recordings in the dorsal (!) motor cortex of people with paralysis. 1/

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@SergeyStavisky

4 years

New speech decoding pre-print, see this great Tweeprint summary by my co-author Guy Wilson, who btw is a rockstar scientist and collaborator. I’ll add some context in this thread.

Guy Wilson

@xoxo_meme_queen

4 years

New pre-print up today! Super excited about this joint work with @sergeydoestweet on decoding spoken phonemes from intracortical arrays in human participants. Preprint 👉 Tweeprint 👇 1/n

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@SergeyStavisky

6 years

I'm very excited to speak about some rather surprising new results at #EMBC18 : we found speech-related spiking activity in dorsal 'arm' motor cortex. Come hear more on Wednesday afternoon!

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@SergeyStavisky

4 years

Paper (w/ co-author @xoxo_meme_queen ) decoding speech from Utah arrays in dorsal motor cortex of BCI participants is now out in JNE: See pre-print 🧵👇 for summary. Updates: improvements throughout (thanks, anonymous reviewers!). 🔸New addition: ...(1/3)

Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

New speech decoding pre-print, see this great Tweeprint summary by my co-author Guy Wilson, who btw is a rockstar scientist and collaborator. I’ll add some context in this thread.

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@SergeyStavisky

3 years

Hello @Caltrain , it’s good to be back to train commuting to a re-opened Stanford for the first time in over a year!

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

I’m loving living so close to the mountains - here’s exploring the lakes next to Tahoe. Happy Labor Day!

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

My first @ucdavis #PicnicDay ! Horses and DeLoreans in the parade, and free cuttings of the latest and greatest in 🍅🧬science! Line was too long for the Doxie Dirby but maybe next year. Charming town 😁

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

@engineering_joy Do labs not do this? I’m in the process of reimbursing (at least part of) moving costs for the two postdocs who recently joined the lab.

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@SergeyStavisky

7 months

@NaveenGRao Dude you know you’ve made it when people reading this are like “hmm, is he really?” rather than “oh lolz a joke”.

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11 months

Flew to Australia for IEEE EMBC a bit early. Exploring the Gold Coast and Brisbane for the rest of the week!

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1 year

Last night we tried Sacramento’s newest Michelin ⭐️ restaurant, Localis, to celebrate 3 recent achievements. The food and atmosphere were amazing. Looking forward to sharing the good lab news in the next few weeks! 🥂

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Scheming Neuropixels at IMEC with @EricMTrautmann

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

🚨 Job Alert! @DrDavidBrandman and I are hiring a research assistant to lead up working with our upcoming clinical trial participants, including speech brain-computer interface data collection! 🧠📲🗣️ Details and apply at 🔁Please retweet

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

Interested in looking at hundreds of simultaneously recorded neurons in human cortex? Data now online 👇

Angelique C Paulk

@ACPaulk

2 years

As promised, we put 3 deidentified human Neuropixels data sets up on DRYAD! Thanks to all the participants and Yoav Kfir, Ziv Williams, Syd Cash and coauthors! #OpenData #Neuropixels @sergeydoestweet @EricMTrautmann @shenoystanford @MGH_CNTR @MGHNeuroSci

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3 years

@CousinAmygdala Rest and space/time to think led me to do well on #2 (making good decisions). It's easy to get so run down you plod along the wrong path instead of having the energy/headspace to re-orient and find faster paths. Overall I've had less stress than most similar careers. 2/2

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

11 months

Just a few days left to apply! And to those who already did, sorry for the wait until we can start reviewing applications - being part of the country's best public university system is a privilege but it does come with rigorous process in the interest in fairness.

Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Our group is hiring a #neurotech research assistant to help make our speech brain-computer interface more useful for participants during day-to-day use. Details and apply at . Please RT🔁!

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2 years

A good end to the week in the lab: Friday demo of a development milestone , Sunday hike in Tahoe. 👏🏼 🖥🏔

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

Gardening near @ucdavis is definitely on “easy mode” but I’m not complaining. 👨‍🌾.

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@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Keeping it real though: also 3 grants rejected this week. 🤷‍♂️No biggie, grants and papers getting rejected is part of the job, I don't want trainees reading this to think it's all win after win.

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@SergeyStavisky

2 years

Had a blast presenting at the @UCDavisCNS NeuroFest today! Loved the other talks by @lab_segal , @tinakim_neuro , Kim McAllister, and the very impressive student NeuroBlitz talks. 🤩

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

5 years

I'm proud that our work decoding speech from intracortical multielectrode arrays won this year's BCI Award! Congrats to the whole team and thank you to the award organizers, sponsors, and judges.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

7 months

Lovely @BWFUND SfN23 dinner with wonderful people 😊

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

In my (biased) opinion, there is no application subfield of BCI that is moving as fast as speech BCI. Truly amazing 📈🚀🗣️

Christian Herff

@HerffC

1 year

@ju_berezutskaya @jamigov @WillettNeuro @Maitreyee_W @AngrickM @sarah_wandelt @AtDavidMoses @KayloLittlejohn Its a wrap! Really loved the speech workshop with so many fantastic speakers. Organizing with @ju_berezutskaya and @sergeydoestweet was a blast!

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

@Maitreyee_W @DrDavidBrandman @neuroleigh @BrainGateTeam Immensely exciting to see our group’s first poster presented!

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Just wrapped up the @SCglobalbrain annual meeting - and presented initial results from our collaborative Pilot Award for the first time. This is one of my absolute favorite meetings, with an unparalleled density of amazing systems neuroscience. Whew 🤩

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

3 years

Future PIs: Come be my colleague! UC Davis Neurosurgery and BME are jointly recruiting a cortical neurophysiologist Assistant Prof. There's a fantastic neuroscience, engineering, and medical community here and Davis/Sacramento have great quality of life.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

This is amazing! Bravo 👏🏼

NeuroRestore.swiss

@_NeuroRestore

1 year

We are thrilled to share our new Nature article on Thought-Controlled Walking after a spinal cord injury! Powered by #BCI technology! We enabled an individual with a spinal cord injury to regain mobility through the power of his thoughts.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

5 years

#tweeprint of our new preprint: we found speech-related neural activity obtained using multielectrode recordings in the dorsal (!) motor cortex of people with paralysis. 1/

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Now that the dust has settled after the new UC union contracts, we received confirmation that UC Davis neuro PhD students will make min. $42,476 starting Oct 1 2023, and a raise to $45,183 the following year. Not bad given the cost of living here is 1/2 to 2/3 of the Bay Area.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

This year I decided to take Amtrak from LA to SfN. TBH it’s a 4h mess with two transfers because the Surfliner can’t run the whole way due to track work and it’s an hour to get to Union Station from UCLA, BUT at least it’s a pretty station?

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

8 months

This weekend I’m enjoying my first time at a #BrainMind summit. Definitely a different flavor of meeting - amazing science plus art, meditation, music, and a much larger venture and philanthropy presence. Very cool.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

5 years

Why spend hours spike sorting, when you can spend years making the case that it's not necessary for certain population-level questions? 😅 Congrats to the whole team! I really hope this unlocks datasets with less-than-pristine waveforms that would otherwise sit unused.

Surya Ganguli

@SuryaGanguli

5 years

1/ New #neuroscience paper @NeuroCellPress : Accurately estimating neural population dynamics without spike sorting Congrats @EricMTrautmann , @sergeydoestweet and @Deephype and many members of @shenoystanford lab! Also first @neuropixels data in primates!

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

5 years

Some nice coverage of Frank Willett and @BrainGateTeam colleagues’ fantastic #SfN19 presentation showing remarkably fast and accurate decoding of attempted handwriting by a person with paralysis:

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

7 months

Happening now!

Maitreyee Wairagkar

@Maitreyee_W

7 months

I'll present a poster at #SfN23 on "brain-to-voice" #BCI where we synthesise speech in closed-loop from intracortical signals with real-time audio feedback in a person with ALS. @SergeyStavisky @DrDavidBrandman Visit us on Wednesday AM (PSTR488.14/JJ25)

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

Our latest paper is out: . This builds on our recently finding speech-related activity in ‘hand knob’ motor cortex (). If the same neurons fire for speaking and attempted arm movements, will speech interfere with arm/hand BCI? (1/7)

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

I'll be at the @UCDavis_Neuro booth at the @SfNtweets Graduate School Fair tomorrow (Saturday), 1-2pm. Booth 59! Come by if you want to learn more about the neurosciences PhD program at UC Davis, or just to say hi 😄

Dra. Elva Diaz

@Elva_Diaz11

2 years

On my way to #SfN22 ! Interested in graduate studies @UCDavis_Neuro ? Please stop by our booth at the Graduate School Fair to meet students and faculty, learn about the program, the application process, and fee waivers.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

9 months

For those looking to incorporate Neuropixels into their research workflow in the operating room, we wrote up a detailed protocol (this is a follow-up to our 2022 Nature Neuroscience paper). 👇

Angelique C Paulk

@ACPaulk

9 months

We are happy to present our Nature Protocols paper bringing Neuropixels probe to the human operating room w/ first author Brian Coughlin! We especially discuss regulatory and neuroethical issues. @MGHNeurology @MGHNeurosurg @MGHNeuroSci @MGH_CNTR

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

11 months

Hello Sydney! Who’s at #EMBC23 ?

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

2⃣ An Academic Senate New Research Initiatives and Interdisciplinary Research grant together with co-PIs @DrDavidBrandman , Randy O'Reilly, and Dana Farias to start developing an ‘AI Listener’ to assess speech BCI output intelligibility similar to how a human listener would.👂↔️🖥️

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

First @SfNtweets abstract submitted from our new lab - congrats @Maitreyee_W 🥳 ! Looking forward to seeing old colleagues and new (hopefully) in person in San Diego. 🌅

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

Looking forward to heading to the beautiful Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey as an invited speaker for the @StanfordBrain Neurosciences Graduate Program retreat. Doubly cool to come back as faculty to the retreat I used to go as a student, and triply so with alumni friends!

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

2 years

A fun weekend of impressive science and getting to know colleagues (students, faculty, and our amazing staff) at my first @UCDavis_Neuro retreat in beautiful Granlibakken Tahoe.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

8 months

Taking my one weekend this month that I’m not traveling for conferences to declare Tahoe season has begun!

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

I swear Krishna is a real live human and the lab didn't just code up a bot to retweet our work 😅

Krishna Shenoy

@shenoystanford

4 years

Of potential interest, at least I think it is, Krishna

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

9 months

Thank you! It was a privilege to spend the evening with the other awardees, the advisory board, and friends of the foundation.

MIND Prize

@MindPrize

9 months

Another huge congratulations to our seven inaugural MIND Prize winners! We were so thrilled to celebrate you last night. @JustusKebschull @macosko @DeblinaSarkar59 @sergeydoestweet @tollkuhn

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

My colleague Frank Willett isn’t on Twitter so I’ll #cosyne2020 hype man for him. If you want to see the fastest, most kick-ass online brain-computer interface performance to date, check out his poster:

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

The whole body is represented in single neurons in just a small patch of motor cortex. And all these movements can be decoded in real-time. Congrats Frank, Darrel, and colleagues!!

Cell

@CellCellPress

4 years

New Article online now at Cell: Hand Knob Area of Premotor Cortex Represents the Whole Body in a Compositional Way

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

6 months

Intro #neurotech opportunity in one of THE leading groups doing cutting edge human brain-computer interface research 👇🏼

Chethan Pandarinath

@chethan

6 months

Are you a postbac interested in neural engineering / BCIs? 🧠🤖🗣️ Come join our team!! Work directly with our amazing BCI participants. Great exposure for prospective grad/med school applicants!

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

Lab swag is a bit different this year... h/t to @djoshea and @EricMTrautmann for the lovely NHP neuropixels recording.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

3 years

📢We’ll be recruiting graduate students, postdocs, and programmers immediately, so please reach out if you’d like to build incredible neuro-electronic medical devices to help people with us. More specific announcements soon.

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

4 years

📢 Superb postdoc opportunity! Cutting edge theory + badass tools + 3 wonderful mentors and an intellectually vibrant, welcoming, supportive community.

Krishna Shenoy

@shenoystanford

4 years

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Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

As if that wasn't enough, then today two trainees won fellowships (deets to come) and our junior specialist passed her @BrainGateTeam clinical neurotechnology research assistant certification so this afternoon we had to go to the brewery down the street. So proud of this team! 👏

Sergey Stavisky

@SergeyStavisky

1 year

Last night we tried Sacramento’s newest Michelin ⭐️ restaurant, Localis, to celebrate 3 recent achievements. The food and atmosphere were amazing. Looking forward to sharing the good lab news in the next few weeks! 🥂

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