My 3 year old son watching the inauguration: "The guys who already were president look like my grandpas. Where are all the girls that had a turn?" On the cathartic high of today, that was a bit of a gut punch and reminder that we still have work to do.

We are hiring! We have a post-doc position available on our BCI team. Please reach out to me if you are interested! rnel.pitt.edu/post-doc-posit…

Tune in soon (11:30-12:30 PM EDT) to hear Brian Dekleva from RNEL talk about "Cortical responses during overt force production and corresponding covert motor imagery" at #NCM2021!

Don't miss the 4 presentations by our all-star BCI team next week at #vBCI2021! Posters 2-C-6 and 3-A-2 by Vahagn Karapetyan and Brian Dekleva, a presentation by @jeffreymweiss in Wednesday's Research Session, and the final conference keynote by Robert Gaunt! 🦾

This is a great video and accompanying article featuring our awesome participant of more than 6 years and advocate for the research and tech, Nathan Copeland. Jen Collinger Robert Gaunt @jeffreymweiss are also featured. Brian Dekleva 's cursor decoder is used to play Solitaire.

This is an embarrassment.

The mission of the Cortical Bionics Research Group to build next-generation intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces that enable dexterous control of bionic hands by people with paralysis or amputation. The University of Chicago UPMC Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

Still struggling to comprehend sliman bensmaia (@[email protected])’s passing. He was truly a one-of-one person and scientist. He was a huge force, but also humble, kind, and supportive. I will forever miss his impassioned rants, inevitably punctuated with, “But who $!?&$!& knows, man?”

Excited to share the first paper of my PhD under Jen Collinger! Here, we revisit the idea of motor somatotopy in humans implanted with intracortical electrode arrays as part of a clinical study in RNEL and Cortical Bionics Research Group 1/9