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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🤩 “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-...

A teenager wearing white lab coat and a low-cost myoelectric hand prosthesis that he made himself using parts of Backyard Brains' Claw device.

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

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

A custom-built robotic prosthetic hand made by Jorge Iglesias Costas, using an EMG sensor from Backyard Brains. The hand is black and white, made of plastic, and is being used by a person born without left-hand fingers.

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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...

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The Neuron Family @theneuronfamily.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

#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. 🧠🎊

A Brain Awareness Week poster with a bunch of DIY neuroscience kits by Backyard Brains, a company that creates educational hardware, software and lesson plans.

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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 youtu.be/vN1xx0sxTvI?...

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FlyTrap Recording with Backyrd Brains! 😱😱

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

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

A Venus flytrap plant with electrodes attached for recording its action potentials as it plans for its next meal.

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

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! backyardbrains.com

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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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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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 youtu.be/TIcKCUELrkY

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Measuring your Brain Rhythms during sleep

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Tag us in your brainy quests, where'er you may go, #NeuroscienceEverywhere — let the whole wide world know!

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maggiejomalley.bsky.social @maggiejomalley.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I love @backyardbrains.bsky.social so glad to find them here!

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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. ▶️ tinyurl.com/BYBCongresoF... #congresofuturo2025 #neuroscience

Quote from Backyard Brains co-founder Tim Marzullo, reading: "Our dream is that every child in Chile has access to tools to learn and contribute to science." The background shows a girl doing push-ups. Her hands are on the ground next to a Spikerbox, which is a bioamplifier of electrical signals, and a smartphone.

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Nothing beats hearing your first spike! 🧐

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Wishing you a nice and calm holiday season and a very brainy 2025! 🎁❄️🎄

An illustrated Christmas card showing a Christmas tree decorated with little brains, a bunch of boxes of Backyard Brains neuroscience kits, and the text "Deck the halls with neurons bright, it's a neuro-holiday delight!"

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

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 👇 tinyurl.com/HiSchoolPaper

Proudest moment of 2024 at Backyard Brains: High-Schoolers Publish Plant Paper in a Notable Journal

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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

A little birdie told us this is a good place to be. Hello #neuroskyence and #edusky!

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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...

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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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Backyard Brains @backyardbrains.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Their backpacks may be more powerful but ours look better in the classroom 🧐

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