Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026geminis eager willingness to personify abstract things like this is relatively unique among the later models and great 0100
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026this mindset is so incredibly wrong it’s tough to know where to start. this idea is true of systems *other* than capitalism! allowing markets to do price discovery and engaging in voluntary transactions because it works for you is arguably *a central innovation of capitalism* over the prior systems! 220
Reposted by Max HodakScience Corp @science.xyz · 11/11/2025Science founder and CEO @maxhodak.bsky.social spoke with @kantrowitz.bsky.social at #WebSummit about breakthroughs in brain-computer interfaces – including Science’s PRIMA implant, which was shown in clinical trials to restore vision in patients with age-related macular degeneration 152
Reposted by Max HodakScience Corp @science.xyz · 15/11/2025We’re at the Society for Neuroscience’s (@sfn.org) Annual Meeting 2025 to share our work advancing brain-computer interfaces, from our PRIMA retinal implant to our Science Ecosystem full stack technology platform for neural engineering. Visit us at Booth #3101 to learn more. #SfN25 072
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Very 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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_qT...youtube.comA global mission to restore vision | PRIMA by ScienceYouTube video by Science 1184
Reposted by Max HodakScience Corp @science.xyz · 20/10/2025The 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. science.xyz/news/new-eng...science.xyzThe 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. 273
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Big new result out today from us at Science! New optogenetic actuators so sensitive that they respond robustly to regular indoor office lighting! 050
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 11/09/2025As 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...science.xyzConnecting the Blind to Groundbreaking BCI Vision Restoration Technology Through Science Corporation’s Patient Registry for Retinal Diseases | Science CorporationScience Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company. 0114
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025a 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 040
Reposted by Max Hodakemma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025first batch of scifi headstages shipped out this week, including to our internal BCI lab! 🙊 science.xyz/technologies... 1224
Reposted by Max HodakDavid Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Why 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 1111
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024well that was one way to figure out that none of the meshtastic radios are configured properly 010
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024me 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_bIyoutu.beIain M. Banks, The Culture SeriesYouTube video by The Orbital Array 290
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024I 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! 1100
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024suddenly zotero's browser plugin is failing to fetch open access pdfs... did something change to break it? 000
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024do you remember html image maps? a simpler, happier time 160
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024The 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...science.xyzPRIMA Clinical Trial Data Safety Monitoring Board Votes to Recommend PRIMA Device for Submission for European Approval | Science CorporationScience Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company. 1152
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024now that our major programs are mostly disclosed, it’s fun to get to start building more in public! youtu.be/zIJi6dXN6Zcyoutu.beThe Age of Neural Engineering (ft. Science Corp.)YouTube video by S3 1265
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024if you found the events of the last month to be extremely surprising, you might enjoy Years and Years on HBO 110
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Bluesky should add an optional ability to provide a user DID when requesting a custom feed to allow personalization and learning from likes etc 180
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I 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...science.xyzBiohybrid neural interfaces: an old idea enabling a completely new space of possibilities | Science CorporationScience Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company. 48217
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 21/11/2024the 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 151
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 21/11/2024is there a way to find out if you are in any starter packs? curious where these new follows are coming from 370
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024a short random thought posted to the internet is, generically, a tweet 010
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024the september limit (n): the growth rate a social media platform has to stay under to preserve its culture indefinitely 1354
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024iso 9001 exists in a superposition of vacuous and profound 120
Reposted by Max Hodakemma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 01/10/2024software and neuro people, check out this modern suite of tools (probes, a wifi headstage, a standard API for devices, and client software) we just released! feedback v welcome, and if you work in a lab or at a company that could use these things, get in touch! #neuroscience 🧠🤝💻🧪science.xyzSciFi: Ruggedized, WiFi-Enabled Synapse-Compatible Headstage | Science CorporationScience Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company. 1208
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 23/09/2024speech on the internet is definitely capable of propagating real world harms, but imagine if there was no real world, and it was just ALL internet 000
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 05/09/2024“LLMs can’t generalize out of distribution” if physics isn’t changing and grounded self play works (it does), why would anything ultimately be out of distribution? 020
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 02/09/2024ironically, if you are worried about too much freedom of speech, open internet technologies like bluesky are way worse 🙃 000
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 25/07/2024Given we now have the technology to read the inside of ancient rolled up papyrus scrolls carbonized by a volcano, it seems like we might want to take another pass on the Nixon tapes 020
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 22/07/2024we are seeing levels of unburdened by what has been which were previously thought only to be theoretical 061
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 09/07/2024interested in building brain-computer interfaces, as one does? new chips just dropped science.xyz/news/nixels-...science.xyzNixels and Pixels: Introducing Science's Chip Families for Neural Recording And Stimulation | Science CorporationScience Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company. 291
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 26/04/2024it’s true, this was a much crazier story than I ever would have guessed going into this a few months ago 🙃 and the pixium story has a long way to go! www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo... 030
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 25/04/2024Welcoming Pixium Vision’s PRIMA retinal prosthesis to Sciencescience.xyzWelcoming Pixium Vision’s PRIMA retinal prosthesis to ScienceScience has agreed to acquire assets from Pixium Vision SA, including three ongoing clinical trials in late-stage macular degeneration 081
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 27/08/2023OH: “yes, we should bring a bunch of liquid nitrogen to the desert. this is a good use of our resources” 010
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 05/08/2023> thanks to an "interstellar shout" - a powerful instruction - its antenna is now back facing Earth > Staff used the "highest-power transmitter" to send a message to the spacecraft oh no www.bbc.com/news/science-environmen…bbc.comVoyager 2: Nasa fully back in contact with lost space probeVoyager 2 has restored its communication with Earth months earlier than expected. 074
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 04/08/2023if taylor swift ran for president, I somehow suspect there’s a surprisingly high chance she would win 220
Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 13/07/2023i wish cities skylines had an autonomous mode where new citizens would figure out on their own what there is demand to build and anything is permitted unless you intervene by adding zoning or other policies 010
