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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

geminis eager willingness to personify abstract things like this is relatively unique among the later models and great

Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It is also true that we are at serious risk of losing our leadership in biomedical R&D, and this is very clearly a regulatory limitation. If we take 10+ years and $1B+ to bring a drug to market while others can do it in 3 years and $50M, then we will simply no longer be relevant resulting in layoffs

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This conflates two separate effects: America remains far and away the #1 destination for people from the third world. They are coming here to escape exploitation! Can capitalism still be tough? Yes. For them, America is a dramatically positive innovation, even with the drawbacks! Simultaneously,

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I see, no, I fully agree that there are serious market failures in naive capitalism and additional regulatory structure is needed. We are aligned on this

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This is obviously not true as a general case, and I think you know that. This kind of rhetoric is extremely corrosive though, and has led to famines and violence for hundreds of millions of people historically. On the other hand, America continues to be a global sink of talent, acceleratingly so

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Successful American entrepreneurs capture a very small percent of the overall wealth created by their endeavors. The mistake is viewing the world as zero sum: it is completely legitimate to create lots of new value that did not exist before for people and in exchange privatize a small part of that.

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Capitalism is Great, Actually. Things we take for granted as basic as keeping groceries stores stocked is actually very hard! almost no mechanism other than markets is capable of doing it! These social attractors are incredibly dangerous and will cause you to fall far short of your potential

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

this 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!

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

i strongly support more public funding for basic research. i do think there's now a significant technological overhang in terms of what's possible vs what we're actually doing which is regulatory... but both of these things are critical

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Science Corp @science.xyz · 11/11/2025

Science 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

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Science Corp @science.xyz · 15/11/2025

We’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

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Very 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...

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A global mission to restore vision | PRIMA by Science

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Science Corp @science.xyz · 20/10/2025

The 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...

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The 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...

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

If you gave a tool calling LLM the ability to send an email and it uses true knowledge it has to extort you I think you’d consider that a threat. This is a totally practical risk give how these models are getting deployed now.

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Big new result out today from us at Science! New optogenetic actuators so sensitive that they respond robustly to regular indoor office lighting!

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

As 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...

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Connecting the Blind to Groundbreaking BCI Vision Restoration Technology Through Science Corporation’s Patient Registry for Retinal Diseases | Science Corporation

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

a 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

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

first batch of scifi headstages shipped out this week, including to our internal BCI lab! 🙊 science.xyz/technologies...

a pink stuffed octopus with a neural probe adapter on its head, connected over usb-c to a digital headstage

not pictured and hopefully deleted forever: giant neural recording cart

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

man remind me to never piss off the humans

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

at least only speaking for myself, my goal is still the culture

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David Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Why 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

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

well that was one way to figure out that none of the meshtastic radios are configured properly

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

the books don’t form a single narrative, they’re all different stories set in the same overall universe. By the “first book” I assume you mean Consider Phlebas; you might find Player of Games better, or maybe Surface Detail or Excession. All very different stories.

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

me 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_bI

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Iain M. Banks, The Culture Series

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I 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!

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

i've been noticing this too with the firefox extension! i increasingly have to download the pdf separately and add it to the record.

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

suddenly zotero's browser plugin is failing to fetch open access pdfs... did something change to break it?

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

do you remember html image maps? a simpler, happier time

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Next stop, applying for the CE mark so we can make it available to patients in Europe (where the trial was done).

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The 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...

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PRIMA Clinical Trial Data Safety Monitoring Board Votes to Recommend PRIMA Device for Submission for European Approval | Science Corporation

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

now that our major programs are mostly disclosed, it’s fun to get to start building more in public! youtu.be/zIJi6dXN6Zc

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The Age of Neural Engineering (ft. Science Corp.)

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

if you found the events of the last month to be extremely surprising, you might enjoy Years and Years on HBO

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Actually it looks like this is possible, we just hard to find! You get it from the authentication mechanism

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Bluesky should add an optional ability to provide a user DID when requesting a custom feed to allow personalization and learning from likes etc

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I 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...

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Biohybrid neural interfaces: an old idea enabling a completely new space of possibilities | Science Corporation

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

the 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

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

is there a way to find out if you are in any starter packs? curious where these new follows are coming from

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

a short random thought posted to the internet is, generically, a tweet

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

the september limit (n): the growth rate a social media platform has to stay under to preserve its culture indefinitely

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

iso 9001 exists in a superposition of vacuous and profound

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

software 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 🧠🤝💻🧪

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SciFi: Ruggedized, WiFi-Enabled Synapse-Compatible Headstage | Science Corporation

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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

speech 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

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