Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Honored and proud to have spent already 30 years teaching and doing science at Columbia University @columbiauniversity.bsky.social 020
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Canada Becomes First Country to Protect Neural Data at National Level!!! It was an honor for the @Neuro_Rights Foundation to work with our Canadian partners on this historic initiative: www.linkedin.com/posts/interp...linkedin.comInterpretation Bulletin: Sensitive Information | Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada/Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du CanadaThe Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has updated its Interpretation Bulletin on sensitive information to include neural data. Neural data is information obtained by measuring an individ... 030
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Interview with Irene Lozano (in Spanish) @eldiario.es 🎙️PODCAST | Lectura 9: 'Neuroderechos. Un viaje hacia la protección de lo que nos hace humanos', de Rafael Yuste www.eldiario.es/1_c587d8?utm...eldiario.es🎙️PODCAST | Lectura 9: 'Neuroderechos. Un viaje hacia la protección de lo que nos hace humanos', de Rafael YustePresentado por la escritora y periodista Irene Lozano, ‘La trama’ es un podcast mensual en el que acudimos a los libros para entender mejor el mundo que nos rodea 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Humbled to receive Honoris Causa doctorate from Mexico´s @UNAM_MX unamglobal.unam.mx/global_revis...unamglobal.unam.mxLa UNAM inviste a 14 nuevas personalidades con el grado de Doctor Honoris Causa - UNAM GlobalLa UNAM celebrará hoy, 18 de noviembre de 2025, una de sus ceremonias más significativas: la investidura del grado de doctor o doctora honoris causa 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Article on Neurorights in @nytimes.com highlighting our role: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/m...nytimes.comThe Next Privacy Battleground Is Inside Your Brain 011
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Sharing the terrible news that we lost Antonio García-Bellido, a brilliant and creative scientist and mentor to many of us: elpais.com/ciencia/2025...elpais.comMuere Antonio García-Bellido, descubridor de las fronteras invisibles dentro de los seres vivosEl biólogo, fallecido a los 89 años, deja un legado científico que roza las alturas de los nobeles Santiago Ramón y Cajal y Severo Ochoa 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Our paper reconstructing hydras endodermis published in @currentbiology urldefense.com/v3/__https:/... 022
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Interview with Rafael Ibarra in ABC Salud (in Spanish): www.abc.es/salud/enferm...abc.esRafael Yuste, neurocientífico: «Necesitamos una ley supranacional que proteja el cerebro humano de la tecnología»Ha dedicado su vida a entender cómo funciona el órgano humano más misterioso. Ahora regresa a España para impulsar desde Madrid el primer Centro Nacional de Neurotecnología y convertirlo en un referen... 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Madrid NeuroTechnology Summer Course now online (in Spanish) urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...urldefense.comNeurotecnología en Madrid: Ciencia, Clínica y Emprendimiento - YouTube 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 08/10/2025www.abc.es/salud/premio...abc.esRafael Yuste, premio ABC Salud 2025 al Científico del Año: «Vuelvo a casa para apoyar a la ciencia en España»Además de al reconocido neurobiólogo, los galardones han premiado los avances en innovación de VIH, los logros en trasplantes de órganos o la labor filantrópica del cáncer 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Honored to receive ABC scientist award from Madrid’s health counselor Fátima Matute and defend key role of scientists in society #premiosabcsalud @abc_es 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 01/10/2025Updating our woods hole cemetery’s scientists tombstone map with Thomas Morgan’s @mblscience.bsky.social blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/rmy5/woods-h...blogs.cuit.columbia.edu Woods Hole | Rafael Yuste's Laboratory 020
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 16/09/2025Honored to be named @abcsalud scientist of the year www.abc.es/salud/abc-sa...abc.esABC Salud premia al científico Rafael Yuste y a los sanitarios implicados en la dana de ValenciaEl jurado distingue las iniciativas más destacadas del año de profesionales e instituciones sanitarias 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 15/09/2025www.mbl.edu/news/decades...mbl.eduDecades After their Deaths, Thomas Hunt Morgan and Lilian Vaughan Morgan are Laid to Rest in Woods Hole | Marine Biological LaboratoryIt’s not often that a burial service is held for a couple that died more than 70 years ago. But last month, Thomas Hunt Morgan and Lilian Vaughan Morgan were finally laid to rest at Woods Hole Village... 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 09/09/2025The American Medical Association releases policy on neurotechnologies and safeguarding neural data, which we endorse fully @AmerMedicalAssn @neuro_rights policysearch.ama-assn.org/policyfinder... 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Columbia´s press release on recent @cellcellpress.bsky.social study: Breakthroughs in Decoding Speech Have Medical Potential but Raise Privacy Concerns | Columbia News news.columbia.edu/news/breakth...news.columbia.eduBreakthroughs in Decoding Speech Have Medical Potential but Raise Privacy ConcernsTo prevent an erosion of mental privacy, it is urgent to protect and legislate the protection of neural data in consumer tech. 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Really sorry to lose one of the best scientists I met. A. James Hudspeth, neuroscientist who unlocked secrets of hearing, has died www.rockefeller.edu/news/38152-a...rockefeller.eduA. James Hudspeth, neuroscientist who unlocked secrets of hearing, has died - NewsA. James Hudspeth, a Rockefeller neuroscientist who discovered how sound waves are converted into electrical signals in the ear’s cochlea, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. A pioneering scientis... 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 15/08/2025nterview with @cadenaser.bsky.social on recent speech decoding Cell paper (in Spanish). youtu.be/WC99fBBXFb0?... via @YouTubeyoutu.beLa Entrevista | Rafael Yuste, neurobiólogo, explica cómo funciona el dispositivo que lee los pens...YouTube video by SER Podcast 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 14/08/2025article on recent @cellcellpress.bsky.social paper decoding inner speech with implantable neurotechnology (in Spanish) @manuelansede.bsky.social elpais.com/ciencia/2025...elpais.comUn dispositivo lee el pensamiento de personas en tiempo real solo si imaginan la contraseña “chittychittybangbang”Cuatro voluntarios con parálisis logran comunicarse gracias a un lector del cerebro que solamente se activa al evocar el título de la célebre película infantil, para proteger su privacidad mental 012
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Interview in La Folha São Paulo (in Portuguese): Só existe ignorância, e não mistério, diz Rafael Yuste no Fronteiras do Pensamento - 12/08/2025 - Ilustrada - Folha www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/20...www1.folha.uol.com.br 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Article from Lidia Villalobos on Neurotechnology and Neurorights (in Spanish) cadenaser.com/nacional/202... via @La_SERcadenaser.comLeer pensamientos y descifrar emociones, la nueva era de la neurotecnologíaLa cura para tratar enfermedades como el Alzhéimer, el Párkinson o la ansiedad | Cadena SER 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Connecticut’s Governor signs into law bill SB 1295 that defines and protects neural data as sensitive data. Connecticut joins Chile, Rio Grande do Sul, Colorado, California and Montana in awarding neurorights protection to brain activity! www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/...cga.ct.gov 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Discussion on neurotechnology with @perestupinya.bsky.social (in Spanish) Encuentro Telos @EspacioFTef youtube.com/live/HDgeD1l... via @YouTubeyoutube.comEncuentro Telos con Rafael Yuste. `El cerebro, el teatro del mundo´YouTube video by Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid 062
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Happening next week! Registration still open!ntc.columbia.eduNanoNeuro 2025 – The NeuroTechnology Center at Columbia University 120
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Online Neurorights Symposium in Uruguay (in Spanish) July 22nd @EmirNelida 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Cantabria (Spain) introduces first European Neurodata bill elpais.com/sociedad/202...elpais.comCantabria impulsa la primera ley europea para proteger los neuroderechos y los datos cerebralesLa norma sobre salud digital pretende convertirse en un referente para el resto de España 011
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Our article “Addictive-like Dimensions of Problematic Use of Social Media” with Nora Volkow and Ruben Baler from NIDA is published: journals.lww.com/journaladdic...journals.lww.comAddictive-like Dimensions of Problematic Use of Social Media : Journal of Addiction Medicinel component underlying problematic use of social media. Current evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that excessive or maladaptive reliance on social media can trigger or exacerbate symptoms of ... 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 04/07/2025proud to host 4th BasqueNanoneuroNetwork symposium with @garciaetxarri @DIPCehu listening to exciting science 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Honored to receive International Trajectory Award from Government of Cantabria @cantabriaes 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Article in @galeriarevista on Uruguay’s Neurodata bill (in Spanish) www.busqueda.com.uy/actualidad/e...busqueda.com.uyEl guardián de la mente: Rafael Yuste y la carrera por proteger los neuroderechos antes de que sea tardeYa existe tecnología capaz de leer y alterar pensamientos; durante su paso por el Parlamento uruguayo, el reconocido neurocientífico español advirtió sobre la necesidad de establecer leyes para proteg... 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Workshop on population encoding in neuroscience Oct 26-27th at University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Philosophy of Science 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Participating in Neurorights panel at University of Sao Paolo- Observatorio do Neurodireitos to reform Brazilian Civil Code and incorporate protection for Brain Data youtube.com/live/GrCqBN_... instagram.com/p/DKHUsqnRg4zinstagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Article on Uruguay’s new neurodata bill (in Spanish): Uruguay se posiciona para legislar y proteger nuestros datos neuronales carasycaretas.com.uy/c84989 via @CarasyCareta www.carasycaretas.com.uy/politica/uru...carasycaretas.com.uyUruguay se posiciona para legislar y proteger nuestros datos neuronalesEl prestigioso neurobiólogo Rafael Yuste, presidente de la Fundación Neuroderechos y líder del proyecto BRAIN —una iniciativa global para mapear la actividad neuronal—, visitó el Parlamento uruguayo. ... 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 04/06/2025www.ft.com/content/c8bc...ft.comE-tattoos may tell us about overwork but what about our neurorights?As researchers burrow into our brains, our inner lives may no longer be ours alone 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Helping @MaritaCastello team collect electric fish in Uruguay´s Rio Negro @iibceuy.bsky.social 020
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Speaking at Uruguay’s Parliament to fully support Neurodata bill by @DipRodrigoGoni 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Speaking on Neurorights in Uruguay's IV Congreso Nacional de Biociencias en Montevideo carasycaretas.com.uy/c84761 via @CarasyCaretasuycarasycaretas.com.uyCiencia, cerebro y derechos: IV Congreso Nacional de Biociencias en MontevideoMontevideo es la sede del IV Congreso Nacional de Biociencias y las XXI Jornadas de Neurociencias, con invitados internacionales. 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Celebrating our graduating students @columbiaup.bsky.social 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 15/05/2025UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC adopts resolution endorsing human rights approach to neurotechnologies. docs.un.org/en/a/hrc/58/l.9 320
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 14/05/2025@UNESCO Final report on the draft Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology underscores importance of human rights approach to protect freedom of thought unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...unesdoc.unesco.org 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 12/05/2025New article of @JaredGenser on NeuroTech and Neurorights: washingtonlawyer.dcbar.org/mayjune2025/in… 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Deeply saddened to share that our admired Joe Nye, who inspired our work and supported our Neurorights effort, just left us: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u... 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Neurorights in neurology - The Lancet Neurology www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...thelancet.comNeurorights in neurologyNeurotechnology defines the methods and devices used to measure or alter neuronal activity, that can be electrical, like EEG and deep brain stimulation, magnetic, like fMRI and transcranial stimulatio... 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Hosting @SebastianSeung for a spectacular full house seminar on fly connectomics @ColumbiaScience 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Honoring Ethel Browne, pioneer developmental biologist who discovered induction in Hydra but was never recognized: blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/rmy5/ethel-b... 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Citing our 2024 report, US Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Maria Cantwell (D-IN), and Ed Markey (D-MA) ask Federal Trade Commission to investigate the handling of neurotechnologies and neural data www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/4/cantw... @SenateCommercecommerce.senate.govCantwell, Schumer, Markey Call on FTC to Protect Consumers’ Neural Data 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Summer Neurotechnology Course in El Escorial-Madrid (in Spanish) July 16-18th, open for registration cursosdeverano.ucm.es/programacion... 000
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Speaking on Neuronal Ensembles at Starmus Festival in La Palma, Spain www.starmus.com/p/starmus-la... 010
Rafael Yuste @rafaelyuste.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Honored to receive the "Reconocimiento" award from the Cabildo Insular de la Palma, in the Canary Islands cabildodelapalma.es @CabLaPalma in the Cosmológica Library realsociedadcosmologica.com, co-founded by my great-great grandparents 000