Sumner L Norman
@SumnerLN
CEO @ForestNeurotech FRO // ultrasound & BCI
🚨 Forest Neurotech is hiring across domains and levels! 🚨 We just added a Hardware Test Engineer role and have open roles for SWEs and EEs. More coming soon. If you (or someone you know) is mission driven, high IQ, and low ego, let's talk!
Mapping the off-target effects of every FDA-approved drug in existence (EvE Bio) 6.2k words, 29 minutes reading time owlposting.com/p/mapping-the-… this is a very long essay over @EvEBiotech, a data collection effort that you should know about (it's associated w/ @Convergent_FROs!)
neurotech in 2025 is what AI was in 2017 yet, the state of this generationally important technology is virtually unknown to those outside of a small community. we're releasing a map (see below) to help the world understand the field -- the tradeoffs between contending…
Peter and Dave have an extraordinary show on the future of everything and abundance ! I was honored to be on this one youtube.com/watch?v=qaPHK1…
Are we headed toward a technology revolution in therapeutic BCI? I just wrote this piece about why I believe neurotech will become an indispensable tool for addressing the growing mental health crisis and become as common as personal computing. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/brainjacob… #BCI
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neurotech in 2025 is what AI was in 2017 yet, the state of this generationally important technology is virtually unknown to those outside of a small community. we're releasing a map (see below) to help the world understand the field -- the tradeoffs between contending…
Millions of Americans are living with the damage caused by strokes and traumatic brain injuries. Today we launched a program in ARPA-H to restore function to the neocortex.
NEW: No technology currently exists to repair damaged brain tissue and fully restore lost function. FRONT aims to enable millions with what is considered permanent brain damage to regain lost functions, including motor control, vision, and speech. arpa-h.gov/news-and-event…
📣 We're excited to share the new lean-lang.org! Relaunching our website was a key deliverable in our Year 2 roadmap to provide "improved navigation and access to valuable content, resources, and tools." We hope you like it! #LeanLang #LeanProver
I think, therefore I Mandelbrot And this fun tool: zazow.com/mandelbrot/cre…
New Post: “The World is a Fractal” A mental model to navigate the endless depth of knowledge. Ever googled something simple, and emerged 3 hours later, 27 tabs deep, questioning reality itself? I explore why that happens. Featuring spellbinding fractal images. Link below 👇
Another new job alert! We're hiring a Manufacturing Engineer. I told you it was coming soon. 😉 🔗 [Forest's Website]/jobs
🚨 Forest Neurotech is hiring across domains and levels! 🚨 We just added a Hardware Test Engineer role and have open roles for SWEs and EEs. More coming soon. If you (or someone you know) is mission driven, high IQ, and low ego, let's talk!
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This week on the Core Memory pod we fix American Science and advance civilization My chat with the founders of @Convergent_FROs corememory.com/p/fixing-ameri…
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Anthropic purchased millions of physical print books to digitally scan them for Claude
I would have given a kidney for this guide 3-4 years ago. I’m thrilled that it exists now and that I was able to make a tiny contribution. Amazing work @AndreaCoravos & Rachel Katz!
Most advice on fundraising comes from VCs, and is written for software companies. We’ve published one that’s a little different. By @andreacoravos & Rachel Katz, who have successfully fundraised for and exited their own companies, here’s a guide for founders in healthcare and…
Nicotine is a relatively weak primary reinforcer unlike cocaine and heroin, so why is its addiction so widespread but the habits so variable? I’d like to share our new perspective piece on why we need more human pharmacokinetics measurements to complete the picture.
Our brain-to-voice synthesis brain-computer interface paper was published in @Nature today! This neuroprosthesis synthesized the voice of a man with ALS instantaneously, enabling him to ‘speak’ flexibly and modulate the prosody of his BCI-voice. 1/7 Paper: rdcu.be/eqH3C
Congrats @SergeyStavisky and the entire team!
A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. go.nature.com/4mXv8yM
📢 We just released our complete playbook for thesis-driven philanthropic funds. A new model that's creating better outcomes for donors, scientists, and society. Here's how it works: 👇
Why don't Harvard/Stanford just raid their endowments to cover Trump’s research funding cuts? Take Harvard as a case study. They have a $53B endowment. That's massive! Harvard’s endowment pays out ~5% a year. That’s ~$2.6B in 2025. Covering the $3B shortfall from Trump's cuts is…
Just hung out at Stanford Friday evening and with a friend from CalTech today. The depression levels are high. Labs disappearing from lack of funding. Nobel Prize winners not safe. Are the schools really not going to backstop this with their billions?