Happy Birthday Happy Hours
It’s Amy’s 28th birthday! Today’s Friday Happy Hours will be honoring that fact. Our Happy Hours will run between 2-4 pm EST. …
New Science Publication from Sebastian Seung Finds Variation in Axonal Myelination
A new publication from Seung Lab (coauthored by Sebastian Seung and former lab member Daniel Berger) is out today in Science. Daniel …
EyeWire Neurons in Virtual Reality at TED
TED Conferences are known to be environments of intellectual awesomeness. This year we had the pleasure of amping it up with neurons …
Security Update: EyeWire is Heartbleed Protected
Hey EyeWirers, Immediate takeaway: If you consider your EyeWire password valuable, please change it. Use the “Forgot?” link on the login page …
Explore Mode Bugs are Dead
Will has successfully exterminated the bugs in explore mode (yay, woohoo!) The basics are the same (ctrl+e turns explore mode off and …
Forum and Wiki Are Back!
Just what you guys have been waiting for! Our forum and Wiki page are finally working again. Visit http://forum.eyewire.org/ and http://wiki.eyewire.org/ to learn more about Eyewire. …
Why do neurons fire at a maximum of about 200 Hz?
Why do neurons fire at a maximum of about 200 Hz? Neuroscientist Paul King weighs in via Quora: There are different ways …
Harassment in Chat
Submitted by @Nseraf (with minor edits by Lyndsey) After recent events we feel we should make a blog post about any user(s) …
Help Us Improve Eyewire Trivia
Hey Eyewirers! Here’s your chance to help us make trivia more educational for Eyewire! When you come across a merger, snap a …
EyeWire Weekly Update x2
Double bonus! Two weeks of stats! March 17-23 EyeWirer @Nsearaf dominated this leaderboard in both points and cubes, scoring a whopping 237,408 and …
Forums Are Back!
Guess what! Our forum is no longer broken! Head over to http://forum.eyewire.org/ to see it in all its glory! New players can …
EyeWire Infographic: Visualizing the Scale of the Brain
President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative has brought brain mapping to the forefront of popular science. But what does it mean to map the …