What to Expect from Pyr Gameplay
Two new preprints titled Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex and Petascale neural circuit reconstruction: automated methods reveal the mindboggling …
The MICrONS Explorer: An AI-generated reconstruction of 200,000 cortical cells and 500,000,000 synapses
A team of neuroscientists and engineers at Princeton University, the Allen Institute, and Baylor College of Medicine has just released the largest …
Pyr Livechat: Thurs July 29 at 3 pm ET
You’re invited to a livechat on eyewire.org on Thursday, July 29 at 3 pm US ET for an update on Pyr, the next …
2D vs 3D: Battle of the Dimensions
It’s time to choose! Do you you prefer the perspective that 3D objects give you, or do you opt for the …
Mystic Zebrafish Update
We’re about a year and a half into Mystic, an advanced tier of Eyewire gameplay that allows players to access zebrafish brains …
Sparkling Chandeliers of Cortex
What’s in a brain? So many cells; such great variety! When it comes to neurons, they can be broadly categorized as either …
Scientific update on cells mapped by Mystics!
Check out these new images featuring some of the cells our Mystic players have been mapping! These cells are from our “zfish” …
Jobs: We’re Hiring
Are you a full stack developer with a passion for games and an interest in the brain? Join a team that is …
Behind the Science: an Introduction to Connectomics
Scientists are always finding that things we thought would never change are actually in constant motion. Up until just a century ago, it …
EyeWire’s First Scientific Discovery and Nature Paper
Today we are excited to share that EyeWire’s first scientific discovery has been published in Nature! Why does it matter? This discovery …
What happens in the human brain when we make decisions?
What happens in the human brain when we are thinking or making decisions? Neuroscientist Paul King weighs in via Quora: This is like …
EyeWire Countdown to 100K
Today is the final day of Revenge of IFLS on EyeWire. It’s also the beginning of our countdown to 100,000 EyeWirers. EyeWire’s one …