• Spiker (Wo)Men & Knitted Bugs: Backyard Brains at SfN 2024
    Outreach
    There’s always a good deal of creativity, laughter and general joie de vivre at our booth, but this year’s SfN (Society for Neuroscience) conference got another layer of novelty: knitted bugs and brains in wheelbarrows. If you’re thinking that we’ve started making 3D knitted swag, you’re in the wrong. These were in fact gifted to […]
  • Brain Awareness Week Grants Are Back – Get Up to $1,250 for 2025!
    Outreach
    Calls for applications for 2025 Brain Awareness Week are out! Apply by 31st October to get up to $1,250 towards your BAW event that will highlight the importance of neuroscience for our societies. As you may know already, Brain Awareness Week takes place mid-March annually in just about every corner of the planet. In 2025, […]
  • Backyard Brains in Vienna: FENS 2024 Neuroscience Conference Recap
    Outreach
    — Written by Jelena Ciric — This summer, we didn’t take a spin on the world’s oldest Ferris wheel that’s still in use. (Late June was just too hot for that.) Nor did we manage to take a bite of Sacher Cake or Viennese Schnitzel famous the world over. So what did we do in […]
  • New Edition of
    Outreach
    Schools, museums, libraries, community centers and other public venues in over 75 countries— last week, the entire planet was firing spikes in honor of the brain during Brain Awareness Week 2024! An annual event organized and partly funded by Dana Foundation and International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), it’s the biggest joint scientific outreach in the […]
  • High Schooler Becomes Educator: Young Fencer's Neuro-Revolution Goes International
    Education
    — Written by Jelena Ciric — [Updated February 2024] There’s one thing that beats inspiring kids to take up neuroscience: Watching them not only catch the spark but pass it along! High schooler Supriya Nair is our case in point. Through scientific outreach using our SpikerBox, she has already ignited the interest of hundreds of […]
  • 5 Brain Awareness Week Ideas (Apply Now to Get up to $1,250 in Grants!)
    Outreach
    — Written by Jelena Ciric — Second week of March is always a special time of year for brain buffs. That is when educators from around the world join in for neuroscience outreach in schools and local communities! Money’s always scarce, but your organization doesn’t have to tap into its own funds. If you write […]
  • Engineering Cyborgs: The Gastronauts Podcast With Greg Gage
    Marketing
    Backyard Brains has just added another feature to our ever longer list of media appearances! This time, our co-founder and CEO, Dr. Greg Gage, talked for The Gastronauts, Duke University’s monthly seminar and podcast series. This seminar is being organized by researchers passionate about gut-brain matters. But when one invites the driving force behind Backyard […]
  • Backyard Brains Co-Founder Tim Marzullo on Roll With the Punches Podcast
    Marketing
    So you can use a device to remote control a cockroach. Or another device to control a friend’s body by hooking up their arm with your brain’s electrical activity. But can you use this same device to control their body during a box match, all from a relative safety outside the ring? This and many […]
  • BYB Neuroscience Goes to Penang, Malaysia
    Education
    We’re ending the eventful year of 2022 grand style – by sending our gear on yet another trip across the world to further our #NeuroRevolution! This time, it was George Town in Penang, Malaysia, where school kiddos got to try their hands at our Claw. The neuroscience booth was part of an exhibition funded by […]
  • Backyard Brains at FENS 2022 - Neuroscience in the City of Light
    Education
    — Written by Jelena Ciric — This summer’s been a busy and buzzy season for spreading the word on DIY neuroscience! As part of the outreach activities, our crew hit Paris to attend FENS (Forum of European Neuroscience), Europe’s largest international neuroscience conference. We set up shop there and demoed the latest upgrades of our […]
  • Human-Human Interface Makes Its Way to Two Schools in Serbia
    Education
    Our DIY neuroscience gear has already seen over a hundred countries all over the world. And it doesn’t intend to stop! So to scratch the gear’s itch, we decided to organize two more demoes in Europe—this time, in Branko Radicevic High School and Simeon Aranicki Elementary in the town of Stara Pazova (Serbia). Our team […]
  • Get up to $1,500 in Grants for 2022 Brain Awareness Week Outreach
    Biz
    Are you part of an organization registered as public charity in the US or Canada? If yes, now is the time to apply for up to $1,500 that you can use towards planning out an outreach for next year’s Brain Awareness Week (March 14 – March 20, 2022)! If awarded, you could use this money […]