It was a busy week in San Diego with Decision Lab activities at the IEEE NER 2025 meeting, with the general theme of Human-Centered Neural Engineering and AI, leading up also to the Society for Neuroscience meeting the following week.

On Tuesday, in collaboration with colleagues Lilyana Levy and Ashley Feinsinger from the UCLA-CDU Dana Center for Neuroscience and Society, we hosted a workshop on Centering Disabled Neurotechnology Users in Neural Engineering: What, Why, When, and How? This workshop invited active participation and reflection from neural engineers in attendance. As one attendee expressed as a takeaway point, “Many people care, and want ‘good’, for the end user, but what it takes in practice to achieve that ‘good’ is more complicated and rooted in communication.”

On Wednesday, Valerie Black presented her poster on The Ambiguously Experimental Position of Argus II Recipients. As shown, this poster generated a lot of engagement and discussion, and it was particularly gratifying to talk with vision neurotechnology researchers and neural engineering educators about the case. Keep an eye out for Valerie’s conference paper, to be published in the conference proceedings!