About Connectomics

Like many good ideas, this one started with frustration. Researchers working on brain mapping were having important conversations everywhere except with each other—neuroscientists publishing on synaptic connectivity, engineers building better imaging tools, computer scientists developing reconstruction algorithms—all working in parallel but not together.

A handful of people from different labs and companies found themselves asking the same questions: What resolution do we actually need for a useful connectome? Which reconstruction methods work best with noisy data? How do we validate our results? Instead of hunting through dozens of papers and conference proceedings for answers, we decided to create a space where these conversations could happen directly.

What started as a small Discord server for sharing papers and code is growing into a platform where graduate students, postdocs, industry researchers, and professors can collaborate on both fundamental questions and practical implementation details. Our mission is ambitious: to tackle the most challenging goal in science—mapping and understanding the complete neural circuitry of the brain. We discuss cutting-edge research, debate breakthrough ideas, and connect with like-minded individuals who share our vision. We're actively working toward a practical roadmap for comprehensive brain scanning, determining what data we need to capture, which algorithms will decode neural networks most effectively, how this will impact our understanding of consciousness, and establishing rigorous success criteria and validation metrics for connectome projects. We're not trying to solve consciousness tomorrow—we're building the infrastructure for the conversations that will get us there.