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NeuroView
Research papers turned into articles, short videos and lecture decks, written by students, checked against peer-reviewed sources, and free for anyone. Twenty-plus clubs on four continents now teach from them.
- Role
- Co-founder and president
- Year
- 2025–
- Status
- Ongoing
- Made with
- Static site, Writing, Video, Curriculum
Plate III · NeuroView
Overview
NeuroView is a publication about neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces, written by students, with teaching material attached. It simplifies research papers into modules that someone new to the field can actually use. Every piece is checked against peer-reviewed sources, and it is free to read: no paywall, no PhD required.
It has three parts. Articles explain a topic, from fMRI to neuroplasticity to what the brain does as it dies. Videos are short explainers on the same ground. And club resources are lecture decks, each paired with a Kahoot quiz, running from introductory to advanced, for anyone who wants to start a neuroscience club at their school.
The problem
I had founded a biochemistry club at my school, and I found it really hard to build my own slide decks without running into insanely technical language. Papers are written for specialists, and a club leader who is a student has to translate them from scratch, every week. I figured I wasn’t the only one hitting that wall, so we built the material I wished I’d had.
What I did
I co-founded NeuroView in 2025 with five other students, and I serve as its president.
I also write for it. Five of the articles are mine, and I present one of the videos:
- My Next First Round, on learning to be a beginner again after four years of debate.
- A Beginner’s Guide to BCIs.
- From Foster City to Shenzhen, on interning at biotech labs in the US and China.
- Biocomputing: A Breakthrough in AGI, and its video companion.
- What Does Your Brain Experience as You Die?
How it works
The site is static, with no CMS and no database. The lecture decks live as slides with a matching quiz, so a new club can run its first meeting with no preparation.
The eight lectures run from the cells of the brain, through microglia, through BCIs and the foreign body response (why implanted interfaces fail over time), to staining techniques, how to read a paper, antioxidants, PCR, and AI in biotech.The BCI lecture is the closest thing on the site to my own research. It is the same problem, explained from the beginning.
Decisions worth explaining
Credit every image. The lecture covers are Wikimedia Commons files, and the site lists each one’s author and licence. If we are going to teach people to check sources, the pictures should be sourced too.
Pair every lecture with a quiz. A deck on its own is a thing you read. A deck and a quiz is a meeting.
Make starting a club a form and an email. There is no account to create and nothing to buy. You say what kind of club you want, and the materials arrive.
What came out of it
After months of reaching out to student clubs around the world, more than twenty neuroscience clubs across four continents have adopted the curriculum, and our posts have drawn over six thousand views on social media.