Officially an Ass. Prof. at Salk now! 🤘 www.salk.edu/news-release...

Salk Institute appoints Talmo Pereira as assistant professor and promotes Julie Law to professor - Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Highlights Salk Fellow Talmo Pereira, who designs AI-based tools to study movement in fields ranging from neuroscience to plant biology, joins the faculty as assistant professor Julie Law, who studies...

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New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎 New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We tracked mice in space! This video shows our estimate of their self-induced centripetal force during circling in 3D 👩‍🚀 Preprint thread below 👇

Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩‍🔬 🐁@eisch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ New preprint! 🧪With @talmo.bsky.social and team, we used deep learning on archival NASA video of mice on the ISS. Turns out mice in microgravity become tiny acrobats: huddling to sleep, doing backflips, even briefly generating their own ~1g. #SpaceBiology #OpenScience #NASA #SLEAP

1/ New preprint! 🧪With @talmo.bsky.social and team, we used deep learning on archival NASA video of mice on the ISS. Turns out mice in microgravity become tiny acrobats: huddling to sleep, doing backflips, even briefly generating their own ~1g. #SpaceBiology #OpenScience #NASA #SLEAP

Psyched to announce our COSYNE workshop on social behaviors (Mar 17th, Cascais). We have a stellar lineup of speakers on topics from animal cooperation and aggression to the social dynamics of LLM agents. Co-organized with Libby Zhang (Allen Institute + UW). cosyne-social-behavior.github.io

We just got the Sprout robot from @faunarobotics.bsky.social in @talmo.bsky.social ’s lab. Usually robots mean weeks of debugging pain before experiments even start. This time we powered it on and got the robot to stand, walk and teleop on Day 1. Respect to the engineers that made setup so smooth!

I presented our work today at NeurIPS @neuripsconf.bsky.social @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social “Massively Parallel Imitation Learning of Mouse Forelimb Musculoskeletal Reaching Dynamics” with @talmo.bsky.social and @eazim.bsky.social about modeling motor control with MIMIC-MJX: arxiv.org/abs/2511.21848

Hope to see you at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social Workshop! I will presenting our poster “Massively Parallel Imitation Learning of Mouse Forelimb Musculoskeletal Reaching Dynamics” @talmo.bsky.social @eazim.bsky.social Dec 7, SDCC 🦾🧠 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21848

🚨Our work was accepted to the @neuripsconf.bsky.social : Data on the Brain & Mind workshop!🧠🦾"Massively Parallel Imitation Learning of Mouse Forelimb Musculoskeletal Reaching Dynamics" @talmo.bsky.social @eazim.bsky.social An imitation learning framework for modeling mouse forelimb control. 1/3

Talmo Lab is at @sfn.org! Come check out our latest work! #neuroskyence #neurosky #SfN2025 #SfN25

Great tips from @hormiga.bsky.social for your first scientific conference — in perfect time for #SfN2025! #neuroskyence scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...

Getting the most of out a scientific conference

A slightly unconventional guide to your first time

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📣 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: Learn about quantifying and modeling behavior using #DeepLearning from @talmo.bsky.social. ➡️ Apply to attend: www.jax.org/education-an... #MachineLearning #Neuroskyence

Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...

And we are live! Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️ Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions! www.kaggle.com/competitions...

📽️Recordings from our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🧠🤖

Satpreet (Sat) Singh@satpreetsingh.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Excited to announce our workshop "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" at the upcoming @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2025! 🧠🤖 🪱🪰🐟🐝🐭💪 Schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🗓️ Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada, on March 31!

I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇 braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/... The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…

Having funded teams/contracts that required six figure+ funds a few times now, these numbers SOUND really huge in isolation to normal folks but they're not! Don't make floating numbers! I like to say things like this: "A cancer lab is basically a small business, with many jobs created by each grant"

Katie Hinde@mammalssuck.bsky.social · last yr.

Earth & Life Sciences Academics communicating the new EO about indirect rates, imma need you to improve yer messaging- maybe don't say "If I get a million dollar grant, my uni gets another $700k to keep the lights on & water running" bc isn't going to get the traction you think it is-

This is an amazing opportunity for graduate students in #PlantScience who consider a postdoc. 3-day, all-expenses-paid program from July 23-25, 2025 in San Diego! Check it out and spread the word! www.salk.edu/about/our-co...

DISCOVER Symposium - Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Applications are open! Program Overview & Goals The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences Symposium for a Diverse Inclusive Scientific Community Offering a Vision for an Ecosystem Reimagined (DISCO...

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Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

Today was the conclusion of the SLEAP.ai Hackathon 2024 in @talmo.bsky.social Lab! This year we improved SLEAP deep learning software by fixing issues, answering discussions, improving documentation and adding features! Thanks to Liezl, Elizabeth,Talmo and the SLEAP dev team for making it happen!

If we want science and software to be more open, we have to learn how to communicate and collaborate. It was a joy to chat with @sejdevries.bsky.social from @alleninstitute.bsky.social) about what it will take to make science truly open and team-based. www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...

Open science: hope is other people - Change, Technically

Much like open source software, open science is a path to distributed collaboration. By sharing the data from experiments and investigations open and available, scientists can multiply impact and disc...

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Another cool "digital twin" work from Wood’s lab After the virtual chicks, this time: "We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish" #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Parallel development of social behavior in biological and artificial fish - Nature Communications

The learning algorithms that produce social behavior are unknown. Here the authors show that artificial fish, modeled via embodied deep neural networks, learn the same social behaviors as real fish, s...

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The Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants

Cosyne 2025 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program

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"E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains." -CEO Andrew Payne e11.bio/news/roadmap

E11 Bio Roadmap | E11 Bio

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Great example of “last mile” tooling needed to bridge AI to scientific workflows. It’s hard to get these built in academia because they require a traditional software eng skillset (eg. building UIs) that scientists rarely have.

Talmo Pereira@talmo.bsky.social · 2y ago

In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai! Strong recommend 🤙

🧪 E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains. Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap

In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai! Strong recommend 🤙

SWC/GCNU Neuroinformatics Unit@neuroinformatics.dev · 2y ago

We'd like to introduce movement, a free and open-source Python package for analysing body movements, designed to aid the study of animal behaviour in neuroscience. Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind... GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...

Sniffing helps animals identify smells and connect them to places and events, but noses can’t sense time or place. How do brains connect odors with internal models of the world? Our preprint suggests that the olfactory bulb participates in this connection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is my first post here, and I'm happy to share some news. We've just launched megabouts.ai! 🐟📈 1/n