Had a blast training volunteers from the @comicconmuseum.bsky.social for Animal Communication 101: Doctor Who edition. We discussed nonverbal communication strategies used by animals and our favorite Dr. Who aliens. Thanks to @melissatruth.bsky.social + Angel DeLuz for having me!

Our short film VERSE will have its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, June 6th, 8:15pm, Shorts Theater in NYC! It was a blast acting as scientific advisor for this film to edit the script for scientific accuracy and help secure grant funding for the film. West coast dates soon!

I presented about modeling motor control in the mouse arm at the Salk Neuroscience Symposium today! The pressure was high, I had to present AFTER two of my neuroscience heroes: Eve Marder and Markus Meister! How am I supposed to follow that?? Thankful that it went well! 🤓

Had a blast presenting my poster at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the Simulated Bodies conference at Janelia about musculoskeletal imitation and transfer learning of mouse forelimb reaching with Talmo Pereira and Eiman Azim labs! 1/2

Redesigned my personal website! Featuring my computational neuro research, sci comm outreach, and film consulting. Video from our Comic Con panel with Fleet Science, my "Body Horror and the Brain" lecture @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social and many collabs @cinebeth.bsky.social 🔗 ericleonardis.github.io

I made a website for House Music Fridays! Check out the Events page for upcoming events and past flyers, you can sign up for our email list there! There is info about the night, socials, residents and guest DJs, photos, and 46 hours of mixes. hmfsd.github.io

I put together a playlist of all the past House Music Fridays mixes I could find. 44 hours of high quality house music for your listening pleasure! Featuring some of the best house DJs in the business, and I have a few mixes on there too. Here’s the link: on.soundcloud.com/rFDxz7Rghnrf...

Noticeably a lot more dynamical systems stuff at COSYNE this year 👍 love to see it 😎

Presented my work on musculoskeletal imitation learning in the mouse at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 I am very excited to share our new massively parallel framework in JAX for training biomechanical models to perform dexterous motor control tasks.

Poster session from 8:30pm-11:30pm? Whose idea was this? Am I being punished? did I do something wrong? 😭lol

Drop your chat gpt subscription and switch to Claude

Join me at House Music Fridays this week! I will be opening for Dj Neo24 (SF) and BPMSLIDE (Chicago) , should be a great time! Hope to see you at Air Conditioned Lounge in North Park, San Diego this Friday 9pm-2am. Event page here: ra.co/events/2353768

Had a blast giving my lecture “Computational Ethology and Embodied AI” with Professor Federico Rossano’s class CogSci 13 class at UC San Diego! We discussed how to quantify animal behavior with 2D and 3D pose estimation, and use imitation learning to reproduce animal behaviors we observe in the lab!

New mix up! This was my warmup set for Duke Shin and Jesse Austin at HMF on Feb 6. deep and jackin house with some disco vibes too. Give it a listen and let me know what you think! LINK HERE: on.soundcloud.com/STttkCl2KqZH...

Great times with the Grammy award winner and Chicago legend himself Gene Hunt who played a killer set at HMF Air Conditioned Lounge 🚀 and solid vibes as always from your host Matthew Brian 🏠🎶 bringing the highest quality house music to you every Friday in San Diego 👊💥

“notwithstanding the mob's recent hysteria about something of no significance whatsoever, namely personal emails.” <— is this a joke? this is cult worship… it’s significant if you’re not a sycophant

Excited to share that my poster, “Musculoskeletal Imitation Learning: Physics-Aware Constraints Promote Naturalistic Muscle Activity,” has been accepted to the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 this March 🤩👏 Looking forward to great discussions with colleagues.

Thanks to @gluzmania.bsky.social for having me at her class Science, Technology and Society: Science Communication at University of Alberta for a Q&A about my work as a scientific advisor for films. We discussed David Kirby's book Lab Coats in Hollywood and writing science on screen. What a blast!

In case you missed it, check out my new all vinyl mix with FeeLit Records Sunday Livestream! 🎶 Link here: youtu.be/m6gSsHe2lDs?...

Check out my vinyl mix on the Feelit Records Sunday Livestream out today!!! A selection of my favorite house records, most of which I bought from this store! Thanks to Markalan and DJ Valerian for having me out! Much love! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6gS...

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!

Join me for my all vinyl DJ set this Wednesday 6-9pm at The Office SD for Dance Klassique Vinyl Sessions

Hope you can join me for my All Vinyl DJ set this Wednesday 1/28 for Dance Klassique Vinyl Sessions with host Ivan Gregory at The Office SD! I will be spinning some downtempo, boogie, disco and deep house on the wheels of steel! I hope you can join us to warm up the night 6-9pm

"humans are the only animals who use tools".... hold my beer moooo www.cell.com/current-biol...

A real tour de force today by Mala Murthy @princetonneuro.bsky.social at @salkinstitute.bsky.social about her work with @sebastianseung.bsky.social on leveraging the complete connectome of the fly brain to understand social behavior in fruit flies. Incredible work!

Check out my new mix with Mimi’s House, episode 002! A deep and funky house mix for your listening pleasure. Big thanks to Mimi Raza for the opportunity to share some deep funky house tunes. Keep an eye on this channel for more great mixes! soundcloud.com/mimishouse/e...

Check out my new mix with Mimi’s House, episode 002! A deep and funky house mix for your listening pleasure. Big thanks to Mimi Raza for the opportunity to share some deep funky house tunes. Keep an eye on this channel for more great mixes! soundcloud.com/mimishouse/e...

Had a blast watching Communion with Bonkers Ass Cinema and Film Geeks SD @cinebeth.bsky.social at the Digital Gym SD 🎥🎞️ Nothing like watching Christopher Walken tap dance with aliens on the big screen👽 Thanks Matt for braving the alien costume that doubles as a sauna 💦😰

Tuskegee 2.0... what a nightmare... who will be held accountable? newrepublic.com/post/205330/...

This technology is not secure. LLMs can be easily jailbroken. There is no guarantee whatsoever that it won’t tell users military secrets with the right prompt. This is cybersecurity 101!

For those who missed House Music Fridays last night, here is a 4 hour recording of Jesse Austin and I going back to back for your listening pleasure! Building gradually from deep house and disco into higher energy jackin and acid vibes. Enjoy! Link: soundcloud.com/eric-leonard...

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

My track “Brood Groove” was selected for the Best of Piston Recordings 2025 compilation! OUT NOW! Link here: www.traxsource.com/track/141743... 🤩 Piston Recordings is based in Setúbal, Portugal. This comp features a bunch of incredible artists from around the world!

A little present under the tree for me🎄 My track "Brood Groove" was selected for the Best of Piston Recordings 2025 compilation! Pre-order for the 12/26 release!

How do biological agents learn for the future? Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Manifold implies the existence of pedifold 🤔

I’ll be DJing at House Music Fridays this week supporting Aaron Paar (LA)! Hope to see you at AC Lounge Fri 9pm-2am!

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

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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

Cool poster for the cinematography nerds that I enjoyed from @NeurIPSConf "CineTechBench: A Benchmark for Cinematographic Technique Understanding and Generation" Wang et al arxiv.org/pdf/2505.15145

Very interesting panel discussion about alignment challenges and possibilities and guardrails for improving AI safety in agentic AI models w/ @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Dawn Song @hannahrosekirk.bsky.social @eegilbert.org and Monojit Choudhury I hope we can discuss these issues more as a community

Got to check out @sonyai.bsky.social @sonyplaystation.bsky.social at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 featuring game AI racing agent Gran Turismo Sophy and diffusion models 👏🔥 cool stuff!

@yoshuabengio.bsky.social presented “A safety argument for the Scientist AI” about the importance of using non-agentic probabilistic language models to evaluate risk and potential harm in order regulate unethical behavior in agentive models @neuripsconf.bsky.social

Quality over quantity this year for me this year for releasing music! 😁 Thanks to Piston Recordings Rogério Urbano Martins for releasing and properly promoting my Deep Delirium EP. Thanks to Josh Jackson for the excellent remix! 🔥 3 top 100 positions, I’ll take it! 💪

Ready for #NeurIPS2025! Looking for conversations on RL, musculoskeletal modeling, and 3D pose estimation. Happy to share about our high speed open source imitation learning framework MIMIC-MJX. Local to SD, so ask me for recs! 😎 ericleonardis.github.io 📜 arxiv.org/pdf/2511.218...

🚨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

Presented my @talmo.bsky.social lab poster at @sfn.org yesterday! We discussed muscle modeling, biomechanics and motor control in the mouse. 🐭 It was a busy poster, lots of folks were excited about our new software tools which will be released very soon!

Come check out what we’ve been up to at Talmo Lab! I’ll be presenting my poster “Behavior-Driven Musculoskeletal Modeling for Embodied Neural Control: Dextrous Forelimb Reaching in Mice” on 📅 Monday, November 17, 2025 🕐 1:00 (PSTR253.26, Board ZZ3)