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)

This week we are celebrating the House Music Fridays 10 year anniversary with Grammy award winner and platinum record producer Stacy Kidd! Get your tickets here: www.aclounge.club/stacykidd

🧠 I’ll be presenting at the @SfNtweets this year! If you're at SfN, come by and chat about embodied NeuroAI, biomechanics, and RL for motor control! 💪 Mon, 11/17/2025, 1–5PM Session: Computational Approaches in Behavior (PSTR253.26, Board ZZ3)

Join us for HMF this week! 🏠 I will be DJing with your incredible host Matthew Brian 🔥 Get ready for some big deep and jackin house tunes, see you on the dancefloor at Air Conditioned Lounge! 🎶 10/17 **10pm**-2am 💥

A biomechanics prof and two neuroscientists walked into a bar to play some deep tunes! 🤓 Join us this Friday for HMF! We will have special guest DJ Ala! Opening set from dathanna and I will be closing things out late! See you on the dancefloor! 🔥

Just got news that we were awarded the Neurotechnology for Safe AI Grant by the Foresight Institute! This will give me enough time to finish my post doc project! 5 months after getting my main funding frozen, this is a major relief. Now I can focus on doing good science!

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I made Piston Recordings 🇵🇹 Top 10 most popular tracks! Josh Jackson remix at #1 and Deep Delirium at #10! Let's goooo! www.traxsource.com/title/258407...

Join us for illfunction tonight 9pm-2am! I will be opening with some hip hop, downtempo, and funky disco 9:30-11. 🕺🪩💃 Then a set from the man Oscar P🔥 Sets also from residents Waterpark Jones and Trev Muello 👏 At Subterranean Coffee, North Park, San Diego ☕️ for the dancers!

Had a blast at the Doctor Who panel at @comicconmuseum.bsky.social 🛸 I joined biotech professors to discuss the science behind our favorites robots and cyborgs: daleks, cybermen, K9, and the TARDIS! I also ranted about how Dalek tentacles may improve information transfer in UX design.🐙1/2

Had a blast at the Doctor Who panel at @comicconmuseum.bsky.social 🛸 I joined biotech professors to discuss the science behind our favorites robots and cyborgs: daleks, cybermen, K9, and the TARDIS! I also ranted about how Dalek tentacles may improve information transfer in UX design.🐙1/2

I will be on a panel about the Robotics and Biotechnology in Doctor Who at the Comic Con Museum this Saturday 9/20 1-3pm! The panel will also consist of professors of biomedical science who are big Who fans: Dr. Mark Glassy, Dr. Monica Carson and Dr. David D Lo!

Join us for Suds and Science at Slater’s 50/50 SD with @fleetscience tonight 9/16 at 6:30–8:00pm! 🤖 I’ll be presenting my research about “The Uncanny Valley In The Animal Kingdom” we will discuss the neuroscience of why robots creep us out and even other animals! 🐸🐭🐁

I will be on a panel about the Robotics and Biotechnology in Doctor Who at Comic Con Museum on September 20th! The panel will consist of professors of biotechnology who are also big Whovian geeks. Should be a very interesting discussion about all your favorite robots from DW!

I will be on a panel about the Robotics and Biotechnology in Doctor Who at @ComicConMuseum on September 20th! The panel will consist of professors of biotechnology who are also big Whovian geeks discussing all of your favorite robots from DW! www.comic-con.org/museum/event...

I started a list about films about neurology and the brain: letterboxd.com/ericleonardi... Let me know if any others come to mind and I can add them too!

Join us at HMF this week! We have a very special guest Mimi Raza with support from myself and Jesse Austin! Mimi has played with heavy hitters like Roy Davis Jr., Halo, Pete Moss, Gene Farris, DJ Heather, and Doc Martin to name a few! Don’t miss it, going to be an awesome night! Aug 15 9pm-2am!

I miss the delis in NY, like wtf was I doin to my body