AI tools like DeepLabCut and SuperAnimal are changing how scientists study movement, helping them understand how brain activity drives behavior. Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF @trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social

#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word! www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

My lab has been pushing into explainable, robust, & theoretically-tractable AI models for science 💪 New! Accepted to #ICCV2025 we introduce #DISTIL - led by amazing PhD student @mirzious.bsky.social - we propose a trigger-inversion method for DNNs that reconstructs malicious backdoor triggers 1/4

(YouTube) From LSD to AI with Switzerland's brain explorers www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnA... via @trackingactions.bsky.social

Enjoying the extra flare in the office today courtesy of my lab ❤️🥹 - a little congrats that I gave my tenure talk yesterday! 🤞

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fall US trips booked! I'll be speaking at Scripps, SfN, and ICCV 🚀 Who will be at #ScrippsNeuroSymposium2025, #SfN2025 and/or #ICCV2025? Lots of ☀️🕶️🌴 & 🧠 in Oct/Nov!

Not just an amazing dataset, excellent 3D pose, shape, and eye tracking in the real world! Bravo @trackingskills.bsky.social et al! PS - Exactly this kind of data we predict will be critical for long-term health monitoring @monosovlab.bsky.social et al: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A.I. tools are already shaping patient care—but we should be wary of letting them diagnose us. “Patients and doctors alike could think of A.I. not as a way to solve mysteries but as a way to gather clues,” Dhruv Khullar writes.

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

DeepLabCut pose estimation (@trackingactions.bsky.social) revealed high intitial motor variability, which is essenatial for motor learning (Dhawale et al., 2017, Annu. Rev. Neurosci.).

New paper in Nature finds that global geologic CO2 storage potential is ~90% lower than previously believed. Many candidate sites could leak CO2 back into the air or into groundwater, undermining climate mitigation efficacy or putting nearby human health at risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I might be biased, but I think this is one of the most exciting developments in generalized musculoskeletal control in years ⬇️. Congrats to the team (I’m not involved!) 💪🔥

Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy! The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066

Thrilled to share this work, long time in the making! Carried through creatively by @siddjakes.bsky.social after initial design & piloting by @trackingskills.bsky.social, with help from @trackingactions.bsky.social. Modeling in collaboration with Massimo Vergassola & Nicola Rigolli.

EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model. Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

This was a wonderful project to work on! It also, in part, sparked a lot! Beyond just our handles: @trackingskills.bsky.social aka trackingplumes (Bluesky and X), when I wanted to track mouse hands & Alex noses, we teamed up in 2017 to make @deeplabcut.bsky.social 💜 Delighted to see this out! 🙏🏼

Yes, AmadeusGPT is a great example of the kinds of structure that can make these LLMs truly useful for science

Selfishly, I’ll plug our tool LLM agent in system #AmadeusGPT - which lets you vibe code your behavioral analysis ;) and even gives you interpretable and verifiable outputs! www.mackenziemathislab.org/amadeusgpt

My lab has been pushing into explainable, robust, & theoretically-tractable AI models for science 💪 New! Accepted to #ICCV2025 we introduce #DISTIL - led by amazing PhD student @mirzious.bsky.social - we propose a trigger-inversion method for DNNs that reconstructs malicious backdoor triggers 1/4

A no-miss opportunity to join EPFL. We are a vibrant (had to use it 😉) community working in all branches of basic sciences and engineering, and interdisciplinary studies are strongly encouraged. If you want more information, contact the committee heads, or feel free to DM me. tinyurl.com/bd27ky7p

So great to meet up with the talented @julianneumann.bsky.social today! His work on merging neuro, AI, and clinical applications is very exciting. He was the first to use and extend #CEBRA for human experiments 🚀🧠 #neuroskynce

The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

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Happy Swiss National Day! 🇨🇭🏔️🚞 📯🥳❤️

Maybe one of the most beautiful forests I’ve been … 🇨🇭Engadine Alps

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

Summer time in Switzerland 🇨🇭 #zermatt

I moved to Switzerland 5 years ago this weekend. While it was hard to start mid-pandemic in 2020, I’m very grateful for the last half-decade in 🇨🇭. It now truly feels like home 🏔️❤️

David Hockney at the Fondation Louis Vuitton #art 🖼️

Day of Action planned for July 21 to protect science protectscienceandinnovation.org

A great rapid @deeplabcut.bsky.social workshop today at #ESB2025 (biomechanics!) for using pose estimation! Did you know we support both single and multi human SOTA models? 🔥#humansareanimalstoo

Goodbye Okinawa - until we meet again 🛫 🙏🏼

Paper accepted 🥰- those emails never get old! I’m always thrilled and humbled 🥹

Super thrilled to give a full day #DeepLabCut Workshop in Okinawa today! We had a packed house and everyone got models trained 🚀 - even then used #CEBRA 🦓 and/or #DLC2Action on the outputs! Thank you #OIST for hosting us!! 🥳

New tool CellSeg3D, from the group of blu.ski/@epfl-brainmind professor Mackenzie Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social enables self-supervised 3D cell segmentation in fluorescent microscopy,👇 labeling time & 👆quantitative analysis - paper: elifesciences.org/articles/99848 news: tinyurl.com/y2hpmbb9

Hello Okinawa 🇯🇵! Delighted to be here at #OSIT to lecture at the Comp Neuro Summer School alongside @trackingskills.bsky.social We also will give a full day @deeplabcut.bsky.social workshop in Japan! 💜

🥰 Self-supervised, label-free 3D cell imaging is here Congrats to Cyril on this very cool first, first author publication 🏆! This started when he was a bachelor's student (and he's now completing his masters!). And many thanks to my other awesome co-authors🙏 elifesciences.org/articles/99848

My heart is heavy for the many good people in Iran and Israel 💔🇮🇷🇮🇱 I’ve had the privilege of knowing kind, thoughtful people from both countries—something I fear many Americans sadly haven’t. It’s an embarrassing day to be from 🇺🇸 - War isn’t the answer 🤬😢 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Happy summer solstice ☀️! I’m enjoying the longest night of the year eating a lovely French artichoke outside in the brightness at ~9 pm ❤️ #food #articoke

Pleased to share our ICML Spotlight with @eberleoliver.bsky.social, Thomas McGee, Hamza Giaffar, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social. Position: We Need An Algorithmic Understanding of Generative AI What algorithms do LLMs actually learn and use to solve problems?🧵1/n openreview.net/forum?id=eax...

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

Neuropeptides specify and reprogram division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes Cell 🎉 I was delighted to provide multi-ant pose and segmentation analysis for this incredible new work from the Berger lab @upenn.edu

Want to follow my lab members, past & present ➡️ here is our growing starter pack! #neuroskynce #neuroAI #ML #AI #trustworthyAI

From🇨🇭sending love to the 🇺🇸 today #nokings

#DLCProTip: Did you know you can use unsupervised learning to adapt a trained model on the fly to your video in DeepLabCut!? When you run video analysis, check out “video adaptation” - it reduces jitter and provides better poses! ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why is this so important? In addition to the incredible accuracy, this BCI achieves what most have not by literally restoring the participant's voice. In the long term, the ability of these technologies to contribute to the sense of identity and agency is more important than pure accuracy.

In her new book, published today, neuroscientist @nicolecrust.bsky.social takes a bird's-eye view of where the neuroscience community is currently and where it needs to go to solve some of the field’s biggest questions. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/community/el...