🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

UW mechanical engineering PhD grads go on to do some many amazing things... including going to the Paralympics! I'm so stoked that I get to watch Nicole Zaino put her biomechanics knowledge to work while competing in para nordic skiing! www.washington.edu/boundless/ni...

@bingbrunton.bsky.social and I trying our hand at pinning a blue-eyed darner dragonfly, Rhionaeschna multicolor

Dragonflies are emerging at mid elevations in N Central WA: Libellula pulchella, Twelve-spotted Skimmer.