Vivek Kumar
@vivekdna.bsky.social
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Geneticist, neuroscientist, behaviorist @Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. www.kumarlab.org
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bluesky.awakari.com
A month or two ago someone posted a link to their really amazing set of LLM system instructions for writing # rstats code with good tidy/NSE patterns. (They were also good for humans!) Does anyone recall who or where that was?

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ecoevo.social
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jaxeducation.bsky.social
💥SESSION SPOTLIGHT: Discuss commercialization opportunities with @goldenneuron.bsky.social and @vivekdna.bsky.social during a special evening session at the #MachineLearning Short Course: www.jax.org/education-an...
Dark blue graphic reads, "October 14 | Session Spotlight | Evening Discussion: Commercialization | Sam Golden, Ph.D., University of Washington | Vivek Kumar, Ph.D., The Jackson Laboratory | 2025 Machine Learning Short Course | October 12 - 17 | Bar Harbor, ME & Virtual."
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antihebbiann.bsky.social
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...
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/MABe-mouse-behavior-detection
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thomasp85.com
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
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anguskingiii.bsky.social
For over 100 years MDIBL has been contributing research that creates talent, knowledge and cures for what ails us. Thanks to Jeri for a great tour. Maine has a life sciences story to tell, and we should make sure our labs grow and thrive. #Maine #BuildABetterMaine #MEpolitics @mdibiolab.bsky.social
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jaxeducation.bsky.social
🖥️🧬 Through hands-on workshops & lectures, participants will explore:
🔹 Experimental workflows
🔹 Animal tracking algorithms
🔹 Advanced statistical modeling

The @jacksonlab.bsky.social's course features experts in neuroscience, machine learning & behavior analysis.

Apply: www.jax.org/education-an...
Short Course Machine Learning for Automated Quantification of Behavior
This JAX Short Course will focus on the fundamentals of quantitative behavior analysis, machine learning, and data science, and will be aimed at researchers from the fields of neuroscience, genetics, ...
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evoldir.bsky.social
The Hibbins Lab at the University of Rochester seeks a postdoctoral researcher in Phylogenomics. Ideal candidates should have experience in phylogenetics and strong computational skills. Details: https://mhibbins.github.io/research/ #postdoc
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mhibbins.github.io
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antihebbiann.bsky.social
Picture #3 is giving me life
vivekdna.bsky.social
I just gonna add photos to encourage ML Behavior short course applications.

jax.org/autobehavior
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antihebbiann.bsky.social
I wrote a Comment on neurotheory, and now you can read it!

Some thoughts on where neurotheory has and has not taken root within the neuroscience community, how it has shaped those subfields, and where we theorists might look next for fresh adventures.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Theoretical neuroscience has room to grow
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - The goal of theoretical neuroscience is to uncover principles of neural computation through careful design and interpretation of mathematical models. Here, I examine...
www.nature.com
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antihebbiann.bsky.social
🍂 Applications are now open for our ML-for-Behavior 5-day course at Jackson Labs in Bar Harbor, ME.

Talks and hands-on workshops cover pose estimation, supervised/unsupervised behavior quantification, and downstream behavior analyses. Financial aid is available!

www.jax.org/education-an...
students in last year's advanced bootcamp on software development and version control view of the Highseas Conference Center where the course is held
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ericswalwell.bsky.social
Seriously, where are these low prices?
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
"All that is required is the abolition of the academic executive and of the governing board. Anything short of this heroic remedy is bound to fail, because the evils sought to be remedied are inherent in these organs, and intrinsic to their functioning."

-Veblen, 1918 (former prof at Chicago)
mbkplus.bsky.social
A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
vivekdna.bsky.social
Wow - my alma mater is in a financial hole. The cause is attributed to poor investments in an attempt to capitalize on faculty IP. I’d love to see actual numbers.
mbkplus.bsky.social
A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
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jaxeducation.bsky.social
🙌 🌟 #JAXSSP25 spent 10 weeks immersed in scientific discovery at @jacksonlab.bsky.social and just capped off their experience at the final symposium!

We’re proud of all they’ve accomplished. Join us in celebrating the curiosity, dedication and achievements of this next generation of scientists! 👏
JAX President and CEO Lon Cardon standing at a podium giving remarks at the 2025 SSP Symposium in Farmington, Conn. The 2025 Bar Harbor SSP cohort, along with additional JAX staff, posing in a stairwell. 2025 Farmington SSP Cohort standing together for a group photo. A 2025 SSP student wearing a navy blue polo standing at a podium addressing a crowd in an auditorium.
vivekdna.bsky.social
Thank you, Jeremy.
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jaxeducation.bsky.social
📢🧠 #Neuroscience researchers: Level up your skills and reimagine behavior quantification at @jacksonlab.bsky.social's #MachineLearning Course from Oct. 12 – 17.

Organized by @vivekdna.bsky.social, @gordonberman.bsky.social‬, @goldenneuron.bsky.social & Ann Kennedy.

More details and link below 👇
JAX Short Course on the Application of Machine Learning for Automated Quantification of Behavior flyer. Visit jax.org/AutoBehavior for more details.
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reeserichardson.bsky.social
Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...
A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise
Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”
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