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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 15d

Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from chopping to 🧽!

arxiv.org/abs/2506.01608

EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30: Densely annotated cooking dataset with 3D kinematics to challenge video and language models

Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex...

arxiv.org

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · 26d

thanks, Deepak :)

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Crista Falk @cristafalk.bsky.social · May 23

Last week, I had the incredible privilege of talking with the @mit.edu first-generation, low income graduating class of 2025 as the event's keynote speaker. (1/n)

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · 29d

thanks, Jaap :)

Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · Sep 9

thanks, Brian :)

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Christian Hubicki @chubicki.bsky.social · Sep 8

The NSF Integrative Movement Sciences Institute (IMSI) is a major biology research center spanning over 20 US institutions.

The Mission: To understand why we move like we do--from molecules to muscles to our environment.

At our Summer Institute, we train new students in our labs--like Hannah Chow:

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks, Monica. I am deeply grateful for the consistent inspiration and community that IMSI offers.

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · Sep 8

In Nov last year, we published a predictive theory of locomotor adaptation to novel environments, capturing learning and generalization phenomena in over ten experiments:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm honored to be featured on the 2025 Innovators Under 35 list for this work.
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · Aug 9

We test this by considering a cross-linguistic dataset of locomotion naming 🏃‍♀️💃🚶
We find that even in this challenging dynamical multi-modal domain, systems of semantic categories across languages are significantly efficient

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Aug 1

Cogsci and AI: two different approaches as articulated by Josh Tenenbaum #cogsci2025

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · Jun 3

This is what the science machine does. No massive breakthrough. No single cure. Just lots and lots of cumulative knowledge that makes things better…

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK cancer survival rate doubles since 1970s amid ‘golden age’, report says

Half of those diagnosed will now survive for 10 years or more after advances in diagnosis and treatment

www.theguardian.com

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · May 10

Totally agree. Also, a key issue with the bitter lesson is it is by design winner-takes-all which is morally misaligned with the scientific enterprise to me. Great science happens cumulatively and in many corners.

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · May 9

Ugh… there’s also what I call messianic AI, the fantasy that AI will “solve” science. Treating science like a vending machine for solitons/profit & scientists as human cogs replaceable by machinery. But Science is a living culture of critical discussion, mentorship, shared community values &methods.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Apr 27

100%!
Universities and scientists should not cave, THE PUBLIC IS WITH US!
We much FIGHT BACK against efforts to demolish US universities and US science, two things that actually make America great.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Apr 27

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.

It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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Dynamic Walking 25 @dynamicwalking25.bsky.social · Apr 22

📢📢 Abstract submission extended 📢📢
The new deadline for your abstract submission is the 30th of April ‼️
All you need to do is submit your 1-minute video on what you'd talk about using this link: forms.gle/rk9GGtwDCPtN...

Dynamic Walking 2025 is in Aachen, Germany on the 14th - 17th of July.

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DW25 Abstract Submission

The conference will take place in Aachen, Germany (on the border with the Netherlands) from July 14 to 17, 2025. We’ll be based in one location, with easy access to three different countries! Contact:...

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Dynamic Walking 25 @dynamicwalking25.bsky.social · Apr 2

It's what you've all been waiting and hoping for; the deets on Dynamic Walking 2025! 🚶🎉

The when: July 14th - 17th
The Where: Aachen (Germany, but bordering the Netherlands)
The submission process: dynamicwalking2025.org
The deadline: April 25th

🚶‍♀️Hope to see you soon <3 🚶

DW25 Abstract Submission

The conference will take place in Aachen, Germany (on the border with the Netherlands) from July 14 to 17, 2025. We’ll be based in one location, with easy access to three different countries! Contact:...

dynamicwalking2025.org

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · Apr 9

Woohoo! I've been waiting and hoping for this, indeed ;)

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Dynamic Walking 25 @dynamicwalking25.bsky.social · Apr 9

Only two weeks left to submit your video abstract for Dynamic Walking!🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️

Are you planning something creative for your video?

How likely do you think it is that someone will use the medium of interpretive dance? 💃🕺

Submission portal and details: dynamicwalking2025.org

dynamicwalking2025.org

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · Mar 26

Check out the latest Superlab guest speaker. We were lucky to host @aniladmello.bsky.social who gave a fascinating presentation about the cerebellum and its relationship to autism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzOe...

Anila D'Mello (UT - Southwestern)

YouTube video by Andrew Pruszynski

www.youtube.com

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Monica Daley @birdbiomech.bsky.social · Mar 6

We are recruiting trainees for the Integrative Movement Sciences Summer Institute. Students will gain research experience in dynamic muscular control of movement across organizational scales from molecular mechanisms to whole-body movement in complex environments.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/5n7w6pey

IMSI Summer Institute 2025: Now Recruiting Trainees! – Center for Integrative Movement Science

cims.uci.edu

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · Mar 6

my inbox tryin' to balance the calm and the crazy

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · Feb 17

Neuroethology ftw!

Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Feb 14

New blog post: The principle of neuroscience. medium.com/@kording/the...

The Principle of Neural Science

I first encountered Principles of Neural Science as a young student of neuroscience. The book was filled with delightful narratives…

medium.com

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Nov 21

Very proud of MIT for waiving tuition for any student from a family making less than $200K.
abcnews.go.com/US/massachus...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology to waive tuition for families making less than $200K

MIT tuition was $57,986 for the 2022-2023 school year, which is higher than the average for four-year private institutions in the U.S.

abcnews.go.com

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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · Jan 21

Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

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Nidhi Seethapathi @nidhise.bsky.social · Jan 25

I've noticed that journals hold theory papers to experiment-centric standards, stifling idea generation.

JEB has launched an article type for theory+modeling that will address this. A bold move and sign of thoughtful leadership -- will other journals follow?
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

JEB launches a new article type for theory and modelling studies

JEB recently launched a new article type called Theory & Modelling. With this new article type, we address the need across the fields of comparative physiology and biomechanics to publish research tha...

journals.biologists.com

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