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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 1d

“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling

Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 2d

Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 4d

The Neuroscience School for Advanced Studies "Brain Plasticity: Neural Basis of Individuality" led by LIP Director Ulman Lindenberger and Tobias Bonhoeffer @mpiforbi.bsky.social has just ended at San Servolo, Venice! #nsas

Group photo in front of old church in green scenery

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 12d

Miroslav Sutej, Bombardment of the Optic Nerve, II, 1963
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 14d

This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome @kristorpjensen.bsky.social

Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 14d

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!

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Josh Dudman @dudman.bsky.social · 13d

www.bbc.com/news/article... science ftw! Amazing work described here.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 13d

Count me in too!

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely, please note this is a dataset and machine learning benchmark article. The behavior study is coming!

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 15d

We’ll present the first benchmark at @neuripsconf.bsky.social — there is much more to come!

Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 15d

Amazing work from co-first authors Andy Bonnetto and Haozhe Qi and a big team! The smart kitchen was built in collaboration with Silvestro Micera, Friedhelm Hummel and @marcpollefeys.bsky.social.

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 15d

Leveraging this multi-modal dataset, we propose four benchmarks to advance behavior understanding and modeling through 1) a vision-language benchmark, 2) a semantic text-to-motion generation benchmark, 3) a multi-modal action recognition benchmark, 4) a pose-based action segmentation benchmark.

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 15d

Here, we introduce the EPFL-Smart-Kitchen-30 dataset, collected in a noninvasive motion capture platform inside a kitchen environment. Leveraging this multi-modal dataset, we propose four benchmarks to advance behavior understanding and modeling!

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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...

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 16d

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 18d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.
Deadline to apply September 30.
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 24d

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mchurchland.bsky.social @mchurchland.bsky.social · 29d

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
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Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills

Skilled movement often requires flexibly combining multiple subskills, each requiring dedicated control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains u...

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Sreejan Kumar @sreejan.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm excited to share that my new postdoctoral position is going so well that I submitted a new paper at the end of my first week! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread below

Sensory Compression as a Unifying Principle for Action Chunking and Time Coding in the Brain

The brain seamlessly transforms sensory information into precisely-timed movements, enabling us to type familiar words, play musical instruments, or perform complex motor routines with millisecond pre...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Sep 5

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.

These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.

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Emotion research has a communication conundrum

In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Dec 5

How the brain coordinates the activity of its many muscles to achieve successful control remains an enigma. www.cell.com/issue/S0896-...

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Sep 4

There is one walking-to-arbitrary-goals-task in Arnold’s repertoire, but one could easily imitate more tasks of Kinesis as well as standing still when being perturbed…. One could also make the architecture modular, and a very interesting direction that we are interested in.

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Sep 4

Why is it called Arnold. It’s a transformer controlling muscles, aka a muscleformer. Well Arnold was one of the best muscle formers in history!

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Sep 4

This paper also represents the first publication for new PhD student Chengkun Li and 2nd year PhD student Merkourios Simos—a nice blend of established expertise and fresh perspectives on the team. Check out what we created!

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · Sep 4

Arnold marks the culmination of former PhD student Alberto Chiappa's doctoral work in the lab! He co-first authored this with Boshi An, who like us won one of the first MyoChallenges, then interned with us, and later joined EPFL for his Master's.

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