iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

We used the AI-powered tool LabGym to analyze the behavior of Punch 🐒—a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who recently became a social media sensation. (Original video source: @JapanZooStory YouTube Channel) #Punch #PunchTheMonkey #AnimalVideo #labgymbeh @umlifesciences.bsky.social

121

Scan the QR code to access the LabGym Punch webpage:

010

Huge credit to Bobby Tomlinson @btoml.bsky.social, a talented computer scientist in my lab at the University of Michigan, who is leading this project. Three fantastic undergraduates Alisa Ficiciyan, Myra Lyu, and Alexander Chumak contributed to this work.

100

Our goal: democratize animal behavior analysis with AI. We hope this project makes LabGym more accessible—and empowers anyone to study the animals they care about.

100

Analyzing Punch — LabGym Project

You can download LabGym + our trained models and analyze new videos of Punch yourself. We hope this helps fans better understand his behavior and daily life. www.labgym.org/punch

labgym.org

LabGym models trained on public video to detect and classify Punch’s behaviors — a window into behavioral AI for community-driven science.

100

Studying animal behavior outside the lab is hard. We show it can be done by using the open-source LabGym to analyze Punch from real-world, crowd-sourced videos.

100

Bobby Tomlinson @btoml.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

121

Reposted by Bing Ye

📚🛠️ New on the LabGym site, the Resources page centralizes our assistant agent, guides, tutorials, and more to help users get started with video-based behavioral analysis workflows. Explore: labgym.org/resources

labgym.org

LabGym Resources - Documentation, Guides & Tutorials

Access LabGym resources including installation guides, video tutorials, practical and extended user guides, AI companion tools, and development resources.

031

Reposted by Bing Ye

Bobby Tomlinson @btoml.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🧠🏡Following the recent LabGym site release, I’ll be highlighting newly introduced pages that clarify LabGym's goals, methods, and use. The homepage introduces LabGym, an AI-driven tool for identifying + quantifying user-defined behaviors from video data: labgym.org

011

Bing Ye @byneuron.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

LabGym website is live! Visit labgym.org to explore LabGym’s features, tutorials, documentation, publications, and community resources for AI-powered behavioral analysis across species. Huge thanks to @btoml.bsky.social for designing and building the website!

labgym.org

LabGym - Open-Source AI Platform for Automated Animal Behavior Analysis

LabGym is an open-source AI platform that uses deep learning to identify, track, and quantify user-defined behaviors from video recordings. Supports any species, behavior type, or research application...

021

Reposted by Bing Ye

Liz Ronan, PhD @elizabithian.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Beautiful new work by @manduh21.bsky.social and our team! Clumsy, a kainate-type glutamate receptor, mediates noxious cold sensation and cold behavioral avoidance in fruit flies. This expands our prior work demonstrating this class of receptors also functions as a cold receptor in worms and mammals.

132

Reposted by Bing Ye

Liz Ronan, PhD @elizabithian.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

New preprint with @manduh21.bsky.social ! 🎉 We introduce LabGym, an open-source AI platform for analyzing C. elegans behavior.🪱 LabGym makes worm behavior analysis accurate, customizable, and accessible, no coding or costly setup required.

163

2025 LabGym Symposium Registration

🗓️ Date: Friday, Aug 22, 2025 🕘Time: 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM EST 💻Format: Virtual via Zoom 💰Registration: FREE (required) ⏰Deadline: Aug 17, 2025 Register here: forms.gle/uMnEXuvQH9QF... Questions? Email: labgym2022@gmail.com 4/

forms.gle

The 2025 symposium will be held online via Zoom on Friday, August 22, 2025 and will feature two sessions: Morning Seminar (9:00–11:30 AM EST): An introduction and overview of LabGym, followed by prese...

100

The seminar program: Lauren Raycraft (U of Michigan): a rodent operant procedure Gabriella Muwanga (Stanford): post-injury pain in mice. Théo Ardoin (U Paris-Saclay): Japanese Macaques Amanda Xu (University of Michigan): C. elegans behavior Julie Zhou (Cleveland Clinic): Cellular behavior 3/

100

GitHub - umyelab/LabGym: Quantify user-defined behaviors.

LabGym (github.com/umyelab/LabGym) is a free, open-source, AI-powered software suite for automated video analysis and quantification of animal behavior — downloaded over 56,000 times in just two years (pepy.tech/project/LabGym). 2/

github.com

Quantify user-defined behaviors. Contribute to umyelab/LabGym development by creating an account on GitHub.

100

LabGym Symposium – Registration Closes in 3 Days (Aug 17, 2025)! Includes a seminar and a tutorial session. The seminar will feature an introduction of LabGym, followed by presentations showcasing the use of LabGym to quantify a wide range of behaviors across species. 1/

Carrie Ferrario @cferrario.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Reposted by Bing Ye

Calling all behavior lovers- come learn about LabGym, a new tool for automated behavioral analysis. It's pretty amazing and useful. Please repost. @ssibsociety.bsky.social @ummni.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social @sfn.org

053

📧 Questions? Contact: labgym2022@gmail.com Don’t miss the chance to join an international community advancing AI-driven behavioral analysis. See you on Aug 22!

100

GitHub - umyelab/LabGym: Quantify user-defined behaviors.

🔗 Learn more about LabGym: GitHub: github.com/umyelab/LabGym Publications: • Hu et al., 2023 doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... • Goss et al., 2024 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... 7/

github.com

Quantify user-defined behaviors. Contribute to umyelab/LabGym development by creating an account on GitHub.

320

🌍Who should attend? ✅Faculty ✅Postdocs ✅Graduate and undergraduate students ✅Research technicians ✅Anyone interested in using AI tools to analyze behavioral videos (no prior experience with automated behavior analysis needed!) 6/

2025 LabGym Symposium Registration

🗓️Date: Friday, Aug 22, 2025 🕘Time: 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM EST 💻Format: Virtual via Zoom 💰Registration: FREE (required) ⏰Deadline: Aug 17, 2025 Register here 👉 forms.gle/uMnEXuvQH9QF... 5/

forms.gle

📌 The 2025 symposium features two sessions: Morning Seminar (9:00–11:30 AM EST): Introduction & Researcher presentations Tutorial Session (11:30 AM–1:30 PM EST) 🖥️Hands-on training in LabGym’s basic functions 📊Includes example videos & datasets for practice 🙌No programming experience required! 4/

🐵🙈🙉🙊 LabGym quantifies user-defined behaviors—social or non-social—without physical markers. It’s 'subject-aware,' telling you which animal is doing what in a group. 3/

GitHub - umyelab/LabGym: Quantify user-defined behaviors.

🐭🪰🐒 LabGym (github.com/umyelab/LabGym) is a free, open-source, AI-powered software suite for automated video analysis and quantification of animal behavior. 👉 Downloaded 55,000+ times in just two years! (pepy.tech/project/LabGym) 2/

github.com

Quantify user-defined behaviors. Contribute to umyelab/LabGym development by creating an account on GitHub.