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Michelle Hickner

@michellehickner.bsky.social

Teaching faculty at University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Interests include engineering higher education, machine learning for engineering control systems, and animal flight 🦋 🐝 🦅.

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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

🧵 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...

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Michelle Hickner @michellehickner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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...

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A scientist on skis | Be Boundless

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Michelle Hickner @michellehickner.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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

Bing Brunton looking at a dragonfly pinned to white foam board as she places an entomology pin

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Michelle Hickner @michellehickner.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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

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