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EPFL Brain Mind Institute @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Your eyes constantly move to hunt for information, a strategy known as infotaxis. New work from Prof. Mackenzie Mathis's lab @trackingactions.bsky.social shows mice do it too: in a VR task, they actively sought out the most informative views, adjusting as visual info changed doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🔥 Our latest work is state of the art 3D pose estimation, with video analysis from a single camera! 🎥 Just train with 3D data, and then only 1 camera is needed! 🖤 Presented this week at #CVPR2026 by lead author Ti Wang! Please repost🩵🙏🏼 xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/ arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Honored to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social (EPFL)! 🎉 Deeply grateful to my current and past incredible lab members, collaborators, and mentors who’ve made this journey possible. 🧠✨🙏🏼

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➡️3D 🔥 Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️ 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755 ➡️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 06/02/2026

Excited to co-host this conference with @marissascavuzzo.bsky.social and Steve Liberles focused on the peripheral nervous system -- No Brainer! Check out the amazing list of speakers and apply for one of the spots for this small, interactive meeting on the beautiful Janelia Campus at HHMI.

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Catherine Dulac @dulaclab.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Ascona meetings on neural circuits are amazing conferences in a beautiful setting in Switzerland spanning all scales from genetics and micro-circuit cracking to high level cognition. Check asconacircuits.org for the 2026 program and register soon, as it typically reaches capacity very quickly 🧠🧪

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Ascona Circuits 🧠🧪 @asconacircuits.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Registration for the Ascona 2026 Meeting is now open. Go to asconacircuits.org to submit your abstract and register for the meeting! We are looking forward to seeing you in Switzerland this September! Ascona Meeting Organizers

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Ascona circuits meeting looks as awesome as ever. Submissions open.. www.asconacircuits.org

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Delighted we made the superlab list @andpru.bsky.social 🫶 List: mailchi.mp/c9edb773c735... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Enjoying the Swiss Animal Science meeting! Inspiring to be around people who are passionate about research animal welfare and open science ❤️

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

If you’re at SfN, see the poster on DeepLabCut 3 where n Monday 8-12 Swing by to talk to @trackingactions.bsky.social and me this and about the DLC ecosystem!

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · 01/11/2025

AI tools like DeepLabCut and SuperAnimal are changing how scientists study movement, helping them understand how brain activity drives behavior. Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF @trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social

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How AI Is Changing Neuroscience Discovery

AI is altering how scientists study the brain

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My lab has been pushing into explainable, robust, & theoretically-tractable AI models for science 💪 New! Accepted to #ICCV2025 we introduce #DISTIL - led by amazing PhD student @mirzious.bsky.social - we propose a trigger-inversion method for DNNs that reconstructs malicious backdoor triggers 1/4

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Fall US trips booked! I'll be speaking at Scripps, SfN, and ICCV 🚀 Who will be at #ScrippsNeuroSymposium2025, #SfN2025 and/or #ICCV2025? Lots of ☀️🕶️🌴 & 🧠 in Oct/Nov!

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Not just an amazing dataset, excellent 3D pose, shape, and eye tracking in the real world! Bravo @trackingskills.bsky.social et al! PS - Exactly this kind of data we predict will be critical for long-term health monitoring @monosovlab.bsky.social et al: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22/09/2025

A.I. tools are already shaping patient care—but we should be wary of letting them diagnose us. “Patients and doctors alike could think of A.I. not as a way to solve mysteries but as a way to gather clues,” Dhruv Khullar writes.

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If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?

Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 18/09/2025

New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition

Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...

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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

DeepLabCut pose estimation (@trackingactions.bsky.social) revealed high intitial motor variability, which is essenatial for motor learning (Dhawale et al., 2017, Annu. Rev. Neurosci.).

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/09/2025

New paper in Nature finds that global geologic CO2 storage potential is ~90% lower than previously believed. Many candidate sites could leak CO2 back into the air or into groundwater, undermining climate mitigation efficacy or putting nearby human health at risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I might be biased, but I think this is one of the most exciting developments in generalized musculoskeletal control in years ⬇️. Congrats to the team (I’m not involved!) 💪🔥

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy! The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066

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EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences @icepfl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model. Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good. Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This was a wonderful project to work on! It also, in part, sparked a lot! Beyond just our handles: @trackingskills.bsky.social aka trackingplumes (Bluesky and X), when I wanted to track mouse hands & Alex noses, we teamed up in 2017 to make @deeplabcut.bsky.social 💜 Delighted to see this out! 🙏🏼

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Ben Dichter @bendichter.com · 25/08/2025

Yes, AmadeusGPT is a great example of the kinds of structure that can make these LLMs truly useful for science

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Selfishly, I’ll plug our tool LLM agent in system #AmadeusGPT - which lets you vibe code your behavioral analysis ;) and even gives you interpretable and verifiable outputs! www.mackenziemathislab.org/amadeusgpt

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AmadeusGPT — The Mathis Lab of Adaptive Intelligence

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Paolo De Los Rios @paolodelosrios.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

A no-miss opportunity to join EPFL. We are a vibrant (had to use it 😉) community working in all branches of basic sciences and engineering, and interdisciplinary studies are strongly encouraged. If you want more information, contact the committee heads, or feel free to DM me. tinyurl.com/bd27ky7p

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Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)

The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...

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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

So great to meet up with the talented @julianneumann.bsky.social today! His work on merging neuro, AI, and clinical applications is very exciting. He was the first to use and extend #CEBRA for human experiments 🚀🧠 #neuroskynce

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Peter Sudmant @psudmant.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The Sudmant lab at UC Berkeley is seeking a postdoc to work on a fully funded NIH project to understand differences in DNA repair and somatic mutation across the primate tree of life. Please spread widely to those who may be interested aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05052

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Postdoctoral Scholar – Genomics, Aging, Somatic Mutation, Structural Variation, Evolution , Cancer – Integrative Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/08/2025

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.