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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Our team leaving a sedge meadow next to our camp in Alaska on my last night. Studying bears in their natural habitat is really one of my favorite side quests.

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thanks for all your support in shaping this trajectory!

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Enjoying that ☕️- officially got tenure 🤗! Thanks to all my amazing students and collaborators for making the tenure-track time very enjoyable!!

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Enhanced processing of cartoons in infant visual cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This fMRI study compared the original Lion King to the "realistic" remake!

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Satpreet (Sat) Singh @satpreetsingh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Talk recordings from our CoSyNe 2026 workshop on Agent-based Models in Neuroscience are now online! Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... RL agents and theory, interoception, biomechanical models connectome-constrained models, and more. #CoSyNe #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #RL #EmbodiedAI

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CoSyNe 2026 Agents in Neuroscience Workshop - YouTube

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EPFL Brain Mind Institute @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Two new @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social group reviews: The lab of Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social: The behavior biopsy: Interpreting animal behavior as embodied, situated, and hierarchical doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Check our latest work to model the sensorimotor pathway of grasping in primates also advancing embodied AI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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EPFL Brain Mind Institute @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

EPFL ELISIR apps now open go.epfl.ch/ELISIR. Fantastic opportunity for young neuroscientists to start an independent lab right after PhD, just like @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social ELISIR group leaders @jamespriestley.bsky.social & @ashleymaynard.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjPD... 👉 April 1 26

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EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research Scholar (ELISIR)

From exceptional PhD directly to independent group leader

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EPFL Brain Mind Institute @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Identifying individual wild animals is key for conservation. The lab of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social uses AI and images of Alaskan brown bears to non-invasively identify individuals & their behavior across seasons & years doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Es hat Freude bereitet (aka with pleasure)!

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Oscar Domínguez, Nostalgia of Space, 1939 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

You can learn about the work at #sfn2025 on Wednesday afternoon www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Great talk by Alessandro Marin Vargas at the #salk motor systems symposium!! www.salk.edu/events/scien...

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

#SfN2025 @deeplabcut.bsky.social 3 poster on Monday morning. Overall, DeepLabCut 3.0 provides an integrative suite of tools for project management, deep learning for animal pose, and integration with many tools such as #Cebra, DLC2action, kpt-Moseq, etc. www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

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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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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 21/10/2025

New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Come be our colleague! Application deadline: November 22 apply.interfolio.com/176153

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Gioele La Manno @gioelelamanno.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Oisin Mac Aodha @oisinmacaodha.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026? My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate. For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website: homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The team just picked up the latest data from the Swiss National Parc. Full of goodies - find out more about the first paper from the project: eceo-epfl.github.io/MammAlps/

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Tim Vogels @tpvogels.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

“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...

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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 · 06/10/2025

Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont

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Center for Lifespan Psychology, MPI for Human Development @lipmpib.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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 · 24/09/2025

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 · 25/09/2025

Miroslav Sutej, Bombardment of the Optic Nerve, II, 1963 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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 · 23/09/2025

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

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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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 · 23/09/2025

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 · 23/09/2025

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 · 23/09/2025

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

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

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 20/09/2025

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Ecology and/or Evolution @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. Deadline to apply September 30. Reach out if you have questions. apply.interfolio.com/172496

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