Antonio Falasconi
@antofala.bsky.social
Neuroscientist in the making...
PhD student Arber lab
@FMIscience.bsky.social @Biozentrum.bsky.social
MD from @SantAnnaPisa @Unipisa
PhD student Arber lab
@FMIscience.bsky.social @Biozentrum.bsky.social
MD from @SantAnnaPisa @Unipisa
Reposted by Antonio Falasconi
Mind over matter, matter over mind?
Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact.
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www.cell.com/current-biol...
Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact.
🧠🕺
www.cell.com/current-biol...
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Mind over matter, matter over mind?
Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact.
🧠🕺
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact.
🧠🕺
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Happy to share our primer on Basal Ganglia - Brainstem interactions!
From how the basal ganglia communicate with Brainstem motor circuits to how these activity patterns might come about! With Silvia Arber, now out in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
From how the basal ganglia communicate with Brainstem motor circuits to how these activity patterns might come about! With Silvia Arber, now out in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Basal ganglia–brainstem interactions
Our body executes many different movements with precision. Falasconi and Arber describe
how basal ganglia interact with brainstem circuits controlling body movements and
propose a movement-specific li...
www.cell.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Happy to share our primer on Basal Ganglia - Brainstem interactions!
From how the basal ganglia communicate with Brainstem motor circuits to how these activity patterns might come about! With Silvia Arber, now out in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
From how the basal ganglia communicate with Brainstem motor circuits to how these activity patterns might come about! With Silvia Arber, now out in Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
Reposted by Antonio Falasconi
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
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...
arxiv.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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
arxiv.org/abs/2506.01608
Reposted by Antonio Falasconi
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
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
September 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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
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
Reposted by Antonio Falasconi
We’re excited to share that ez_zarr now supports Zarr v3! 🚀 Huge thanks to @mbstadler.bsky.social & @csoneson.bsky.social who took on the challenge of creating this open-source tool for fast, programmatic access to OME-Zarr file sets + easy plotting 📊
📄 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… (1/3)
📄 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… (1/3)
ez-zarr: A Python package for easy access and visualisation of OME-Zarr filesets
Barbiero et al., (2025). ez-zarr: A Python package for easy access and visualisation of OME-Zarr filesets. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(109), 7882, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07882
joss.theoj.org
August 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We’re excited to share that ez_zarr now supports Zarr v3! 🚀 Huge thanks to @mbstadler.bsky.social & @csoneson.bsky.social who took on the challenge of creating this open-source tool for fast, programmatic access to OME-Zarr file sets + easy plotting 📊
📄 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… (1/3)
📄 joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… (1/3)
Forelimb movement control at the basal ganglia - brainstem interface!
Happy to finally share this work from me and @harsh-kanodia.bsky.social with Silvia Arber!
@biozentrum.unibas.ch @fmiscience.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to finally share this work from me and @harsh-kanodia.bsky.social with Silvia Arber!
@biozentrum.unibas.ch @fmiscience.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dynamic basal ganglia output signals license and suppress forelimb movements - Nature
Basal ganglia output neurons fire dynamically in bidirectional and movement-specific patterns to license forelimb movements.
www.nature.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Forelimb movement control at the basal ganglia - brainstem interface!
Happy to finally share this work from me and @harsh-kanodia.bsky.social with Silvia Arber!
@biozentrum.unibas.ch @fmiscience.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to finally share this work from me and @harsh-kanodia.bsky.social with Silvia Arber!
@biozentrum.unibas.ch @fmiscience.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Antonio Falasconi
Too often, reviewers forget that it’s not their paper. The focus should be on what’s necessary for the paper to be suitable for publication, not on how they would have approached it. Suggestions are helpful, but they should always be framed as optional.
Let me tell you a story 1/7
Let me tell you a story 1/7
Are 43 comment responses (not uncommon) a good use of our collective time?
imo 3-4 more general suggestions is often enough
imo 3-4 more general suggestions is often enough
Celebrating my 1-year viva anniversary today by responding to 43 peer-review comments on the last paper from my thesis.
Living the dream 💕
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Living the dream 💕
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January 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Too often, reviewers forget that it’s not their paper. The focus should be on what’s necessary for the paper to be suitable for publication, not on how they would have approached it. Suggestions are helpful, but they should always be framed as optional.
Let me tell you a story 1/7
Let me tell you a story 1/7
It was great to share our work with @markolas.bsky.social and Eric Yittri's lab @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social!
Thanks to @antofala.bsky.social and @harsh-kanodia.bsky.social of @biozentrum.bsky.social for presenting at our journal club on some really cool SNr/brainstem activity during skilled reaching
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
December 17, 2024 at 5:28 PM
It was great to share our work with @markolas.bsky.social and Eric Yittri's lab @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social!