Talmo Pereira
@talmo.bsky.social
PI @ Salk Institute → talmolab.org | PhD @Princeton | BS @ UMBC
Quantifying biological motion with sleap.ai
Quantifying biological motion with sleap.ai
November 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Great tips from @hormiga.bsky.social for your first scientific conference — in perfect time for #SfN2025!
#neuroskyence
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
#neuroskyence
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
Getting the most of out a scientific conference
A slightly unconventional guide to your first time
scienceforeveryone.science
November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Great tips from @hormiga.bsky.social for your first scientific conference — in perfect time for #SfN2025!
#neuroskyence
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
#neuroskyence
scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
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📣 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: Learn about quantifying and modeling behavior using #DeepLearning from @talmo.bsky.social.
➡️ Apply to attend: www.jax.org/education-an...
#MachineLearning #Neuroskyence
➡️ Apply to attend: www.jax.org/education-an...
#MachineLearning #Neuroskyence
September 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
📣 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: Learn about quantifying and modeling behavior using #DeepLearning from @talmo.bsky.social.
➡️ Apply to attend: www.jax.org/education-an...
#MachineLearning #Neuroskyence
➡️ Apply to attend: www.jax.org/education-an...
#MachineLearning #Neuroskyence
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Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Super excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5)
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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And we are live!
Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️
Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️
Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
September 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
And we are live!
Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️
Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️
Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions!
www.kaggle.com/competitions...
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📽️Recordings from our
@cosynemeeting.bsky.social
#COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io
🧠🤖
@cosynemeeting.bsky.social
#COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io
🧠🤖
April 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
📽️Recordings from our
@cosynemeeting.bsky.social
#COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io
🧠🤖
@cosynemeeting.bsky.social
#COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io
🧠🤖
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I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
https://braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/bl…
March 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/...
The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
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Having funded teams/contracts that required six figure+ funds a few times now, these numbers SOUND really huge in isolation to normal folks but they're not! Don't make floating numbers! I like to say things like this: "A cancer lab is basically a small business, with many jobs created by each grant"
Earth & Life Sciences Academics communicating the new EO about indirect rates, imma need you to improve yer messaging- maybe don't say "If I get a million dollar grant, my uni gets another $700k to keep the lights on & water running" bc isn't going to get the traction you think it is-
a woman in a floral dress is sitting in front of a sign that says chuckles in rich .
ALT: a woman in a floral dress is sitting in front of a sign that says chuckles in rich .
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Having funded teams/contracts that required six figure+ funds a few times now, these numbers SOUND really huge in isolation to normal folks but they're not! Don't make floating numbers! I like to say things like this: "A cancer lab is basically a small business, with many jobs created by each grant"
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This is an amazing opportunity for graduate students in #PlantScience who consider a postdoc. 3-day, all-expenses-paid program from July 23-25, 2025 in
San Diego! Check it out and spread the word!
www.salk.edu/about/our-co...
San Diego! Check it out and spread the word!
www.salk.edu/about/our-co...
DISCOVER Symposium - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Applications are open! Program Overview & Goals The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences Symposium for a Diverse Inclusive Scientific Community Offering a Vision for an Ecosystem Reimagined (DISCO...
www.salk.edu
January 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This is an amazing opportunity for graduate students in #PlantScience who consider a postdoc. 3-day, all-expenses-paid program from July 23-25, 2025 in
San Diego! Check it out and spread the word!
www.salk.edu/about/our-co...
San Diego! Check it out and spread the word!
www.salk.edu/about/our-co...
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Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.
January 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.
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Today was the conclusion of the SLEAP.ai Hackathon 2024 in @talmo.bsky.social Lab! This year we improved SLEAP deep learning software by fixing issues, answering discussions, improving documentation and adding features! Thanks to Liezl, Elizabeth,Talmo and the SLEAP dev team for making it happen!
December 21, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Today was the conclusion of the SLEAP.ai Hackathon 2024 in @talmo.bsky.social Lab! This year we improved SLEAP deep learning software by fixing issues, answering discussions, improving documentation and adding features! Thanks to Liezl, Elizabeth,Talmo and the SLEAP dev team for making it happen!
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If we want science and software to be more open, we have to learn how to communicate and collaborate.
It was a joy to chat with @sejdevries.bsky.social from @alleninstitute.bsky.social) about what it will take to make science truly open and team-based.
www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
It was a joy to chat with @sejdevries.bsky.social from @alleninstitute.bsky.social) about what it will take to make science truly open and team-based.
www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
Open science: hope is other people - Change, Technically
Much like open source software, open science is a path to distributed collaboration. By sharing the data from experiments and investigations open and available, scientists can multiply impact and disc...
www.changetechnically.fyi
December 10, 2024 at 8:23 PM
If we want science and software to be more open, we have to learn how to communicate and collaborate.
It was a joy to chat with @sejdevries.bsky.social from @alleninstitute.bsky.social) about what it will take to make science truly open and team-based.
www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
It was a joy to chat with @sejdevries.bsky.social from @alleninstitute.bsky.social) about what it will take to make science truly open and team-based.
www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
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Another cool "digital twin" work from Wood’s lab
After the virtual chicks, this time:
"We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish"
#NeuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
After the virtual chicks, this time:
"We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish"
#NeuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Parallel development of social behavior in biological and artificial fish - Nature Communications
The learning algorithms that produce social behavior are unknown. Here the authors show that artificial fish, modeled via embodied deep neural networks, learn the same social behaviors as real fish, s...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Another cool "digital twin" work from Wood’s lab
After the virtual chicks, this time:
"We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish"
#NeuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
After the virtual chicks, this time:
"We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish"
#NeuroAI
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study!
Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info:
www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info:
www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
Cosyne 2025 Undergraduate Travel Grant Program
docs.google.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:14 PM
The Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study!
Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info:
www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
Apply here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More info:
www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
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"E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains." -CEO Andrew Payne e11.bio/news/roadmap
E11 Bio Roadmap | E11 Bio
e11.bio
December 3, 2024 at 3:41 PM
"E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains." -CEO Andrew Payne e11.bio/news/roadmap
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Great example of “last mile” tooling needed to bridge AI to scientific workflows.
It’s hard to get these built in academia because they require a traditional software eng skillset (eg. building UIs) that scientists rarely have.
It’s hard to get these built in academia because they require a traditional software eng skillset (eg. building UIs) that scientists rarely have.
In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai!
Strong recommend 🤙
Strong recommend 🤙
December 3, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Great example of “last mile” tooling needed to bridge AI to scientific workflows.
It’s hard to get these built in academia because they require a traditional software eng skillset (eg. building UIs) that scientists rarely have.
It’s hard to get these built in academia because they require a traditional software eng skillset (eg. building UIs) that scientists rarely have.
Reposted by Talmo Pereira
🧪 E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains.
Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap
Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap
December 3, 2024 at 2:58 PM
🧪 E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains.
Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap
Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap
In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai!
Strong recommend 🤙
Strong recommend 🤙
December 3, 2024 at 3:50 PM
In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai!
Strong recommend 🤙
Strong recommend 🤙
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Sniffing helps animals identify smells and connect them to places and events, but noses can’t sense time or place.
How do brains connect odors with internal models of the world?
Our preprint suggests that the olfactory bulb participates in this connection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do brains connect odors with internal models of the world?
Our preprint suggests that the olfactory bulb participates in this connection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 22, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Sniffing helps animals identify smells and connect them to places and events, but noses can’t sense time or place.
How do brains connect odors with internal models of the world?
Our preprint suggests that the olfactory bulb participates in this connection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do brains connect odors with internal models of the world?
Our preprint suggests that the olfactory bulb participates in this connection.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This is my first post here, and I'm happy to share some news. We've just launched megabouts.ai! 🐟📈
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November 29, 2024 at 12:09 PM
This is my first post here, and I'm happy to share some news. We've just launched megabouts.ai! 🐟📈
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Just In case people need to follow people in neuroscience focused on natural behaviors and the brains of cool non-trad animals! Please join let me know if you wanna be added. go.bsky.app/AcLpM4h
November 24, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Just In case people need to follow people in neuroscience focused on natural behaviors and the brains of cool non-trad animals! Please join let me know if you wanna be added. go.bsky.app/AcLpM4h
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4/ 🛠 To dig deeper, we used machine learning (@talmo.bsky.social SLEAP 🧠🤖) to track reward competition behavior. It revealed hidden differences like CD1 mice pressing against the reward port more than C57. These subtle behaviors could shape how we understand social competition.
November 25, 2024 at 5:23 PM
4/ 🛠 To dig deeper, we used machine learning (@talmo.bsky.social SLEAP 🧠🤖) to track reward competition behavior. It revealed hidden differences like CD1 mice pressing against the reward port more than C57. These subtle behaviors could shape how we understand social competition.
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1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all!
Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵
Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9
Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵
Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9
November 25, 2024 at 5:23 PM
1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all!
Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵
Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9
Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵
Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9