Alexander Mathis
@trackingskills.bsky.social
Hacker, Computational Neuroscience, ML beyond logistic regression, bear and muscle spindle aficionado. Passionate about open source. #deeplabcut and see https://mathislab.org for more.
Pinned
How the brain coordinates the activity of its many muscles to achieve successful control remains an enigma. www.cell.com/issue/S0896-...
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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.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
Reposted by Alexander Mathis
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...
February 8, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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...
Check our latest work to model the sensorimotor pathway of grasping in primates also advancing embodied AI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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 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
EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research Scholar (ELISIR)
From exceptional PhD directly to independent group leader
go.epfl.ch
January 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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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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...
January 26, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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...
This is just our second M&M review!
The first one in 2020 was on AI for behavior - and now we discuss advances for jointly modeling behavioral and neural data!! Here is the first www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The first one in 2020 was on AI for behavior - and now we discuss advances for jointly modeling behavioral and neural data!! Here is the first www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is just our second M&M review!
The first one in 2020 was on AI for behavior - and now we discuss advances for jointly modeling behavioral and neural data!! Here is the first www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The first one in 2020 was on AI for behavior - and now we discuss advances for jointly modeling behavioral and neural data!! Here is the first www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence — a Review by Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis & Alexander Mathis
@trackingactions.bsky.social @trackingskills.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@trackingactions.bsky.social @trackingskills.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence — a Review by Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis & Alexander Mathis
@trackingactions.bsky.social @trackingskills.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@trackingactions.bsky.social @trackingskills.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Oscar Domínguez, Nostalgia of Space, 1939
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Oscar Domínguez, Nostalgia of Space, 1939
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990
You can learn about the work at #sfn2025 on Wednesday afternoon www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
November 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
You can learn about the work at #sfn2025 on Wednesday afternoon www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Great talk by Alessandro Marin Vargas at the #salk motor systems symposium!! www.salk.edu/events/scien...
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Great talk by Alessandro Marin Vargas at the #salk motor systems symposium!! www.salk.edu/events/scien...
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!
Swing by to talk to @trackingactions.bsky.social and me this and about the DLC ecosystem!
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
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
How AI Is Changing Neuroscience Discovery
AI is altering how scientists study the brain
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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!
Swing by to talk to @trackingactions.bsky.social and me this and about the DLC ecosystem!
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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
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
How AI Is Changing Neuroscience Discovery
AI is altering how scientists study the brain
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
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Want to help shape the SCENE collaboration?! Join us as an executive director: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/scene-m...
SCENE Manager
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE): SCENE is an international consortium of 20 leading researchers in the fields of Computational, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, and
www.cam.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Want to help shape the SCENE collaboration?! Join us as an executive director: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/scene-m...
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New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
apply.interfolio.com/176153
Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
apply.interfolio.com/176153
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October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
apply.interfolio.com/176153
Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
apply.interfolio.com/176153
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🧠 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/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
🧠 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/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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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
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
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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
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
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/
October 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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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“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...
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...
www.biorxiv.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
“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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Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont
October 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont
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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
October 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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
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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 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Miroslav Sutej, Bombardment of the Optic Nerve, II, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135340
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135340
September 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Miroslav Sutej, Bombardment of the Optic Nerve, II, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135340
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135340
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This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome @kristorpjensen.bsky.social
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...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome @kristorpjensen.bsky.social
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www.bbc.com/news/article... science ftw! Amazing work described here.
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article... science ftw! Amazing work described here.
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