OK, but how do animals of different genetic makeup differ in their social behavior? We were interested in probing rat models of autism. As you have already seen, rats have very rich social lives. How does this change when you knock out a risk gene for ASD? Ugne did a deep dive to figure out. 6/8

In all seriousness, we developed this tool to look at the structure of rat social behavior. Analyzing the keypoint data we tracked and putting it through our analysis pipeline yielded all kinds of stereotyped social interactions that were reliably identified across rats. Here are a few samples. 5/8

As Warhol said though: one's company, two's a crowd, and three is a party. So yes, we can track a little party as well. 4/8

These were our favourite rodents (Go team Rats!) but our method, s-DANNCE, which uses geometric reasoning, graph neural networks and semi-supervised learning to track the detailed kinematics of interacting animals in 3D, can also track mice. 3/8

At a time when everybody feels despondent, angry, and lonely, we present the perfect antidote: movies of furry animals being kind to each other, their behaviors tracked at super high resolution thanks to the amazing work of Ugne Klibaite and Tianqing Li, and in collaboration with Tim Dunn. 2/8