Revision of @sarahpugly.bsky.social's ๐ชฐ walking CPG preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Major updates:
โ motor rhythms replicate across 4 connectomes (incl. 2 new full-CNS datasets)
โ robust across all 6 legs
โ new analyses of the CPG motif show it's an outlier in the VNC
โ improved code docs
John Tuthill
for the cpg curious, we made this video to explain the project www.youtube.com/watch?v=twAZ...
New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐โ๐๐๐
New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Cool new work from @dudman.bsky.social and @fluketc.bsky.social Reward magnitude determines reinforcement learning efficiency: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Mindscape 352 | Bing Brunton @bingbrunton.bsky.social on Connecting the Connectome to the Body. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Standard animal learning studies minimize individual reward magnitudes to maximize the repetitions of reinforced behaviors. We investigated how reward magnitude influences initial learning across five...
I got to nerd out with @seanmcarroll.bsky.social last week ๐
We tracked mice in space!
This video shows our estimate of their self-induced centripetal force during circling in 3D ๐ฉโ๐
Preprint thread below ๐
Run, donโt walk, to your closest local preprint server to see our latest 3D tracking results!
Iโm still tickled that our results show flies donโt exactly walk, they โground runโ everywhere. I bet they also talk fast and suffer no fools.
A new preprint shows that deep learning can make a fly walk realistically using a wormโs brain โ exposing a fundamental problem with how connectome models are being built and sold to investors.
By @natmesanash.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
Researchers have long searched for the neural circuit underlying locomotion. Now theyโve found it in flies.
By @natmesanash.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
Video
Jibran Khokhar
Sean Carroll
The sphinx, with a wormโs brain and a flyโs body, illustrates the potential pitfalls of using deep-learning techniques to model biological processes.
Mindscape 352 | Bing Brunton @bingbrunton.bsky.social on Connecting the Connectome to the Body. #MindscapePodcast
www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
New preprint: Whole-body 3D kinematics of freely behaving ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐๐โ๐๐๐
New tech from @blobology.bsky.social & others at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social, which @ispizua.bsky.social and @elliottabe.bsky.social used to gain insight into 3D structure of locomotion & courtship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The neuronal circuit controlling repetitive locomotion patterns in any animal has been a mystery until now.
1/ New preprint! ๐งชWith @talmo.bsky.social and team, we used deep learning on archival NASA video of mice on the ISS. Turns out mice in microgravity become tiny acrobats: huddling to sleep, doing backflips, even briefly generating their own ~1g. #SpaceBiology #OpenScience #NASA #SLEAP
