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 𝐷𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑎
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...
We tracked mice in space!
This video shows our estimate of their self-induced centripetal force during circling in 3D 👩🚀
Preprint thread below 👇
1/ New preprint! 🧪With @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
www.biorxiv.org
Amelia Eisch 🧪🧠👩🔬 🐁
Revision of @sarahpugly.bsky.social's 🪰 walking CPG preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Major updates:
→ motor rhythms replicate across 4 connectomes (incl. 2 new full-CNS datasets)
→ robust across all 6 legs
→ new analyses of the CPG motif show it's an outlier in the VNC
→ improved code docs
Researchers have long searched for the neural circuit underlying locomotion. Now they’ve found it in flies.
By @natmesanash.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
The neuronal circuit controlling repetitive locomotion patterns in any animal has been a mystery until now.
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...
www.science.org
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...
Run, don’t walk, to your closest local preprint server to see our latest 3D tracking results!
I’m still tickled that our results show flies don’t exactly walk, they “ground run” everywhere. I bet they also talk fast and suffer no fools.
