Plz RT: Apply to the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior at Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour . Deadline: April 5th. That's our website : exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/ We have an amazing line up of speakers addressing collective behavior in an interdisciplinary manner. Our speakers are :1/n

Grasshopper leg articulation complete 🛠️😅

Our collaboration with Google DeepMind has borne fruit! Or rather, a fruit fly 🪰🙂
Simulated with #MuJoCo physics, trained with imitation learning, capable of realistic locomotion, both on the ground and in the air. 1/n
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
github.com/TuragaLab/flyb…

I am so proud of this paper, as it reflects the immense efforts of so many people over the last decade to develop something that might seem boring (a way to organize data) but has been transformative for data sharing in neuroimaging.

Articulation coming along 🛠️ has been a huge challenge to get the right movement without obvious joints. Quite happy with how he’s moving now 🦗

Our new paper is out today in nature , showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Humans run millions of miles on treadmills each year, but sadly no one thought to build a linear treadmill for fruit flies. We decided to fix this oversight. Along the way, we discovered how flies adapt their walking to persevere in difficult situations.🧵
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Reposting this announcement for our COSYNE workshop: cosyne2024-icbinb.github.io

We are accepting submissions for contributed talks‼️

Trainees and early-career faculty particularly encouraged to apply.

Deadline is January 31, submit here: forms.gle/zvd99MRQMfQjVD…

#Cosyne2024 workshops have been announced!!🤓🧠🤩

Check them out 👇👇👇

cosyne.org/workshops-prog…

Just in time for the PNW blizzard, I had a conversation with NPR's Short Wave podcast about our recent paper on extreme cold tolerance in snow flies.

npr.org/2024/01/05/119…

OMG, found the best neuroscience course for beginners.

Super fun and extremely under-rated

Thanks Bing Wen Brunton for this awesome lecture series.

youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Have you wondered whether fast spatiotemporal brain dynamics like traveling waves are local, confined to just one region, or whether they are shared across many regions simultaneously? The latest work from Zhiwen Ye in my lab has the answer! Thread-
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Projects from my Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos class were spectacular. One student made a chaotic waterwheel (also called the Lorenz or Malkus waterwheel) using 3D-printed parts and an inexpensive water pump. The dynamics are governed by the famous Lorenz equations.

Thrilled to announce the launch of our pilot run for the inaugural DISCOVER Salk Postdoc Symposium, where we invite potential postdocs to visit Salk Institute, meet faculty, take lab tours, join career development workshops and seed new collaborative opportunities that would be…

We are recruiting the next generation neuroscientists. Join the PhD program at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown where excellent research meets brilliant people. #neuroscience

New preprint showing that flying flies use a previously undescribed yet highly stereotyped search behavior in still air. Fantastic work by my postdoc David Stupski! Feedback is welcome!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #drosophila #preprint #olfaction

Why an animal needs a brain (updated from 2015 chapter) just out on line.
Animal Cognition doi.org/10.1007/s10071…

In which I talk about my childhood in group homes and finding a way out, as well as RNN research and the pros and cons of corporate vs academic science.

You'll hear I sold my memoir to a major publishing company, Hachette Publishing Group. More to come in following months!📖✍️😊

Announcing a new PNAS Nexus paper with my postdoc Ares Fisher on Recursive Neural Programs for learning part-whole hierarchies from images (addresses a problem posed by Geoffrey Hinton and others) #artificialintelligence
ow.ly/HOuo50Q5EmR

Our snow fly project (@snowflyproject) is now partnered with Adventure Scientists (@AdvScientists), which mobilizes outdoor enthusiasts to collect scientific data. We aim to study behavior, physiology, and genetics of snow flies from across the planet.
platform.adventurescientists.org/project/projec…