Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis

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Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence Nature Neuroscience - Adaptive intelligence envisions AI that, like animals, learns online, generalizes and adapts quickly. This Perspective reviews biological foundations, progress in AI and...

Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI?

➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com

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Ascona meetings on neural circuits are amazing conferences in a beautiful setting in Switzerland spanning all scales from genetics and micro-circuit cracking to high level cognition. Check asconacircuits.org for the 2026 program and register soon, as it typically reaches capacity very quickly 🧠🧪

Registration for the Ascona 2026 Meeting is now open. Go to asconacircuits.org to submit your abstract and register for the meeting! We are looking forward to seeing you in Switzerland this September! Ascona Meeting Organizers

Ascona circuits meeting looks as awesome as ever. Submissions open.. www.asconacircuits.org

Yes, I’m already a member and on the steering committee 🤗

Definitely 🧡🔥

Adaptive Intelligence: leveraging insights from adaptive behavior in animals to build flexible AI systems Biological intelligence is inherently adaptive -- animals continually adjust their actions based on environmental feedback. However, creating adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) remains a major chal...

Very nice! Unfortunately this took a while for reviews and such, so it was on arxiv Nov 2024 ( arxiv.org/abs/2411.15234 ) and it’s possible I missed some recent related works 🙏🏼

Leveraging insights from neuroscience to build adaptive artificial intelligence Nature Neuroscience - Adaptive intelligence envisions AI that, like animals, learns online, generalizes and adapts quickly. This Perspective reviews biological foundations, progress in AI and...

Interested in the latest advances in neuroscience (neural dynamics and internal models) and how they can be leveraged to build smarter, adaptive AI?

➡️ My first real solo piece 🖤🫶 @natneuro.nature.com

rdcu.be/eWVmA

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-...

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You’re too kind @karihoffman.bsky.social 🙏🏼

You’re so kind @nicolecrust.bsky.social 🫶

Delighted we made the superlab list @andpru.bsky.social 🫶

List: mailchi.mp/c9edb773c735...

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Yes, I think internal models for motor control are a given :) if it’s a full generative model of the body and world is still, to me, a great question :) / framing

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-...

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...

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-...

Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enjoying the Swiss Animal Science meeting! Inspiring to be around people who are passionate about research animal welfare and open science ❤️

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!

Want to help shape the SCENE collaboration?! Join us as an executive director: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/scene-m...

How AI Is Changing Neuroscience Discovery AI is altering how scientists study the brain

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

Assistant/associate Professor of AI-assisted Biophysics at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Group Leader at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) jointly seek to appoint a Tenure Track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor in AI-As...

#EPFL has an open faculty position - tenure track or tenured!! - in AI driven biophysics. Deadline is Nov 15th. Please spread the word!

www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

My lab has been pushing into explainable, robust, & theoretically-tractable AI models for science 💪

New! Accepted to #ICCV2025 we introduce #DISTIL - led by amazing PhD student @mirzious.bsky.social - we propose a trigger-inversion method for DNNs that reconstructs malicious backdoor triggers 1/4

YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals From LSD to AI with Switzerland's Brain Explorers | Hello World with Ashlee Vance

(YouTube) From LSD to AI with Switzerland's brain explorers www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnA... via @trackingactions.bsky.social

It’s going to be fabulous - I can’t wait! 🙌

Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills Skilled movement often requires flexibly combining multiple subskills, each requiring dedicated control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains u...

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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...

Fall US trips booked! I'll be speaking at Scripps, SfN, and ICCV 🚀 Who will be at #ScrippsNeuroSymposium2025, #SfN2025 and/or #ICCV2025? Lots of ☀️🕶️🌴 & 🧠 in Oct/Nov!

Not just an amazing dataset, excellent 3D pose, shape, and eye tracking in the real world! Bravo @trackingskills.bsky.social et al!

PS - Exactly this kind of data we predict will be critical for long-term health monitoring @monosovlab.bsky.social et al: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For? Large language models are transforming medicine—but the technology comes with side effects.

A.I. tools are already shaping patient care—but we should be wary of letting them diagnose us. “Patients and doctors alike could think of A.I. not as a way to solve mysteries but as a way to gather clues,” Dhruv Khullar writes.