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Eric Leonardis

@ericleonardis.bsky.social

Postdoc Salk Institute http://talmolab.org / PhD Cog Sci UCSD #Neuroscience #Behavior #BodyHorror #MachineLearning #Embodiment #Dynamics ericleonardis.github.io

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28.02.2026 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
28.02.2026 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join me at House Music Fridays this week! I will be opening for Dj Neo24 (SF) and BPMSLIDE (Chicago) , should be a great time! Hope to see you at Air Conditioned Lounge in North Park, San Diego this Friday 9pm-2am.

Event page here: ra.co/events/2353768

25.02.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a blast giving my lecture β€œComputational Ethology and Embodied AI” with Professor Federico Rossano’s class CogSci 13 class at UC San Diego! We discussed how to quantify animal behavior with 2D and 3D pose estimation, and use imitation learning to reproduce animal behaviors we observe in the lab!

19.02.2026 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eric Leonardis - House Music Fridays with Duke Shin at AC Lounge - 2/6/26 Eric Leonardis opening set at House Music Fridays supporting headliner Duke Shin (Chicago) and Jesse Austin at Air Conditioned Lounge on 2/6/26

New mix up! This was my warmup set for Duke Shin and Jesse Austin at HMF on Feb 6. deep and jackin house with some disco vibes too. Give it a listen and let me know what you think! LINK HERE: on.soundcloud.com/STttkCl2KqZH...

17.02.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great times with the Grammy award winner and Chicago legend himself Gene Hunt who played a killer set at HMF Air Conditioned Lounge πŸš€ and solid vibes as always from your host Matthew Brian 🏠🎢 bringing the highest quality house music to you every Friday in San Diego πŸ‘ŠπŸ’₯

16.02.2026 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Like genuinely… do not sweep this under the rug? It makes you look insane?

13.02.2026 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œnotwithstanding the mob's recent hysteria about something of no significance whatsoever, namely personal emails.” <β€” is this a joke? this is cult worship… it’s significant if you’re not a sycophant

13.02.2026 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to share that my poster, β€œMusculoskeletal Imitation Learning: Physics-Aware Constraints Promote Naturalistic Muscle Activity,” has been accepted to the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Conference in Lisbon πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Ή this March πŸ€©πŸ‘ Looking forward to great discussions with colleagues.

12.02.2026 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Awesome! Long live the new flesh!

09.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks to @gluzmania.bsky.social for having me at her class Science, Technology and Society: Science Communication at University of Alberta for a Q&A about my work as a scientific advisor for films. We discussed David Kirby's book Lab Coats in Hollywood and writing science on screen. What a blast!

04.02.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
House Music & Jackin House | All Vinyl Mix | Eric Leonardis | FeeLIT Records #HouseMusic
YouTube video by FeeLit Records House Music & Jackin House | All Vinyl Mix | Eric Leonardis | FeeLIT Records #HouseMusic

In case you missed it, check out my new all vinyl mix with FeeLit Records Sunday Livestream! 🎢
Link here: youtu.be/m6gSsHe2lDs?...

03.02.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
House Music & Jackin House | All Vinyl Mix | Eric Leonardis | FeeLIT Records #HouseMusic
YouTube video by FeeLit Records House Music & Jackin House | All Vinyl Mix | Eric Leonardis | FeeLIT Records #HouseMusic

Check out my vinyl mix on the Feelit Records Sunday Livestream out today!!! A selection of my favorite house records, most of which I bought from this store! Thanks to Markalan and DJ Valerian for having me out! Much love! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6gS...

01.02.2026 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Big win: robust control policies deployed out of the box. It’s physically gentle and safe too. I hovered with the safety harness like a nervous parent… totally unnecessary πŸ˜… Can’t wait to start training more complex behaviors. What should we teach Sprout next?

27.01.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We just got the Sprout robot from @faunarobotics.bsky.social in @talmo.bsky.social ’s lab. Usually robots mean weeks of debugging pain before experiments even start. This time we powered it on and got the robot to stand, walk and teleop on Day 1. Respect to the engineers that made setup so smooth!

27.01.2026 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join me for my all vinyl DJ set this Wednesday 6-9pm at The Office SD for Dance Klassique Vinyl Sessions

27.01.2026 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hope you can join me for my All Vinyl DJ set this Wednesday 1/28 for Dance Klassique Vinyl Sessions with host Ivan Gregory at The Office SD! I will be spinning some downtempo, boogie, disco and deep house on the wheels of steel! I hope you can join us to warm up the night 6-9pm

25.01.2026 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow Osuna-MascarΓ³ and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.

"humans are the only animals who use tools".... hold my beer moooo www.cell.com/current-biol...

23.01.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A real tour de force today by Mala Murthy @princetonneuro.bsky.social at @salkinstitute.bsky.social about her work with @sebastianseung.bsky.social on leveraging the complete connectome of the fly brain to understand social behavior in fruit flies. Incredible work!

21.01.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out my new mix with Mimi’s House, episode 002! A deep and funky house mix for your listening pleasure. Big thanks to Mimi Raza for the opportunity to share some deep funky house tunes. Keep an eye on this channel for more great mixes! soundcloud.com/mimishouse/e...

20.01.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out my new mix with Mimi’s House, episode 002! A deep and funky house mix for your listening pleasure. Big thanks to Mimi Raza for the opportunity to share some deep funky house tunes. Keep an eye on this channel for more great mixes! soundcloud.com/mimishouse/e...

20.01.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a blast watching Communion with Bonkers Ass Cinema and Film Geeks SD @cinebeth.bsky.social at the Digital Gym SD πŸŽ₯🎞️ Nothing like watching Christopher Walken tap dance with aliens on the big screenπŸ‘½ Thanks Matt for braving the alien costume that doubles as a sauna πŸ’¦πŸ˜°

18.01.2026 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œAnother Tuskegee”: Leaked Docs Reveal CDC Is Funding Deadly Study The CDC is funding a horrific hepatitis experiment on babies.

Tuskegee 2.0... what a nightmare... who will be held accountable? newrepublic.com/post/205330/...

15.01.2026 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This technology is not secure. LLMs can be easily jailbroken. There is no guarantee whatsoever that it won’t tell users military secrets with the right prompt. This is cybersecurity 101!

13.01.2026 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jesse Austin B2B Eric Leonardis – Live at House Music Fridays, AC Lounge – 2026-01-09 Live recorded DJ set at House Music Fridays at Air Conditioned Lounge, San Diego on January 9th, 2026. 4 hour B2B with HMF residents Jesse Austin and Eric Leonardis, building gradually from deep house

For those who missed House Music Fridays last night, here is a 4 hour recording of Jesse Austin and I going back to back for your listening pleasure! Building gradually from deep house and disco into higher energy jackin and acid vibes. Enjoy! Link: soundcloud.com/eric-leonard...

10.01.2026 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.”
www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

28.12.2025 08:40 β€” πŸ‘ 170    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 28
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My track β€œBrood Groove” was selected for the Best of Piston Recordings 2025 compilation! OUT NOW! Link here: www.traxsource.com/track/141743... 🀩

Piston Recordings is based in SetΓΊbal, Portugal. This comp features a bunch of incredible artists from around the world!

26.12.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A little present under the tree for meπŸŽ„
My track "Brood Groove" was selected for the Best of Piston Recordings 2025 compilation!
Pre-order for the 12/26 release!

24.12.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice!

17.12.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do biological agents learn for the future?

Our perspective piece on the value of prospective learning in neuroscience is finally out. This is part of a long running collaboration with @kordinglab.bsky.social & Josh Vogelstein (as well as many other people)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

17.12.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1