Alexander Mathis

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date):
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Check our latest work to model the sensorimotor pathway of grasping in primates also advancing embodied AI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research Scholar (ELISIR) From exceptional PhD directly to independent group leader

EPFL ELISIR apps now open go.epfl.ch/ELISIR. Fantastic opportunity for young neuroscientists to start an independent lab right after PhD, just like @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social ELISIR group leaders @jamespriestley.bsky.social & @ashleymaynard.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjPD... 👉 April 1 26

Identifying individual wild animals is key for conservation. The lab of @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social professor Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social uses AI and images of Alaskan brown bears to non-invasively identify individuals & their behavior across seasons & years doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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...

Es hat Freude bereitet (aka with pleasure)!

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...

Gift of Peggy Guggenheim

Oscar Domínguez, Nostalgia of Space, 1939
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990

You can learn about the work at #sfn2025 on Wednesday afternoon www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

Great talk by Alessandro Marin Vargas at the #salk motor systems symposium!! www.salk.edu/events/scien...

#SfN2025 @deeplabcut.bsky.social 3 poster on Monday morning. Overall, DeepLabCut 3.0 provides an integrative suite of tools for project management, deep learning for animal pose, and integration with many tools such as #Cebra, DLC2action, kpt-Moseq, etc.
www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

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!

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

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

New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
apply.interfolio.com/176153

🧠 The Lipid #Brain Atlas is out now! If you think #lipids are boring and membranes are all the same, prepare to be surprised. Led by @lucafusarbassini.bsky.social with Giovanni D'Angelo's lab, we mapped membrane lipids in the mouse brain at high resolution.
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Interested in doing a PhD in machine learning at the University of Edinburgh starting Sept 2026?

My group works on topics in vision, machine learning, and AI for climate.

For more information and details on how to get in touch, please check out my website:
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/omacaod

Winter is coming.

The team just picked up the latest data from the Swiss National Parc. Full of goodies - find out more about the first paper from the project: eceo-epfl.github.io/MammAlps/

An ion channel omnimodel for standardized biophysical neuron modelling Biophysical neuron modeling is an indispensable tool in neuroscience research, with the combination of diverse ion channel kinetics and morphologies being used to explain various single-neuron propert...

“Mapping ion channel function” doi.org/10.7554/eLif... isn’t exactly a citation slayer, but it’s still one of my favourites (& my first independent project). Today we push pt 2, where we trace code origin & unite almost all channel models in a common expression. Boom! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Smuggler's Notchnin Jeffesonville Vermont

Group photo in front of old church in green scenery

The Neuroscience School for Advanced Studies "Brain Plasticity: Neural Basis of Individuality" led by LIP Director Ulman Lindenberger and Tobias Bonhoeffer @mpiforbi.bsky.social has just ended at San Servolo, Venice! #nsas

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Larry Aldrich Foundation Fund

Miroslav Sutej, Bombardment of the Optic Nerve, II, 1963
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135340

This is one of my favourite things ever. From the awesome @kristorpjensen.bsky.social

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com/news/article... science ftw! Amazing work described here.

Count me in too!

Absolutely, please note this is a dataset and machine learning benchmark article. The behavior study is coming!

We’ll present the first benchmark at @neuripsconf.bsky.social — there is much more to come!