Alexander Mathis
@trackingskills.bsky.social
Hacker, Computational Neuroscience, ML beyond logistic regression, bear and muscle spindle aficionado. Passionate about open source: DeepLabCut, DLC2action, hBehaveMAE — see https://mathislab.org for details.
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How the brain coordinates the activity of its many muscles to achieve successful control remains an enigma. www.cell.com/issue/S0896-...
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Our paper on olfactory evidence accumulation is now officially published with the final clean version! With @luxorboero.bsky.social, Hao Wu, @josephdzak.bsky.social, @paulmasset.bsky.social, Farhad Pashakhanloo, @siddjakes.bsky.social, @btolooshams.bsky.social & Demba Ba.
Perception and neural representation of intermittent odor stimuli in mice - Nature Communications
Animals navigate odor plumes by exploiting dynamic and intermittent cues. Here, the authors show that mice can discriminate among different fluctuating odor signals, and characterize their neural enco...
www.nature.com
June 25, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Our paper on olfactory evidence accumulation is now officially published with the final clean version! With @luxorboero.bsky.social, Hao Wu, @josephdzak.bsky.social, @paulmasset.bsky.social, Farhad Pashakhanloo, @siddjakes.bsky.social, @btolooshams.bsky.social & Demba Ba.
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In a new @cp-neuron.bsky.social article, members of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) outline their plans to investigate how the brain links perception, cognition and action by encoding environmental affordances: https://bit.ly/49YfgaE
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) seeks to uncover general
principles of brain function through an ecological perspective: studying perception,
cognition, and action in the c...
www.cell.com
June 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
In a new @cp-neuron.bsky.social article, members of the Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE) outline their plans to investigate how the brain links perception, cognition and action by encoding environmental affordances: https://bit.ly/49YfgaE
Our team leaving a sedge meadow next to our camp in Alaska on my last night. Studying bears in their natural habitat is really one of my favorite side quests.
June 21, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Our team leaving a sedge meadow next to our camp in Alaska on my last night. Studying bears in their natural habitat is really one of my favorite side quests.
Enjoying that ☕️- officially got tenure 🤗! Thanks to all my amazing students and collaborators for making the tenure-track time very enjoyable!!
May 22, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Enjoying that ☕️- officially got tenure 🤗! Thanks to all my amazing students and collaborators for making the tenure-track time very enjoyable!!
I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.
May 21, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.
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Enhanced processing of cartoons in infant visual cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This fMRI study compared the original Lion King to the "realistic" remake!
May 19, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Enhanced processing of cartoons in infant visual cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This fMRI study compared the original Lion King to the "realistic" remake!
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Talk recordings from our CoSyNe 2026 workshop on Agent-based Models in Neuroscience are now online!
Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
RL agents and theory, interoception, biomechanical models connectome-constrained models, and more.
#CoSyNe #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #RL #EmbodiedAI
Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
RL agents and theory, interoception, biomechanical models connectome-constrained models, and more.
#CoSyNe #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #RL #EmbodiedAI
March 28, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Talk recordings from our CoSyNe 2026 workshop on Agent-based Models in Neuroscience are now online!
Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
RL agents and theory, interoception, biomechanical models connectome-constrained models, and more.
#CoSyNe #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #RL #EmbodiedAI
Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
RL agents and theory, interoception, biomechanical models connectome-constrained models, and more.
#CoSyNe #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #RL #EmbodiedAI
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Two new @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social group reviews:
The lab of Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social: The behavior biopsy: Interpreting animal behavior as embodied, situated, and hierarchical doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
The lab of Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social: The behavior biopsy: Interpreting animal behavior as embodied, situated, and hierarchical doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
April 23, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Two new @epfl-brainmind.bsky.social group reviews:
The lab of Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social: The behavior biopsy: Interpreting animal behavior as embodied, situated, and hierarchical doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
The lab of Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social: The behavior biopsy: Interpreting animal behavior as embodied, situated, and hierarchical doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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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.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
February 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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.
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
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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...
February 8, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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...
www.biorxiv.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Check our latest work to model the sensorimotor pathway of grasping in primates also advancing embodied AI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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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
EPFL Life Sciences Early Independent Research Scholar (ELISIR)
From exceptional PhD directly to independent group leader
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January 14, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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
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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...
January 26, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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...
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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...
@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-...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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...
@trackingactions.bsky.social @trackingskills.bsky.social
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Oscar Domínguez, Nostalgia of Space, 1939
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990
November 18, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Oscar Domínguez, Nostalgia of Space, 1939
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134990
You can learn about the work at #sfn2025 on Wednesday afternoon www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
November 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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...
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Great talk by Alessandro Marin Vargas at the #salk motor systems symposium!! www.salk.edu/events/scien...
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!
Swing by to talk to @trackingactions.bsky.social and me this and about the DLC ecosystem!
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
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
How AI Is Changing Neuroscience Discovery
AI is altering how scientists study the brain
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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!
Swing by to talk to @trackingactions.bsky.social and me this and about the DLC ecosystem!
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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
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
How AI Is Changing Neuroscience Discovery
AI is altering how scientists study the brain
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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
Read more: bit.ly/4qnX7JF
@trackingactions.bsky.social @deeplabcut.bsky.social
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Want to help shape the SCENE collaboration?! Join us as an executive director: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/scene-m...
SCENE Manager
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience (SCENE): SCENE is an international consortium of 20 leading researchers in the fields of Computational, Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience, and
www.cam.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Want to help shape the SCENE collaboration?! Join us as an executive director: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/scene-m...
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New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
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Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
apply.interfolio.com/176153
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October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
New faculty job opening at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
apply.interfolio.com/176153
Come be our colleague!
Application deadline: November 22
apply.interfolio.com/176153
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🧠 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/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
October 16, 2025 at 6:23 AM
🧠 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/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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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
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
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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
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
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/
October 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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/