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Ruth Gutjahr

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­ postdoctoral fellow @ EPFL 🦾neuroscientist looking at motor control 🦊🐾animal enthusiast πŸ‹πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ€πŸ”οΈ

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Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate paternal behaviour - Nature Expression of agouti signalling protein in neurons in the medial preoptic area is increased by group housing and negatively associated with care, and overexpression of Agouti reduces care and enhances...

Why are some males caring toward infants while others are neglectful or abusive? I'm so pleased to share work that my colleagues and I @princeton.edu have just published @nature.com (an explanatory thread to follow!) (1/8)

18.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 7
Fluorescent neurons on black background. We're hiring! PhD Student

Fluorescent neurons on black background. We're hiring! PhD Student

🚨 We are #hiring a PhD Student to study cerebellum-like circuits in #Drosophila.

Please spread the word!

www.groschner-lab.org/join

#Neuroscience #PhD

14.02.2026 21:42 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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✨ New 3D pose estimation method from my lab! #FMPose3D allows for monocular (i.e. single camera) 2D➑️3D πŸ”₯

Led by Ti Wang & w/ Xiaohang Yu #FMPose3D is SOTA on human & animal 3D benchmarks, & will be integrated into @deeplabcut.bsky.social ⬇️

πŸ“ arxiv.org/abs/2602.05755
➑️ xiu-cs.github.io/FMPose3D/

08.02.2026 07:09 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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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?

➑️ My first real solo piece πŸ–€πŸ«Ά @natneuro.nature.com

rdcu.be/eWVmA

31.12.2025 08:00 πŸ‘ 121 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Check out this super cool paper studying the meows and purrs of humans' other best friends and their comparison to wild felines! 😻

15.12.2025 20:13 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

03.12.2025 16:59 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
From LSD to AI with Switzerland's Brain Explorers | Hello World with Ashlee Vance
From LSD to AI with Switzerland's Brain Explorers | Hello World with Ashlee Vance YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals

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

09.10.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”₯πŸ’ͺπŸ»πŸ’―

25.09.2025 16:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing!!! πŸ’―βœ¨πŸ’ͺ🏻

19.09.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Biomechanics: Squeezing power drives ballistic tongues Chameleons and lungless salamanders independently evolved very fast projectile tongues. In both cases, ballistic performance involves a long, blunt-ended skeletal rod that slides freely within a power...

Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team
www.cell.com/current-biol...

plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh

www.cell.com/current-biol...

08.09.2025 21:46 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Something exciting just left the gym -- meet Arnold the first generalist musculoskeletal control policy!

The human body has 600+ muscles, yet we seamlessly coordinate them for everything from whispering a syllable to felling a forrest. How? www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.18066

04.09.2025 08:45 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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Neuropeptides specify and reprogram division of labor in the leafcutter ant Atta cephalotes We identify specific neuropeptides mediating worker division of labor in the leafcutting ant A. cephalotes, finding two neuropeptides associated with characteristic behaviors of leafcutting and of bro...

What are the molecular underpinnings of behavioral programming? What about reprogramming behavior? In this new exciting paper from the Berger lab, they report that a cocktail of neuropeptides specifies division of labor and and reprograms it in the leafcutter 🐜! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

24.07.2025 19:20 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Systems and circuit neuroscience need an evolutionary perspective To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, neuroscientists must frame their research through an evolutionary lens.

To identify fundamental neuroscientific principles that generalize across species, systems and circuits, neuroscientists must embrace an evolutionary perspective, argue Karl Farrow and @katjareinhard.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...

16.07.2025 14:02 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 9

We looked at the neuroanatomy and connectivity of a layered region in the forebrain of a teleost goby and investigated forebrain-targeting projections from the preglomerular complex, showing that different subnuclei within the preglomerular complex project to distinct telencephalic target regionsπŸ”₯.

14.07.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And because science is a team sportπŸ”¬πŸ§ͺπŸ’•, I am happy to have done this reseach alongside my amazing, but @bsky.app-less co-authors Maximilian Bothe, Michael Hofmann and Boris ChagnaudπŸ™ŒπŸ»

14.07.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So happy to see a chapter of my PhD thesis at the @uni-graz.at published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology today 😍. A lovely read for fish forebrain enthusiasts 🐟 and comparative neuroanatomy aficionados: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

14.07.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Want to follow my lab members, past & present ➑️ here is our growing starter pack!

#neuroskynce #neuroAI #ML #AI #trustworthyAI

14.06.2025 19:11 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ•―οΈπŸ–€

10.06.2025 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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✨ We are super thrilled to announce the #DeepLabCut AI Residents for 2025!

They are hosting workshops around the 🌎 this winter/summer πŸ‡²πŸ‡½πŸ‡¦πŸ‡·πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ: deeplabcutairesidency.org/our-team

Meet Alejandro, Juliana, Sabrina, Jiayue & Marc!

Many thanks to @kavlifoundation.org for their support!

02.06.2025 13:28 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

31.05.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our website got a little update and a new team photo πŸŽ‰β€οΈ

www.mackenziemathislab.org

And, I’m hiring 4 additional research software engineers to support a new collaboration set to kick off in July across many species & labs, so get in touch if you’d like to join us!

23.04.2025 06:16 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Had such a wonderful first week of my postdoc adventure in Geneva πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­ with @trackingactions.bsky.social ✨. Incredibly happy to be part of the team and looking forward to tons of super cool science! 🀩 Find out more about the lab’s research @ www.mackenziemathislab.org. πŸ­πŸ¦ΎπŸ”οΈ

21.04.2025 07:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Congraaats πŸ₯³πŸ₯³πŸ₯³

28.03.2025 08:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
LLaVAction: Video Action Recognition LLaVAction: evaluating and training multi-modal large language models for action recognition

✨ Introducing a new #SOTA action recognition large multimodal language model: #LLaVAction!

By @shaokaiye.bsky.social Haozhe Qi, @trackingskills.bsky.social and me!

πŸ“ arxiv.org/abs/2503.18712

πŸ€– mmathislab.github.io/llavaction/

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25.03.2025 08:46 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

#PhD student position in β€œ #Neuroethology of pectoral motor networks”
Our laboratory is interested in how neuronal circuits are shaped to generate adaptive
#behavior. ⬇️

24.01.2025 11:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

I am excited that our paper πŸ“œ on pectoral motor neurons in hatchet fish 🐟 is now out in @pnas.org. Take a glimpse at their amazing jump-like escape response, fin movements for stationary holding and the underlying motor neurons πŸ”¬ here: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

23.12.2024 21:13 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Hahahaha ich wollt dir das gerade sharen, weil ich dachte du findest es cool hahaha dann hab ich bemerkt es is von dir πŸ˜‚πŸ”₯

09.12.2024 20:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0