Talmo Pereira
PI @ Salk Institute → talmolab.org | PhD @Princeton | BS @ UMBC
Quantifying biological motion with sleap.ai
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraWe 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!
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraI presented our work today at NeurIPS @neuripsconf.bsky.social @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social “Massively Parallel Imitation Learning of Mouse Forelimb Musculoskeletal Reaching Dynamics” with @talmo.bsky.social and @eazim.bsky.social about modeling motor control with MIMIC-MJX: arxiv.org/abs/2511.21848
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraHope to see you at the @neuripsconf.bsky.social @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social Workshop! I will presenting our poster “Massively Parallel Imitation Learning of Mouse Forelimb Musculoskeletal Reaching Dynamics” @talmo.bsky.social @eazim.bsky.social Dec 7, SDCC 🦾🧠 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21848
- Reposted by Talmo Pereira🚨Our work was accepted to the @neuripsconf.bsky.social : Data on the Brain & Mind workshop!🧠🦾"Massively Parallel Imitation Learning of Mouse Forelimb Musculoskeletal Reaching Dynamics" @talmo.bsky.social @eazim.bsky.social An imitation learning framework for modeling mouse forelimb control. 1/3
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraGreat tips from @hormiga.bsky.social for your first scientific conference — in perfect time for #SfN2025! #neuroskyence scienceforeveryone.science/getting-the-...
- Reposted by Talmo Pereira📣 SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT: Learn about quantifying and modeling behavior using #DeepLearning from @talmo.bsky.social. ➡️ Apply to attend: www.jax.org/education-an... #MachineLearning #Neuroskyence
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraSuper excited to share the first cooperative foraging paradigm in freely interacting mouse pairs! Stable leader and follower roles emerge spontaneously and predict learning. Well-trained mice show stereotyped, role-specific “behavioral motifs” absent in naive animals (1/5) doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraAnd we are live! Excited to announce the 2025 Multi-Agent Behavior Challenge on cross-lab supervised action recognition in mice 🐁🐀🖱️ Running on Kaggle until December 15th, with a $50,000 prize pool going to the top five submissions! www.kaggle.com/competitions...
- Reposted by Talmo Pereira📽️Recordings from our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🧠🤖
- 📣 Excited to announce our workshop "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" at the upcoming @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2025! 🧠🤖 🪱🪰🐟🐝🐭💪 Schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🗓️ Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada, on March 31!
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraI recently spoke at a Congressional briefing with a military veteran from our PTSD clinical trial on the life-changing impact of the NIH Brain Initiative. Watch here👇 braininitiative.nih.gov/news-events/... The BRAIN Initiative is now facing a 20% cut on top of the 40% last yr…
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraHaving funded teams/contracts that required six figure+ funds a few times now, these numbers SOUND really huge in isolation to normal folks but they're not! Don't make floating numbers! I like to say things like this: "A cancer lab is basically a small business, with many jobs created by each grant"
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraThis is an amazing opportunity for graduate students in #PlantScience who consider a postdoc. 3-day, all-expenses-paid program from July 23-25, 2025 in San Diego! Check it out and spread the word! www.salk.edu/about/our-co...
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraAnnouncing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraToday was the conclusion of the SLEAP.ai Hackathon 2024 in @talmo.bsky.social Lab! This year we improved SLEAP deep learning software by fixing issues, answering discussions, improving documentation and adding features! Thanks to Liezl, Elizabeth,Talmo and the SLEAP dev team for making it happen!
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraIf we want science and software to be more open, we have to learn how to communicate and collaborate. It was a joy to chat with @sejdevries.bsky.social from @alleninstitute.bsky.social) about what it will take to make science truly open and team-based. www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/epis...
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraAnother cool "digital twin" work from Wood’s lab After the virtual chicks, this time: "We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish" #NeuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraThe Undergrad Travel Grant Program (deadline: Dec 6th) provides an opportunity for undergrads to learn more about comp systems neuro. It’s especially suited for students considering neuro graduate study! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: www.cosyne.org/travel-grants
- Reposted by Talmo Pereira"E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains." -CEO Andrew Payne e11.bio/news/roadmap
- Reposted by Talmo PereiraGreat example of “last mile” tooling needed to bridge AI to scientific workflows. It’s hard to get these built in academia because they require a traditional software eng skillset (eg. building UIs) that scientists rarely have.
- In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai! Strong recommend 🤙
- Reposted by Talmo Pereira🧪 E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains. Read more: e11.bio/news/roadmap
- In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai! Strong recommend 🤙
- We'd like to introduce movement, a free and open-source Python package for analysing body movements, designed to aid the study of animal behaviour in neuroscience. Website: movement.neuroinformatics.dev Examples: movement.neuroinformatics.dev/examples/ind... GitHub: github.com/neuroinforma...
