Talmo Pereira 🇧🇷

📢 @MurthyLab @shaevitz and I are excited to announce 📢: SLEAP, our multi-animal pose tracking system, is now out in @naturemethods! Paper → nature.com/articles/s4159… Download + docs + data + more → sleap.ai Read on to learn what’s new!

Zipping and uploading the final (??) version of the next Multi-Agent Behavior dataset: - 226 hours of newly released frame-by-frame behavior annotations, all w/tracking and video - 395 hours of tracking data - 9046 total video clips Competition launches in January! Stay tuned 🐭

My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15

🧵1\New Preprint! Social pain, the emotional pain caused by aversive experiences with other individuals, is an umbrella term that includes experiences such as social isolation, social exclusion, social rejection, and social loss and can be used as a signal to drive a need state

Thrilled to share our pre-print on 1st Federated Learning model deployed between Earth & @Space_Station 🚀 Huge thanks to @HPE (SpaceBorne Computer), @intel (OpenFL), & @NASA @NASAGeneLab @NASAAmes Open Science Data Repository. Let’s build & move the ball forward! 🌅 Link below

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! How do dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains? Turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 mice, we found strain-specific behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

Join us at the upcoming NBIO seminar on 11-21. Talmo Pereira (@talmop), PI @salkinstitute for Biology Studies, will give a talk on "Quantifying behavior using deep learning". #Neuroscience #deeplearning

Attn: Undergraduates!! ⏰DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 17!⏰ Immerse yourself in groundbreaking research for 10 weeks this summer! 🌟 Mentorship from experienced researchers 🏠 Housing and travel accommodations 💰 Competitive hourly wage Apply today at salk.edu/surf

What are the brain’s “real” tuning curves? Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking. We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things. 1/21🧵

Junior software engineer position now open to applications! recruiting2.ultipro.com/SAL1013SIBS/Jo… All positions still available: talmolab.org/join/#open-pos…

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Ever wanted to record behavior in dozens of operant chambers on a budget? We have a solution to record 60 animals simultaneously at 1/10th of the cost of commercial systems!

Pro Tip from @talmop over beers in Bar Harbor. "How to stay sane for the next few of weeks and still use Twitter. "

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🚨Fun Rodent alert ‼️ I’m excited to share a review of what is becoming one of my passion projects since around 2019, that blossom at @PennSAS . The future of Natural Neuroscience with the Agouti! Published today in Ethology. Sooo, What is an Agouti? 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/et…

Highly recommend!

Six tips for going public with your lab’s software: nature.com/articles/d4158… 1) make time for maintenance 2) simplify installation 3) add a GUI or good CLI 4) good documentation 5) use github/git 6) automated testing Any other tips people have? #OpenScience #OpenSource

Do you want to promote an inclusive and diverse @CosyneMeeting? Join the 2025 Cosyne DEIA Committee! We need students, postdocs, and faculty to help! For questions, contact @lukesjulson or @denisejcai. Please RT! cosyne.org/#DEIA

Just saw the work Talmo is doing at the @jacksonlab #MLBehavior course and highly recommend these opportunities to contribute.

Go join @talmop’s lab immediately! Great science and great mentor, with a passion for inventing the future.