Anyone here working on #PoseEstimation #animalbehavior #neuroethology ?

You may be interested in the free and open-source Python 🐍 package I’m currently working on, together with @adamltyson @bd_peri and others.

It’s called movement, and it’s made for analysing the pose tracks produced by pose estimation frameworks, like #DeepLabCut and #SLEAP.

Website: https://movement.neuroinformatics.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/neuroinformatics-unit/movement

It’s still in early development 🏗️ but we appreciate feedback/feature requests.

Check out the detailed thread on our team’s mastodon account: @neuroinformatics

#Introduction time it is!

Hi everyone, just moved instances following really good advice (thanks @jonny ! 😉).

I'm a postdoc at the Instituto de Neurociencias (Alicante, Spain) working on the neural circuits of itch sensation at the level of the spinal cord dorsal horns and how these circuits are affected during chronic diseases cursing with pruritus (a major unmet medical need, for those of you far from this field). I'm currently analizing a #snRNAseq dataset I generated in a mouse model of chronic itch which we published a couple years ago from my work at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology (Munich, Germany) together with my then supervisor Rüdiger Klein. The aim is to identify the specific subpopulation of neurons responsible for the madly intense scratching phenotype.

Very interested also in behavioral analysis, we are trying to identify specific motor patterns in chronic itch mouse models using #deeplearning #SLEAP pose estimation and behavioral motif classification.

My background in neurodevelopmental biology, specifically axon guidance, also pushes me towards analyzing the developmental origin of spinal neurons populations in order to understand the emergence of these circuits during embryonic stages with the idea that knowing where we come from we might better try to fix broken things!

See you all around!!

Okay, #introduction time.

I'm in the middle of a weird disciplinary leap right now but #neuroethology might be the right name. I did my PhD at UT Austin on #EnergyBalance and social context as factors in decisions about whether to signal in singing mice, with a pretty standard #BehavioralEcology perspective; currently, I'm working with #SLEAP and #PoseEstimation on mouse models of neurodivergence in the Grissom lab at UMN, experimenting with #BigData large scale behavioral collection.