@ericleonardis.bsky.social - Eric Leonardis

10 Sep 2026 21:01 +0000

Check out my new interview in @polygon.com about the science behind aggression and ritual destruction in the video game Virtue and a Sledgehammer using evidence from neuroscience and archaeology about seeking control in times of grief. https://www.polygon.com/virtue-sledgehammer-neuroscientist-interview/

26 Jul 2026 16:15 +0000

Had a great panel at Comic Con! We got to hear about virtual production from Michael Ralla (Oscar nominated VFX supervisor, Sinners), Nicole Pacent (Criminal Minds, Wolverine videogame), Noam and Sappir Argov (director/writer, VERSE), Phia (The Virtual Reality Show), and myself!

25 Jul 2026 03:13 +0000

Don’t miss our PANEL at SDCC: “From Short Films to Sinners” How Hollywood Creates Virtual Worlds …And You Can Too" Saturday, 7/25 3-4 PM Room 25ABC 🎬 Michael Ralla (VFX Ryan Coogler's Sinners), Noam Argov + Sappir Argov, Nicole Pacent, Sophia Bollinger, myself and moderator @cinebeth.bsky.social

19 Jul 2026 22:35 +0000

Busy schedule for SD Comic Con Int'l this year! I will be doing an official panel, short film screening, and DJing an afterparty! The panel "From Short Films to Sinners: How Hollywood Creates Virtual Worlds . . . and You Can Too" features Michael Ralla (VFX Sinners, Avengers) and ... 🧵

22 May 2026 03:29 +0000

Had a blast training volunteers from the @comicconmuseum.bsky.social for Animal Communication 101: Doctor Who edition. We discussed nonverbal communication strategies used by animals and our favorite Dr. Who aliens. Thanks to @melissatruth.bsky.social + Angel DeLuz for having me!

14 May 2026 14:24 +0000

Our short film VERSE will have its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday, June 6th, 8:15pm, Shorts Theater in NYC! It was a blast acting as scientific advisor for this film to edit the script for scientific accuracy and help secure grant funding for the film. West coast dates soon!

04 May 2026 23:35 +0000

I presented about modeling motor control in the mouse arm at the Salk Neuroscience Symposium today! The pressure was high, I had to present AFTER two of my neuroscience heroes: Eve Marder and Markus Meister! How am I supposed to follow that?? Thankful that it went well! 🤓

16 Apr 2026 01:03 +0000

Had a blast presenting my poster at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the Simulated Bodies conference at Janelia about musculoskeletal imitation and transfer learning of mouse forelimb reaching with Talmo Pereira and Eiman Azim labs! 1/2

30 Mar 2026 22:51 +0000

Redesigned my personal website! Featuring my computational neuro research, sci comm outreach, and film consulting. Video from our Comic Con panel with Fleet Science, my "Body Horror and the Brain" lecture @neurohumanitiesn.bsky.social and many collabs @cinebeth.bsky.social 🔗 ericleonardis.github.io https://ericleonardis.github.io

26 Mar 2026 22:21 +0000

I made a website for House Music Fridays! Check out the Events page for upcoming events and past flyers, you can sign up for our email list there! There is info about the night, socials, residents and guest DJs, photos, and 46 hours of mixes. hmfsd.github.io https://hmfsd.github.io/

19 Mar 2026 22:15 +0000

I put together a playlist of all the past House Music Fridays mixes I could find. 44 hours of high quality house music for your listening pleasure! Featuring some of the best house DJs in the business, and I have a few mixes on there too. Here’s the link: https://on.soundcloud.com/rFDxz7RghnrfKB5TcL https://soundcloud.com/eric-leonardis/sets/hmf-aclounge

16 Mar 2026 12:42 +0000

Noticeably a lot more dynamical systems stuff at COSYNE this year 👍 love to see it 😎

13 Mar 2026 15:50 +0000

Presented my work on musculoskeletal imitation learning in the mouse at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) conference in Lisbon! 🇵🇹 I am very excited to share our new massively parallel framework in JAX for training biomechanical models to perform dexterous motor control tasks.

12 Mar 2026 14:33 +0000

Poster session from 8:30pm-11:30pm? Whose idea was this? Am I being punished? did I do something wrong? 😭lol

28 Feb 2026 10:52 +0000

Drop your chat gpt subscription and switch to Claude

25 Feb 2026 20:16 +0000

Join me at House Music Fridays this week! I will be opening for Dj Neo24 (SF) and BPMSLIDE (Chicago) , should be a great time! Hope to see you at Air Conditioned Lounge in North Park, San Diego this Friday 9pm-2am. Event page here: ra.co/events/2353768

19 Feb 2026 22:33 +0000

Had a blast giving my lecture “Computational Ethology and Embodied AI” with Professor Federico Rossano’s class CogSci 13 class at UC San Diego! We discussed how to quantify animal behavior with 2D and 3D pose estimation, and use imitation learning to reproduce animal behaviors we observe in the lab!

17 Feb 2026 16:41 +0000

New mix up! This was my warmup set for Duke Shin and Jesse Austin at HMF on Feb 6. deep and jackin house with some disco vibes too. Give it a listen and let me know what you think! LINK HERE: https://on.soundcloud.com/STttkCl2KqZHbd9Zd2 https://soundcloud.com/eric-leonardis/eric-leonardis-house-music

16 Feb 2026 01:11 +0000

Great times with the Grammy award winner and Chicago legend himself Gene Hunt who played a killer set at HMF Air Conditioned Lounge 🚀 and solid vibes as always from your host Matthew Brian 🏠🎶 bringing the highest quality house music to you every Friday in San Diego 👊💥

13 Feb 2026 16:54 +0000

“notwithstanding the mob's recent hysteria about something of no significance whatsoever, namely personal emails.” <— is this a joke? this is cult worship… it’s significant if you’re not a sycophant

12 Feb 2026 16:44 +0000

Excited to share that my poster, “Musculoskeletal Imitation Learning: Physics-Aware Constraints Promote Naturalistic Muscle Activity,” has been accepted to the Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 this March 🤩👏 Looking forward to great discussions with colleagues.

04 Feb 2026 21:18 +0000

Thanks to @gluzmania.bsky.social for having me at her class Science, Technology and Society: Science Communication at University of Alberta for a Q&A about my work as a scientific advisor for films. We discussed David Kirby's book Lab Coats in Hollywood and writing science on screen. What a blast!

03 Feb 2026 19:31 +0000

In case you missed it, check out my new all vinyl mix with FeeLit Records Sunday Livestream! 🎶 Link here: https://youtu.be/m6gSsHe2lDs?si=31EKSaHsMJL3Xrov

01 Feb 2026 16:46 +0000

Check out my vinyl mix on the Feelit Records Sunday Livestream out today!!! A selection of my favorite house records, most of which I bought from this store! Thanks to Markalan and DJ Valerian for having me out! Much love! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6gSsHe2lDs

27 Jan 2026 18:09 +0000

We 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!

27 Jan 2026 05:11 +0000

Join me for my all vinyl DJ set this Wednesday 6-9pm at The Office SD for Dance Klassique Vinyl Sessions

25 Jan 2026 19:18 +0000

Hope you can join me for my All Vinyl DJ set this Wednesday 1/28 for Dance Klassique Vinyl Sessions with host Ivan Gregory at The Office SD! I will be spinning some downtempo, boogie, disco and deep house on the wheels of steel! I hope you can join us to warm up the night 6-9pm

23 Jan 2026 21:30 +0000

"humans are the only animals who use tools".... hold my beer moooo https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01597-0

21 Jan 2026 00:36 +0000

A real tour de force today by Mala Murthy @princetonneuro.bsky.social at @salkinstitute.bsky.social about her work with @sebastianseung.bsky.social on leveraging the complete connectome of the fly brain to understand social behavior in fruit flies. Incredible work!