Andrew Erskine

Software engineer @ NeuroGEARS. Formerly neuro postdoc @ USC studying neurophysiology of sensation and behaviour.

[Rebecca Jordan @BeckyJordan321]

Good time to announce that I will be starting my lab at SIDB & University of Edinburgh early next year! 🎉 We will investigate neuromodulation and cortical learning, as well as their dysfunction in mouse models of autism spectrum disorder @sidb_edinburgh

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

Fun project with @AriaSafar using StyleGAN to generate new Arabic fonts. Shown here exploring the latent space at different training iterations for 106 different contextual letterforms.

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

A practical introduction to RNNs for neuro with code samples. Written after this year's COSYNE https://t.co/lz8eKo5Id8

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

This all started for me almost 5 years ago when @AndreasTSchafer challenged me to hack our olfactometer to produce odour fluctuations. What a journey since then! Grateful to have worked with this incredible team.

[Andreas Schaefer @AndreasTSchafer]

1/ Mouse olfaction is high bandwidth – our new paper just out in @nature – great lab collaboration by @TobiasAckels, @incisrdrew, @debanjanmona, @MiceBrains, @thomwarn, @stootoon, @FukunagaIzumi, @JuliaJadeHarris
https://t.co/LbpBZWvTR5

[Grubb Lab @GrubbLab]

Saw some of this in @incisrdrew's PhD thesis, and it was brilliant then - fantastic to see it out now. Congrats all!

[Andreas Schaefer @AndreasTSchafer]

1/ Mouse olfaction is high bandwidth – our new paper just out in @nature – great lab collaboration by @TobiasAckels, @incisrdrew, @debanjanmona, @MiceBrains, @thomwarn, @stootoon, @FukunagaIzumi, @JuliaJadeHarris
https://t.co/LbpBZWvTR5

[Andrew Hires @AndrewHires]

Our lab’s work on how cortical representations of shape are constructed from tactile input, and how they reorganize with training is out now in @NeuroCellPress. 🙏 to reviewers (who greatly improved the manuscript), editor & @NINDSfunding. 🧵by project lead @jkimkj.

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

https://t.co/M4l2YeX1yj

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

2nd #gamejam #ludumdare46 complete! A minimalist word game on the theme of "Keep it alive" - https://t.co/eqbUvBjZSW

[Bonsai-Rx @bonsai_rx]

Bonsai 2.5 + real-time DeepLabCut! You can now connect live tracking to your hardware in closed-loop. Install from: https://t.co/HzZjhx18Xy, DLC GPU install instructions at: https://t.co/cPqWU1fwzw

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

cool

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

Merry xmas

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

@KevenLaboy I think it would depend on what you need to track on the whiskers. I'm sure it would have no problem tracking whisker base, angle etc. Whisker tip contacts with the texture might be more tricky!

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

Blown away by how well #DeepLabCut works. Completely random frame selection + overnight model training resulted in a tracker capable of following multiple whiskers simultaneously across different imaging planes, even during overlap.

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

Calling time on my first #gamejam #LudumDare45. Introducing medium-sized field simulator 2019, made from scratch in <72 hours.

https://t.co/zOEfumaSAp

[Andrew Hires @AndrewHires]

Our deep-dive into mouse behavior, to address how mice locate objects with their whiskers was published OA today in @CurrentBiology.

If you are interested in learning more, please see this Tweetorial by the first author, Jon Cheung.

https://t.co/o8q5WaI2hc

[БEЛDΛМ @beldamRecords]

Livecoding music video in #ORCΛ by @neauoire.
https://t.co/8LAeCCoGRL

[bxv_neurosci @bxv_neurosci]

CHIME: CMOS-hosted in-vivo microelectrodes for massively scalable neuronal recordings https://t.co/PhhVtQxTFG

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

https://t.co/K2S9rnqNhC

[The Francis Crick Institute @TheCrick]

Crick researchers have engineered a ‘smart house’ for mice, that allows them to study the animals’ behaviour with minimal disturbance for up to 18 months. 🐭

@AndreasTSchafer 👨‍🔬@PLOSONE 📖

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

@DiegoGuarin19 Not extensively but it does still work. Analyzing frames can be slow on local CUP but see: https://t.co/m2dnUBOcIo

[M- Lab of Adaptive Intelligence @EPFL @MLabofAI]

"On the inference speed and video-compression robustness of #DeepLabCut" -up to 1,000 FPS, testing different GPUs, and showing that DLC is to robust video-compression! - save time & data space. New work from @TrackingPlumes & Rick Warren. @biorxivpreprint https://t.co/bcLRYpGwJE

[Andrew Erskine @incisrdrew]

@DiegoGuarin19 Yes, 2 rows of 3 whiskers left intact here. Frame rate ~300hz here to get an imaging region that spans all whiskers in 2 planes.