Ratan Othayoth
othayoth.bsky.social
Ratan Othayoth
@othayoth.bsky.social
Postdoc @HHMI Janelia studying intuitive physics in 🐁 with Johnson/Dudman Labs

Previously @JohnsHopkins studying animal and robot locomotion

🦾🤖⚙️Engineer. Frequently breaks stuff, occasionally makes stuff.
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To study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾

To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning!
[Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks.
#SfN2025
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Bluetorial: The path to a new pain medication with little potential for addiction

Perhaps a good story to share with folks who want to learn about how biomedical research works and where advances come from.
a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
media.tenor.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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(1/11) Today I preprinted a lot of work from my postdoc with @dudman.bsky.social, which started with a question of how the nervous system balances flexibility with efficiency of learning. The thread below gives some background....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Cortical control of innate behavior from subcortical demonstration
Motor control in mammals is traditionally viewed as a hierarchy of descending spinal-targeting pathways, with frontal cortex at the top. Many redundant muscle patterns can solve a given task, and this...
www.biorxiv.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM