Journal Club

In this Journal club, we will discuss the paper "Dissociating the intensity and phase origins of sleepiness through a threshold-distance model of sleep-wake dynamics", Yi Yao Zijun Ning et al., bioRxiv, 2026. Abstract: Sleepiness is a leading proximate cause of drowsy-driving fatalities, medical errors and industrial accidents, yet it has resisted mechanistic prediction; although it …

In this talk, we discuss the paper "Learning to learn ecosystems from limited data" by Zheng-Meng Zhai et al., PNAS, 2025. Abstract: A fundamental challenge in developing data-driven approaches to ecological systems for tasks such as state estimation and prediction is the paucity of the observational or measurement data. For example, modern machine-learning techniques such …