Enjoyed the CCN2024 meeting, including posters by ⁦William Chapman⁩, Quan Do, ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦Caroline Ahn⁩, @IsenburgKylie⁩, ⁦Leah Bakst⁩, ⁦@JieyuZheng3⁩ and seeing Yue Liu, Gary Cottrell and many more!

COVID got me good😷, probably from the epic party at MIT Museum... No regrets for me though—Seeing Shannon's Theseus is a Maze researcher's dream come true! Wishing everyone at #CCN2024 CogCompNeuro good health! Stay safe, folks!

Few-shot learning observed: it took me 6 peanuts to befriend a local fox squirrel. Now he checks my window daily—no extinction yet. Sure, squirrels already have representations of humans as food sources, but doesn't this hint at meta-learning too? (Photo today at Caltech)

Fun fact: a good portion of the literature search was done during a remote rotation while COVID-quarantining in a hotel in Singapore. Three years later I’m still suffering from COVID…

What do neuroscientists do on weekends? Art is an option! 🎨 Here’s a piece I did in 2021 when writing “the Unbearable Slowness of Being” arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234. This painting is on the wall of our lab. Check out more arts & science here: jieyusz.github.io/portfolio/arts…

Thank you Discover Magazine for a nice summary of "The Unbearable Slowness of Being" by me and Markus Meister! discovermagazine.com/mind/the-infor… If you are new to neuroscience, give it a read! Small suggestion & a little plug: How about using my art instead of the stock photo? 🎨😊

"The Unbearable Slowness of Being" has been the No.1 actively discussed preprint on alphaXiv for 5 days! This academic "billboard" is a game-changer for discussions and can be a new "impact factor" metric -- like we love Taylor Swift for her songs, not the record labels.

Outside the lab, I’m all about birds 🦅and art 🎨. It’s like weekend research, but with more instinct than effort —watching animals in the wild is very inspiring. Check out this short piece from Victoria Thomas Local News Pasadena on my birding adventures: localnewspasadena.com/2024/autumn-an…

Huge thanks to John J. Vastola for the kind invitation and intro! 🙏 And to the Harvard Medical School neuroscience audience for your questions. 🧠✨ Hope this talk sparked ideas on the role of the cortex! Slides now uploaded: jieyusz.github.io/talks/2024_har…

This upcoming winter term Caltech Caltech Division of BBE, I’ll lead an undergraduate tutorial on "The Ethology of Learning"👇! It’ll run 10 weeks (1-hour lectures + 2-hour reading per week). What are your suggestions for readings? I’ll review them over the holidays!

"[It’s] the largest unexplained number in brain science. I feel like neuroscience should pay more attention to it ..." said Marcus Meister when Claudia López Lloreda sat down with him and Jieyu Zheng for a Q&A about the brain's information-processing rate. thetransmitter.org/computational-…

The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link for Neuron: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH9B…, ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

My first outing of "The Unbearable Slowness of Being" at the Caltech Neuroscience Workshop today! What does living at 10 bits/s mean for humans, flies, mice, and crows? More here: jieyusz.github.io/talks/2025_che……Thanks to Profs.Colin Camerer and Carlos for the invite!

Heading to HHMI | Janelia this weekend for the MCN! 🧠✈️ I’ll be presenting a poster on Wednesday, repping Caltech Neuroscience (seems like I might be the only one!). Hit me up to chat about Manhattan Maze 🗺️, acortical mice 🐭, 10 bits/s 🔢, and all things cognition!

At 6:41: "A human bandwidth output is less than 1 bit/s over the course of the day." Not sure the team’s scientists fact-checked the latest literature… but it seems we'd settle the case by 2028. A rare pleasure to see a multi-million-$ experiment underway to test your theories!