Jieyu Zheng
@jieyusz
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@Caltech Phd candidate in Neurobiology @mameister4 Lab; 23-25 President of @NeuroTechers @CaltechN; Alumnae from @sjtu1896 @Cornell @Cambridge_Uni
Joined June 2022
Following the footsteps of my labmates and colleagues, I'll slowly migrate to the new blue space for birds of science. You can follow me there!
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RT @mameister4: The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link for Neuron:…
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RT @_TheTransmitter: "[It’s] the largest unexplained number in brain science. I feel like neuroscience should pay more attention to it ..."…
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This upcoming winter term @Caltech @CaltechBBE, 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!
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Attaching a cute migrating bird (white-crowned sparrow) photo I took to attract your attention!
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Huge thanks to @johnjvastola for the kind invitation and intro! 🙏 And to the @harvardmed neuroscience audience for your questions. 🧠✨ Hope this talk sparked ideas on the role of the cortex! Slides now uploaded:
Next meeting Thurs, Nov 14 at 12:15 PM in WAB 236! Speaker is Jieyu Zheng (@JieyuZheng3), a Caltech PhD student in the Meister Lab (@mameister4). Talk title: "Cognition and Cortex: Implications from Rapid learning, Long-term Memory, and Flexible Routing in Rodent Maze Navigation"
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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 @LocalNewsDena on my birding adventures:
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@NicoleCRust Congratulations! When it's out next summer, we would love to read it for the Caltech Neuroscience Book Club! Would you be interested in joining a discussion with the students? I will reach out then :p
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"The Unbearable Slowness of Being" has been the No.1 actively discussed preprint on @askalphaxiv for 5 days! This academic "billboard" is a game-changer for discussions and can be a new "impact factor" metric -- like we love @taylorswift13 for her songs, not the record labels.
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@galenbrain As a two-time TA for the caltech version of this course, I’d say quoting Barlow is a great start 😉 keeping blogs will be a lot of work on top of TAing, but also tremendous help to your students (and many neuroscience students alike). Looking forward to reading them!
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@neuronair @CellCellPress @GeorgeMountou @scott_linderman @AmitVinograd Congrats Adi! Yet another Cell for you!
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Thank you @DiscoverMag for a nice summary of "The Unbearable Slowness of Being" by me and @mameister4! 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? 🎨😊
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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” This painting is on the wall of our lab. Check out more arts & science here:
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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…
Why is reality so slow? Why can we only have one thought at a time? Why do we need so many neurons? Will @elonmusk's @neuralink really speed up his cognition? For answers and more questions check out our new review: "The Unbearable Slowness of Being".
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@elonmusk @djseo_ @neuralink @mameister4 Many thanks to our first critics: Frederick Eberhardt, Michelle Effros, and @UeliRutishauser from @CaltechN; @EngertLab, @mjaz_jazlab, Christof Koch, and @TonyZador. And of course, to Milan Kundera.
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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)
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