Jieyu Zheng

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! bsky.app/profile/jieyus…

Heading to @HHMIJanelia this weekend for the MCN! 🧠✈️ I’ll be presenting a poster on Wednesday, repping @CaltechN (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!

My first outing of "The Unbearable Slowness of Being" at the @CaltechN 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.@CFCamerer and Carlos for the invite!

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

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

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!

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: jieyusz.github.io/talks/2024_har…

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: localnewspasadena.com/2024/autumn-an…

"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.

Thank you @DiscoverMag for a nice summary of "The Unbearable Slowness of Being" by me and @mameister4! 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? 🎨😊

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…

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…

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)

COVID got me good😷, probably from the epic party at @MITMuseum... 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!

Enjoyed the CCN2024 meeting, including posters by ⁦@wchapmanIV⁩, @qd31415, ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦@_neurahn⁩, @IsenburgKylie⁩, ⁦@LeahBakst⁩, ⁦@JieyuZheng3⁩ and seeing @AllenLiuYue, Gary Cottrell and many more!