Jieyu Zheng

Many thanks to all who talked to me and/or came to my poster at #sfn25! It was a wonderful and fruitful reunion. See you soon in future meetings!

PDF of my poster and a video of acortical mice are on my website: jieyusz.github.io/talks/sfn_2025

We @jiangwu98.bsky.social are ready to challenge your beliefs about hippocampus! Come to SS5 and SS6 @sfn.org #sfn25 for @mameister4.bsky.social posters!

It's the last morning of #SfN25 @sfn.org so I decided to go conference birding! This female belted kingfisher at the back of the San Diego Convention Center certainly caught a nice breakfast. Did you also get a lot of food for thoughts?

#birds #wildlife

Come to see us at #39 in the graduate school fair of #SfN25 @sfn.org to learn about the wonderful programs in Neuroscience at @caltech.edu. We are here to answer questions about Phd in Computational neuroscience, Neurobiology, MD/PhD and postdocs!

Thanks for your interest! Briefly it is a reconfigurable maze that we can change into very different types of mazes without having to move the mouse into different space. Please check out this page for more detailed descriptions: jieyusz.github.io/publication/...

It's Emx1-CRE Pals1fl/fl, but I think Esco2fl/fl can do the same thing.

At #SfN25 Early Career session! Come to find me if you want to have an evening chat about the life without cortex, or the slowness of our being! I’ll be at the poster board B9 from 7:45-8, 8:15-8:45!

I’m off to #SfN2025! Grateful for the TPDA sponsor from @sfn.org. I will present in two sessions, details below.

I’m seeking 2026 postdoc positions to continue research in animal cognition/naturalistic behaviors—if you’re looking for a neuroethologist and a mouse whisperer, come to see me!

Explore Caltech Explore Caltech on Saturday, October 11, 2025

I will give a 10-minute talk this Saturday at the annual @caltech.edu outreach fair about our @mameister4.bsky.social recent publication "the unbearable slowness of being!" Why do our brains process just 10 bits/s? Check it out! explore.caltech.edu

What's better than having photos featured on their website @caltech.edu? local.caltech.edu/visit/wildlife

I only picked up #wildlife photography a year ago, but the nature encounters along the way have been so rewarding! #nature #birds

Thank YOU for putting in the tremendous effort to write on such an important topic for scientists and the public alike! I know academics are busy, but we need more of us writing books. This will inspire and motivate more brilliant brains to tackle big science questions.

These mice without cortex or hippocampus maintain a good repertoire of functions! Me too, I always enjoy the philosophical discussions about the role of cortex :p

It's an indigo bunting! First time for me seeing them on the east coast.

A full-brain load at an amazing cognition conference! Great meeting so many scientists with shared research interests — and #bird obsessions 🧠🐦 Conference birding is real!

Some highlights from the stunning research environment at @hhmijanelia.bsky.social

Very timely after today's talks!

Heading to @hhmijanelia.bsky.social this weekend for the MCN! 🧠✈️ I’ll be presenting a poster on Wednesday, repping @caltech.edu 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!

Three Minute Thesis YouTube video by caltech

Manhattan Maze was the finalist for the Caltech 3-minute thesis competition! Check out the fantasy version of our mouse study: 🐭 www.youtube.com/live/3eS2jj8...

The 10 bits/s is a proposed magnitude: so anything between 1-100 bits/s would fall into that range. We also quoted this paper and discussed the likely inflation of that number (39 bits/s), more details in Appendix A.2!

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

I'm so heartbroken to see all the homes destroyed by the firestorms in Greater Los Angeles —for both people and wildlife. This palm tree on @caltech.edu campus was once a food bank for resident acorn woodpeckers. My photo was taken just five days before the disaster. #wildfires #birds

Rare bird alert! A clay-colored sparrow and a female common yellow throat were observed on campus, in front of the Chen Neuroscience Research building.

Acorn woodpeckers working hard on the campus trees.

Baby fox squirrels play fighting on the tree near Beckman mall

A female coyote (confirmed by observations of urination patterns) in front of the newly built Resnick center.

A snowy egret testing the water temperature in the lily pond. Taken yesterday!

@caltech.edu might be a small campus, but never short of wildlife! Here are some #wildlife photos I took over the past few months /n
#addBirder #birds

Human Thought Is Far Slower Than Your Internet Connection (Gift Article) A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain is,” one researcher said.

I wrote about a scientific paper called “The Unbearable Slowness of Being” which finds that the human brain’s throughput is just 10 bits per second. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/s...
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Thank you for posting about this, fellow bird lover!

The Human Brain Operates at a Stunningly Slow Pace The brain is sometimes called the most complex machine in the known universe. But the thoughts that it outputs putter along at a trifling 10 bits per second, the pace of a conversation

Congrats to @jieyusz.bsky.social and @mameister4.bsky.social on their Neuron paper unpacking an unresolved paradox in neuroscience. It's terrific to see it capture the public imagination, including Scientific American.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Attached is a piece of art by me for "The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?"

Hope this will inspire you to think about the brain from a new perspective!