Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings. We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity. 1/

Greeted an old Dutch couple at the hotel. We spot a mess on the ground. Gentleman, without hesitation: “You did this, right?" Me: "We do not do such a thing." His wife with elite improv: “You guys just swim on it.” It's fun to experience the coexistence of the best bike system and improvisation.

I’m thrilled to share the preprint with @sangkjyuson.bksy.social. It’s a fun example of applying dynamical systems approaches to social behavior, and the first two-author manuscript from Y-Lab. Sangkyu has put together a well-written thread to walk you through the ideas (see below ⬇️)

the university (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungkyu...) has just approved the establishment of a new department of Brain Science and Engineering. so we'll be hiring~

I wrote an article earlier in the week arguing that we need to give junior researchers more independence earlier, and this should be our focus, not moonshot mega projects led by senior researchers. I was surprised how much agreement I'm seeing. So next question: how do we do this?

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

It was a fun project with @dskwon.bsky.social and Won Mok seeking informative subspace from fMRI time-series!

While pursuing my Ph.D. with @benhayden.bsky.social, I had the privilege of learning many invaluable academic skills from him and the broader community, including @spiantado.bsky.social, @cantlonlab.bsky.social, @celestekidd.bsky.social, @srheilbronner.bsky.social, Brad Mahon and Dick Aslin.

I did not know my first bluesky post is about the illegal martial law in Korea. Please help spread the words.

New from the lab! “Semi-orthogonal subspaces for value mediate a binding and generalization trade-off” led by @wjj.bsky.social and @justfineneuro.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Preprint from Sangkyu Son, Michael Yoo, and Maya Wang! State-dependent Online Reactivations for Different Learning Strategies in Foraging www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...