My first peer-reviewed paper is out! This study explores how spontaneous microsaccades performed when the animal fixates over a small fixation point in a blank screen, influence the neural activity in V1. Grateful for my amazing PI, @HamutalSlovin jneurosci.org/content/45/14/…

.@emilykubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category, and eccentricity from birth, and develop in parallel from infancy to adulthood. @stanford_vpnl nature.com/articles/s41562-0…

I am thrilled to share my postdoc work from the Soohyun Lee Lab, nature.com/articles/s41586-0…. Huge thanks to the awesome PI Soohyun Lee and collaborators Yuan Zhao, Ka Chun Lam, @fpereira, and Charles R Gerfen.

Think government ROI is low? In the ‘60s, #NIH-funded researchers Hubel & Wiesel studied how cats’ neurons process visual info—seemed trivial, right? Yet their work led to convolutional neural networks like Hinton’s AlexNet, sparking the AI revolution that’s reshaping the global economy—potentially with bigger economic impact than the Industrial Revolution. A study on cat neurons significantly contributed to this massive global shift. Small ROI on investment, huh? If studying cat neurons can lead to a revolution larger than the Industrial one, imagine what continued investment can do. Every time you visit the doctor and get an MRI, ultrasound, or X-ray, or use a computer or smartphone, you’re benefiting from government-funded basic science. For example, basic research in immunology led to cancer immunotherapies that have significantly decreased lung cancer deaths in the US. What truly makes America great is our leadership in science, technology, and innovation. If we stop investing in basic science, we’ll lose our edge. Yes, let’s make government spending more efficient and decrease bureaucracy, but cutting science funding cuts off our future. Investing in science research delivers massive ROI and secures America’s world leadership. #InvestInScience @elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy

"Starting in the 80s, that investment in basic science began to pay off, driving a revolution in the molecular biology of cancer... US gov't funding for science strengthens the economy in ways beyond cures." I wrote today abt the case for science investment:

In this TINS review we (w/@cvnlab, @elimerriam, & @eline_kupers) argue that *intensive* (many hours of data) fMRI of single individuals for single-voxel model fitting is a paradigm shift for cognitive/computational neuroimaging. tinyurl.com/intensivefmri 1/2

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | The Role of Higher Visual Cortices in Texture Discrimination; Rethinking Aperiodic Activity during Sleep Stages jneurosci.org/content/44/42/…