Jeff Yau 姚明穎
family guy • neuroscientist in Houston interested in touch, the body, and multisensory processing • views are mine and not my employer’s • he/him • proud immigrant • mask wearer • RT≠endorse #CIDP #autoimmune 🐆
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- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎Dear Congresswoman @foushee.house.gov, the multi year funding (MYF) in the HHS/NIH bill is normed to 2025 - please propose an amendment to norm to 2024, like the Senate version. As it stands, ~1/4-1/3 of NIH $ will be sequestered by MYF, a big cut to the Triangle's STEM economy!
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- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now. - $400M increase - Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels. - No line item for BRAIN Initiative text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee... Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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- Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!! 🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎Good summary of lack of evidence and potential for harm of components of the recommended diet www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/08/1... by @jesshamzelou.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵 rdcu.be/eVZ1A
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- Proud zealot here. And not just against Covid 🙋🏻♂️ #maskup #airborneaware
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎🔬 We're hiring a Junior Group Leader for Data-Driven Digital Twins/System Models in medicine/life sciences at @uni_goettingen! Perfect opportunity for early-career researchers who want to: - Lead their own research group - Work at the intersection of AI, simulation, and biomedicine
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎Bichan Wu (@bichanw.bsky.social) & I wrote a tutorial paper on Reduced Rank Regression (RRR) — the statistical method underlying "communication subspaces" from Semedo et al 2019 — aimed at neuroscientists. arxiv.org/abs/2512.12467
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎This is an important study but psilocybin potentially promoting brain tumor growth is consistent with human studies suggesting SSRIs may worsen survival outcomes in glioma
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- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p... #MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎Join us for Fall 2026. In our group, you can run studies from human behavior and neuroimaging, to large-scale NHP ephys, and join them up with a robust computational foundation. Bonus: you can help build the reading list.
- The Sensorimotor Superlab with @gribblelab.org and @andpru.bsky.social is a unique place to work and learn. We are now accepting MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2026. Join our awesome team at Western University... For application instructions see diedrichsenlab.org and gribblelab.org/join.html!
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎0/10 Thanks for the interest in our preprint. Some takes say it negates or fully supports the “manifold hypothesis”, neither quite right. Our results show that if you only focus on the manifold capturing most of task-related variance, you could miss important dynamics that actually drive behavior.
- LFG!
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- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎How our foray into acute neural recordings from the frontopolar cortex started. Check out Kati Rothenhoefer’s LBP028 poster this afternoon (11/16) to learn about how it’s going. #sfn25 #sfn2025
- Current feeling in US academia… 😓
- Super proud to announce Juan Carlos Ramirez’s successful PhD defense! Keep an eye out for his exciting work on thermo-tactile interactions! #proudmentor #phdone @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
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- Voting for a better future 🇺🇸💪
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- How Covid 🦠impacts the brain 🧠
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- Happy Halloween from Yau Lab and friends! @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed. #Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵
- Evolutionary expansion of the corticospinal system is linked to dexterity in Peromyscus mice biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad. I made a video explainer about why. Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social 1/4 🧪
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- Also, nevermind the weak statistical effects that fail to achieve significance if appropriate corrections for multiple comparisons are applied…
- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎During these uncertain times, I’m very happy to see that my institution, @scripps.edu has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position. Any field in Chemistry or Biology is welcome. I’d especially love to see fellow neuroscientists apply. Please repost! apply.interfolio.com/174756
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- Each day we perform our neurophysiology recording experiments, we gather together late in the day to scroll through raster plots. Everyone pauses from what they’re doing to join. It always feels a bit like we’re opening 🎁. One of my favorite aspects of our work! 😍 #spikes
- I wish I could join Jonathan’s lab now!
- The neural control & computation lab is recruiting! If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch. www.ncclab.ca
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- Reposted by Jeff Yau 姚明穎Federal workers are speaking out on how the Trump regime is harming Americans: "We stand here today at a moment of the greatest assault of our lifetimes on our freedoms. The US Constitution is being shredded... We are here to call on Congress to stand up and stop it." youtu.be/uw1KwIBgrCw?...
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- #novavax #nuvaxovid has reached select #CVS locations in/around #Houston #HTown #Spacecity! Even if your preferred CVS doesn’t carry, they can look up which locations do. #maskup
- Awesome dataset. I’ve dreamed to collect this type of data previously!
- Understanding behavior requires datasets that capture humans while carrying out complex tasks. The kitchen is an excellent environment for assessing human motor and cognitive function, as many complex actions are naturally exhibited in kitchens from chopping to 🧽! arxiv.org/abs/2506.01608
- How much does blood flow modulate finger temperature? A lot… based on test using self-applied finger tourniquet from rubber band and wrench! #sciencewithwhatyougot #giveyourbodyforscience
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