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watermelon enthusiast & cognitive scientist @Harvard | visiting scholar @OISTedu 🇯🇵 | previously @RiceUniversity ‘18, @BCM_Neurosci , @MPC_CompPsych

Onna, Okinawa, Japan

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

4 months

at the risk of professionally embarrassing myself…🙈i started a youtube channel! ✨🎥▶️ in this video, i talk about moving to japan, my unique two-body problem (academia❤️military), and plans for the channel (including: 👩🏻‍🏫🧠👩🏻‍🎓🇯🇵✈️) pls subscribe!! 🙌🏻

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i left harvard and moved to japan 🇯🇵 | new year, new channel, new...

🌱 happy 2024! i'm officially launching my channel this year with a new identity ◔◡◔ last summer, i left harvard and moved to okinawa, japan 🇯🇵 with my hu...

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

i normally don’t share personal things here, but this was just too good of a story 🥹💍 on july 23, 2022, my (twitterless) partner Ethan surprised me in London and proposed at Primrose Hill…1/n

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

Four years ago, I wrote a blog post about the PhD application process. I've now written an updated *2nd edition* with content additions, including all my application materials free to download 🎉 Please RT and share with anyone applying this Fall! 😊

All About PhD Applications

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

3 years

All of my students showed up to class like this today 🤣🤣🤣

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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elated to share that i’m moving to okinawa, japan! 🇯🇵🗾 i will miss cambridge and @gershbrain lab sorely, but will be back in a year to defend/graduate 🤞🏻 in the meantime, i’ll be a visiting researcher at @OISTedu with gail tripp and kenji doya :) OIST ppl, be my friend pls 🥹

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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This week, @alexbchen and I started teaching a new J-term "Math Tools" course we designed for the @harvard Program in Neuroscience! Follow along on our public course site: /1

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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personal update: a week ago, i married the most incredible man i know in the beautiful berkshires 🤍 thank you, ethan, for being my lover and friend. you are truly my biggest supporter and i can't imagine life without you ~

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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hello twitterverse! here's my first, first-authored preprint with the wonderful @AnnHuang42 and @gershbrain ! in this paper, we used our theory of policy compression to better understand action chunking 🧵…(1/n)

Action chunking as policy compression

Many skills in our everyday lives are learned by sequencing actions towards a desired goal. The action sequence can become a chunk when individual actions are grouped together and executed as one...

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Yay my book chapter is out!! 🥳 In this chapter, @gershbrain and I cast behavior as a trade-off between reward and the complexity of one's action policies (1/3)

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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🧵1/8 🚨 New #preprint alert! 🚨 This new study by @gershbrain and I is the first to directly test the predictions of our policy compression model, which describes how capacity-limited agents trade reward for simpler policies to reduce cognitive cost

Human decision making balances reward maximization and policy compression

Policy compression is a computational framework that describes how capacity-limited agents trade reward for simpler action policies to reduce cognitive cost. In this study, we present behavioral...

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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my paper got accepted after just one round of reviews 🥳🥳😭😭🥹🥹 i can’t believe it!!! perfect present as i’m currently en route to BOSTON ✈️ to defend my thesis ⚔️

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🥳☺️😍 indebted to my wonderful students, always

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T-3 days until thesis defense 🥹 still fighting a rough #lupus flare, but excited for this culminating moment of my phd 🥺👩🏻‍🎓 #phdchat #chronicillness

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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now that interview season for #gradschool is coming up, i'm resharing the "how to prepare for interviews" section of my grad school application post 🤗 congrats to all who were invited to interview at @PiN_Harvard and good luck!!

All About PhD Applications

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this made my morning 😭😭😭

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Harvard's response to #COVID19 + recommendation to PhD students: "This might be a good time to start writing the introduction to your dissertation, or reading those foundational papers in your field!" Tempted to go hide away in the woods and write my thesis proposal from there

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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It’s official—I will be pursuing my PhD in Neuroscience @Harvard ! Forever indebted to @JeffMYau , @mjaztwit , and @jtdudman , who have taught me everything I know, and who continually inspire me to do great science. Excited to meet my Boston/Cambridge science-Twitter friends!!!

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this student's answer to a question on the pset made me laugh🤣

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Giving a lecture on ~CONSCIOUSNESS~ for an undergrad course on Artificial and Natural Intelligence next week. What movies about AI consciousness should I watch in preparation?? Ex Machina, Her, come to mind...

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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my dear friend @EthanJPerez defended his CS PhD thesis on improving language models today!! congratulations Dr. Perez!👨‍🎓😍🎉🎊 we've come a long way since Rice 🥲🥲🥲

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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OH and of course, i proposed back the next day in Oxford because why shouldn't men wear engagement rings too?! 😉💍11/10

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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just asked some people to be on my thesis examination committee...what a crazy feeling to be coming to the end of this long phd journey

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Check out our new paper, in which we apply the reward-complexity trade-off to analyze and explain cognitive effort abnormalities in schizophrenia! We show that schizophrenic patients adopt lower complexity policies compared to controls--a consequence of suboptimal learning.

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New paper out in @CPSYJournal - from @gershbrain and @lucylai_ - The Reward-Complexity Trade-off in Schizophrenia...

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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My immigrant father came to the States in 1995 in search of a new adventure. He relinquished his fancy status as an MD to slave away in a research lab under a PI who severely underpaid him. Today, I read his first and only first-authored research paper: /1

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Reversibility and pathohistological basis of left ventricular remodeling in hibernating myocardium...

The phenomenon of left ventricular (LV) remodeling with dilatation, wall thinning, and increased muscle mass has previously been reported in pigs with 7-day myocardial hibernation. This study...

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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still can’t believe my summer at @MPC_CompPsych has come to a close 🥺 i had so much fun working with @TobiasUHauser and @docqhuys (not pictured) on a special little project (hope to share more soon!), and made so many new friends at @ucl ! i will be back! 1/3

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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what a week. staying mentally sane by writing a few things I’m thankful for each day—really helps with keeping perspective. stay safe and healthy, friends!

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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🧵2023 was such a dynamic year for me: this year i: 👩‍🏫applied for a tenure-track faculty job 👀 💒got married 🇯🇵moved to japan ✨started a visiting fellowship @OISTedu ...

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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didn't realize how much i missed cambridge. the intellectual community #cogsci , seeing a myriad of runners on saturday mornings, the crisp air, the bostonian accents, people working at cafes...🥹 should i move back here??

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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May is #LupusAwareness month 💜 Today, I received my first dose of a new #lupus med! 💊 I’ve had lupus for >10 years, but ~4 months ago I began the worst flare up I’ve ever had…I’m talking multiple trips to the ER, severe pain, debilitating fatigue & usual meds didn’t help 1/5

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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apply to the FREE Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Summer School where you can hang out with cool people (incl. me! 🥰) at the beach while learning computational neuroscience through lectures, tutorials, and independent projects!!! Deadline: Jan 31

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De Schutter OIST Lab

@DeschutterOIST

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Okinawa/OIST Computational Neuroscience Course 2024 (OCNC 2024): Apply now! This unique summer course supports students to develop their own research project in computational neuroscience.

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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the first (high school) student i ever wrote a recommendation letter for has just decided to attend @CarnegieMellon for college! so incredibly proud of her and the research she did with me 🥹

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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My post on how to apply to (science) PhD programs is finally up on the blog! I learned a lot from my own application experience and wanted to share some tips and tricks. Hope this can help anyone who is looking to apply this cycle :) Pls RT!

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All About PhD Applications

Everything you need to know about applying to (neuro)science PhD programs! (And my most read blog post.) I cover: how to know if / when to apply to PhD programs, how to get fee waivers, whether you…

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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is it rude to invite yourself to give a talk in someone's lab? 👀 asking for a friend #phdchat #academia

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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The best PI reaped his due rewards today :) Congratulations @gershbrain !! It's a privilege to be your student 😍🥳🍾

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Fiery Cushman

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HUGEST congrats to @gershbrain awarded tenure as full professor today!!! Working with Sam is exhilarating and exhausting -- like a Sunday jog with your friend the Maserati. But when you can catch up, he’s always taken you somewhere with a magnificent view of the road ahead.

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The reward-complexity trade-off in schizophrenia joint with @lucylai_ and thanks go to @ccnlab for sharing data

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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my ASTOUNDING summer undergrad intern @AnnHuang42 gave her final presentation today at lab meeting. she collected data and fit computational models for 2 full experiments during her short 3 months here 😱 so proud of her 😍😍😍 & everyone should accept her for grad school!

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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every year, student comments are so encouraging and remind me why i love teaching so much 🥲🥰

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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BOS ✈️ LHR—catch me in London this summer! 🤩 i’ll be doing fun things with @TobiasUHauser and @docqhuys at @MPC_CompPsych 🇬🇧

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Today was my first time teaching in-person in over 2 (!) years! Delighted to be helping organize and teach the @HarvardGenEd course "Artificial and Natural Intelligence" w/ @NeuroVenki this semester 🧠🤖 @DerekBokCenter #AcademicTwitter #teaching

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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today in @HarvardGenEd 1125: gradient descent & backprop! 🤯 my favorite feeling is when students are nodding & actually grasping complicated concepts 😍

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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🚨update: invited myself to give a talk. got an invite back 🥹 junior people should do this more! #phdchat #academia

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is it rude to invite yourself to give a talk in someone's lab? 👀 asking for a friend #phdchat #academia

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celebrating the small things: draft 1 sent to PI and coauthor— great way to start my Monday 🥳!!

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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A relic from my past showed up today in the mailbox of my childhood home. 6.5 years ago, we wrote out our "future plans" in Calculus class. Glad to see some dreams being brought to life (PhD!), and to be reminded of ones yet to be fulfilled (competing in @TheCliburn Piano Comp)🙃

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what's spookier than your phd advisor?! 👻🎃☠️ we wanted to know if it was the purple jacket that gave sam his superpowers (it is, everyone should get one). happy halloween hehe!

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Sam Gershman

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I came to my office today only to discover @taylordburke and @lucylai_ sitting at my desk wearing replicas of my favorite purple sweatshirt (which apparently I wear too predictably). Happy Halloween!

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Currently writing a recommendation letter for my high school student who is applying to @MIT 's RSI program, and feeling so proud of her hard work, insatiable curiosity, and drive. More and more I understand what a wonderful and rewarding endeavor it is to mentor younger students!

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

Thank you #HumansofHBI for allowing me to share my story!✨ Here, I talk about my path to neuroscience, my amazing immigrant parents, the harmony between faith and science, and how @j4jonahp and I started a departmental forum from the desire to amplify voices and heal souls ✨

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Meet @lucylai_ on #HumansofHBI , Lab of @gershbrain @PsychHarvard @Harvard

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PhD in a picture

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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In August, I published a blog post about the PhD application process...Since then, it's reached >1.6k people from all over the world! Looks like there's been a surge since interview invitations started going out. Good luck to all those visiting schools in 2019! 🤗🤓

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Teaching Bayesian causal inference today 🤓

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2 years

yayy! thank u for having me @StanfordPsych !

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Tobias Gerstenberg

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Thanks @lucylai_ for sharing your work on policy compression @StanfordPsych ! Lucy shows how phenomena such as stochasticity and perseveration arise when resource-rational agents balance maximizing rewards and minimizing complexity. 📰

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Cajal's "Advice for a Young Investigator" needs an update :) I used to be a “let’s measure stuff, and then from these measurements we can construct a theory" person and then I met Sam. Thanks for guiding me into the rich world of puzzle-solving.

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Sam Gershman

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I was asked to present some advice to young investigators. Here are my slides. Happy to hear suggestions!

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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last stretch before my thesis is due…🫠 i have lost track of what day of the week it is because every day is the same: ☀️, 🍽️, ☕️, ✍🏻, 🍽️, ✍🏻, maybe 🏋🏻‍♀️, 🍽️, ✍🏻, 😴,🌙, repeat

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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today I said goodbye to one of my favorite “informal” mentors. thanks, xaq, for letting me TA your neurotheory course and for always being there to help me math things out!!

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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🚨ICYMI my talk, “How Cognitive Constraints Shape Our Decisions and Actions” given at @OISTedu @OIST_TSVP is now on YouTube 😇▶️

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Lucy Lai - How Cognitive Constraints Shape Our Decisions and Actions...

Lucy Lai is visiting OIST from 2023-11-14 until 2024-02-28 through the "Theoretical Sciences Visiting Program" (TSVP). Find out more about the TSVP on the pr...

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Graduated from @RiceUniversity with honors and the best of friends!! One degree wasn’t enough, so catch us in Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Houston, Seattle, and Denver as we pursue our PhDs, MDs, and DDSs☺️🎓 #WomenInSTEM

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Is your low-d representation a cream puff or a burrito? Eric-Shea Brown explains why it matters 😛 #cosyne19

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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he then took me to Primrose Hill where some of our friends were standing along a path, giving me flowers and letters he had written. when we got to the top of the hill, he proposed ☺️ we’ve been friends for 8 years, lovers for 2, and now partners for life❣️9/n

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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i'm such a sucker for well-written guides, and i just spent my new year's morning reading @neubadah 's incredible guide on ✨how to apply for a postdoc✨ a must read if you are even considering!! @neubadah if you're reading this, i'd love to meet up someday 👀

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Ubadah Sabbagh

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One of my favorite things is that at least once a month a stranger will email me expressing how helpful they found this guide. It's been read 20k+ times since I've published it, and it's time to share it again.

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A successful diversity luncheon—we discussed how #cosyne19 could be improved with double-blind review and data collection on diversity factors such as gender and race on submitted abstracts, among other suggestions!

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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great article about the importance of mentoring undergraduates. certainly would not have considered being a scientist if not for the amazing training i received from @JeffMYau @mjaztwit @jtdudman

@CellCellPress

Cell

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Commentary in this issue of Cell: Nurturing Undergraduate Researchers in Biomedical Sciences -

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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my literal best friend in the whole wide world @JoyJoyZhou published her first, first-authored paper today in @eLife !!! "Purkinje cell neurotransmission patterns cerebellar basket cells into zonal modules defined by distinct pinceau sizes" I AM SO PROUD🥰

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Purkinje cell neurotransmission patterns cerebellar basket cells into zonal modules defined by...

Targeted genetic silencing and reporter labeling reveal that Purkinje cell activity organizes cerebellar basket cells into zonal modules based on the sizes of their projections.

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Thanks for all your suggestions! Pleased to report that I included a Westworld clip in my lecture and will likely finish the show now 🤯🤖

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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Giving a lecture on ~CONSCIOUSNESS~ for an undergrad course on Artificial and Natural Intelligence next week. What movies about AI consciousness should I watch in preparation?? Ex Machina, Her, come to mind...

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entering a glorious era of my phd where chatGPT writes my code for me 🌟

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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the graceful @Sandra_RoPi developed a model of optimism and pessimism biases in value prediction! she showed how baseline DA is a candidate mechanism for these biases and is often altered in psychiatric disease #RLDM2022

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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My dad wanted to quit his job so bad, but because I had just been born, he had to keep working to support the family. Always thankful for the sacrifices my #immigrant parents made to give me the opportunities I have today. Without them I am nothing. /3

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My course "How Music Plays the Brain" was awarded the @RiceUniversity Fall 2017 Student-Taught Course Teaching award!! 😀

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i occasionally re-compile my overleaf just to see how long my thesis is 🤣 (currently at 137) anything for the short bursts of dopamine 💧💧💧

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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last stretch before my thesis is due…🫠 i have lost track of what day of the week it is because every day is the same: ☀️, 🍽️, ☕️, ✍🏻, 🍽️, ✍🏻, maybe 🏋🏻‍♀️, 🍽️, ✍🏻, 😴,🌙, repeat

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Every grad student should listen to Ira Glass speak about the creative process...Sometimes it's good to know that you're not the only person who is constantly disappointed by the gap between one's taste and one's skills 😶

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figure specifications for journals are going to make me quit academia lol

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finishing a manuscript is like crawling out of a deep, dark pit into the glorious light of sunshine

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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The best summer I ever had! Apply to be a @HHMIJanelia Undergraduate Scholar :)

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inviting people to attend my thesis defense feels like sending out my wedding invites all over again 🤣

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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@gershbrain @taylordburke bayesian brain and reinforcement learning!!

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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i met my wonderful former undergrad research intern @AnnHuang42 for the first time IN THE FLESH at #RLDM2022 🥹🥹🥹

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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my friend & roommate @neurojaym just won the @MIT_alumni @MITBiology research slam!! :)

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Maya Jay

4 years

Thank you to @MIT_alumni @mesoplodon @hholdenthorp @siegelv for hosting the MIT Research SLAM for @MITBiology ! Honored to have received 1st place and audience's choice for my talk on learning/behavior😊 as well as featured alongside 8 other badass #WomenInSTEM and our research!

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

7 years

just paid my last fall tuition ever...thankful for the parents that made my education in the US possible :) #immigrantExcellence

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

1 year

"radical and rigorous, ambitious and meticulous" @bjmarlin is so brilliant, inspiring, and fierce. she makes me hopeful for the future of science 🥹 thank you for sharing your wisdom and motto with us ✨

@bjmarlin

Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin

1 year

Thank you Harvard! Your science is thrilling, and your olfaction crew brought me so much joy ✨. I can’t wait to see how your trainees rock this world. I loved my time with you all 🤗 Thank you @NeuroVenki for the invitation. I appreciate you both @DulacLab

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

6 years

Happy #WomenInScienceDay !! I owe it to @anne_churchland for sparking my interest in theory by making it possible for undergrads like me to attend #Cosyne , and to @NarainDevika and @jing_______ for being two incredibly smart women in theoretical neuroscience that I look up to :-)

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

5 years

Taught the neuroscience lecture for @HarvardHPREP this morning. After class, one student showed me a paper he had found about the role of motor proteins in vesicle release: “I find this like, super, super fascinating!�� I hope we never lose that child-like wonder towards science.

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

the desk attendant was so moved by his story that she ran onto the plane after the doors had already closed and somehow found him the very last empty seat ✈️ 7/n

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

3 years

check out the amazing course materials that @EllaBatty has worked all semester on developing!! so lucky to have you on board to beef up our prototype of a course :')

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Ella Batty

3 years

Excited (and terrified) to start releasing the material for the Math Tools for Neuroscience course I'm teaching this fall at Harvard! Khan academy style videos and tutorials/exercises in Google colab (python)

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

if you’re in the cambridge/boston area, come thru!! i’ll be teaching a short intro-to-RL tutorial with (twitterless) john vastola

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Paul Masset

2 years

🗣️Interested in RL from ML to neuroscience and robotics and working in the Cambridge/Boston area? We are organizing an interdisciplinary workshop on August 29th-30th! Submission for abstracts for contributed talks/posters and registration here:

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

Students in my @HarvardGenEd 1125 section gave their final paper proposal today! And then surprised me with a sweet thank you card 🥲🥲

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

5 years

Mind=blown 🤯🤯🤯

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Chaz Firestone

5 years

All the balls are the same color — and that color is *brown*!

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

25 days

Wow I’m currently so delirious (jet lag) that I thought it was May. Well, May is coming up so consider me early 🤣

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

25 days

May is #LupusAwareness month 💜 Today, I received my first dose of a new #lupus med! 💊 I’ve had lupus for >10 years, but ~4 months ago I began the worst flare up I’ve ever had…I’m talking multiple trips to the ER, severe pain, debilitating fatigue & usual meds didn’t help 1/5

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

21 days

watching the boston marathon today was honestly so inspiring…🏃🏻‍♂️finishing my thesis kind of felt like a mental marathon in its own right haha 📖👩🏻‍💻

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

5 years

I’m always inspired by PIs who are good mentors! Mentoring others can be so fulfilling, yet mentorship is a skill that is not often taught in academia. To people who are mentors: what incentivizes you to be a good mentor, and how have you learned best practices for mentoring?

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

so he cold emailed my PI @docqhuys telling him of the plan and asking for his help, and Quentin masterfully deceived me by inviting me to a fake British soirée at his house with “artists, scientists, and musicians.” 🎨🧪🎶 3/n

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

4 years

This. This is exactly the unfortunate reality of academia. The stark reality is that no one gets to choose their race, gender, socioeconomic status, etc. But all these things inherently affect one's educational opportunity. The snowball effect is so real.

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Junhyong Kim

4 years

I thought I would extend what I posted earlier. I am not aware of any dept that doesn’t think diversity (including gender) is important. So, why doesn’t it happen? All our processes involve choices and tradeoffs. Examples: 1/n

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

4 years

case in point

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Martin Kleppmann

4 years

In 1665, the University of Cambridge temporarily closed due to the bubonic plague. Isaac Newton had to work from home, and he used this time to develop calculus and the theory of gravity.

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

5 years

Off to @MBLScience for the @MIT_CBMM summer school! 🤩

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

3 months

anyone have advice for writing a dissertation? #phdchat 🫠

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

3 years

🙌🏻 thanks @anne_churchland

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Anne Churchland

@anne_churchland

3 years

@lucylai_ spoke at @NAISys about the division of learning labor for motor learning. She used the context of key for piano scales as an example. She leaves us w/ some cool questions: How do biological agents learn relevant state spaces? How do we teach robots to discover that

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

7 years

Just submitted the Fulbright--holding my breath till March 😅😅

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

8 months

absolutely incredible and inspiring teaching address from Philip Ernst, who i took statistics from at @RiceUniversity , on "Making an Undergraduate 'Requirement' an Unforgettable Experience." i remember being blown away every. single. class.

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

3 years

saw an amazing talk of this work yesterday, made me think of how much of social media is about distributing limited attention across so many stimuli that scrolling, retweeting, etc. conforms to some kind of default random behavior that ends up proliferating fake news (1/4)

@DG_Rand

David G. Rand

3 years

🚨Out now in Nature!🚨 A fundamentally new way of fighting misinfo online: Surveys+field exp w >5k Twitter users show that gently nudging users to think about accuracy increases quality of news shared- bc most users dont share misinfo on purpose 1/

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

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ever wondered what @PiN_Harvard phd students do in and out of the lab? @TFiveFifty challenged me to work on a creative project outside of my comfort zone...and this is what I came up with! welcome to an inside look at my life 🙈 @karen_brennan #phdchat

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hiii everyone~ i'm lucy, and i'm trying out this youtube thing! (っ◔◡◔)っ i bring you along for a couple days in my life as a harvard phd student (in and out o...

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@lucylai_

Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

❤️❤️❤️

@Sandra_RoPi

Sandra Romero Pinto

2 years

awesome talk by @lucylai_ in the #RLDM2022 workshop on representation learning. Teaching us how are policy complexity results from capacity constraints. 👏

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Lucy Lai, PhD 🍉

2 years

a HUGE thanks to @docqhuys and our London friends for making this happen! ☺️ 10/10

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