Guy Gaziv

Can we precisely and noninvasively modulate deep brain activity just by riding the natural visual feed? 👁️🧠 In our new preprint, we use brain models to craft subtle image changes that steer deep neural populations in primate IT cortex. Just pixels. 📝arxiv.org/abs/2506.05633

Our lab at the Weizmann Institute was hit tonight by Iran We will rebuild and return 💪

Tomorrow at ICLR, we’re excited to present “L-WISE”, our paper on model-guided boosting of image category learning in humans. Come meet us by Poster #22 this Friday am (10–12) ☺️ with @MorganBDTalbot, @gkreiman, @JamesJDiCarlo iclr.cc/virtual/2025/p…

The potential for machine-aided education is remarkable. Specifically, this approach facilitates the acquisition of domain expertise in challenging medical imaging domains, wherein diagnostic tasks are of utmost clinical importance.

We then show that our "L-WISE" learning assistance approach enables humans to learn visual tasks more quickly and to higher levels of accuracy across various challenging image domains. Models are already accurate and human-aligned enough to improve our own recognition skills!

Our "L-WISE" paper on model-guided boosting of image category learning in humans was accepted to ICLR! Led by @MorganBDTalbot, with @gkreiman and @JamesJDiCarlo morganbdt.github.io/L-WISE

Thanks to everyone who showed interest in our research and visited our poster! #NeurIPS23 Some cool visualizations+code: 👉 github.com/ggaziv/Wormhol…

@BillAckman @MIT @EliseStefanik @RetsefL @EliseStefanik

.@MIT students and faculty want Kornbluth out. @EliseStefanik, I would encourage you to reach out to Liyam, a MIT PhD student, and @RetsefL , a member of MIT’s faculty, for insights about what is happening on campus. The video of Liyam’s speech is from today at the New England Holocaust memorial in Boston.

@BillAckman Beyond absurd.

I am unaware of another situation where an eight-month pregnant woman was taken hostage and continued to be held in captivity even after her baby was born. The number of hostages grows now by one. Where are the calls for her and her baby’s release? Instead our students yell Intifada.

@RetsefL Documented hate speech: youtube.com/watch?v=iafk19…

This is the reality that MIT President wants to hide. A letter from Israeli & Jewish MIT students: To all students at MIT, Today, Jewish and Israeli MIT students were physically prevented from attending class by a hostile group of pro-Hamas and anti-Israel MIT students that call themselves the CAA. This is after students from the CAA harassed MIT staff members in their offices for being Jewish and interrupted classes in the past few weeks. All of this has occurred with no clear response from the administration. With each passing day, MIT admin’s silence makes Jewish and Israeli students feel unsafe at MIT. Many Jewish students fear leaving their dorm rooms and have stated that they feel MIT is not safe for Jews. This message is compounded by the public and private warnings of Hillel and many faculty that Jewish students should not enter MIT’s main lobby today, November 9th, 2023. Instead of dispersing the mob or de-escalating the situation by rerouting all students from Lobby 7, Jewish students specifically were warned not to enter MIT’s front entrance due to a risk to their physical safety. The onus to protect Jewish students should not be on the students themselves. MIT administration recently announced guidelines to avoid illegal and unsafe protests on campus. The CAA, which planned the protest, knowingly and proudly violated these requirements, and even invited people from outside of MIT to join them. Their actions inhibit the possibility of safe and peaceful dialogue and endanger Jewish students on campus. The CAA hosted a blockade that not only disregards MIT guidelines, but also obstructs Jewish students from attending classes. Some Jewish students who saw the administration’s failure to respond to the targeted harassment of Jews on campus by the CAA came together to support each other and peacefully together stand against this threat to their safety. Four hours after the blockade started, at 12 pm, the MIT administration passed a letter to all students, threatening their suspension if the crowds did not disperse from Lobby 7. Only the Jewish students left immediately. The CAA protesters did not cooperate. Indeed, the CAA proceeded to invite more students and non-MIT protestors to join them in calling for a violent uprising (“Intifada”) and justifying the terror attacks of Hamas on Israeli civilians. At 5 pm, all students on campus were warned through MIT’s emergency notification system to “avoid Lobby 7” –– officially recognizing the danger present to students as a result of this violent protest. No Jewish or Israeli students were present at this point. As of 10:30 tonight MIT has officially decided not to academically suspend CAA students who repeatedly violated the administration's guidelines and threats. They have shown that actions against Jews at MIT do not have consequences. Additionally, in an email to DUSP students, the Department Head indicated that he would protect any DUSP students involved in violating MIT’s rules today by protesting with the CAA. Not only do Jewish students feel unsafe on campus, but now they also feel excluded from and unsafe in DUSP. Today, on the 9th of November, on the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, which marked the beginning of the Holocaust, Jews at MIT were told to enter campus from back entrances and not to stay in Hillel for fear of their physical safety. We are seeing history repeating itself and Jews on MIT’s campus are afraid. Signed, The MIT Israel Alliance and its supporters

@Nancy_Kanwisher oct7map.com

Adam Serwer's article in the Atlantic is superb: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… Don’t Equate Anti-Zionism With Anti-Semitism Exerpts: "The effect of equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is to silence the criticism of the Israeli government by Palestinians and their advocates.....

@Nancy_Kanwisher youtu.be/czAtOWePy4I?fe…

Wow, even the Financial Times calls for a ceasefire: ft.com/content/4668c6…

@Nancy_Kanwisher I wouldn't be so surprised. The likelihood of such events even on MIT campus increases given recent calls for Intifada by "pro-Palestine" supporters.

So awful!

@Nancy_Kanwisher I definitely agree everyone should educate themselves: youtu.be/XNf40sBcvKk?fe…

Don’t know what to do? Call your reps. Follow Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow to learn about demos in your area. Post a simple tweet. Educate yourself. If there was ever a time when your voice was needed to stop atrocities committed in your name and on your dime, this is it.

To my US Academic Colleagues with Tenure- Where are you? I don’t understand why I see almost none of you using your safe posts to denounce the atrocities being committed right now, in your names and on your dime. What else is tenure for, if not this? continued...