Jeremy Manning
Context Lab (@contextlab.bsky.social) director, Dartmouth prof, memory & 🧠 network modeler, data scientist, dad x2, husband, tree hugger 🌲, & 🧁+🍪 baker
https://www.context-lab.com
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningMicrosoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningDrop-in replacement for sklearn LDA using MCMC and hyperparameter optimization: github.com/mimno/sklear...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningOur experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningIt won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningWith our v1.0 release, dream-stream now comes in Android 🤖! context-lab.com/dream-stream...
- I made a quirky little web app to help guide your lucid dreams: context-lab.com/dream-stream/ It's kind of like a "netflix" or "spotify" for lucid dreaming-- you select different narratives to form a playlist, and then it uses your device's microphone to start playing when it detects you're in REM.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningI finally got around to setting up a lab website! Have a look: the-steel-lab.github.io Just in time to start the new semester.
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- I made a quirky little web app to help guide your lucid dreams: context-lab.com/dream-stream/ It's kind of like a "netflix" or "spotify" for lucid dreaming-- you select different narratives to form a playlist, and then it uses your device's microphone to start playing when it detects you're in REM.
- Inspiration: dxe.framer.website at @mitmedialab.bsky.social!
- Also uses all sorts of fun libraries on @hf.co -- TTS, text2music, generative text. Suggestions (and especially pull requests) welcome! We'll see if it "works" for me tonight 😴!
- Excited to be teaching a new undergraduate course on Models of Language and Conversation this term! Check it out here: context-lab.com/llm-course/ I've added lots of fun interactive demos of chatbots and NLP techniques that let students dig into the approaches.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningI may be a *little* biased but this 📘 is GREAT! If you ever found language structure interesting, but were turned off by implausible and overly complicated accounts, this book is 4U: a simple and empirically grounded account of the syntax of natural lgs. A must-read for lang researchers+aficionados!
New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningBichan 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 Jeremy ManningWith this latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%. It's the guns!!! :(
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningReviews are taking significantly longer, and rounds of review over what feel like minimally important issues are increasing. I do think peer review is an important gauntlet to pass (don’t a @ me eLife bros), but of all the dysfunctional things these days, this one seems newly dysfunctional.
- As always, this is such a beautiful, important, and inspirational message from @mcsweeneys.net: use GaiaGulp Metal Straws to do your part to help save the planet! 🥤♥️🌎
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningInterviewer: What are your strengths? Him: I’m an idea man Interviewer: What are your weaknesses? Him: My ideas suck
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningWe are hiring an assistant professor in cognitive neural systems in the department of psychology at the university of arizona. please use this link to check out the requirements and apply! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology. pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/
- Not sure what all the fuss is about-- this just shows a textbook-standard factor fexcectorn analysis of &runctitional features. And with a very impressive autism score of 0.93 at that!
- "Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningTwo weeks left to apply! MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working with nonhuman animals in some way. Application deadline is Dec. 1. Full posting: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30586
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningAndy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningRe-upping this - Neuropeeps! We have a TT Job in my wonderful department at Brandeis! First consideration to applications received by Dec 15 (but why wait?) www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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- Reposted by Jeremy ManningRemember when grinding leetcode was still a thing? If you'd like to hone your coding skills, or even just return to that simpler time for nostalgia's sake, you might enjoy this project from our group: github.com/ContextLab/l... Happy hacking! 👩💻
- Reposted by Jeremy Manning🚨 New preprint alert! We use trained-from-scratch GPT-2 models to characterize & capture the unique writing styles of individual authors. We also develop a new LLM-based relative stylometric measure. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.21958 Code/data: github.com/ContextLab/l... 🤗: huggingface.co/contextlab
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningI will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningWe're excited to announce that Cognitive Science at Dartmouth is recruiting PhD students to work collaboratively with me, Steven Frankland, and Fred Callaway. Come study the principles and mechanisms that enable us to understand, plan, and act in the world! Info: sites.dartmouth.edu/cogscigrad/
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningTT faculty job opening in #Neuroscience! We are looking for a colleague to join us in our fantastic Biology Department and Neuroscience Program at Brandeis. We are a group of *very* collaborative, supportive, and productive scientists (& humans!) so please apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30961
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningYou learn better when you test yourself on an answer before you study it? Even more counterintuitive, our findings showcase that there is not one direct mechanism to this effect. Thank you @charan-neuro.bsky.social , @xiaonanl.bsky.social , and @jameswardantony.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningCoolest position I’ve seen in some time: Cinema and Audiovisual Media - Assistant Professor (cross-disciplinary specialization in neuroscience) universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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- Reposted by Jeremy ManningIn March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningExciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningMy husband @danieljbarrett.com has written a new book on responsible software engineering! It is full of advice and case studies gathered from over 100 #Google employees.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningWhat are your pros/cons of using AI in science? Feel free to respond wrt use or harm in the design of experiments, coding experiments, coding analysis, brain storming analysis, summarizing literature, synthesis of ideas, modeling, novel model development, mathematical proofs, writing, editing.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningNew job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357 Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningCome work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningWhen a neuroscientist was stuck on a research problem, he enlisted the help of an A.I. chatbot. “The exchange wasn’t quite spitballing; it was something more organized—human and machine feeling their way through the fog together,” Dan Rockmore writes.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningNew paper from me at Cognition and Emotion! "Deep neural network models of emotion understanding" I discuss how deep nets can be used as cognitive models of emotion perception, prediction, and regulation: doi.org/10.1080/0269... (h/t @ltjaql.bsky.social for the illustrations!)
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningEvery reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com People know hunger and starvation when they see it, our columnist Lydia Polgreen says about the war in Gaza on this episode of “The Opinions.” “It just reaches a level of horror that becomes hard for really anyone, including President Donald Trump, to countenance.”
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningWow it’s almost like once people achieve a modicum of security, the drive to pump out papers for their own sake declines! 🤔
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningOnline #fMRI course coming up August 6-8! 3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningI'm excited to share a new preprint! We built a digital, scalable intervention to reduce intrusive memories, combining an AI chatbot with LLM scoring of human-AI conversations and pupillometry predictors of effort and intervention success. I hope you enjoy! arxiv.org/abs/2507.01081
- Reposted by Jeremy Manning1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningSuper excited to share this one!! Meta-learning sparsity and learning rate gives rise to brain-like gradients of complementary learning systems. So complementary learning systems emerge organically through behavior optimization, and it's not just two of them!!
- Excited to share a new preprint w/ @annaschapiro.bsky.social! Why are there gradients of plasticity and sparsity along the neocortex–hippocampus hierarchy? We show that brain-like organization of these properties emerges in ANNs that meta-learn layer-wise plasticity and sparsity. bit.ly/4kB1yg5
- Yesterday I reached a goal I set last July 10 to make at least 1 GitHub contribution every day for a year! 🏆 I'm not sure it's made me "more productive" in any meaningful way, but I did find it valuable to carve out a little time each day, even if only 5 mins, to add a line to a project/paper.
- Note: I did have a "cheat" day when my daughter was born-- I did that day's work in in advance, and set up a CRON job to actually do the commit/push 🤫...so maybe it still counts? AMA!
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningOur new episode is out! We talk with @annaschapiro.bsky.social about neural network models, the Complementary Learning System theory and Anna's recent work on testing predictions of neural network models with TMR/EEG Big thank you to Anna for joining the podcast! www.buzzsprout.com/787211/episo...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningNext summer I will start as an Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. I couldn't be more excited! 1/
- I'm starting to work on a new library, "clustrix" ( clustrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to ease switching between local vs. remote execution in Python scripts, notebooks, etc. This has been a pain point for my group for a while!
- It's in the super early stages, and nearly everything is broken so far. But: reach out if you're also interested in this stuff! When you import clustrix into a notebook, a widget pops up that enables you to select where your code will actually be executed.
- Here's how it works: github.com/ContextLab/c...
- I'd love feedback, help testing stuff, etc.; reach out if you're interested (or check out our contributing guide: github.com/ContextLab/c...)!
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningThe singularity is awesome
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningReally excited to share our new preprint led by @ahmadsamara.bsky.social with Zaid Zada, @vanderlab.bsky.social, and Uri Hasson titled "Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features" doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningA pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced to sleep on the floor. This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged. nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningClaude has the spiritual bliss attractor, Gemini has… this
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningIncredibly excited and grateful to share that I’ll be starting a lab at The Ohio State University this(!) fall! My lab will study human learning and memory, with related interests in sleep, stress, and time perception. More info soon, but do get in touch if you’re interested in joining!
- If we stop training new coders, who will build the *next* generation of models? Who will debug the bad outputs, or develop good tests? No current model is sufficiently reliable or accurate to design its own replacement.
- "The days of 'Learn to code' might be coming to an end," @rosehorowitch.bsky.social writes. "If the numbers are any indication, we might have passed peak computer science":
- In addition, we have repeatedly seen over the past year that simply "throwing compute at the problem" does not work. Huge models like GPT-4.5 have way under-performed expectations. So: attempts to stop training people to code (or hiring coders), are astoundingly short sighted. Keep on coding!
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningHey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins... H/t @naitian.org for the link
- Reposted by Jeremy ManningA win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.
- Reposted by Jeremy Manning🤠 New release announcement for our datawrangler package! Try it using: pip install --upgrade pydata-wrangler Lots of awesome performance improvements (including native polars support!), simplified API, support for @hf.co text embeddings, etc. More info here: data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
