Jeremy Manning

Opinion | Why Starvation in Gaza Has Reached a Tipping Point And what it could mean for the future of the conflict in the Middle East.

In @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.”

Wow it’s almost like once people achieve a modicum of security, the drive to pump out papers for their own sake declines! 🤔

fMRI Course Instructors

Online #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...

AI-guided digital intervention with physiological monitoring reduces intrusive memories after experimental trauma Trauma prevalence is vast globally. Evidence-based digital treatments can help, but most require human guidance. Human guides provide tailored instructions and responsiveness to internal cognitive sta...

I'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

Will anyone review this paper? Screening, sorting, and the feedback cycles that imperil peer review Scholarly publishing relies on peer review to identify the best science. Yet finding willing and qualified reviewers to evaluate manuscripts has become an increasingly challenging task, possibly even ...

1. 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.

Super 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!!

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!

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.

As @anthropic.com's Claude loves to say: "You're absolutely right!"

Anyone who has spent serious time trying to work with these models knows that they are *nowhere near* ready to deploy unsupervised to scenarios that could severely impact life/health in the way RFK is describing. So irresponsible!

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Woohoo!! Congrats Anna!!! 🎉🥳

S3E5 - Anna Schapiro - Can we model the brain? - Sleep Science Podcast How are our memories represented in the brain? We interview Professor Anna Schapiro from University of Pennsylvania on her work covering computational models, memory and sleep. We discuss neural netwo...

Our 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...

Jason and I wearing Chicago Booth swag, inadvertently looking like new MBA students. We are smiling and celebrating at a restaurant!

Next 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'd love feedback, help testing stuff, etc.; reach out if you're interested (or check out our contributing guide: github.com/ContextLab/c...)!

GitHub - ContextLab/clustrix: Seamless distributed computing for Python functions Seamless distributed computing for Python functions - ContextLab/clustrix

Here's how it works: github.com/ContextLab/c...

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.

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!

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The singularity is awesome

Very cool, congrats and looking forward to reading this!

Really 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...

Congrats, Commander Sulu!! 🖖🌈📖

Detained immigrant's pregnancy fails while in ICE custody - Nashville Banner ICE's treatment of undocumented immigrants raises concerns as a woman's experience highlights what she described as inadequate medical care while in detention.

A 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...

Claude has the spiritual bliss attractor, Gemini has… this

Incredibly 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!

I agree that LLMs can often do data science stuff well, but they also frequently make subtle errors that change functionality, or end up doing really dumb things that they get stubborn about.

You at least need to know how to critically evaluate and correct the outputs!

I'm not sure there's a secret hack to it. Just take the core courses to learn the fundamentals, and then continue to practice!

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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!

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.

Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link

A 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.