Shailee Jain

🚨 Paper alert:
To appear in the DBM Neurips Workshop

LITcoder: A General-Purpose Library for Building and Comparing Encoding Models

📄 arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2509.091...
🔗 project: litcoder-brain.github.io

Interested in doing a PhD with me and lacns.github.io? Or with any of the incredible fellows in the IMPRS School of Cognition www.maxplanckschools.org/cognition-en - apply before Dec 1st at cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application

University of South Carolina has *7* tenure-track faculty positions in Neurobiology of Language:

tinyurl.com/USC-Faculty-...

Positions in COMD, Psych, Linguistics, School of Medicine.

@snlmtg.bsky.social #SNL2025, we will have a booth.

w/@rutvikdesai.bsky.social @imb-uofsc.bsky.social

We are still accepting applications for the #postdoc opportunity in the lab 🕵‍♀️ 🧠

More details 👇
Postdoctoral position: lnkd.in/g4TkRxpM
Research directions: lnkd.in/eV2iMKGf
Our team and philosophy: lnkd.in/eh3nnNgq

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New paper with @mujianing.bsky.social & @prestonlab.bsky.social! We propose a simple model for human memory of narratives: we uniformly sample incoming information at a constant rate. This explains behavioral data much better than variable-rate sampling triggered by event segmentation or surprisal.

📣 We are expanding! Repost 🙏🏽

- Postdoc (funded by @simonsfoundation.org grant on synchronisation between cognitive representations and stepping)
- Project Associates
- Create your role! (Reach out if you are keen on these topics and these roles do not define you 👀🤗)

www.neuroact.in

Our latest research on the neural basis of speech-motor sequencing is now published in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Check out this high-level explainer video and read the full paper here: t.co/YKJlabr3yb

Check out Zaid's open "Podcast" ECoG dataset for natural language comprehension (w/ Hasson Lab). The paper is now out at Scientific Data (nature.com/articles/s41...) and the data are available on OpenNeuro (openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...).

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!

PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

(please share widely)

Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language September 12-14 2025 Gallaudet University Abstract submission through April 29 neurolang.org

The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh).

Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025

2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...

Gatsby Unit PhD programme Opportunity to join the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme this September, apply by 27 May 2025!

📢 We have an opportunity for students to join our PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning this September.

Application deadline is 27 May 2025.

Information & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme

I might be able to hire a postdoc for this fall in computational linguistics at UT Austin. Topics in the general LLM + cognitive space (particularly reasoning, chain of thought, LLMs + code) and LLM + linguistic space. If this could be of interest, feel free to get in touch!

Max Planck Postdoc Program Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.

Together with @autreche.bsky.social, Adish Singla, Krishna Gummadi, Goran Radanovic and Nina Grgić-Hlača, we have multiple open positions postdocs in AI, Computing, and Society at the MPI for Software Systems!

Apply by May 13 via the new Max Planck Postdoc Program!
www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

Eeep got Shane to join! shaneshang.bsky.social

At #Cosyne2025 this year? Check out our work on shared **neural manifolds** in deep neural nets 🤖 and single neurons of the human 🧠!

Poster 3-062 / 13:15 TODAY

In collab with Sompolinsky lab’s Shane Shang who will be presenting!

(I’m not at the conf this year but always happy to chat)

Computational Language Modeling and the Promise of In Silico Experimentation Abstract. Language neuroscience currently relies on two major experimental paradigms: controlled experiments using carefully hand-designed stimuli, and natural stimulus experiments. These approaches h...

What is the promise of computational language modeling for language neuroscience? @mitpress.bsky.social journal @jneurolang.bsky.social @shaileejain.bsky.social @alexanderhuth.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/nol/article/...

Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ever wonder how the brain works to _stop_ your speech midway?🤫🧠

Our latest work on the neural mechanism for stopping speech production is now out @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! See a brief summary below and the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One week left to apply!

We'll have so much exciting data for projects: for example, neuropixel data from humans while they listen to sentences courtesy of @shaileejain.bsky.social, Eddie Chang, and his group.

Interested in learning about Neuro-AI in *Europe*? Check out this summer school: cajal-training.org/on-site/neur...

Excited to join as one of the faculty! Courses on AI, lang/vision/motor systems & more + hands-on projects w/ real neural data.

App deadline: March 7
**(Limited) Funding available**

YouTube video by Simons Institute Interpreting LLMs to Interpret the Brain

If you are interested and missed it, here’s a recording: m.youtube.com/watch?v=hk9L...

Interested in learning about how interpretable AI ➡️ interpretable neuroscience?

I will be giving a talk at the **Simons Institute, Berkeley at 9:30 TODAY**

Livestream available / Free registration

simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/ll...

Cool new neurolang lab in town, w/ many open positions!! Congrats @neuranna.bsky.social XD

Late post but very excited to be at #SNL2023 this year!
Hope you enjoyed our symposium on Neuro-AI yesterday....

...I will be giving a **talk on my dissertation at 14:30 hrs in the auditorium** today on all things 🧠🤖💬!

Open PhD position with Christophe Pallier & myself,

to work on the brain and computational bases of language using neuroimaging and deep learning:

- application: forms.gle/equJz92rGtiL...
- requirements: python, ML, and ideally, neuroimaging experience.

Please RT🙏

Hello world! I am a postdoc in the Neurosurgery Dept. at UCSF and _just_ finished my PhD in Neuro/NLP/AI at UT Austin!

I think a lot about how we can use artificial and biological systems in tandem to understand how language works—
shaileesjain.github.io

Excited to be here!