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Context Lab
@contextlab.bsky.social
A motley crew of science nerds trying to understand the inner workings and limits of human memory. Plus some Bayesian stuff...and 🧁. Director: @jeremyrmanning.bsky.social

https://www.context-lab.com
Remember 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! 👩‍💻
GitHub - ContextLab/leetcode-solutions: Leetcode discussions, brainstorming, musings, and solutions
Leetcode discussions, brainstorming, musings, and solutions - ContextLab/leetcode-solutions
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November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🚨 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
October 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
🤠 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
DataWrangler — datawrangler 0.4.0 documentation
data-wrangler.readthedocs.org
June 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We're super excited to announce that we've officially convinced @cgonciulea.bsky.social to join our rag-tag (but VERY classy) team of science nerds this fall as a @dartmouthpbs.bsky.social PhD student 🎉🥳🤓🧠🧑‍🔬🎓!!
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ALT: a group of men and women are standing next to each other on a stage dancing .
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April 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Just finished a draft of my Models of Memory (grad) course that I'm teaching this spring! Please share/borrow/re-use/follow along as desired, and if you have feedback or suggestions I'd really love to hear (especially while I can still change it)!

All materials are here: github.com/ContextLab/m...
February 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Re-sharing from Xitter-- new paper out in @pnas.org (lead: Lucy Owen)!

We show how the informativeness and compressibility of brain activity patterns change under different levels of cognitive engagement: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Lots of neat stuff in there!
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November 26, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Excited to have this out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social!

We found that real & fictional people communicate roughly 1.5x more about the past than the future.

In turn, this influences the interferences we make about past & future events in *other* people's lives.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 19, 2024 at 3:58 AM
Excited to announce the latest release of our "Davos" #python package (v0.2.3)! 🎉🥳

Add Davos to a Jupyter notebook by:
- inserting a new cell with this code at the top:

%pip install davos
import davos

- replacing all uses of "import" with "smuggle"

More info here: github.com/ContextLab/d...
December 19, 2023 at 5:32 PM
Jumping on the "make it more" bandwagon to depict an *extremely* typical day in our lab!
November 30, 2023 at 3:12 PM
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Imagine Google Colab notebooks that support:
✔️ Automatic dependency installs
✔️ Pinned package versions
✔️ Ability to download/run locally without additional setup

"pip install davos" today!

Share + vote for "default" Colab integration by clicking the 👍 here: github.com/googlecolab/...
Add a new package, `davos`, to the set of preinstalled packages in colaboratory to help manage depen...
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November 1, 2023 at 2:42 PM
🚨 Updated preprint (lead: @xxming.bsky.social) on how inferences about unobserved past/future events are informed by conversations! osf.io/yp2qu/ 🚨

This update includes a new pre-registered replication + meta analysis. We think we've found some neat fundamental properties of human conversation!

🧪🧠
osf.io
October 31, 2023 at 7:45 PM
📣: Just updated our "modeling Khan Academy learning" preprint (lead: @paxt0n4.bsky.social)!

We're excited about this revision and grateful to our reviewers-- lots of neat new analyses using text embeddings to show how knowledge changes over time + conceptual content.

Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io
October 25, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Excited to announce the latest release of our "Davos" #python package (v0.2.3)! 🎉🥳

Add Davos to a Jupyter notebook by:
- inserting a new cell with this code at the top:

%pip install davos
import davos

- replacing all uses of "import" with "smuggle"

More info here: github.com/ContextLab/d...
October 3, 2023 at 1:43 PM
Hello blue sky! Our lab studies #learning & #memory. We do roughly 50% cog sci style studies and 50% brain networky things, with some overlap where possible. Lately we've been excited about real-world memory in classrooms and conversations. We'll use this account to share our papers/software!

🧑‍🔬🧪🧠🧑‍💻
September 18, 2023 at 2:42 PM