Shailee Jain
shaileejain.bsky.social
Shailee Jain
@shaileejain.bsky.social
Neuro + ML + NLP
Postdoc@Chang Lab, UCSF | Prev.: PhD@Huth Lab, UT Austin

https://shaileesjain.github.io
she/her

🧠🤖💬
Pinned
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**
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@thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a portrait of the state of neuroscience in 2025 through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. Each view features analyses of major trends and more. Explore the end of year report: bit.ly/4oNeTVC

#neuroskyence #StateofNeuro
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🚨 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
September 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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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
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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
September 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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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

August 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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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.
Efficient uniform sampling explains non-uniform memory of narrative stories https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667952v1
August 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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📣 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
August 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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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
July 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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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...).
July 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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)
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
May 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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...
April 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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📢 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
Gatsby Unit PhD programme
Opportunity to join the Gatsby Unit PhD Programme this September, apply by 27 May 2025!
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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!
April 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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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...
Max Planck Postdoc Program
Launching in April 2025, the Max Planck Postdoc Program features structured application calls and a comprehensive support system for researchers.
www.mpg.de
April 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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)
March 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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/...
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...
www.science.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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...
March 4, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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.
Really excited for this 3 week NeuroAI summer school in Lisbon!

We have course faculty from a range of neuro domains (language, vision, decision making, memory), and neuro levels (low level to cognitive). There will also be a project advised by our exciting lineup of course faculty!

Come join us!
🚀 Applications are OPEN for the CAJAL NeuroAI course!

Learn how AI & deep learning help us model brain activity & behavior. Work with experts, get hands-on training & join a global network!

📅 Apply by March 7
🔗 loom.ly/xg_uRKE

#NeuroAI #DeepLearning #Neuroscience
February 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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**
February 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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...
Schedule
simons.berkeley.edu
February 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Cool new neurolang lab in town, w/ many open positions!! Congrats @neuranna.bsky.social XD
November 7, 2023 at 2:47 AM
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 🧠🤖💬!
October 25, 2023 at 9:47 AM
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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🙏
October 12, 2023 at 3:37 PM
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!
October 8, 2023 at 4:54 PM