Research

CFRG

The Cognition Futures Reading Group explores concepts, methods, and oppportunities in diverse intelligences (natural and artificial), phenomenology, and contemporary discussions on minds

Data x Direction

Flagship internship and research track connecting data skills with strategic direction. Structured cohort program producing tangible research deliverables.

Cybernetics Discussion Series

JOPRO members mentor and contribute to Google Summer of Code projects through OREL, which serves as the host organization under INCF sponsorship.

Developmental AI

Open-source computational biology, neuroscience, and AI research training

DigiNEST

Digital Narratives and Emerging Story Technologies. A reading and discussion group exploring how digital tools reshape narrative, cognition, and agency.

Google Summer of Code + Open Source Summer Cohort

JOPRO members mentor and contribute to Google Summer of Code projects through OREL, which serves as the host organization under INCF sponsorship.

From Here to There: Strategy and Mentorship for Innovators

Exploring emerging narratives, directionality, and the future of human experience

SMN @ OREL

OREL Main Saturday Meeting

FrontierMap

Mapping concept trajectories and field landmarks for emerging researchers

Cognition Futures Paper Series

Affordance perception as a common currency of embodied intelligence

Field Guide to Futures Ecosystem

Cartography of next-generation foresight organizations

Steelmanning the Problem Space

Methodology for rigorous collaborative problem definition

D-GNNs: developing DevoGraph for computational developmental biology

Developomental-AI

Dev-AI: Developmental approaches and components squared with machine learning and computation

Embodied Neurophenomenology

First-person experience, embodiment, and the structure of consciousness

From Here to There: Strategy & Mentoring for Innovators

Leadership, mentoring, and strategic decision-making in research and innovation

Ethical Policy Analyzer

Examining cultural bias in dominant mental health frameworks

JOPRO & the New Learning Ecosystem

Contextual, developmental, and trajectory-aware learning in interdisciplinary spaces

PhASiC

Physical Intelligence, Augmentation Systems, and Complexity

Reimagining Cybernetics

Something In The Way

Ethnography of 21st century directionlessness

Permanent Crisis / Kuhn Update

Temporal collapse of Kuhn's model of scientific revolutions

Hegemonic Bias of Mental Health Conventions

Examining cultural bias in dominant mental health frameworks