Independent Research Organization
We run working groups, incubate research directions, mentor early-career scholars, and connect a growing network of people and organizations working on questions about knowledge, technology, and the future.
Working groups, centers, and projects producing scholarship across interdisciplinary boundaries. Our research spans methodology, futures studies, cognition, and the sociology of knowledge.
Working groups & projects →Supporting emerging ideas, research groups, and projects from early concept through structured development. Some grow into sustained programs; others launch independently into the broader ecosystem.
Submissions Closed →Cohort programs, mentorship, and structured learning for researchers and practitioners at every stage. We help people develop the skills and orientation to do meaningful work in complex spaces.
About formation →Connecting people and organizations across the landscape through events, shared resources, and a curated network of mission-aligned groups. New for 2026.
We're building infrastructure →The ACM New York Celebration of Women in Computing will be held April 2-3, 2027, at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Poughkeepsie, New York. Abstract submissions for talks, posters, panels, and workshops are due December 20, 2026.
Cohorts, fellowships, calls for papers, and other ways to get involved with JOPRO and partner organizations.
View opportunities →Reading groups, salons, workshops, and public conversations. Most are open to new participants.
See public calendar →Jesse Parent and Avery Lim presented work on regulators, world models, and generative models at the Active Inference Institute's 6th Applied Active Inference Symposium, held online on November 12 and 13, 2026.
Read more →JOPRO is open to researchers, practitioners, students, and organizations at every stage. Here's how people typically engage, from first contact to ongoing collaboration.
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Subscribe for Updates →Sit in on a working group, reading group, or salon. Join the Discord. Many programs and groups have regular public sessions open to new participants.
See working groups →Apply to a cohort program, propose a project, contribute to ongoing research. Structured engagement with real deliverables.
See programs →Propose a collaboration, bring your organization into the network, co-host an event. We work with universities, nonprofits, and other groups.
Partnership info →
2025 Year in Review: Supporting researchers, cultivating ecosystems, and clarifying the upstream work this moment demands.
From Jes Parent: "This year, many of the people we worked with shared a similar concern: they were learning quickly, adopting new tools, and meeting expectations—yet many felt uncertain about how their work fit together, how to make decisions with long-term consequences, or how to grow into roles that require more than execution alone."