Blayne Haggart

bhaggart.bsky.social

13 October 2026 17:14

On the benefits of annotated bibliographies. The lesson in the age of genAI: We have to teach for the students who want to learn. As a friend of mine said about assigning essays: Why would you stop using the best tool we have to teach students just because some of them cheat?

Eiko Fried

eikofried.bsky.social

12 October 2026 19:27

Had my inauguration on Monday and was overwhelmed to see so many wonderful people there. Thank you to everybody who made it; for all your wonderful wishes; for donating to Doctors without Borders; and also for ignoring my wishes and preparing wonderful gifts. <3 Will publish blog post/speech soon.

Dr Nick

nmwilkinson.eurosky.social

12 October 2026 17:17

New paper! Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science. A textbook finding in infant psychology is that newborns - within ~1 hour of birth - visually track a simplified 'three blob' facelike stimulus further than its inverted control (see picture). This suggested inborn knowledge of faces!

James Balamuta

coatless.bsky.social

06 October 2026 07:36

webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly