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Jeremy R. Winget, PhD
@jrwinget.bsky.social
https://jrwinget.comhttps://github.com/jrwinget

Computational Social Scientist • Full Stack Engineer • Data Science & Systems Thinking • Information Processing & Group Dynamics Researcher • he/him
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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
December 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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It’s going to be some bullshit respectability from the center and some bullshit bleating about identity politics from the left and some bullshit religious forgiveness from the right.

I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.
It’s very very frustrating to know that there isn’t much chance of any accountability for this behavior after Trump
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.

Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.

"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.

"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.

Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Guardrails are a scam. It's not that they could work, it's that they cannot and never will for such models. By design. 1/n
Can't stress enough how lax Grok's guardrails are here. We didn't use any deceptive prompting -- just fed it names and asked for addresses / where someone might live. The bot readily complied, often offering up whole lists of names and addresses.

Only *once* did it decline to provide an address.
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Happy Friday! I'm a bit late, but better than never 😅

My #PositConf2025 talk, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, is live on Posit’s YouTube channel. This one was especially fun to put together!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMn...

#CognitiveEngineering #rstats #shiny
Engineer Insightful Shiny Apps with Behavioral Science (Jeremy Winget, CrossStack) | posit::conf
YouTube video by Posit PBC
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December 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Back with a thread I've been pulling on

New post on Cognitive Engineering: Building tech for human minds, often the most neglected layer
jrwinget.com/blog/cognitive-engineering

It also kicks off plans the Cognitive Engineering Field Guide, an open resource launching early 2026

More soon!

#devx
December 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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The Zork games have been properly open sourced with the MIT license 😍 opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

These were some of the first computer games I ever played back on our IBM 8086 PC. So many good memories.
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.

Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.

Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.

Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Back from a brief hiatus with good news: {bidux} v0.3.3 dropped on CRAN! 🎉

Your production database → behavioral insights → better UX

New bid_quick_suggest() for when you need a fix before standup

More details here: www.jrwinget.com/blog/databas...

#rstats #UX #UI
{bidux} v0.3.3: Where Databases Meet Quick Decisions – The Friction Point
The latest {bidux} release bridges the gap between your production data and rapid UX improvements, because sometimes the best insight is the one you can act on today.
www.jrwinget.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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New open newsletter at Fight for the Human: Can we make Security Empirical, and why might we want to?

In it you'll find the Dev Science Office Hour I hosted with @arianamirian.bsky.social, as well as my notes on a paper about technical Champions

www.fightforthehuman.com/empirical-se...
Can we make Security Empirical, and why might we want to?
There's a paper I recently came across by Mohammad Tahaei and colleagues called Privacy Champions in Sofware Teams: Understanding Their Motivations, Strategies, and Challenges. In it, they interview 1...
www.fightforthehuman.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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🎉 I'm looking for an #rstats software engineer to work with me in 2026.

Remote (WFH), swiss-based (already here or willing to move here), permanent or contract.

+ Pros: work with me
- Cons: work with me...

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Opifex hiring Software Engineer - R & JavaScript in Switzerland | LinkedIn
Posted 10:12:08 AM. Location: Switzerland, RemoteEmployment Type: Permanent or ContractWorkload: 50% or 100%Start date:…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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I've been on the road so I'm behind the times—but if you wanted to destroy US science, I can think of no more expedient action.

Blatant unconstitutionality aside, fuck this backwards forwards and sideways.

www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions!

We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family:

- `filter()` to keep rows
- `filter_out()` to drop rows
- `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers

Read more and leave feedback here:
github.com/tidyverse/ti...
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Dr. Cat Hicks (@grimalkina.bsky.social) gave one of my very favorite keynotes of all time at #positconf this year 🥹 It really made my heart glow, and now that all the conf talks are on YouTube, you can watch it even if you missed conf!! #databs #rstats #python

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-bM...
The Psychology of Technologists (Cat Hicks, Catharsis Consulting) | posit::conf(2025)
YouTube video by Posit PBC
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November 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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This is the way the normalization works. Scenes the media would've/could've chased a month ago go ignored in favor of what's new/shocking. It's not that people aren't reporting on what's happening, because they are. But the bar for what's "newsworthy" always shifts.
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Full schedule is live: R+AI 2025 · Nov 12–13 · online

Sample session:
“Tools for LLMs and Humans who use R” — Garrick Aden-Buie (Posit)

How the {btw} package feeds computational context to LLMs for smoother R+AI workflows.

Register! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

#rstats #AI @posit.co
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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That means the next Developer Science Office Hour is going to be Design-a-Study with Cat!

Get your (free) spot here for our online event, space is limited for the vibes, but the enthusiasm will be unlimited: www.eventbrite.com/e/design-a-s...
Design a Study: with Dr. Cat Hicks
Join our free & open Developer Science Office Hour to "Design-a-Study"! Like Build-a-Bear, but for learning about research design!
www.eventbrite.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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This post is blowing up.

Please read the full paper 😌✨

👇👇👇👇👇👇

Guest, O., Suarez, et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New blog post, in a slightly new style!

Why do groups sometimes get stuck on the wrong thing?
How do minority voices help systems stay honest?
What does design has to do with dissent?

Some thoughts, and some group science, on problems big and small

www.jrwinget.com/blog/2025-10...
When Groups Get Stuck on the Wrong Problem – Jeremy R. Winget, PhD
Dissent, sharedness, and the design of collective intelligence
www.jrwinget.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🚀 {bidux} 0.3.2 is out!

It's leaner, quieter, and more intuitive:
• Modern, flat API
• Telemetry sensitivity presets
• Global quiet mode functionality

Read the details 👇
www.jrwinget.com/blog/2025-10...

#rstats #ux #ui #shiny
bidux 0.3.2: Leaner, Quieter, More Intuitive BID Workflows – Jeremy R. Winget, PhD
The {bidux} 0.3.2 release streamlines BID workflows with intuitive flat APIs, built-in telemetry presets, and a quieter, leaner experience, helping you focus on insights rather than overhead.
www.jrwinget.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.
October 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The Sun-Times *is reporting these were live rounds* fired at a vehicle.

There's been much confusion in the immediate aftermath of this about whether whether they were that or pepper balls, and whether person in vehicle was hit by them. This is the most current info we have *at this time.*
Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side
Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM