Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonIyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Introducing: Time Machine Experiments? 🚀 ⏳ in which participants 'travel' to the past, and interact with a mind from the year 1930 (simulated by an AI with knowledge cut-off). Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15468 2157
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Something very strange happened indeed (From the 2018 tabletop RPG Invisible Sun) 010
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonJacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 04/09/2026people reduce Ruby the elephant to just “the painter elephant” but never talk about her other great passion 1443382
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026When building an agentic AI app, - you do not need memory, - you do not need a router, - you do not need an orchestrator, All you need is a message board! 420719
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonOlympia L K Campbell @olkcampbell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026New Paper out now in PNAS: Is cousin marriage associated with greater or lower exposure to physical intimate partner violence and coercive control? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgCousin marriage and reduced exposure to intimate partner violence and coercive control | PNASCousin marriage, practiced by over 10% of the world’s population, restructures kinship networks by overlapping blood and affinal ties. Theory makes... 1148
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonLevin Brinkmann @levinbrinkmann.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We worry about homogenisation, but can AI also expand human culture? In a multi-generational experiment we demonstrate AI-induced cultural shifts. Machines lastingly shift human behavior, beyond their presence, just as AlphaGo did to Go. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comPropagation and preservation of AI-discovered problem-solving strategies in human culture - Nature CommunicationsAI can uncover problem-solving strategies beyond human discovery. Here, the authors show that AI-discovered strategies propagate and persist in human populations, producing cultural shifts when non-tr... 12213
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Ouch 😅 I’m saving this here for re-reading every time I feel like complaining about my job 100
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonZoe Purcell 🕵🏻♀️ @zoepurcell.bsky.social · 17/07/2026How can we collectively contain the threat of dishonest delegation to AI? Our paper "Whistleblowers can contain the unethical externalities of human–AI delegation" is out in PNAS, with @nckobis.bsky.social , Andrew Samuel, and @jfbonnefon.bsky.social. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 165
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Hmm how long before we get this on overleafbusinessinsider.comThis AI tool adds typos into your emails — to make it look like you didn't use AI"Sinceerly" is a Chrome plugin that can make your emails sound like they're not AI-written. It adds typos, or goes full "CEO mode." 3143
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I don't need AI to write my papers, but I desperately need it to submit them to manuscript central 0120
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonMary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social · 29/05/2026@nature.com is expanding Registered Reports - an article type where the research plan is reviewed prior to conducting the study, and, if it passes peer review, we promise to publish it regardless of the results - to all fields we publish + a broader range of research: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comNature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which we publishRegistered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. 175
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Did I just go to a coauthor’s google scholar profile and sort their publications by year, because I was not sure whether they were alive or dead? Yes I did and I’m happy to report they live. 170
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonHell Frasier: Bloodline @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome 7946791033
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Just saw someone calling Bujold’s Vorkosigan books a cozy series about toxic masculinity. these books are many many things, but this is a truly mind boggling description. 000
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonSandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Still time to apply!! Come & work with me at the Hasso Plattner Institute & @bmittelstadt.bsky.social @cruss.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk If you care about ethical, legal, and social aspects of AI, generative AI and other emerging technologies and EU tech laws, then apply now! tinyurl.com/556jty8ttinyurl.comPostdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Technology and RegulationPostdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x) in Technology and Regulation 0410
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonIyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Kicking off the Machine+Behavior conference in Berlin today with @jfbonnefon.bsky.social , @azimshariff.bsky.social and 225 participants. Check out the program: machinebehavior.science 091
Reposted by Jean-François Bonnefonanil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖 9458111914
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026There is a German SF series which has been published weekly for 65 years, with more than 3,000 stories so far, and 3,000 years of internal chronology 😱tvtropes.orgPerry RhodanPerry Rhodan is a weekly German Science Fiction Pulp Magazine series that has run uninterrupted since 1961, with over three thousand one hundred issues released so far not counting reprints, books, an... 000
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 11/05/2026ah yes, i have this problem all the time too 030
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 06/05/2026One productive use of AI to review papers: asking the chatbot to scour through the 100-page supplementary materials to find places where my criticisms might in fact be partially or fully addressed, before submitting the review (assuming I'm allowed to do this per journal policies) 030
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/05/2026"On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars."wsj.comWhy Almost Everyone Loses—Except a Few Sharks—on Prediction MarketsA WSJ analysis shows a small number of accounts on Polymarket and Kalshi—often pros using data-driven algorithmic trading—take home most of the winnings. 55935363
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Georgette Heyer describing Sir Waldo’s hand in The Nonesuch : « a shapely member, bare of rings » 👀 020
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonIzabela Skoczeń @izaskoczen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026‼️Conference Norms in Language-based Human-AI Interaction 📆 5th of June📍Bracka 12, Kraków ☑️preliminary program: docs.google.com/document/d/1... @talkingtobots.bsky.social @edouardmachery.bsky.social @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @monasimion.bsky.social 073
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAI. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so I assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. AIs are weird. 571323266
Reposted by Jean-François Bonnefondepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The Wikipedia article “Meaning of life” has been edited 10,713 times in its 25 year existence, and 23% of those edits have been reverted as vandalism. One common pattern is for vandals to delete the entire article and replace it with a single line. I collected some examples from the old days: 1568897
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 14/04/2026it just struck me that in French the word for an adult woman is "wife" and the word for a young girl is "daughter", whereas we have different words for men, husbands, boys, and sons. Now I'm curious to know if other languages show the same pattern 010
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I don't understand why reviewers can send confidential comments to the editor about a paper, but authors cannot send confidential comments to the editor about the reviews. As in "look we did our best but this review reads like an entry in the dream diary of Samuel Beckett with a bad case of flu" 3243
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026As a companion piece to our 'Science Fiction Science Method' article, we explore in Nautilus how we could turn a Ted Chiang story into a behavioral experiment @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.socialnautil.usHow Science Fiction Can Save UsHow Science Fiction Can Save Us: Three scientists share their bold vision for turning stories into testable experiments 041
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I just confirmed my participation to a conference and meant to write "looking forward to!" but typed instead "looking forward yo!" I have turned into the academic version of Jesse Pinkmanmedia.tenor.coma man says i 'm a criminal yo in a netflix adALT: a man says i 'm a criminal yo in a netflix ad 140
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I like how typos in manuscripts are no longer considered evidence of sloppiness, and have turned instead into luxury signals of hand-crafted writing by a human master wordsmith who keeps to the traditional ways 412526
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonDaniel E. Weeks @statgendan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The canvas() function from the ggview R package is very useful for previewing/tweaking a ggplot into publication-ready format: it renders a plot "as it would appear if saved to a file with the specified dimensions". cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #RStats #ggplot #ggviewcran.r-project.orgREADME 1539
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026[user] analyze and summarize the attached document [French LLM] *Bonjour* 050
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonSuresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 05/03/2026My zombie Prof would complain bitterly about \textit vs \emph and the use of raw text in math mode latex instead of using \text or proper operator commands. 💀💀💀 1131
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026What a better way to start the day than reading the sentence “Grammarly is being accused of necromancy”. Now *that’s* my kind of news 150
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonExperimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 26/02/2026This piece by psychologist/philosopher Brian Earp is about the differing attitudes toward AI in psychology vs. philosophy In psych, one common attitude is; The goal is to get the right answer to fundamental questions in psychology. If AI helps us do that, well then, all the better… 1/ 1105
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026One month to wait for Trace Elements, a conversation on my favorite genres by the author of my favorite series @adapalmer.bsky.social and the person whose taste in books I admire the most @bluejo.bsky.social. I’ve not been that excited about a book for a very very long whilejowaltonbooks.comTrace Elements | Jo Walton -- Science Fiction and Fantasy Author 045
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Also: what a missed opportunity to make us Jonathan and Jennifer 020
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026My phone decided to autocomplete “Je” (French “I”) with Jérôme and my wife’s phone decided on Jennifer. from our texts you’d think we are obsessed with these two - Jerome will be late tonight - it’s ok, Jennifer will be at yoga - Jerome will stop for food on the way - Jennifer won’t need anything 180
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonFlorian Keppeler @flokeppeler.bsky.social · 22/02/2026#Wilmasreview ❄️ Wilma isn't looking for a new home in the snow — but she is wondering: should AI decide who gets welfare benefits like housing support? A new study by Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social looked at exactly this. 1/🧵 122
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Pixel Agents A VS Code extension that turns your AI coding agents like Claude Code into animated pixel art characters in a virtual office. It shows what the agent is currently doing with animations. You can also customize the virtual office however you want. Repo: github.com/pablodelucca... 89213
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...moultano.wordpress.comThe Hunt for Dark BreakfastWith a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of “dark breakfasts,” breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed? 2127075
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I do it when I'm stressed, these emails have such a soothing rhythm 150
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonPantelis P. Analytis @pantelispa.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Join us in June at @iast.fr Toulouse for a 2-day workshop on social influence and its large scale implications! 074
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonElise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you. 331624565
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonJo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 14/02/2026My January Reading List reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...reactormag.comJo Walton’s Reading List: January 2026 - ReactorCompelling memoirs, Vikings, Heyer, and early experiments in authoritarianism 2253
Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026“The revolutionary AI social network was largely humans operating fleets of bots.”wiz.ioHacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys | Wiz BlogLearn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover. 121
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/02/2026I saw some people calling it Rectangular February 1517644
Reposted by Jean-François BonnefonRachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco! @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 31/01/2026NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up 894404672