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Here's a few random things

2026/02/03 — Paper: Challenger: Fine-Tuning the Odds Until Something Breaks
2025/11/16 — Paper: The Failure Gap
2025/08/26 — Paper: Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution
2025/06/23 — Paper: Empirically derived evaluation requirements for responsible deployments of AI
2025/03/23 — Paper: when resilience engineering questions ergonomics
2025/02/06 — Paper: Fuck Nuance
2024/12/27 — Davies on The Unaccountability Machine
2024/11/21 — Paper: Algorithmic Monoculture and Social Welfare
2024/10/31 — Kernick on Catastrophe and Systemic Change
2024/09/21 — The Roots of Work-as-Done and Work-as-Imagined
2024/08/16 — Paper: Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct
2024/08/02 — Atomic Accidents and Uneven Blame
2024/07/27 — Paper: Moral Crumple Zones
2024/07/16 — Hutchins' Distributed Cognition in The Wild
2024/06/08 — Paper: Systemic Design Principles in Social Innovation
2024/06/03 — Paper: Charismatic Technology
2024/04/21 — Paper: Understanding and Effectively Mitigating Code Review Anxiety
2024/02/10 — Paper: How audits fail according to incident investigations
2024/02/03 — Paper: Observation and assessment of crossing situations between pleasure craft and a small passenger ferry
2023/12/16 — RHIP, doctors, and pagers
2023/12/10 — Paper: Visualizing Uncertainty for Non-Expert End Users
2023/11/24 — Paper: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient?
2023/10/15 — Paper: How in the World Did We Ever Get into That Mode?
2023/10/08 — Paper: AI Art and its Impact on Artists
2023/09/30 — Paper: Four Concepts for Resilience Engineering
2023/09/24 — Paper: The Strategic Agility Gap
2023/09/04 — Paper: The Tyranny of Structurelessness
2023/08/27 — Paper: Seeing the Invisible
2023/08/23 — On Willpower
2023/08/19 — Paper: The Psychology of Incident Investigations
2023/08/12 — On Foucault's Discipline and Punish
2023/08/03 — Paper: Designing for Expertise
2023/07/28 — Paper: Managing Without Blame?
2023/07/25 — Paper: Anticipatory Thinking
2023/07/08 — Paper: Can We Trust Best Practices?
2023/07/03 — Paper: Unruly Bodies of Code in Time
2023/07/02 — Paper: Skills, Rules, and Knowledge
2023/06/25 — Paper: Ecological Interfaces: A Technological Imperative in High-Tech Systems?
2023/06/21 — Paper: Building and revising adaptive capacity sharing for technical incident response
2023/06/11 — Paper: Imaginaries of Omniscience
2023/05/31 — Paper: Accident Report Interpretation
2023/05/21 — Paper: How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speed
2023/04/22 — Paper: Ironies of Automation
2023/04/18 — Accidents come from relationships, not parts
2023/04/11 — Paper: Distancing Through Differencing
2023/04/07 — Paper: Systemic Contributors Analysis and Diagram (SCAD)
2023/04/01 — Paper: Can We Ever Escape From Data Overload?
2023/03/27 — The Real World of Technology
2023/03/26 — Paper: Nine Steps to Move Forward From Error
2023/03/17 — Paper: On Nonscalability
2023/03/10 — Paper: On People and Computers in Joint Cognitive Systems at Work
2023/03/06 — The 80% League
2023/03/06 — On the hunt for a bug with a hump and a long tail
2023/03/04 — Paper: Those Found Responsible Have Been Sacked
2023/03/02 — Paper: Ten Challenges for Making Automation a "Team Player"
2023/02/26 — Paper: When mental models go wrong
2023/02/19 — Paper: Flexible Sketches and Inflexible Data Bases
2023/02/10 — Paper: Failure to adapt or adaptations that fail
2023/02/03 — Paper: MABA-MABA or Abracadabra?
2023/01/22 — Paper: Going Solid
2023/01/14 — Paper: Agentive Language in Accident Investigations
2023/01/08 — Paper: Rule- and Role-Retreat
2023/01/04 — Leveson on Severity
2022/12/17 — Paper: Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals
2022/12/10 — How practitioners adapt to clumsy technology
2022/12/09 — Paper: The Alarm Problem and Directed Attention in Dynamic Fault Management
2022/12/08 — Paper: Visual Momentum
2022/12/04 — Paper: Voice Loops as Coordination Aids in Space Shuttle Mission Control
2022/12/03 — Paper: Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination
2022/11/26 — Paper: Moving off the Map
2022/11/20 — Paper: Repentance as Rebuke: Betrayal and Moral Injury in Safety Engineering
2022/11/17 — On Theories and Tools
2022/11/16 — Following Procedures Dilemma
2022/11/12 — Paper: Past the Edge of Chaos
2022/11/07 — A brief history of incident models
2022/11/04 — Paper: Don't Let Knowledge Walk Away