I study what adaptive systems do to the people they adapt to. Everything below is sorted by the part of that question it touches — not by medium.
current
reciprocity decay: bots, humans, and community epistemic structure — preprint in progress, july 2026
behavioural signatures of synthetic participation — multi-agent forum simulation varying one design parameter at a time, in build
the unsteered loop — the argument behind all of this, in one essay
systems that read people
what a system can sense about you, and what it does back — the half of the loop industry already builds
what people do back
how people change when the systems around them are redesigned — field research at national scale
what communities come to know
collective belief, memory, and lore — and what enters the room when some participants aren't human
hands
material and visual practice — the making that keeps the research honest
