Laura Maguire

@lauramaguire.bsky.social

Usually up high 🏔️🪂🧗🏽‍♀️ Cognitive Systems Engineering Research and systems design. I study cognition, complexity, and human performance in high risk, high consequence and high value work systems. 🧠 #resilience #humanfactors #cognitivesystemseng

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

Recently I was invited to help facilitate a workshop in Portugal to convene with colleagues on progress, challenges, and next steps for the field of Resilience Engineering. I’m curious what the blue sky universe has to say about Resilience Engineering and what is needed for the future?

Photo of a collection of about twenty people standing in front of a blue sky and smiling. They are the participants from the workshop.

NEW: Harrison Ford endorses Kamala Harris. This is impactful, in part because it comes from someone without a long track record of endorsing candidates. “I’ve been voting for 64 years. Never really wanted to talk about it very much.” (📽️Credit: CallToActivism via X)

one of the things that is very strange to me about self driving cars is the idea that i want to sit there with my hands on the wheel and my foot ready to brake, but not driving. like that seems worse than driving

“Events and relations must be understood in the context where they occur. It is always necessary to consider both the dependencies to other parts of the system and to events that went before. This is particularly the case for human activities, which cannot be understood only as reactions to events.”