Arturo Hernandez

The Cost of Building Outside the System On networks, exile, and the thirty-year proof

People can close the door on you but they cannot stop you from building your own house. @lauriesantos.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

In the tariff case, it could be said there is also a potential, for example, ability to sue (act), that the environment supports or suppresses. In the case of social environments, however there strong feedback loops between actor and environment, these are weaker in the moth case (seemingly).

I find this interesting, but the link between mechanisms is not so clear. In the case of the moths, the implication is that moths of light and dark are always born, but the environment defines survival. Generically, each color represents an information potential with varying dynamic potential.

I’ve been thinking about the connections too. Your comment is making me think more. Maybe it’s the change across dynamic states. Still thinking…

Sixty Applications On the lone wolf myth, Michael Jordan, and why the node always wins

What does Michael Jordan have to do with why universities break people?

Everything.

New essay on networks, fractals, and why DEI produced language but didn't redistribute nodes.

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#AcademicTwitter #HigherEd #Barabasi

The Multilingual Myth A recent study suggests that people in multilingual countries age more gracefully. But this may have more to do with wealth, healthcare, and structural advantage than language.

The Multilingual Myth | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

The Immovable System What Peppered Moths Tell Us About Tariffs

My take on how dynamic systems reorganize in light of the Supreme Court’s decision this morning.
#ComputationalEmergentism #ComplexSystems #Emergence #SupremeCourt #Tariffs open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

It's the GM Playbook. Investing in the past rather than in the future. arturoh.substack.com/p/the-gm-pla... #highereducation #academia #economics

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Struggling to make ends meet, UH grad students call on university to cover healthcare premiums Peer institutions like the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University subsidize health coverage for their teaching and research assistants who are U.S. citizens.

Huge investments in infrastructure but not in the human kind. Grad students are noticing. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
#whynoonedreamsofbeingaprofessor #academia #highereducation

Is AI Killing Jobs? Or Are We Letting the Wrong Story Take Over? On Monday, Education Innovation and Technology at the University of Houston hosted a one-day conference on the Future of Work with AI.

Is AI really killing jobs?

Unemployment risk for AI-exposed workers rose before ChatGPT — tracking 2022 rate hikes and post-COVID corrections.

Fundamentals still matter.

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#AI #HigherEd #LaborMarkets #EconTwitter #EdTech

Or hire a private teacher. Of course, that is a route also available to very few people.

If the Shelf Has No Space, Build Your Own I walked into the Harvard Book Store on Friday and went straight to the Psychology section.

On finding your way through the uneven landscape of book publishing. #Books #Authors #AcademicLife #HigherEd #PublicIntellectual
#Neuroscience #PsychologyToday #Substack
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The GM Playbook How Universities Are Preparing for the Wrong Crisis

The ripples of the great recession affected the auto industry. Do they carry lessons for higher education? open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/... #HigherEducation
#AcademicLife
#UniversityEconomics
#InstitutionalChange

Great story!

Before COVID I gave gender ally training to men as part of an ADVANCE grant. I think that type of training would be helpful if given more broadly.

How to Set Up and Run an Undergraduate Research Lab APS Fellow Julia Strand offers resources and recommendations to run a productive research lab.

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

He assigned reading, then had them write in class. No take-home writing.
He's right kids read less. But 7 hrs school + 5 hrs homework nightly? I'd avoid extra work in high school too.
We ask them to memorize. They do until they don't.

More on this next week.

From Seven Papers to Twenty Claims Making Sense When the Landscape Won't Stand Still

I went from seven papers to twenty claims in one year. When the landscape moves this fast, sense-making becomes the only skill that matters. #ArtificialIntelligence #CognitiveScience #Writing #Academia​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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DEI Was Just a Dress Rehearsal Universities are often described as liberal institutions.

On DEI and AI. #HigherEd #Academia #DEI #AIinEducation open.substack.com/pub/arturoh/...

Why Nobody Dreams of Being a Professor Anymore Michael X Cohen wrote a very nice essay outlining the reason he left academia. I responded with one that outlined why I stayed. In this second essay, I outline one of the dangers facing the professori...

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Resistance is NOT futile. A Call to Arms. Will Freedom prevail?

I recently talked about the Cancer Stick of the Soul, smartphones. One of my earliest posts suggests a solution, I am reposting it here arturoh.substack.com/p/resistance... #DigitalDetox
#UnplugToReconnect
#ScreenFree
#PhoneAddictionAwareness
#Nomophobia
#ProblematicPhoneUse
#MindfulTechUse

Neuroemergence and the Screen Generation Newborns track faces from birth. But what happens when screens replace human eyes? The answer may shape how the next generation reads emotions and connects with others.

What infants see first shapes what comes next.
Faces built the brain. Screens are changing the input.
#Neuroemergence #Development #Cognition #Parenting

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Jodie Foster: An American Oscar-Winner in Paris

“I am a different person in that language,” she said. “ I have a whole host of other things to express. I would maybe even like to direct in French.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/m...

Congratulations!

Borges better in English than Spanish. That’s a stretch.

What Lived Experience Gives You That Data Cannot Last week I wrote about my great-grandfather Wilhelm, who carried language and tradition across an ocean, adapting to a new world while changing it in return.

We’re surrounded by data, models, and predictions — and yet some forms of understanding still refuse to be captured.

I wrote about why that distinction matters right now, particularly as AI becomes a dominant way of “knowing”:

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#LivedExperience #Knowledge #AI

Can’t wait to hear it! Weird thing is I can do both, words and pictures.

The Bilingual Brain: Translation as Adaptation Bilingual brains reveal something fundamental about human intelligence. It's not about language. It's about domain translation, the cognitive capacity AI cannot replicate.

My new Psychology Today piece, “The Bilingual Brain: Translation as Adaptation,” was selected as an Essential Read.
Grateful for the recognition — and for the chance to keep developing this idea of translation as a core human adaptation. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Not everyone does. A lot people are scared it will take over and replace us.

Sorry to see you go. Thanks for all your help during my first year at Perspectives.