Jonathon Richter

My paper "Immersion for AI: Immersive Learning with Artificial Intelligence" has been ACCEPTED for presentation at the iLRN 2025 conference. @immersivelrn.bsky.social Learning Research Network.
This is a unique paper, I'm excited about incorporating reviewers' feedback and sharing it.

Bar graph which reads: What qualities are most important to you when attending an immersive experience? High level of interactivity, 187 respondents Overall uniqueness of experience, 167 Interacting with a purpose built environment, 164 Encountering live actors, 155 Overall emotional impact, 132 Source: 2025 Immersive Entertainment & Culture Industry Report, a co-publication of the Gensler Research Institute and the Immersive Experience Institute

We asked attendees of immersive experiences what qualities were most important to them; the top answers were: a high level of interactivity, overall uniqueness, interacting with a purpose-built environment, encountering live actors, overall emotional impact. Source: www.gensler.com/gri/immersiv...

The #Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) is excited to announce that registration is now open for our annual #conference, #iLRN2025, taking place this June online & Chicago.
Join us www.immersivelrn.org/ilrn2025/reg...

Full job posting for a postdoc position at the Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute.

POSTDOC JOB OPENING. My lab at @mossresearch.bsky.social has an opening for a postdoc fellow to work with @aaronlwong.bsky.social and me on an NSF-funded research program studying mechanisms of sensory plasticity that accompany adaptive motor learning. The full posting is below. Please share!

Make intelligent kindness in meaningful collaboration the point again! Science and international community with a wide range of perspectives and expertise towards a sustainable common good for all! Let’s Goooo! Stand up, everyone!!!

@standupforscience.bsky.social in Missoula, Montana
We are scientists 🧑🏻‍🔬
Trust in Science 🧪

@wainbrave.bsky.social

We will persevere. We will innovate. Welcome @chemfunman.bsky.social !!!!

In this context, we are super excited to try Frame VR’s new AI-assisted translation transcription tools, allowing everyone to speak in their native languages AT THE SAME TIME in virtual Frame spaces with the transcription coming out in English (or other languages).

We need fresh perspectives and diverse approaches for a healthy academic environment! Many of these international programs such as Fulbright, IDEAS, and Critical Languages Scholarships have been almost 100% federally funded and are now frozen.

Today we are hosting an innovation workshop for the new XR@UM Community of Practice and multilingual guests from international programs to brainstorm ways to use XR for maintaining existing & building new international relationships. This is critical in academia, particularly for small & rural uni’s

W/Trump admin stripping federal support for higher education we got lucky & received funding just moments b4 it got cut off for visiting Stanford University Fulbright Scholar 🍀 @chemfunman.bsky.social from Singapore & the University College Dublin to be here at the University of Montana this week.

Doug has been a wonderful program officer. Always responsive, helpful, insightful. This is a big loss for NSF and for the Country. 🧪⚒️

A Constructive Approach to the American Meltdown America has been captured by adversarial interests. If we want to change that, we must challenge ourselves to become a new kind of citizen.

I’m both excited and relieved to read an organized and proactive response to this assault on the United States from the highest level on the inside. Looking for more!

america2.news/a-constructi...

My guess was that they left off the important qualifier: “Of the 7000 casualties that day, more than 5000 died from chlorine gas poisoning.”

Thanks for sharing. Remarkable courage and dedication to ethical principles. Glad that her story was brought to light.

I spied a rather puzzling sentence in the piece: “Of the 7000 casualties that day, more than 5000 died.” 🤔

I was interviewed about our ongoing work adopting eXtended Reality (XR) technologies with @immersivelrn.bsky.social Immersive Learning Research Network. Just published in ACM’s Elearn Magazine!

elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?...

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social

What a resource!

Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Here, we see that Generative AI is gaining traction in some higher education circles, but there’s a growing “AI divide” & ethical dialogue & secure protocols will likely develop in various ways to address these emerging issues. Good food for thought.

Mebbe the economic pivot which will draw less attention & create less perceived noise in the cacophony of the not so Funhouse swirling around us, engulfing us, little fires everywhere and each person worrying about their personal safety and security and livelihood. Strumming zee algorithms 🎶

Workday lays off 1,750 employees as Bay Area tech giant pivots to AI Bay Area tech giant Workday is laying off 8.5% of its workforce to restructure for AI demand, marking its second round of layoffs this year.

In other news today, Workday lays off 1,750 employees as Bay Area tech giant pivots to AI

www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

the quicker the response to a Blitzkrieg, the shorter the time spent disoriented.

A gathering of protesters at the Missoula County Courthouse, joining the chorus of citizens decrying Elon Musk’s hijacking of the American government’s databases. Resist!!!

Officials seek to dismantle appeals board for Montanans denied public assistance The Montana health department says the Board of Public Assistance is redundant and a bureaucratic hurdle that helps few people. Current and former board representatives say the rare cases in which the...

The Montana health department says the Board of Public Assistance is redundant and a bureaucratic hurdle that helps few people. Current and former board representatives say the rare cases in which the panel helps people are important.

Billionaires
Learned to use social media &
shape the public’s perceptions.

Now look what.

Book review – The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate The Voices of Nature is an immersive sonic journey into animal communication, led by an expert in bioacoustics and ethology.

Talk about community, I've been finding this book "Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate" absolutely fascinating - and I think has much wisdom to draw on re: technology design affordances and human interaction.

#umwelt #animalpsychology #design

inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/02/22/b...

Low pressure system is moving in. Prepare for more winter weather!

What does one call a lull or pause in a campaign? Did they give up? Prolly not—mebbe they’re in a huddle, planning a new era of annoyance and obfuscation.

This is also why they don’t want the “E” in DEI discussions anymore. If no one is allowed to talk about equity and equality, then <presto>, everything must be fine, right? -wink!

Trump freeze on federal grant dollars spurs worries for Montana health services, Head Start programs and university research A national freeze on federal grant dollars ordered by President Donald Trump has produced confusion and some alarm from Montana nonprofit service providers, education groups and health care centers. S...

Funding pause, intended to give agencies time to identify spending banned by new executive orders, was temporarily blocked by a federal judge Tuesday.