Jonathan Dobres

Blog

x-men re-examined: the phoenix saga

Five primetime episodes that start strong, end weak, and change the X-Men forever.

Feb 18 2025

the hardest working font in manhattan

A stellar long read from Marcin Wichary about a font that is as ubiquitous as it is anonymous: Gorton.

Jan 25 2025

it’s been January for months in both directions

Kaveh Akbar, “Wild Pear Tree”

Mike Monteiro: “The first four years of Donald Trump was a continuous panic attack. I’m not going through that again. You don’t have to either. They’re on stage, but you don’t have to be their audience.”

Publications

I am an author of 22 scientific publications, 15 white papers, 3 popular press articles, and 32 conference presentations. Here’s my favorite.

The latest is:

Humanizing AI in Education: A Readability Comparison of LLM and Human-Created Educational Content PDF DOI

Rashid, M. M., Atilgan, N., Dobres, J., Day, S., Penkova, V., Küçük, M., Clapp, S. R., & Sawyer, B. D., Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 68(1)

Contact

I’d love to hear from you. Email is best. StackOverflow is a favorite haunt. ResearchGate has all my science. And I sometimes check LinkedIn.

Jonathan Dobres, Ph.D.