Leda Berio

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Come to beautiful MoLI to chat about social change!
Registration here buff.ly/mvyj9dY @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social

A very interesting job opportunity for an ECR philosopher working at the intersection of human origins and the ethics of science.

Tübingen is a beautiful city with great people in this field (Claudio Tennie and Marlen Frölich, for example).

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics

We are getting there!
Come to beautiful MoLI to chat about social change!
Registration here buff.ly/mvyj9dY @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social

wildest thing to me is that I have always thought the process was more interesting than the product - maybe that speaks poorly of my products, lol. Or maybe it's just that I really really do not see the point of doing any of this otherwise - there's better incentives elsewhere?

excellent colleague, friend, and philosopher @michalwieczorek.bsky.social is hiring in the School of Education at UCD! if you are interested in critical research on education and technology, or if any of your students are, you know where to go!

no wait -- are you doing Spanish IN Italian?!

the most upsetting thing about this is that you are doing Duolingo Spanish and not Duolingo Italian

amazing!!!!!

as an ex-Bochum person, I appreciate this :) do not find the campus beautiful, but the view from the terrace is something I valued a lot!

Currently on a bus in Bristol, heading to this awesome event -- great poster, for starters!

A bonobo tea party: Study shows humans aren't the only species that can pretend Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party. Kanzi could play along, they found.

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

a-m-a-z-i-n-g work by @terezahendl.bsky.social, Morgan Thompson, and my good friend and co-author Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social

Motivating Empathy and Moral Pluralism in Health Policy - C. Daryl Cameron, Paige Amormino, Joel E. Segel, 2026 Health policy is motivated by a variety of factors including moral concerns, values and convictions. Policymakers are motivated to consider how constituents and...

Excited to see this out in print in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. It's the first publication with @amormino.bsky.social in the EMP Lab, along with Joel Segel from Health Policy and Administration. At a pivotal moment for empathy, we consider its role for policymaking 1/n

Will repost at appropriate times but.. we have a flyer!
Excited we will have @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social present their brilliant book
-- and discuss it with @camillafitz.bsky.social , Sinead Kennedy, Anh-Quâm Nguyen, and @matthewjcull.bsky.social over here in March!

@ucdphilosophy.bsky.social hosts Perspectives, a Postgraduate journal! As it should be immediately obvious 1. they have great taste in covers 2. they publish very interesting stuff

New CfP is out, tell your students! philevents.org/event/show/1... the theme is Hope.. a good theme. #PhilSky

Postdoctoral Position: ERC Research

postdoc in history of philosophy at UCD!
#philjobs

Sentience in cephalopod molluscs: an updated assessment This article evaluates the evidence for sentience – the capacity to have feelings – in cephalopod molluscs: octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. Our framework includes eight criteria, covering b...

For those cephalopod lovers among you, our new updated review of the evidence for cephalpod sentience has now been published in Biological Reviews. (Sadly the picture is of birds rather than cephalopods, as this is the journal cover!)
doi.org/10.1002/brv....

Can’t wait for this amazing evening of conversation on 11 Feb at @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, on AI Narratives & Counternarratives with @abeba.bsky.social @amoorelouise.bsky.social, FT’s @johnthornhill.bsky.social & our own Alex Taylor. Join online or in Edinburgh - register to hold your space!

oh this is exciting, looking forward to reading it!

Scrabble is not just about being the best speller or knowing long words There are two different kinds of game being played on the world’s Scrabble boards. Which will you play?

awesome stuff by soon to be UCD colleague @quiteclare.bsky.social

Excited to be on this volume!
In my chapter, I argue we ought to pay attention to how AI changes the socio-cultural conditions of our self-narratives

The one with Seinfeld 👇

Remembering the human in psychiatry: balancing science and humanism Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Really grateful for a thoughtful and thorough review of my book by Seiara Imanova @seiaraimanova.bsky.social, just out in Philosophical Psychology! @journalphp.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MENEA...

The Good Place one is about how sometimes we mindshape ourselves into being virtuous, and how sometimes this is very risky.
It was inspired by @evanwestra.bsky.social awesome work on virtue signaling, but unlike Evan I know no moderation and I had to bring the arguments to a bit of a weirder place

In 2025 I published a paper opening with an episode of The Good Place (linked below) and one opening with an episode of Seinfeld (with @dryan149.bsky.social, here link.springer.com/article/10.1...)

Stay tuned, next goal is a Ted Lasso one