Leda Berio
@ledaberio.bsky.social
Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist at University College Dublin Recovering 'cool girl', hiker, joyful feminist I write about social cognition, ethics of technology, social groups, and self-knowledge website: ledaberio.com She, her
Very kind words by @evanwestra.bsky.social on our paper! This is an important one to me! mini-thread below
Evan Westra@evanwestra.bsky.social · last wk.The literature on the philosophy of social norms has gotten really exciting over the past few years. The latest example: @ledaberio.bsky.social and Kristina Musholt's awesome new paper in Phil Imprint: "Seeing What To Do: Norms, Scripts, and Social Affordances" www.researchgate.net/publication/...
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
A précis of my book is now out in Philosophical Psychology as part of an upcoming book symposium. PP is the first journal in which I ever published an article. It’s a pleasure to come full circle. I’m looking forward to engaging with the thoughtful commentaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What the self does for psychiatry: testimony, cognitive science, and participatory objectivity
Reclaiming The Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science argues that contemporary scientific psychiatry has sidelined its most essential object of study: the self. Dr...
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such cool stuff by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and @marriah.bsky.social !
Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸@kristinandrews.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks to @jeyantvo.bsky.social for talking with me about the ethics of using AI to communicate with animals, research I did with @marriah.bsky.social and published in Topoi link.springer.com/article/10.1... Fun conversation!
📢 paper out! third in the series, we play around with robots' appearances and see what happens with visual perspective taking!
Facilitatory effects of visual perspective taking level 2 for human and robotic avatars
Visual perspective taking (VPT) is a crucial component of social cognition: when engaging in activities such as preparing meals together, moving a cou…
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Whoa, this is a cool story! www.fastcompany.com/90375440/the...
The improbable story of the bra-maker who won the right to make astronaut spacesuits
Cross our hearts, you have to read this amazing true tale. In just five days, we'll commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and we're telling surprising stories from the effort that made ...
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖@chronicleflask.katday.com · 3mo agoAlways love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.
awesome workshop organized by our amazing colleague Anh-Quân Nguyen next month at UCD! Registration, online and in person: forms.gle/XaxiPpiN4M1z...
Climate Emotions and Environmental Activism Workshop
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“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.
This Thursday we get to talk about AI and its impact on medicine with physicians, computer scientists, and philosophers at @ucddublin.bsky.social Attendance is free!
Biologists are celebrating a record breeding season for a critically endangered bird on the brink of extinction. Humans still need to restore more of their habitat & remove invasive predators. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... @smithsonianmag.bsky.social #biology #ecology #science #SciChat
A Bountiful Berry Harvest Put These Chunky, Endangered Parrots in the Mood. Now, Scientists Are Celebrating a Breeding Bonanza
New Zealand's kakapo have laid 256 eggs, and around 100 of them have hatched, providing a bright spot in a decades-long conservation effort. The official chick count won't be confirmed until the young...
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Woot woot! We have a newly redesigned Cognitive Science MSc program and Philosophy of Mind MA program here at @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social Applications are open! www.ucd.ie/philosophy/s...
MSc/GradDip in Cognitive Science
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭@keithwilson.eu · 4mo agoI’m also excited to introduce students to our redesigned Philosophy of Mind MA (www.ucd.ie/philosophy/s...) and Cognitive Science MSc programmes (www.ucd.ie/philosophy/s...). Both include a wide range of philosophy and interdisciplinary options and intro modules. #PhilMind #PhilCogSci #CogSci
excellent colleague @quiteclare.bsky.social writing about sports, parenthood, work, and gender equality - casually dropping some truth bombs in the process
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 4mo agoClare Moriarty: ‘Working’ or ‘stay-at-home’ parent is a false choice. Most of us want something in between
A few more days to apply for the position in our lovely School!
Leda Berio@ledaberio.bsky.social · 5mo agoI am really lucky, and I get to recruit for a PhD position in the UCD School of Philosophy! Deadline: April 15th The School of Philosophy is an incredible place to work, full of incredible expertise and amazing kindness. Please share/forward! :) More details below!
We shouldn't be calling chatbot mistakes "hallucinations", "bullshit", or preferably by any other mental metaphor. Here's why by @reginafabry.bsky.social and me: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Why mental metaphors do not help us understand chatbot mistakes - Synthese
Synthese - The function of chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is based on detecting probabilistic patterns in the training data. This makes them vulnerable to generating factual mistakes in their...
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Love this image of astronaut Christina Koch in the Orion spacecraft looking back at Earth, especially the floating braids. 👩🔬 ⚛️ 🔭 🧪 🚀 🌔
the event I organized with @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social ky.social and the Center for Ethics in Public Life, featured in The Irish Times today! at MoLI tomorrow at 2pm, register here buff.ly/mvyj9dY @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @camillafitz.bsky.social @matthewjcull.bsky.social
Somebody Should Do Something: Book Presentation and Panel
Join us in person for a lively book chat and panel at Somebody Should Do Something!
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The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 5mo agoJoe Humphreys: Depressed by the news? Be a ‘happy warrior’ and other tips to raise hope
Join #UCDPhilosophy panellist Dr. Anh-Quân Nguyen and authors #AlexMadva #CalPolyPomona and #DanielKelly #Purdue for a lively book chat and panel at 'Somebody Should Do Something!' at #MoLIMuseum on March 24th. Please register using the QR code. #CEPL #SomebodyShouldDoSomething #MichaelBrownstein
I am really lucky, and I get to recruit for a PhD position in the UCD School of Philosophy! Deadline: April 15th The School of Philosophy is an incredible place to work, full of incredible expertise and amazing kindness. Please share/forward! :) More details below!
Ad Astra PhD Scholarship UCD School of Philosophy - UCD School of Philosophy
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We are getting there! Come to beautiful MoLI to chat about social change! Registration here buff.ly/mvyj9dY @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social
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UCD School of Philosophy@ucdphilosophy.bsky.social · 6mo agoJoin #UCDPhilosophy panellist Dr. Anh-Quân Nguyen and authors #AlexMadva #CalPolyPomona and #DanielKelly #Purdue for a lively book chat and panel at 'Somebody Should Do Something!' at #MoLIMuseum on March 24th. Please register using the QR code. #CEPL #SomebodyShouldDoSomething #MichaelBrownstein
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...
Independent Junior Group Leader Ethics Laboratory (m/f/d, E14 TV-L, 100%)
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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
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UCD School of Philosophy@ucdphilosophy.bsky.social · 6mo agoJoin #UCDPhilosophy panellist Dr. Anh-Quân Nguyen and authors #AlexMadva #CalPolyPomona and #DanielKelly #Purdue for a lively book chat and panel at 'Somebody Should Do Something!' at #MoLIMuseum on March 24th. Please register using the QR code. #CEPL #SomebodyShouldDoSomething #MichaelBrownstein
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!
Michał Wieczorek@michalwieczorek.bsky.social · 5mo agoCome do your PhD with me! I am offering a fully-funded, four-year PhD position in the School of Education @ucddublin.bsky.social. If you want to do critical research on technology and education, especially combining philosophical and qualitative methods, please apply! www.ucd.ie/education/re...
Currently on a bus in Bristol, heading to this awesome event -- great poster, for starters!
Lucy Osler@lucyosler.bsky.social · 6mo agoJust one week til our “Social AI: A Philosophy Workshop” 🌟We will be joined by Pii Telakivi, Rob Clowes, Kris Goffin, Shahd Omar, Kesavan Thenagopal, Mike Barnes, Mercedes Corredor, Ben White, Leda Bario, Allister Lee, Àger Pérez Casanovas, Shane Glackin, Tom Roberts, & Joel Krueger 🌟
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
Journal of Applied Philosophy@the-joap.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe are pleased to announce the winner of The Charles Mills Prize "Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration & the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data” Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl #philsky Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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
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...
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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!
UCD School of Philosophy@ucdphilosophy.bsky.social · 6mo agoJoin #UCDPhilosophy panellist Dr. Anh-Quân Nguyen and authors #AlexMadva #CalPolyPomona and #DanielKelly #Purdue for a lively book chat and panel at 'Somebody Should Do Something!' at #MoLIMuseum on March 24th. Please register using the QR code. #CEPL #SomebodyShouldDoSomething #MichaelBrownstein
