this is irresponsible reporting. a neural network can't comment on why it produced CSAM. a neural network can't be held answerable for generating CSAM. accountability lies within the fascist ceo and the team willing to work for him www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

💚 board games 💚 "Dr Atherton said: "Our research has shown they [board games] can enhance wellbeing, foster inclusion, and support learning, with strong evidence that games improve engagement and social connection for neurodivergent individuals compared to other activities."

#OCDTalkHour is today (Wednesday) at 7pm UK time. What would people like to talk about?

Who, him? That’s Old Langson. Word is, if you don’t keep your resolutions he’ll kill you

Today through Thursday there is a 25% at Barnes & Noble on pre-orders including this collection of work from The Intima, a journal publishing fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction + art, founded & run by graduates of the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia. (I have a poem in it, too!)

The come back of pertussis and Measles is only the beginning of the resurgence of preventable infectious diseases in the US. This has been one of the biggest public health failures of 2025 and the competition is tough. www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/h...

Invited speaker lineup is out for SPP 2026! More information on the meeting here: www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html Submissions accepted until Jan 16! Come hang in Baltimore; conference is at Johns Hopkins from June 17-20, 2026! @socphilpsych.bsky.social @joshrottman.bsky.social #SPP2026

At this rate Percy Jackson is going to be going on the quest to fill out a FAFSA season 3

Philosophers: Imagine yourself behind the veil of ignorance, not knowing what life you might be born into Giving What We Can: But what if we unveiled it

Hi everyone. It’s Christmas Eve and there will be a #MadSkyChat tonight as usual. We chat tonight at 8pm GMT for an hour. All mad and/or Neurodivergent people welcome. Just use the hashtag in every response to join in.

Hospital #Ethics and #EPIC question. I was surprised that hospital here could/did access a patient's medical record in another system w/o asking for permission. Or is that part of the standard "permission to treat" consent they have ER patients sign.

i've updated my history of AI poster. new version is on my website. 🥳

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

Elizabeth Anscombe – More Than Wittgenstein’s “Old Man” Tomas Elliott examines how Elizabeth Anscombe helped to establish the English-language reputation of Ludwig Wittgenstein and highlights her own status as a philosopher www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/elizabe... #Anscombe #Wittgenstein #philsky

People who claim to be scholars are on here saying it’s fine to let AI summarize a book for you as if the research isn’t the work, as if the reading isn’t the way your brain makes connections, as if conversation with other ideas isn’t the way you create new ways of seeing

What is your favourite book on madness, or mental illness?

Exciting holiday news! @19thnews.org is hiring *two* full-time editors to join our newsroom in 2026! 🥳 Apply by January 19! 19thnews.org/19th-news-ed...

My in depth interview with @nbcnews.com @meetthepress.com www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...

Between this and the “kids are faking learning disabilities to get extra time on exams!” moral panic, it looks like they’re manufacturing consent for an attack on accommodations of all sorts.

Quantum realm? You mean Whoville?

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

Latest papers: Elodie Boissard argues that the unity of depression can be preserved and this unity is based on a reciprocal causal relationship between anhedonic and depressive experience and depressive beliefs doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy

CDC approves the non-expert ACIP's recommendation to remove the hepatitis B birth dose over experts objections, still reviewing the bizarre vote to do vein blood testing on newborns before additional vaccine doses. wapo.st/4qh8LW7 via @lenasun.bsky.social

As far as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine. Details in Dr. Jacobs's thread below.

The Waide Center for Applied Ethics is excited to announce the addition of two new Distinguished Visiting Scholars who will be joining our team: Constantine Sandis and Louise Chapman! [1/2] www.fairfield.edu/academics/ce...

#OCDTalkHour will be today (Wednesday) at 7pm UK time. @enoughofthis4.bsky.social is hosting this week. What would people like to talk about?

Briefly leaving after the talk to give Q&A more of an encore vibe.

In honor of Link, it is fund me Friday: Finals Edition. Post your mutual aid below and I will try to repost as much as I can. Given that finals week has started for me, I’m going to be relying on everyone else to help out with reposting as well.

Call for Abstracts! The 4th fourth Charm City Colloquium on Law and Bioethics (CCCLB) - “Rebuilding Public Trust in Health and Medicine: From Erasure and Uncertainty to Recovery and Resilience”. Abstracts due Jan 5, 2026. Meeting: April 23-24, 2026 at JHU. Details: bioethics.jhu.edu/wp-content/u...

Northeastern is hiring in Ethics and Health! The job is tenure track with great colleagues in a great city. Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th. philjobs.org/job/show/30469

Last shout for this - closing today!

Most college students are not that. Increasingly they are engaged in carework, have full-time jobs, or are otherwise responsible for things that they were not some fifteen or twenty years ago. Indeed, only the MOST privileged student has the time or space to fulfill the image of a full time student.

For research updates, new books, interviews with experts, spotlights on projects, and conference reports, follow @imperfectcognitions.com. A blog at the intersection of #philosophy, #psychology, and #mentalhealth: a new post every week, rain or shine. #philosophyforeveryone #philsky

In honor of the unjustly banned Link, I invite folks to post their mutual aid below this thread. I will repost need as long as I am able. As the holiday season approaches, and temperatures drop, mutual aid is going to become more important. Consider giving what you can. If you can't, repost.

“Without data to support their decision & defying warnings from doctors, medical associations, & public-health groups, a federal advisory panel stocked with loyalists to Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to stop recommending a life-saving vaccine to infants at birth”

Panel that advises on U.S. vaccine policy votes to recommend a delay in birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine, overturning a 30-year-old policy that has contributed to a massive decline in cases of the virus, by @helenbranswell.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com

You can’t tell if someone is disabled just by looking at them. There’s no such thing as the “genuinely disabled”. You are not entitled to a person’s entire medical history just so you can decide whether to believe them or not. People are not faking disability, most are trying to fake being well.

It’s funny that outside academic philosophy, if someone says they’re into metaphysics, it means they probably believe they have supernatural powers, but inside it means they probably spend all their time trying to figure out what sort of thing a table is

They should do MyChart Wrapped

Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

Our 2025 Neuroscience & Society Impact Report is available now! The report highlights the innovative work of our grantees and partners advancing neuroscience that benefits society and reflects the aspirations of all people. 🔗 on.dana.org/impact-repor... #neurosociety #sciencephilanthropy #neurosky

Well this is exciting! The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank! Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

Artificial intelligence and the future of consciousness science: ethical and policy reflections — Marcello Ienca, Joseph Fins, Debra Mathews | Frontiers Policy Labs policylabs.frontiersin.org/content/poli...

What do you think is the best film on the subject of madness, mental illness, or addiction? #madness #mentalillness #addiction

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

It is Black Friday, but it is also Fund Me Friday. In honor of Link, who remains unjustly banned, I am carrying on the tradition of Fund Me Friday. Drop your mutual aid links beneath this post and I will repost them for as long as I can.

Really delighted that so many contributors responded on very short notice when we reached out about reprinting their work from this series, and I'm glad that it once again has an online home that's easy to search for, share, and read.

A post on the *draft program* of the upcoming edition of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change: Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDiSocCh6)! The final program will be posted soon at which time registration will open! biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/11/27/d...