Could use this with undergrads instead of the experience machine and the like? “Experiment” by Wisława Szymborska

Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference? youtu.be/zTynRf24mOM

NIH establishes nation's first dedicated organoid development center to reduce reliance on animal modeling www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Cool 😊 @ScienceMagazine has spotlighted our publication "Chat-IRB? How application-specific language models can enhance research ethics review", led by Sebastian Porsdam Mann. Read the full feature here: buff.ly/o70dKGR Link to our publication here (JME open access): buff.ly/G9BgZpR.

New publication 🚨 "AI and the Future of Academic Peer Review" - led by Sebastian Porsdam Mann, with @cam.ac.uk Mateo Aboy, Joel Seah, Zhicheng Lin, Xufei Luo, @biowhal.bsky.social, Hazem Zohny, Timo Minssen, and Julian Savulescu: buff.ly/kP5Y6tN

How to ask for a copy of a book to the editor without sounding poor or desperate (when turns out I’m both)

Clint Hurshman, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Julian Savulescu, Brian D. Earp: Authorship Without Writing: Large Language Models and the Senior Author Analogy https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05390 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05390 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.05390

Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Mateo Aboy, Joel Jiehao Seah, Zhicheng Lin, Xufei Luo, Dan Rodger, Hazem Zohny, Timo Minssen, Julian Savulescu, Brian D. Earp: AI and the Future of Academic Peer Review https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14189 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14189 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.14189

Brian D. Earp, Haotian Yuan, Julian Koplin, Sebastian Porsdam Mann: The Provenance Problem: LLMs and the Breakdown of Citation Norms https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13365 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.13365 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.13365

New publication 🚨 "Privacy in Human-AI Relationships" - in Philosophy & Technology, led by @ethicsinthenews Chris Register and Maryam Khan (@NUS_CBmE), with @AlbertoGiubili1 and @juliansavulescu www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Blog - Should Adolescents Be Included in Clinical Psychedelic Research? - Bioethics Today bioethicstoday.org/blog/should-...

The moral pull of “women and children” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My conversation with Laurie Paul on love and transformative experience briandavidearp.substack.com/p/edited-tra...

Ethics in Psychedelic Medicine: Yale Expert Calls for Caution, Consent, and Long-Term Support | Institution for Social and Policy Studies isps.yale.edu/news/blog/20...

On gleeful reactions to the extrajudicial killing of allegedly very bad people open.substack.com/pub/briandav...

Peter Singer now weighing in on reflective equilibrium for our methods in bioethics workshop.

John McMillan lecturing on Rawls and reflective equilibrium and influence on bioethics - part of our Methods in Bioethics Workshop at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore

Haha… Arras on the Principles of Biomedical Ethics

New 🚨When should a person submit an article to the Journal of Medical Ethics, and when to our new open access sister journal, JME Practical Bioethics? Some considerations jmepb.bmj.com/pages/when-t...

Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How AI and big data can be used to spread ideologies: bypassing rational thought … from a slide by Tsinghua student Jiang Renping

Haha

I heard that students need to have a 1st author paper to get into a PhD program This is not true in psychology--most students we admit at NYU & most of the students from my own lab who got into PhD programs do not have publications, let alone 1st author publications www.science.org/content/arti...

Experimental philosophy paper by Pascale Willemsen et al. on on what it means for something to be "discrimination" The studies focus specifically on discrimination -- but I think they also showing something more general about how thick concepts work philpapers.org/archive/WILD...

Is it okay not to be monogamous? Part 1 briandavidearp.substack.com/p/is-it-okay...

Prompting, vetting, vouching. Enough for authorship? Can someone be an author who doesn’t write a single word? Link to new work open.substack.com/pub/briandav....

Panem, corticoids and circenses: the ethical fallout of Enhanced Games jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Reframing ‘dehumanisation’: AI and the reality of clinical communication jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Freedom and mosquito control: when opting out constitutes a veto of public health interventions jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Label me not: a liberal argument against mandatory calorie labels jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Great line up for our Digital Duplicates workshop at @NUS_CBmE, co-organised and co-sponsored with our friends at University of Bucharest, including Cristina and Voinea and Mihaela Constantinescu 😊

Should adolescents be included in psychedelic clinical trials? We explore this in a new paper for Lancet Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, led by Khaleel Rajwani open.substack.com/pub/briandav...

Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other: a reply to Gillon jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Great line up for our Digital Duplicates workshop at @NUS_CBmE, co-organised and co-sponsored with our friends at University of Bucharest, including Cristina and Voinea and Mihaela Constantinescu 😊

Clint Hurshman - our new postdoc at CbME at NUS - giving an excellent talk on contextual general digital duplicates at our Digital Duplicates conference! 😊

Should adolescents be included in psychedelic clinical trials? We explore this in a new paper for Lancet Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, led by Khaleel Rajwani open.substack.com/pub/briandav...

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong giving keynote lecture at inaugural neuroethics workshop sponsored by @NUS_CbME and @OxNeuroEthics, with guests from China, Japan, Thailand. — What Motivates People to Do Bad Acts

Today!

New post 🚨 The Risk of More Reliable AI briandavidearp.substack.com/p/the-risk-o... -- Maybe hallucinations are good?

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on moral AI in healthcare and other settings - welcome to Singapore, Walter!

Final call for global collaborators on this replication collaboration on @bioxphi studies — moral psychologists and x-phi researchers wanted! especially based in SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE! global-bioXphi | moral science lab www.mscilab.com/globalbioxphi/

I really wish that the AI companies would stop training their models to reflexively say "You are right" when they have no clue as to whether I am actually right or not. I want to know when I'm wrong.

Jeff McMahan, a prominent just war theorist and Emeritus Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, weighs in on the question of responsibility for healthcare scarcity in Gaza. Online first in @JME_BMJ jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

In Opinion In the 1,000 days since ChatGPT’s release, it has disrupted the university approach to learning, meant to stop students from relying on A.I. “We, of course, do not want our students to fail, but we don’t want them to fail to learn, either,” Clay Shirkey, a vice provost at NYU, writes.

🚨Big news! @JME_BMJ Practical Bioethics journal - new open access companion to JME -- is now officially open for submissions. See the full announcement here www.linkedin.com/posts/brian-...

The Journal of Practical Ethics publishes new issues twice a year but you can keep up with #forthcoming articles on our website. Check out the latest paper from ‪@ucl.ac.uk's Emily McTernan here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jpe/news/209/ #ethics #academicsky #philosophy #offline

Should we ever automate moral decision making? If so, under which conditions? And what might the process look like? Join @cristinavoi.bsky.social to discuss online for our eighth #Bitesize class on Automated Moral Reasoning. www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/bitesize-eth... #PhilosophyMatters #aiethics

We're pleased to welcome @existwell.bsky.social to Oxford! David is Associate Professor at #JohnHopkinsUniversity with a research focus on psychedelic and psychedelic-like mental states. Specifically, how brief experiences can occasionally result in long-term changes to well-being. #practicalethics

The website is coming together! Should be open for submissions within the next couple of days … About | JME Practical Bioethics jmepb.bmj.com/pages/about

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads theconversation.com/studying-phi...