A rollicking fun interview —- Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... — we apparently share a certain pet peeve

New pre-print🚨 "Beyond Deepfakes: 'Digital Duplicates' or AI Simulations of Real People - An International Ethical Consensus" - led by Clint Hurshman and Cristina Voinea: buff.ly/YMIDtQy

Retraction Watch asked them and got a 'no comment' response: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/13/a... It's hard not to suspect the Trump regime's hand at work.

Anyone know why AMA Journal of Ethics is suddenly closing? “Breaking Bad News” journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/brea...

Our response to commentaries on the “P4” proposal: “Let’s Build It and Find Out!” Next Steps for Personalized Patient Preference Prediction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Presenting on the personalized patient preference predictor & digital “psychological” twins in medicine to support patients & resist digitally enhanced paternalism at a medical humanities conference at Tsinghua University today

Meanwhile in Singapore lots of great collaborations with Chinese colleagues 🥹

New publication 🚨 "Ethics and Regulation of Human Brain Organoid Research: Recommendations from The Asia Pacific Neuroethics Working Group" - in press with Asian Bioethics Review: buff.ly/aIDcD76.

My department (philosophy, University of Melbourne) is advertising a 4-yr fixed-term lectureship in metaphysics and philosophy of science. Open to people with Australian work rights. Philosophy folk, please feel free to repost etc unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

The Elizabeth Line in London is interesting because it is concrete proof that it is actually possible for the state in the UK to do something good, like just straightforwardly it's a useful addition to our public transport infrastructure that works well and looks nice. So why are most things crap?

Throwback to me playing Ray Gosling (Rosalind Franklin’s PhD student who, as it happens, took the famous photograph) in the Seattle premiere of Photograph 51 with Kirsten Potter as Franklin. Fascinating & complex portrait of Franklin & her role in discovery of DNA structure. Play by Anna Ziegler.

Looking forward to speaking and learning at this first ever Asian Summit on Intersex Health today and tomorrow in Taipei 🦋

Subtle. (Newcastle, Australia)

McGill study reveals knowledge gap about psychedelic therapies in adolescents www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

A provocation from my sometimes coauthor David Trafimow and colleagues: “Inferential statistics are descriptive statistics” folia.unifr.ch/global/docum...

A really inspiring couple of days in Kuala Lumpur

The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal www.researchgate.net/publication/...

New arrival

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New publication 🚨 "Is Consent-GPT valid? Public attitudes to generative AI use in surgical consent" - led by @ethicsinthenews Jemima Allen and published in AI & Society: buff.ly/ZPvpCKC.

New publication 🚨 "Even with Diet and Exercise, Ozempic Use Reduces Perceived Effort and Praiseworthiness of Resulting Weight Loss" - led by Maria Bachmakova and published in Social Science & Medicine: buff.ly/b91XR9m

Dear PsyArXiv users! The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧 Thank you for your patience!

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Are academic journals truly inclusive? This a great chance to learn from editors like @ckyobutungi.bsky.social @plosglobalpublichealth.org & @briandavidearp.bsky.social wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Feeling really happy after a fantastic day co-leading a workshop on the Replication Crisis with @briandavidearp.bsky.social We aimed to provide a sobering overview of the challenges in research while framing them as a powerful catalyst for positive change.

Hypocritical blame is associated with reduced prosocial motivation - Scientific Reports www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@briandavidearp.bsky.social and friends (including AEREO member, Joel Seah) do a phenomenal, nuanced job highlighting the possibilities in their new Journal of Medical Ethics paper: jme.bmj.com/content/earl... 2/

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...