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Lisa Bortolotti @lisabortolotti.com · 2d

How did the definition of pain change? Elisabetta Lalumera talks about conceptual change in medicine in this wonderful talk as a part of our @triphilosophy.bsky.social lectures by Women in Philosophy: youtu.be/Q9lYgYQDQ4s Enjoy! #philsky #philpsy #EpistemicInjustice

Women in Philosophy: Elisabetta Lalumera

YouTube video by The Philosophy Garden

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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 13h

three cheers for slow science, each Nobel representing decades of inquiry that paved the way for the technology, treatments, & toys of tomorrow:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/s...

Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 1d

"The most devastating shortcoming of LLMs is that however many things they appear to know about the world, and however smoothly they express these things, they don’t actually know that there is a world." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

James Meek · Computers that want things

For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 19h

If her fetus is "in her placenta," that woman is in a ton of pain and the pregnancy's a nonstarter anyway. Good lord, don't take medical advice from this man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

I'm sorry, did Temu Mel Gibson here just sat that the baby is *in* the placenta?

Is there any aspect of human biology this lumbering science experiment of a man can't get wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21h

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 19h

It’s all about them. Think of the children! And the mothers!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 19h

Have the people had enough of bread and circuses yet??

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes

Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’

www.theguardian.com

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I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social · 1d

#philsci

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Next Friday, talk, discussion and reception at the Francis Crick Institute with philosopher, Hasock Chang talking about the tricky role of measurement in science. Free and open to all

Part of School of Advanced Study and Crick Institute Being Human Lectures

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...

Measurement and the search for meaningful scientific concepts

Professor Hasok Chang, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, delivers the eight Being Human talk.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Next Friday, talk, discussion and reception at the Francis Crick Institute with philosopher, Hasock Chang talking about the tricky role of measurement in science. Free and open to all

Part of School of Advanced Study and Crick Institute Being Human Lectures

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/measuremen...

Measurement and the search for meaningful scientific concepts

Professor Hasok Chang, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, delivers the eight Being Human talk.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Great and vivid episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social on Lenin. The first of three sympathetic human looks at dehumanizing fanatics. Don’t miss!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...

Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin – Part One – Revolution

Podcast Episode · Origin Story · 14/10/2025 · Origin Story + Early Access · 1h 27m

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s university researchers are not the sole genius working in splendid isolation. They depend on a whole research infrastructure. Lessons at the UKRI Round 9 Future Leaders Fellows Kick-Off meeting in Glasgow

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 1d

UKRI Future Leaders Fellows in Glasgow being taken through the @weareukri strategy, Transforming Tomorrow Together by Steve Meader. Much more upbeat about the UK than political campaign strategies we’ve been experiencing during this year’s conference season

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Worse than we thought

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 2d

Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary

The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges

🖊️ Ethan Croft

Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary

The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges

www.newstatesman.com

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Good to hear @samaspinall.bsky.social leading highly creative session on interdisciplinary collaboration for the Round 9 @ukri.org Future Leadership Fellows in Glasgow

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 7d

After Donald Trump's address to military leaders today, "senior U.S. officers have to wonder who will shield them from the impulses of the person they just saw onstage," Tom Nichols argues in The Atlantic Daily.
https://theatln.tc/0WI2Lqm9

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 9d

OK, this was great. "If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of their colour of their skin… that people who lived here for generations, are our neighbours... if you say they should note be deported, we will fight you with everything we have."

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 9d

Great to be hearing from Iason Gabriel from Google DeepMind at our Artificial Affect seminar at the Institute of Philosophy talking about the Agentic Turn in AI

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 10d

Today’s Institute of Philosophy’s Lab Meeting is given by Honorary Fellow Chris Peacocke taking about identifiers of emotion in art

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 10d

Delighted to attend the Presidential Address of friend, philosopher and guide to good things, @lucyobrien.bsky.social speaking at the @aristotsoc.bsky.social at Senate House, University of London

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 11d

We have lost a great poet and an important voice that spanned class and country divide. RIP Tony Harrison

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Harrison V Part 1

YouTube video by realthedeal33

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 13d

The Trump administration says real things are hoaxes and hoaxes are real? That might not be the first time that happened...

Join me and @jamesrball.com at 6pm on Thu 9 Oct to talk about the most spectacular hoax in modern America, and what it tells us about now:

www.theconduit.com/upcoming-eve...

Ghosts of Iron Mountain: How a 1960s Hoax Shaped Conspiracy Culture - The Conduit

Thurs 9 Oct, 6pm - 7:30pm Journalist Phil Tinline uncovers how a political satire became a tool for extremists – and what it reveals about America today.

www.theconduit.com

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 12d

Great guide to the unjustly neglected sense. Jonas Oloffson talks to ⁦‪Tim Atkin‬⁩ about our sense of smell. A must listen!

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The Tim Atkin Cork Talk Podcast | timatkincorktalk

Tim Atkin Cork Talk

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 13d

Tasting requires contemplation and thst moment is beautifully caught by photographer Kate Bamber @howthelightgetsin2.bsky.social

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 16d

In developing AI innovation how can we ensure integrity, safeguard trust and human involvement? The steps being taken by EU Commission set out by Signe Ratso @royalsociety.org AI and the Law conference