Brian D. Earp, PhD
@briandavidearp.bsky.social
A/Prof Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy & Psychology (ctsy), National University of Singapore. Director, Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics & Society. Co-Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ)
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Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox
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Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Problems with the so-called gender equality paradox
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Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity - Lucius Caviola, et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity - Lucius Caviola, Matti Wilks, Claudia Suárez-Yera, Carter Allen, Guy Kahane, Luke McGuire, Nadira S. Faber, Antonio J. Rojas-Tejada, María Sánchez-Castelló, Jorge L. Ordóñez-Carrasco, Paul Bloom, 2025
Children morally prioritize humans over animals less than adults do. Is this because children are less speciesist—meaning they place less moral weight on mere s...
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November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Becoming Speciesist: How Children and Adults Differ in Valuing Animals by Species and Cognitive Capacity - Lucius Caviola, et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Great to see some content now populating the JME Practical Bioethics website! An editorial, a correspondence ... and our first peer-reviewed article, an inside look at the recent revision of the Declaration of Helsinki ☺️ jmepb.bmj.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Great to see some content now populating the JME Practical Bioethics website! An editorial, a correspondence ... and our first peer-reviewed article, an inside look at the recent revision of the Declaration of Helsinki ☺️ jmepb.bmj.com
Breath to death: nitrogen asphyxiation for execution and assisted suicide | Journal of Applied Physiology | American Physiological Society journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Breath to death: nitrogen asphyxiation for execution and assisted suicide | Journal of Applied Physiology | American Physiological Society
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November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Breath to death: nitrogen asphyxiation for execution and assisted suicide | Journal of Applied Physiology | American Physiological Society journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Wow - debunking “When Prophesy Fails” - the canonical foundation of cognitive dissonance theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I don’t like small talk but there are some fair points in this…. ‘It’s incredibly useful’: why small talk is actually great www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
‘It’s incredibly useful’: why small talk is actually great
People love to complain about small talk – but it’s a great way to build rapport and dip your toe into deeper topics
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November 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I don’t like small talk but there are some fair points in this…. ‘It’s incredibly useful’: why small talk is actually great www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
International core ethical principles for medical research put to the test: the newly revised Declaration of Helsinki jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
International core ethical principles for medical research put to the test: the newly revised Declaration of Helsinki jmepb.bmj.com/content/1/1/...
Undisclosed financial COIs among author-physicians in leading psychiatry journals bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Undisclosed financial COIs among author-physicians in leading psychiatry journals bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1...
Great advice from Jenn Blumenthal Barby - How to Write a Winning Normative Bioethics Paper: Lessons from an Editor and Author - Bioethics Today bioethicstoday.org/blog/how-to-...
Blog - How to Write a Winning Normative Bioethics Paper: Lessons from an Editor and Author - Bioethics Today
Normative bioethics writing can be deceptively hard; what feels like a sharp argument to you might read as unclear, under-motivated, or too abstract to
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November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Great advice from Jenn Blumenthal Barby - How to Write a Winning Normative Bioethics Paper: Lessons from an Editor and Author - Bioethics Today bioethicstoday.org/blog/how-to-...
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My employer has added yet another step to the login process, so there are now THREE web pages to click through *each time I log in*. With a TTL of around 1 hour, this means I have to log into each individual system multiple times per day. This is a huge waste of time. 😔 #academia
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
My employer has added yet another step to the login process, so there are now THREE web pages to click through *each time I log in*. With a TTL of around 1 hour, this means I have to log into each individual system multiple times per day. This is a huge waste of time. 😔 #academia
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Teaching a philsoophy of science class but the students also get a "methodology of science" class where they are taught what science is... it's a challenge 🫠
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Teaching a philsoophy of science class but the students also get a "methodology of science" class where they are taught what science is... it's a challenge 🫠
Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 12, 2025)
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November 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Digital Life Models and the Genomic Knowledge Paradox: A Proposal for AI-Assisted Reflection in Genetic Decision-Making www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Worthwhile, from Elizabeth Barnes … The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post) - Daily Nous dailynous.com/2025/07/08/t...
The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post) - Daily Nous
“I know that people are reluctant to voice objections to things I’ve said, not because I’ve given a convincing argument, but because I’m a person with a disability making claims about disability, and…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Worthwhile, from Elizabeth Barnes … The Personal Value of Conversations Across Serious Disagreement (guest post) - Daily Nous dailynous.com/2025/07/08/t...
Love, Addiction, AI "Twins" of Real People and Bioethics www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD0_...
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Love, Addiction, AI "Twins" of Real People and Bioethics www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD0_...
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Crossing lines
AI simulation of real people's minds
AI simulation of real people's minds
New video 🚨 A notebook explainer for "Beyond Deepfakes: 'Digital Duplicates' or AI Simulations of Real People - An International Ethical Consensus" led by Clint Hurshman and Cristina Voinea for our Singapore workshop youtu.be/b1la6uNsc7s
Beyond "Deepfakes" - The Rise of Digital Duplicates
This video presents highlights from a recent international ethics consensus statement, “Beyond Deepfakes: ‘Digital Duplicates’ or AI Simulations of Real People.”
The statement builds on recent…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Crossing lines
AI simulation of real people's minds
AI simulation of real people's minds
Reposted by Brian D. Earp, PhD
Beyond "Deepfakes" - The Rise of Digital Duplicates
New video 🚨 A notebook explainer for "Beyond Deepfakes: 'Digital Duplicates' or AI Simulations of Real People - An International Ethical Consensus" led by Clint Hurshman and Cristina Voinea for our Singapore workshop youtu.be/b1la6uNsc7s
Beyond "Deepfakes" - The Rise of Digital Duplicates
This video presents highlights from a recent international ethics consensus statement, “Beyond Deepfakes: ‘Digital Duplicates’ or AI Simulations of Real People.”
The statement builds on recent…
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Beyond "Deepfakes" - The Rise of Digital Duplicates
New video 🚨 A notebook explainer for "Beyond Deepfakes: 'Digital Duplicates' or AI Simulations of Real People - An International Ethical Consensus" led by Clint Hurshman and Cristina Voinea for our Singapore workshop youtu.be/b1la6uNsc7s
Beyond "Deepfakes" - The Rise of Digital Duplicates
This video presents highlights from a recent international ethics consensus statement, “Beyond Deepfakes: ‘Digital Duplicates’ or AI Simulations of Real People.”
The statement builds on recent…
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
New video 🚨 A notebook explainer for "Beyond Deepfakes: 'Digital Duplicates' or AI Simulations of Real People - An International Ethical Consensus" led by Clint Hurshman and Cristina Voinea for our Singapore workshop youtu.be/b1la6uNsc7s
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
Bill Bryson: ‘Ever since I was a little boy, I have pretended to be able to vaporise people I don’t like’
The American British author on pet peeves, the perils of fantasy dinner parties, and revisiting The Short History of Everything two decades later
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November 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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
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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.
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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...
Breaking Bad News
Announcement that the AMA Journal of Ethics will cease publishing new content after December 2025.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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....
“Let’s Build It and Find Out!” Next Steps for Personalized Patient Preference Prediction
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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 🥹
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
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November 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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.