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Barry C Smith

@barrycsmith.bsky.social

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Prof of Philosophy. Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Centre for the Study of the Senses, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Interested in Neuroscience, Sensory Science, Taste, Smell, Flavour, Multisensory Perception, Wine, Scotch

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

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

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

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

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

Worse than we thought

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 1d

Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary

The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges

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Robert Jenrick declares war on the judiciary

The shadow justice secretary wants the power to appoint judges

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

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 · 6d

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.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 8d

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

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 8d

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

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

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 · 9d

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

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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 11d

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:

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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.

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

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 · 12d

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

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 15d

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

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 15d

What legal education and training for judges and magistrates is needed? Good session on this, with calls for more philosophy input, @royalsociety.org AI and the Law conference with Lady Justice King, head of the Judicial College and chair Dame Anne Rafferty

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 15d

AI and the Law conference @royalsociety.org session on the Strategic Control of AI with Prof Lillian Edwards and Lord Justice Fraser, chaired by Lord Anthony Hughes

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 15d

Session on uses of AI within the legal system at AI and Law meeting @royalsociety.org Several calls for philosophers to get involved in these sessions

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 15d

Prof Sir Nigel Shadbolt chairs session on limitations of data at AI and Law conference at @royalsociety.org

Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 15d

First Lab Meeting of the new academic year at the Institute of Philosophy begins with @michaelhannon.bsky.social on the irresolvability of philosophical questions

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Kinlika @kinlika.bsky.social · 16d

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

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No link between paracetamol use during pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children

In the largest epidemiologic study to date of the risk of giving birth to a child with autism, ADHD or intellectual disability following acetaminophen use during pregnancy, researchers found no associ...

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 15d

Fascinating conference on applications of AI in Law at the Royal Society, part of the Science and the Law initiative

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

A reminder for those who mistake Twitter/X for reality

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16d

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 17d

Fun to do a Philosophy snd Whisky session this evening at How The Light Gets In

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Barry C Smith @barrycsmith.bsky.social · 17d

Tim Williamson on Hilary Lawson at How The Light Gets In: Semantics is a science and anyone who denies the study of semantics is important is engaged in science denial” Ouch!

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