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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 3d

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

Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations

The potential use of psychedelic-assisted therapy for adolescents with mental illness has sparked both interest and concern. Modern psychedelic research has focused on adults, and adolescents younger…

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Alessandro Sparacio @sparacioalessandro.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 9d

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

Hypocritical blame is associated with reduced prosocial motivation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Hypocritical blame is associated with reduced prosocial motivation

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 9d

Ta very much Holly!

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Holly Fernandez Lynch @hollylynchez.bsky.social · 10d

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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/

Chat-IRB? How application-specific language models can enhance research ethics review

Institutional review boards (IRBs) play a crucial role in ensuring the ethical conduct of human subjects research, but face challenges including inconsistency, delays, and inefficiencies. We propose t...

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 11d

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

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 11d

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

Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference?

From my interview with philosopher and author John Danaher about his book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (2019, Harvard University Press). This was part of The…

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 12d

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

NIH establishes nation's first dedicated organoid development center to reduce reliance on animal modeling

The Standardized Organoid Modeling Center aims to produce standardized protocols for organoid research, addressing reproducibility challenges.

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 12d

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.

Ethicists flirt with AI to review human research

Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Remis Ramos @remisramos.bsky.social · 19d

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

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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society @cscy-bot.bsky.social · 29d

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

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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society @cscy-bot.bsky.social · 20d

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

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arXiv cs.CY Computers and Society @cscy-bot.bsky.social · 20d

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

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 19d

Yes it’s significant I agree

Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 19d

Link here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 19d

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/...

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 21d

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

Blog - Should Adolescents Be Included in Clinical Psychedelic Research? - Bioethics Today

Clinical psychedelic research has surged globally in the past decade, with dozens of trials investigating psilocybin and MDMA-assisted therapy for adults

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 25d

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...

Ethics in Psychedelic Medicine: Yale Expert Calls for Caution, Consent, and Long-Term Support | Institution for Social and Policy Studies

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 25d

Alas I cannot summarize in a tweet (or whatever a bluesky thing is :)

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 25d

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

On gleeful reactions to the extrajudicial killing of allegedly very bad people

From Muammar Gaddafi to Charlie Kirk

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 25d

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

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Brian D. Earp, PhD @briandavidearp.bsky.social · 25d

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

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