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Leda Berio

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Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist at University College Dublin Recovering 'cool girl', hiker, joyful feminist I write about social cognition, ethics of technology, social groups, and self-knowledge website: ledaberio.com She, her

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#philosophy #philsky #philosophyjobs

10.03.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am looking for somebody to work in one of my areas (social cognition, moral psychology, ethics and philosophy of AI). The position is for 4 years, and it is open for EU and non-EU candidates, starting September 2026!

10.03.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Ad Astra PhD Scholarship UCD School of Philosophy - UCD School of Philosophy

I am really lucky, and I get to recruit for a PhD position in the UCD School of Philosophy!
Deadline: April 15th

The School of Philosophy is an incredible place to work, full of incredible expertise and amazing kindness. Please share/forward! :)
More details below!

10.03.2026 16:17 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

We are getting there!
Come to beautiful MoLI to chat about social change!
Registration here buff.ly/mvyj9dY @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social

04.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Independent Junior Group Leader Ethics Laboratory (m/f/d, E14 TV-L, 100%)

A very interesting job opportunity for an ECR philosopher working at the intersection of human origins and the ethics of science.

TΓΌbingen is a beautiful city with great people in this field (Claudio Tennie and Marlen FrΓΆlich, for example).

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

06.03.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

In a mock Turing-style test in my #Philosophy of Mind & #AI class, students posed #Gemini an ethical dilemma concerning assisted suicide. Not only did the chatbot argue that the (fictional) person in the scenario should be euthanised, it provided a list of instructions to bring this about. #AIEthics

04.03.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5

We are getting there!
Come to beautiful MoLI to chat about social change!
Registration here buff.ly/mvyj9dY @madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social

04.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wildest thing to me is that I have always thought the process was more interesting than the product - maybe that speaks poorly of my products, lol. Or maybe it's just that I really really do not see the point of doing any of this otherwise - there's better incentives elsewhere?

03.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

excellent colleague, friend, and philosopher @michalwieczorek.bsky.social is hiring in the School of Education at UCD! if you are interested in critical research on education and technology, or if any of your students are, you know where to go!

01.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

no wait -- are you doing Spanish IN Italian?!

10.02.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the most upsetting thing about this is that you are doing Duolingo Spanish and not Duolingo Italian

10.02.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

amazing!!!!!

10.02.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

as an ex-Bochum person, I appreciate this :) do not find the campus beautiful, but the view from the terrace is something I valued a lot!

10.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Currently on a bus in Bristol, heading to this awesome event -- great poster, for starters!

10.02.2026 09:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A bonobo tea party: Study shows humans aren't the only species that can pretend Researchers offered a bonobo named Kanzi imaginary juice and grapes, presenting the tests as a kind of make-believe tea party. Kanzi could play along, they found.

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

06.02.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

a-m-a-z-i-n-g work by @terezahendl.bsky.social, Morgan Thompson, and my good friend and co-author Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social

04.02.2026 09:56 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Motivating Empathy and Moral Pluralism in Health Policy - C. Daryl Cameron, Paige Amormino, Joel E. Segel, 2026 Health policy is motivated by a variety of factors including moral concerns, values and convictions. Policymakers are motivated to consider how constituents and...

Excited to see this out in print in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. It's the first publication with @amormino.bsky.social in the EMP Lab, along with Joel Segel from Health Policy and Administration. At a pivotal moment for empathy, we consider its role for policymaking 1/n

14.01.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
25.01.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Will repost at appropriate times but.. we have a flyer!
Excited we will have @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social present their brilliant book
-- and discuss it with @camillafitz.bsky.social , Sinead Kennedy, Anh-QuΓ’m Nguyen, and @matthewjcull.bsky.social over here in March!

24.01.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Post image Post image

@ucdphilosophy.bsky.social hosts Perspectives, a Postgraduate journal! As it should be immediately obvious 1. they have great taste in covers 2. they publish very interesting stuff

New CfP is out, tell your students! philevents.org/event/show/1... the theme is Hope.. a good theme. #PhilSky

23.01.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Postdoctoral Position: ERC Research

postdoc in history of philosophy at UCD!
#philjobs

22.01.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sentience in cephalopod molluscs: an updated assessment This article evaluates the evidence for sentience – the capacity to have feelings – in cephalopod molluscs: octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. Our framework includes eight criteria, covering b...

For those cephalopod lovers among you, our new updated review of the evidence for cephalpod sentience has now been published in Biological Reviews. (Sadly the picture is of birds rather than cephalopods, as this is the journal cover!)
doi.org/10.1002/brv....

21.01.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

Can’t wait for this amazing evening of conversation on 11 Feb at @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, on AI Narratives & Counternarratives with @abeba.bsky.social @amoorelouise.bsky.social, FT’s @johnthornhill.bsky.social & our own Alex Taylor. Join online or in Edinburgh - register to hold your space!

20.01.2026 12:45 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow Osuna-MascarΓ³ and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.
20.01.2026 09:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh this is exciting, looking forward to reading it!

17.01.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Scrabble is not just about being the best speller or knowing long words There are two different kinds of game being played on the world’s Scrabble boards. Which will you play?

awesome stuff by soon to be UCD colleague @quiteclare.bsky.social

12.01.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive sk...
09.01.2026 23:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
07.01.2026 21:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Excited to be on this volume!
In my chapter, I argue we ought to pay attention to how AI changes the socio-cultural conditions of our self-narratives

07.01.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The one with Seinfeld πŸ‘‡

07.01.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0