Barry C Smith

Glorious, Scotland! Glorious!

Scotland tore up the park today. Flare, skill, passion. Beating the French at their own game. At one stage just running away with it. Bravo Scotland! Take a breath and a bow. #ScovsFra 50-40 at Murrayfield

When I was a wee boy!

Relying on drugs to stop obesity would be 'societal failure', says Chris Whitty

6 tries against France at Murrayfield! Do I get two more wishes? Scotland on fire! #ScovFra 40-14

Bonus try!! Scotland on fire at Murrayfield ##ScovFra 26-14

Sir Chris Whitty: Relying on weight-loss drugs to stop obesity would be 'societal failure' England's top doctor says the drugs should be for a minority and more effort is needed to prevent obesity in the first place.

Relying on drugs to stop obesity would be 'societal failure', says Chris Whitty www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Relying on drugs to stop obesity would be 'societal failure', says Chris Whitty

Exactly! The almost rabid response to Starmer taking a stance is only matched by the contempt when he doesn’t

Almost impossible to listen R4’s Today Programme. Anna Foster’s hectoring line of questioning of Lammy laying blame because Starmer does not unconditionally support the US war on Iran. Amol Rajan repeatedly suggesting to TG Thompson that it’s only fair Russian athletes be at Paralympics. Ouf!

Always relevant ;)

This looks phenomenal. I want to read every paper.

CEU Cognitive Science invented this incredibly impressive annual conference some years ago www.ceu.edu/news/2026-02...

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The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

If I was still setting exam questions I’d just find quotes from tech bros and write ‘Discuss’ after.

Will We Ever Achieve Artificial General Intelligence? Knowledge in Crisis research consortium initiates debate series with philosophers.

Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social launched its new debate series asking: Will we ever achieve artificial general intelligence?

Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social and Simon Rippon, both from the Department, went head-to-head, followed by audience Q&A and a live vote.

Humans could have as many as 33 senses Even the traditional five senses don’t operate in silo.

Humans could have as many as 33 senses, by @barrycsmith.bsky.social theconversation.com/humans-could...

A roadmap for evaluating moral competence in large language models - Nature This Perspective offers a roadmap for tackling the challenges of the facsimile problem, moral multidimensionality and moral pluralism in large language models.

New paper by @ip-sas.bsky.social friends and collaborators in Nature Communications exploring a road map for assessing moral competence in large language models. Congratulations to Julia Haas @benhenke.bsky.social and colleagues

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Could not be prouder of Scotland. What a performance the boys put in today! Intense, committed, effective. Their speed and execution earned them that decive win! Scotland the brave!

Not just Philosophy of Neuroscience but Philosophy and Neuroscience - The Philosophers' Magazine Barry C. Smith argues for a collaborative approach.

Not just Philosophy of Neuroscience but Philosophy and Neuroscience by @barrycsmith.bsky.social

#philsky #neuroscience

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Capturing the joy and excitement of working with such great partners and the public! Wonderful edit by videographer David Martin

Wired for Wonder Short film v3 This is "Wired for Wonder Short film v3" by David @ IMS Ltd. on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Professors @barrycsmith.bsky.social and @opheliaderoy.bsky.social from the @ip-sas.bsky.social's Centre for the Study of the Senses recently co-curated the "Wired for Wonder" exhibition @kidspacemuseum.bsky.social in Pasadena, California.

🎥 Explore "Wired for Wonder": vimeo.com/1152855469/c...

So happy that you returned to the Tractatus!

“We are not being encouraged to create but encouraged to consume”, Elif Shefak giving the National Lecture in the Humanities last night @sas-news.bsky.social

Honours to be asked to speak at Basque Culinary Centre event, Open Road, on food innovation hosted by UCL School of Management at Canary Wharf. Thanks to Raquel Martin Rodriguez and PJ Hanard for the invitation

Annual National Humanities Lecture at the School of Advanced Study @sas-news.bsky.social by novelist Elif Shefak, introduced by Prof @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Professor of the Public Understanding of the Humanities

Today’s Lab Meeting @ip-sas.bsky.social features Kevin O’Neill from UCL talking about causality and counterfactual sensitivity in psychological explanation

Fascinating talk @ip-sas.bsky.social by Joel Leibo from DeepMind on modelling personhood in AI in a Rortian pragmatist way

One of our own, Nick Shea, presenting @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab Meeting on How Biological Systems Exhibit Free Causation