Barry C Smith
@barrycsmith.bsky.social
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
Remarkable white Bordeaux served at le pot après la soutenance de Margot Larose at Institut de la Vigne et du VIN à Bordeaux. This Sauvignon Blanc from St Estephe turns out to have the most Burgundian character ever for a wine from this region. A surprise and a delight!
December 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Remarkable white Bordeaux served at le pot après la soutenance de Margot Larose at Institut de la Vigne et du VIN à Bordeaux. This Sauvignon Blanc from St Estephe turns out to have the most Burgundian character ever for a wine from this region. A surprise and a delight!
Examiners’ dinners in Bordeaux are always a pleasure. A perk of having a wine maker from Ch Montrose on the jurie de these for tomorrow’s PhD soutenance that he brought along a 2014 Ch Montrose which had such complexity and finesse, with its silken texture and refreshing palate weight. A fine thing
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Examiners’ dinners in Bordeaux are always a pleasure. A perk of having a wine maker from Ch Montrose on the jurie de these for tomorrow’s PhD soutenance that he brought along a 2014 Ch Montrose which had such complexity and finesse, with its silken texture and refreshing palate weight. A fine thing
Good to be back in Bordeaux, on examining duties for Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Good to be back in Bordeaux, on examining duties for Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin
Final talk of the day @ip-sas.bsky.social Early Career Network in Philosophy Conference, Physics and the Self, by Maria Iennaco, PhD candidate from São Paulo, on Attention to the Self and Predictive Processing. Congratulations to conference organisers, ECRs Charlie Green and Jon Emery
December 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Final talk of the day @ip-sas.bsky.social Early Career Network in Philosophy Conference, Physics and the Self, by Maria Iennaco, PhD candidate from São Paulo, on Attention to the Self and Predictive Processing. Congratulations to conference organisers, ECRs Charlie Green and Jon Emery
Final talk of the day @ip-sas.bsky.social Early Career Network in Philosophy Conference, Physics and the Self, by Maria Iennaco, PhD candidate from São Paulo, on Attention to the Self and Predictive Processing. Congratulations to conference organisers, ECRs Charlie Green and Jon Emery
December 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Final talk of the day @ip-sas.bsky.social Early Career Network in Philosophy Conference, Physics and the Self, by Maria Iennaco, PhD candidate from São Paulo, on Attention to the Self and Predictive Processing. Congratulations to conference organisers, ECRs Charlie Green and Jon Emery
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Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Praying for his full & speedy recovery.
And so deeply inspired by his example.
Keynote speaker, Prof Karl Friston, at Early Career Network in Philosophy conference on Physics and the Self at the Institute of Philosophy. His talk on Self-organization and Sentience squarely on the topic. Markov blankets feature! Conference organised by ECRs Charlie Green and Jonathan Emery
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Keynote speaker, Prof Karl Friston, at Early Career Network in Philosophy conference on Physics and the Self at the Institute of Philosophy. His talk on Self-organization and Sentience squarely on the topic. Markov blankets feature! Conference organised by ECRs Charlie Green and Jonathan Emery
@mcolvinmckenzie.bsky.social Hope you and yours are all okay? Terrible events at Bondi
December 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
@mcolvinmckenzie.bsky.social Hope you and yours are all okay? Terrible events at Bondi
Day 2, Early Career Network in Philosophy conference on Physics and the Self putting us through our paces @ip-sas.bsky.social . Conference funded by a Network Innovation Award and organised by Charlie Green and Jonathan Emery. Talks by Dr Nadia Blackshaw & Dr Viktoria Kabel
December 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Day 2, Early Career Network in Philosophy conference on Physics and the Self putting us through our paces @ip-sas.bsky.social . Conference funded by a Network Innovation Award and organised by Charlie Green and Jonathan Emery. Talks by Dr Nadia Blackshaw & Dr Viktoria Kabel
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Philosophy & neuroscience of smell, some of my key refs
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Smellosophy — Harvard University Press
An NRC Handelsblad Book of the Year“Offers rich discussions of olfactory perception, the conscious and subconscious impacts of smell on behavior and emotion.”—ScienceDecades of cognition research have...
www.hup.harvard.edu
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Philosophy & neuroscience of smell, some of my key refs
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
December 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
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I wrote about the Brits who affect to despise migration, and go and live in an autocracy where’s there no income tax.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
Dubai: a safe space for hypocrisy
The UAE is attracting right wing Brits who mock Britain’s supposed decline while ignoring their hosts’ repression
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I wrote about the Brits who affect to despise migration, and go and live in an autocracy where’s there no income tax.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-d...
Early Career Network in Philosophy conference, Physics and the Self: interdisciplinary perspectives. The conference is run by early career researchers, Charlie Green and Jonathan Emery, who received the the Early Career Network in Philosophy Innovation Award from @ip-sas.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Early Career Network in Philosophy conference, Physics and the Self: interdisciplinary perspectives. The conference is run by early career researchers, Charlie Green and Jonathan Emery, who received the the Early Career Network in Philosophy Innovation Award from @ip-sas.bsky.social
AI v HumanTuring Test by @opheliaderoy.bsky.social at Residenz Theater in Munich. Chat GPT & mixologists, Susan Ann McKenzie & Philipp Froehlich given ingredients to create cocktails and had to explain their reasoning. We tried them. AI cocktails lacked balance. They don’t taste as they go!
December 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
AI v HumanTuring Test by @opheliaderoy.bsky.social at Residenz Theater in Munich. Chat GPT & mixologists, Susan Ann McKenzie & Philipp Froehlich given ingredients to create cocktails and had to explain their reasoning. We tried them. AI cocktails lacked balance. They don’t taste as they go!
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A huge number of people were deprived of citizenship by the Nazis. Political opponents first, then Jews. Maybe more than 200,000 people in total.
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
A huge number of people were deprived of citizenship by the Nazis. Political opponents first, then Jews. Maybe more than 200,000 people in total.
Heading to Munich to take part in the AI Cocktails Turing Test designed by @opheliaderoy.bsky.social where bartender and AI will be given ingredients to feature in a cocktail. Cocktails sampled by audience without knowing which is created by human and which by AI. Cool test!
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Heading to Munich to take part in the AI Cocktails Turing Test designed by @opheliaderoy.bsky.social where bartender and AI will be given ingredients to feature in a cocktail. Cocktails sampled by audience without knowing which is created by human and which by AI. Cool test!
Focused conference on ad hoc concepts, Word Meaning and Concepts Expressed, @ip-sas.bsky.social organized by Prof Michelle Liu on the work of Prof Robyn Carston with speakers, Francois Recanati, Tamara Dobbler, John Collins and Augustin Vicente
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Focused conference on ad hoc concepts, Word Meaning and Concepts Expressed, @ip-sas.bsky.social organized by Prof Michelle Liu on the work of Prof Robyn Carston with speakers, Francois Recanati, Tamara Dobbler, John Collins and Augustin Vicente
Terrific tutored sake tasting @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab Meeting led by @asami.tasaka whose considerable expertise taught us so much. Great flavor descriptors generated with the help of Liana Lee and her exceptional palate. Kudos to Tom who wore his Xmas jumper for the lunch that followed. Thank you!
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Terrific tutored sake tasting @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab Meeting led by @asami.tasaka whose considerable expertise taught us so much. Great flavor descriptors generated with the help of Liana Lee and her exceptional palate. Kudos to Tom who wore his Xmas jumper for the lunch that followed. Thank you!
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How does carbon dating determine the age of organic material? 🏺
Nanochemist Suze Kundu explains that the technique measures how much of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 has decayed.
🧪 Watch the full talk on the periodic table: youtube.com/watch?v=bgwjnrIL08Y
Nanochemist Suze Kundu explains that the technique measures how much of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 has decayed.
🧪 Watch the full talk on the periodic table: youtube.com/watch?v=bgwjnrIL08Y
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
How does carbon dating determine the age of organic material? 🏺
Nanochemist Suze Kundu explains that the technique measures how much of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 has decayed.
🧪 Watch the full talk on the periodic table: youtube.com/watch?v=bgwjnrIL08Y
Nanochemist Suze Kundu explains that the technique measures how much of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 has decayed.
🧪 Watch the full talk on the periodic table: youtube.com/watch?v=bgwjnrIL08Y
An honour and pleasure to interview Florence de la Rivière on The Look of Wine at the @institut.francaisuk . Beautiful illustration of how a piece of amber provides exactly the colour of the wine of Chateau D’Yquem. At dinner we conspicuously examine the rim of the wine for clues
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
An honour and pleasure to interview Florence de la Rivière on The Look of Wine at the @institut.francaisuk . Beautiful illustration of how a piece of amber provides exactly the colour of the wine of Chateau D’Yquem. At dinner we conspicuously examine the rim of the wine for clues
We had our thinking caps on today @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab Meeting for IP Fellow Prof David Pym’s logic talk on recent developments in Proof-theoretic Semantics
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We had our thinking caps on today @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab Meeting for IP Fellow Prof David Pym’s logic talk on recent developments in Proof-theoretic Semantics
Speaks volumes!
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Speaks volumes!
What a sad man
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
What a sad man
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ICYMI - @barrycsmith.bsky.social from the @ip-sas.bsky.social was on BBC Radio London talking about ‘Senses Unwrapped’, a new collaborative, immersive sensory experience from the Centre for the Study of the Senses (CenSes). Listen here, from around 2 hours 44 mins: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Shay Kaur Grewal - 13/11/2025 - BBC Sounds
Celebrating Londoners and a recap of the day's news.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
ICYMI - @barrycsmith.bsky.social from the @ip-sas.bsky.social was on BBC Radio London talking about ‘Senses Unwrapped’, a new collaborative, immersive sensory experience from the Centre for the Study of the Senses (CenSes). Listen here, from around 2 hours 44 mins: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Stellar line at the launch of the Lancet series on Ultra Processed Food and Public Health. Prof Chris Van Tulleken, Prof Carlos Monteiro who created the Nova Classification, Prof Camila Corvalan who had worked in Chile on regulation and Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of @thelancet.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Stellar line at the launch of the Lancet series on Ultra Processed Food and Public Health. Prof Chris Van Tulleken, Prof Carlos Monteiro who created the Nova Classification, Prof Camila Corvalan who had worked in Chile on regulation and Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of @thelancet.com