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Jonathan Birch
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Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.

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Jonathan Birch is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work addresses the philosophy of biology and behavioural sciences, especially questions concerning sentience, bioethics, animal welfare, and the evolution of social behaviour and social norms. .. more

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Mar 25
An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.
www.lse.ac.uk

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 8h
How can Mahmood possibly believe this kind of vile racism to be a reasonable response to administrative delays in the asylum system rather than simply vile racism. This is absolutely tragic.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 8h
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 14h
I once issued a corrigendum for misspelling a person's name in an article. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Correction to: Science and policy in extremis: the UK’s initial response to COVID‑19 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
European Journal for Philosophy of Science -
link.springer.com

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 14h
In a manuscript - worst that could happen would be a highly embarrassing warning from the head of department.

In a published article - scholarly integrity would require retracting the article or publishing a corrigendum.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 15h
It's obviously a form of academic misconduct!

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 20h
If the manuscript was not anonymised, maybe @shannonvallor.bsky.social could complain to their employer. It's delicate. I had an AI writing sample recently, and HR told me that under data protection laws I should not contact their employer.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 1d
"Please write me a plausible sounding disclosure that meets all relevant publisher guidelines (attached)."

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 1d
What I find most infuriating is human dishonesty about AI use. When authors fully disclose their AI use in their manuscript, that's one thing. When they try to pass AI writing off as their own writing, this is another thing.
shannonvallor.bsky.social Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 1d
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.

Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 1d
Hey folks. I have spent *days* reading and meticulously drafting comments on a very lengthy manuscript. Which I have just found includes an AI-faked quote. Attributed to ME.

Here is a thread of my feelings
a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
ALT: a man in a blue shirt says " i am untethered and my rage knows no bounds ! "
media.tenor.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d
it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d
I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 4d
Very good Blueskyism.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 4d
A thought that sometimes occurs to me (and must have occurred to Peter Singer a few times): as a philosophy prof I have an incredibly rare level of freedom to defend controversial ideas. Does this create an obligation to defend the most controversial ideas I also think are true and important?

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 4d
Last call for papers for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology! Don't miss a fabulous program in sunny Atlanta this February. Submissions due Nov 20. See you there! #philosophy #psychology #CFP southernsociety.org

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jkrausscloudy.bsky.social @jkrausscloudy.bsky.social · 4d
That’s so interesting. I was confused visiting English friends who upon meeting would say, “Are you alright?” In the US we only ask that if we’re concerned that they’re NOT.