Edmond (Eddy) Awad
@awad.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow @UniofOxford. Senior Lecturer @UniofExeter. Associate Research Scientist @Max_Planck_CHM. Formerly @MIT @medialab. Moral Machine. Syrian.
Thanks to @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social Katarzyna Doniec Joe Henrich Julian Jamison @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Zoe Rahwan, and @azimshariff.bsky.social for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of the article.
@exeter.ac.uk @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
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@exeter.ac.uk @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
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July 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Thanks to @jfbonnefon.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social Katarzyna Doniec Joe Henrich Julian Jamison @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Zoe Rahwan, and @azimshariff.bsky.social for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of the article.
@exeter.ac.uk @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
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@exeter.ac.uk @uehiro.ox.ac.uk @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
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I also provide helpful tips and starting points to consider for each.
Each method comes with trade-offs—whether in cost, scalability, or cultural nuance—but together they offer practical routes to make behavioural science more globally representative. 3/5
Each method comes with trade-offs—whether in cost, scalability, or cultural nuance—but together they offer practical routes to make behavioural science more globally representative. 3/5
July 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I also provide helpful tips and starting points to consider for each.
Each method comes with trade-offs—whether in cost, scalability, or cultural nuance—but together they offer practical routes to make behavioural science more globally representative. 3/5
Each method comes with trade-offs—whether in cost, scalability, or cultural nuance—but together they offer practical routes to make behavioural science more globally representative. 3/5
I present a range of strategies, from targeted site selection, to public-facing serious games (e.g. Moral Machine) and team-driven collaborations, as well as more scalable or accessible methods such as social media recruitment, third-party panels, and leveraging historical data. 2/5
July 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I present a range of strategies, from targeted site selection, to public-facing serious games (e.g. Moral Machine) and team-driven collaborations, as well as more scalable or accessible methods such as social media recruitment, third-party panels, and leveraging historical data. 2/5
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How can we improve the #CogSci of values and decision-making?
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
June 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
How can we improve the #CogSci of values and decision-making?
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
Closing the #BioXPhi Summit, a keynote from Edmond @awad.bsky.social proposed more factors, scale, etc.
How?
#games + #processDissociation
Examples:
last-haven.net
tinker-tots.net
Follow Dr. Awad! www.researchgate.net/profile/Edmo...
Reposted by Edmond (Eddy) Awad
The team hope that by understanding how people make complex decisions about competing human and non-human priorities, they will be able to inform more ethically grounded decisions.
Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv
@awad.bsky.social
Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv
@awad.bsky.social
Humans need both housing and wild places | Letters
Letters: A new citizen science project helps us reach ethical decisions around planning and nature, writes Dr Edmond Awad, while Sue Hopkinson wants to redefine nimbyism. Plus a letter from Steve…
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The team hope that by understanding how people make complex decisions about competing human and non-human priorities, they will be able to inform more ethically grounded decisions.
Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv
@awad.bsky.social
Read the letter here: buff.ly/sDtpBEv
@awad.bsky.social
That’s exactly what we explore in Last Haven: 🌍 last-haven.net
#LastHaven #conservation #planning #housing #biodiversity #publicopinion
@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @exeter.ac.uk
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
@uehiro.ox.ac.uk
@mgreinecke.bsky.social
#LastHaven #conservation #planning #housing #biodiversity #publicopinion
@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @exeter.ac.uk
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
@uehiro.ox.ac.uk
@mgreinecke.bsky.social
Last Haven
Last Haven is an interactive platform that helps you understand the complex choices involved when deciding whether to preserve habitats for endangered species versus pursuing human benefits.
last-haven.net
June 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
That’s exactly what we explore in Last Haven: 🌍 last-haven.net
#LastHaven #conservation #planning #housing #biodiversity #publicopinion
@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @exeter.ac.uk
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
@uehiro.ox.ac.uk
@mgreinecke.bsky.social
#LastHaven #conservation #planning #housing #biodiversity #publicopinion
@oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @exeter.ac.uk
@ethoxcentre.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
@uehiro.ox.ac.uk
@mgreinecke.bsky.social
These trade-offs are not just about land use—they reflect real choices about what we protect, what we sacrifice, and whose interests we prioritise.
June 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
These trade-offs are not just about land use—they reflect real choices about what we protect, what we sacrifice, and whose interests we prioritise.
It responds to their recent article revealing that over 5,000 English nature sites are at risk under new planning proposals:
🌱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🌱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
It responds to their recent article revealing that over 5,000 English nature sites are at risk under new planning proposals:
🌱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
🌱 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
That’s why we created Tinker Tots tinker-tots.net — a short, anonymous experience (in the spirit of Moral Machine) that invites you to explore these choices.
Reflect on what matters to you, and help us understand how society navigates this evolving terrain.
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Reflect on what matters to you, and help us understand how society navigates this evolving terrain.
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Tinker Tots
tinker-tots.net
April 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
That’s why we created Tinker Tots tinker-tots.net — a short, anonymous experience (in the spirit of Moral Machine) that invites you to explore these choices.
Reflect on what matters to you, and help us understand how society navigates this evolving terrain.
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Reflect on what matters to you, and help us understand how society navigates this evolving terrain.
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The decisions made in clinics and ethics commissions reflect how societies think about fairness, risk, and responsibility.
And yet, we still know surprisingly little about how people approach these questions.
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And yet, we still know surprisingly little about how people approach these questions.
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April 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The decisions made in clinics and ethics commissions reflect how societies think about fairness, risk, and responsibility.
And yet, we still know surprisingly little about how people approach these questions.
5/7
And yet, we still know surprisingly little about how people approach these questions.
5/7
... In the United States, where such screening is not subject to any regulatory oversight, it is already in commercial use.”
That’s why public perception matters.
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That’s why public perception matters.
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April 17, 2025 at 4:35 PM
... In the United States, where such screening is not subject to any regulatory oversight, it is already in commercial use.”
That’s why public perception matters.
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That’s why public perception matters.
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