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
Our @beinghumanfest.bsky.social chocolate tasting, Raising the Bar, ranging over the sensory, historical, ethical and environmental dimensions of chocolate production. A collaboration between Spencer Hyman of Cocoa Runners and @ip-sas.bsky.social Centre for the Study of the Senses
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Our @beinghumanfest.bsky.social chocolate tasting, Raising the Bar, ranging over the sensory, historical, ethical and environmental dimensions of chocolate production. A collaboration between Spencer Hyman of Cocoa Runners and @ip-sas.bsky.social Centre for the Study of the Senses
Awaken your senses at Coal Drops Yard with this mini exhibition as part of the Club Curling experience at Kings Cross. A huge thanks to our friends and partners @ip-sas.bsky.social for helping us create these multisensory experiences
November 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Awaken your senses at Coal Drops Yard with this mini exhibition as part of the Club Curling experience at Kings Cross. A huge thanks to our friends and partners @ip-sas.bsky.social for helping us create these multisensory experiences
The winner of the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize is @jonathanbirch.bsky.social for his book, The Edge of Sentience. Congratulations! And bravo for the vision speech about how philosophy is changing
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
The winner of the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize is @jonathanbirch.bsky.social for his book, The Edge of Sentience. Congratulations! And bravo for the vision speech about how philosophy is changing
The @royalinstarch.bsky.social Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize ceremony. Shortlist, Adam Lovet, Jules Holroyd, Jonathan Birch, Manuel Almago, Peter Godfrey-Smith (in absentia) interviewed by Edward Harcourt, and the evening introduced by Lucy O’Brien and our judging panel chair @csandis.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The @royalinstarch.bsky.social Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize ceremony. Shortlist, Adam Lovet, Jules Holroyd, Jonathan Birch, Manuel Almago, Peter Godfrey-Smith (in absentia) interviewed by Edward Harcourt, and the evening introduced by Lucy O’Brien and our judging panel chair @csandis.bsky.social
Will do! With pleasure! We were just together at IFRA and at the Crick where Hasock gave one of our Being Human Lectures. You should have been there!
October 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Will do! With pleasure! We were just together at IFRA and at the Crick where Hasock gave one of our Being Human Lectures. You should have been there!
Today’s @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab Meeting given by Prof David Papineau telling us naturalists have nothing to fear from talk of metaphysical essences
October 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Today’s @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab Meeting given by Prof David Papineau telling us naturalists have nothing to fear from talk of metaphysical essences
Jon Stewart is rightly sceptical when @geoffreyhinton.bsky.social says ‘They’ve now got to digital smell’. He equivocates, saying ‘You can transmit smells over the web’ No. You can send instructions to release odours at the other end. Real smells to real noses. Not a digitized smell. Not even close
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Jon Stewart is rightly sceptical when @geoffreyhinton.bsky.social says ‘They’ve now got to digital smell’. He equivocates, saying ‘You can transmit smells over the web’ No. You can send instructions to release odours at the other end. Real smells to real noses. Not a digitized smell. Not even close
Thanks to the wonderful cast of today’s Research in the Headlines, for sharing their wisdom on working with or as researchers. Clinician-researcher Chris Van Tulleken, broadcaster, Roger Hearing, journalist presenter, Ritula Shah, and commissioning editor at Aeon, Sally Davies, who had to rush off
October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thanks to the wonderful cast of today’s Research in the Headlines, for sharing their wisdom on working with or as researchers. Clinician-researcher Chris Van Tulleken, broadcaster, Roger Hearing, journalist presenter, Ritula Shah, and commissioning editor at Aeon, Sally Davies, who had to rush off
Research in the Headlines for UKRI Future Leaders Fellows, to help the. navigate the media landscape and widen the reach and policy impact of their research. Chaired by Ritula Shah, broadcaster Roger Hearing, Aeon commissioning editor, Sally Davies, Prof Graeme Reid, and Prof Chris Van Tulleken
October 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Research in the Headlines for UKRI Future Leaders Fellows, to help the. navigate the media landscape and widen the reach and policy impact of their research. Chaired by Ritula Shah, broadcaster Roger Hearing, Aeon commissioning editor, Sally Davies, Prof Graeme Reid, and Prof Chris Van Tulleken
Looking like an album cover of a musical quintet, we are instead celebrating the latest School of Advanced Study and @crick.ac.uk Institute Being Human Lecture given by Prof Hasock Chang with panel and colleagues, Güneş Taylor, James DiFrisco and Stuart Firestein
October 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Looking like an album cover of a musical quintet, we are instead celebrating the latest School of Advanced Study and @crick.ac.uk Institute Being Human Lecture given by Prof Hasock Chang with panel and colleagues, Güneş Taylor, James DiFrisco and Stuart Firestein
Prof Gabriel Lepousez from the Institut Pasteur relating cutting-edge research at IFRA UK annual Fragrance Forum at the Royal Institution
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Prof Gabriel Lepousez from the Institut Pasteur relating cutting-edge research at IFRA UK annual Fragrance Forum at the Royal Institution
The majestic isolation of the Greek islanders. Impressive and enduring
October 14, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The majestic isolation of the Greek islanders. Impressive and enduring
Today’s university researchers are not the sole genius working in splendid isolation. They depend on a whole research infrastructure. Lessons at the UKRI Round 9 Future Leaders Fellows Kick-Off meeting in Glasgow
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today’s university researchers are not the sole genius working in splendid isolation. They depend on a whole research infrastructure. Lessons at the UKRI Round 9 Future Leaders Fellows Kick-Off meeting in Glasgow
UKRI Future Leaders Fellows in Glasgow being taken through the @weareukri strategy, Transforming Tomorrow Together by Steve Meader. Much more upbeat about the UK than political campaign strategies we’ve been experiencing during this year’s conference season
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
UKRI Future Leaders Fellows in Glasgow being taken through the @weareukri strategy, Transforming Tomorrow Together by Steve Meader. Much more upbeat about the UK than political campaign strategies we’ve been experiencing during this year’s conference season
Good to hear @samaspinall.bsky.social leading highly creative session on interdisciplinary collaboration for the Round 9 @ukri.org Future Leadership Fellows in Glasgow
October 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Good to hear @samaspinall.bsky.social leading highly creative session on interdisciplinary collaboration for the Round 9 @ukri.org Future Leadership Fellows in Glasgow
Great to be hearing from Iason Gabriel from Google DeepMind at our Artificial Affect seminar at the Institute of Philosophy talking about the Agentic Turn in AI
September 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Great to be hearing from Iason Gabriel from Google DeepMind at our Artificial Affect seminar at the Institute of Philosophy talking about the Agentic Turn in AI
Today’s Institute of Philosophy’s Lab Meeting is given by Honorary Fellow Chris Peacocke taking about identifiers of emotion in art
September 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Today’s Institute of Philosophy’s Lab Meeting is given by Honorary Fellow Chris Peacocke taking about identifiers of emotion in art
Delighted to attend the Presidential Address of friend, philosopher and guide to good things, @lucyobrien.bsky.social speaking at the @aristotsoc.bsky.social at Senate House, University of London
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Delighted to attend the Presidential Address of friend, philosopher and guide to good things, @lucyobrien.bsky.social speaking at the @aristotsoc.bsky.social at Senate House, University of London
Tasting requires contemplation and thst moment is beautifully caught by photographer Kate Bamber @howthelightgetsin2.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Tasting requires contemplation and thst moment is beautifully caught by photographer Kate Bamber @howthelightgetsin2.bsky.social
In developing AI innovation how can we ensure integrity, safeguard trust and human involvement? The steps being taken by EU Commission set out by Signe Ratso @royalsociety.org AI and the Law conference
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
In developing AI innovation how can we ensure integrity, safeguard trust and human involvement? The steps being taken by EU Commission set out by Signe Ratso @royalsociety.org AI and the Law conference
What legal education and training for judges and magistrates is needed? Good session on this, with calls for more philosophy input, @royalsociety.org AI and the Law conference with Lady Justice King, head of the Judicial College and chair Dame Anne Rafferty
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What legal education and training for judges and magistrates is needed? Good session on this, with calls for more philosophy input, @royalsociety.org AI and the Law conference with Lady Justice King, head of the Judicial College and chair Dame Anne Rafferty
AI and the Law conference @royalsociety.org session on the Strategic Control of AI with Prof Lillian Edwards and Lord Justice Fraser, chaired by Lord Anthony Hughes
September 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
AI and the Law conference @royalsociety.org session on the Strategic Control of AI with Prof Lillian Edwards and Lord Justice Fraser, chaired by Lord Anthony Hughes
Session on uses of AI within the legal system at AI and Law meeting @royalsociety.org Several calls for philosophers to get involved in these sessions
September 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Session on uses of AI within the legal system at AI and Law meeting @royalsociety.org Several calls for philosophers to get involved in these sessions
Prof Sir Nigel Shadbolt chairs session on limitations of data at AI and Law conference at @royalsociety.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Prof Sir Nigel Shadbolt chairs session on limitations of data at AI and Law conference at @royalsociety.org
First Lab Meeting of the new academic year at the Institute of Philosophy begins with @michaelhannon.bsky.social on the irresolvability of philosophical questions
September 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
First Lab Meeting of the new academic year at the Institute of Philosophy begins with @michaelhannon.bsky.social on the irresolvability of philosophical questions