Brian D. Earp, PhD
@briandavidearp.bsky.social
A/Prof Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy & Psychology (ctsy), National University of Singapore. Director, Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics & Society. Co-Editor, Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ)
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The Elizabeth Line in London is interesting because it is concrete proof that it is actually possible for the state in the UK to do something good, like just straightforwardly it's a useful addition to our public transport infrastructure that works well and looks nice. So why are most things crap?
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The Elizabeth Line in London is interesting because it is concrete proof that it is actually possible for the state in the UK to do something good, like just straightforwardly it's a useful addition to our public transport infrastructure that works well and looks nice. So why are most things crap?
Throwback to me playing Ray Gosling (Rosalind Franklin’s PhD student who, as it happens, took the famous photograph) in the Seattle premiere of Photograph 51 with Kirsten Potter as Franklin. Fascinating & complex portrait of Franklin & her role in discovery of DNA structure. Play by Anna Ziegler.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Throwback to me playing Ray Gosling (Rosalind Franklin’s PhD student who, as it happens, took the famous photograph) in the Seattle premiere of Photograph 51 with Kirsten Potter as Franklin. Fascinating & complex portrait of Franklin & her role in discovery of DNA structure. Play by Anna Ziegler.
Looking forward to speaking and learning at this first ever Asian Summit on Intersex Health today and tomorrow in Taipei 🦋
November 8, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looking forward to speaking and learning at this first ever Asian Summit on Intersex Health today and tomorrow in Taipei 🦋
Subtle. (Newcastle, Australia)
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Subtle. (Newcastle, Australia)
McGill study reveals knowledge gap about psychedelic therapies in adolescents www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
McGill study reveals knowledge gap about psychedelic therapies in adolescents www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/cha...
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
A provocation from my sometimes coauthor David Trafimow and colleagues: “Inferential statistics are descriptive statistics” folia.unifr.ch/global/docum...
Inferential statistics are descriptive statistics
The SONAR project aims to create a scholarly archive that collects, promotes and preserves the publications of authors affiliated with Swiss public research institutions.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A provocation from my sometimes coauthor David Trafimow and colleagues: “Inferential statistics are descriptive statistics” folia.unifr.ch/global/docum...
A really inspiring couple of days in Kuala Lumpur
November 1, 2025 at 5:31 AM
A really inspiring couple of days in Kuala Lumpur
The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal
PDF | The article defends the pluralist policy of death determination. According to this view, competent persons should be free to choose the criteria... | Find, read and cite all the research you…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The Case for Pluralism in Death Determination: From Empirical Data to a Policy Proposal www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Is it okay not to be monogamous? Part 1 briandavidearp.substack.com/p/is-it-okay...
Is it okay not to be monogamous? Part 1
Philosopher Justin Clardy thinks so. Part 1 of a 2 part series...
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September 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Is it okay not to be monogamous? Part 1 briandavidearp.substack.com/p/is-it-okay...
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How AI and big data can be used to spread ideologies: bypassing rational thought … from a slide by Tsinghua student Jiang Renping
September 10, 2025 at 2:14 AM
How AI and big data can be used to spread ideologies: bypassing rational thought … from a slide by Tsinghua student Jiang Renping
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Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not?
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Vol. 25, No. 5, 2025)
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September 10, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Bioethics’ Identity Crisis: Are We Asking It to Be What It Is Not? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New 🚨When should a person submit an article to the Journal of Medical Ethics, and when to our new open access sister journal, JME Practical Bioethics? Some considerations jmepb.bmj.com/pages/when-t...
https://jmepb.bmj.com/pages/when-to-submit-to-jme-versus-jmepb
jmepb.bmj.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
New 🚨When should a person submit an article to the Journal of Medical Ethics, and when to our new open access sister journal, JME Practical Bioethics? Some considerations jmepb.bmj.com/pages/when-t...
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My conversation with Laurie Paul on love and transformative experience briandavidearp.substack.com/p/edited-tra...
September 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
My conversation with Laurie Paul on love and transformative experience briandavidearp.substack.com/p/edited-tra...
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Cool 😊 @ScienceMagazine has spotlighted our publication "Chat-IRB? How application-specific language models can enhance research ethics review", led by Sebastian Porsdam Mann.
Read the full feature here: buff.ly/o70dKGR
Link to our publication here (JME open access): buff.ly/G9BgZpR.
Read the full feature here: buff.ly/o70dKGR
Link to our publication here (JME open access): buff.ly/G9BgZpR.
Ethicists flirt with AI to review human research
Large language models could help reduce backlog of study proposals, but critics are wary of entrusting ethics to machines
buff.ly
September 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Cool 😊 @ScienceMagazine has spotlighted our publication "Chat-IRB? How application-specific language models can enhance research ethics review", led by Sebastian Porsdam Mann.
Read the full feature here: buff.ly/o70dKGR
Link to our publication here (JME open access): buff.ly/G9BgZpR.
Read the full feature here: buff.ly/o70dKGR
Link to our publication here (JME open access): buff.ly/G9BgZpR.
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Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference? youtu.be/zTynRf24mOM
Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference?
From my interview with philosopher and author John Danaher about his book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (2019, Harvard University Press). This was part of The…
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September 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Reality vs. virtual reality - what's the difference? youtu.be/zTynRf24mOM
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Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations
The potential use of psychedelic-assisted therapy for adolescents with mental illness has sparked both interest and concern. Modern psychedelic research has focused on adults, and adolescents younger…
www.thelancet.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
New publication 🚨 "Is Consent-GPT valid? Public attitudes to generative AI use in surgical consent" - led by @ethicsinthenews Jemima Allen and published in AI & Society: buff.ly/ZPvpCKC.
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
New publication 🚨 "Is Consent-GPT valid? Public attitudes to generative AI use in surgical consent" - led by @ethicsinthenews Jemima Allen and published in AI & Society: buff.ly/ZPvpCKC.
New publication 🚨 "Even with Diet and Exercise, Ozempic Use Reduces Perceived Effort and Praiseworthiness of Resulting Weight Loss" - led by Maria Bachmakova and published in Social Science & Medicine: buff.ly/b91XR9m
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
New publication 🚨 "Even with Diet and Exercise, Ozempic Use Reduces Perceived Effort and Praiseworthiness of Resulting Weight Loss" - led by Maria Bachmakova and published in Social Science & Medicine: buff.ly/b91XR9m
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Dear PsyArXiv users!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧
Thank you for your patience!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧
Thank you for your patience!
October 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Dear PsyArXiv users!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧
Thank you for your patience!
The OSF platform, which hosts PsyArXiv, has updated the PsyArXiv user interface! Unfortunately, some key moderation functions need repairs after the upgrade. This will delay some moderation decisions this week. 🔧
Thank you for your patience!
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder
Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing…
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October 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Are academic journals truly inclusive?
This a great chance to learn from editors like @ckyobutungi.bsky.social @plosglobalpublichealth.org & @briandavidearp.bsky.social
wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This a great chance to learn from editors like @ckyobutungi.bsky.social @plosglobalpublichealth.org & @briandavidearp.bsky.social
wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Are academic journals truly inclusive?
This a great chance to learn from editors like @ckyobutungi.bsky.social @plosglobalpublichealth.org & @briandavidearp.bsky.social
wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
This a great chance to learn from editors like @ckyobutungi.bsky.social @plosglobalpublichealth.org & @briandavidearp.bsky.social
wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations
The potential use of psychedelic-assisted therapy for adolescents with mental illness has sparked both interest and concern. Modern psychedelic research has focused on adults, and adolescents younger…
www.thelancet.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Clinical psychedelic research in adolescents: a scoping review and overview of ethical considerations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Feeling really happy after a fantastic day co-leading a workshop on the Replication Crisis with @briandavidearp.bsky.social
We aimed to provide a sobering overview of the challenges in research while framing them as a powerful catalyst for positive change.
We aimed to provide a sobering overview of the challenges in research while framing them as a powerful catalyst for positive change.
October 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Feeling really happy after a fantastic day co-leading a workshop on the Replication Crisis with @briandavidearp.bsky.social
We aimed to provide a sobering overview of the challenges in research while framing them as a powerful catalyst for positive change.
We aimed to provide a sobering overview of the challenges in research while framing them as a powerful catalyst for positive change.