Barry C Smith

“We are not being encouraged to create but encouraged to consume”, Elif Shefak giving the National Lecture in the Humanities last night @sas-news.bsky.social

Honours to be asked to speak at Basque Culinary Centre event, Open Road, on food innovation hosted by UCL School of Management at Canary Wharf. Thanks to Raquel Martin Rodriguez and PJ Hanard for the invitation

Annual National Humanities Lecture at the School of Advanced Study @sas-news.bsky.social by novelist Elif Shefak, introduced by Prof @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Professor of the Public Understanding of the Humanities

Today’s Lab Meeting @ip-sas.bsky.social features Kevin O’Neill from UCL talking about causality and counterfactual sensitivity in psychological explanation

Fascinating talk @ip-sas.bsky.social by Joel Leibo from DeepMind on modelling personhood in AI in a Rortian pragmatist way

One of our own, Nick Shea, presenting @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab Meeting on How Biological Systems Exhibit Free Causation

When is Kemi Badenoch joining Reform? Wouldn’t it make it easier for everyone?

Over-excited, self-preservation-occupied, self-serving chancer. She’ll fit in just fine in Reform

Wouldn’t it just be easier if Farage became the leader of the Tory Party?

I’m old enough to remember when Elon Musk said it was the UK that was heading for civil war

Ex-Tory Home Secretary Suella Braverman defects to Reform UK The MP was unveiled as the party's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally.

It's the Ship of Theseus but all the original parts are being used to build a second, crappier ship.

Nails it!

Unpicking the second Minneapolis shooting frame by frame BBC Verify has analysed footage of the shooting from multiple angles, piecing together a detailed picture of what happened.

More vital work by @rosatkins.bsky.social and the team

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Burns Night in Hackney. But done right. The Somm’s recommendation at @bargeeast for cocktails, the Buckfast Negroni with Haggis Bonbon accompaniment. For non-alcoholic, Irn Bru, Cumbernauld, Scotland is the drink of choice. Got to love the Scots!

My brother fought in the infantry and lost soldiers in Afghanistan. The press used to report deaths before families had been told and I would check my phone over and over, scared it would ring.

I went to the inquest of one of his killed men. I saw his red-eyed parents, girlfriend and baby daughter.

Thanks Matthew! Was wonderful to have you there and especially for the commemoration of the much missed Colin Blakemore

A few photos from this great event yesterday @ip-sas.bsky.social @barrycsmith.bsky.social

Rounding off yesterday’s 20th Anniversary celebrations @ip-sas.bsky.social with an AI vs Human Cocktail Turing Taste Test designed by @opheliaderoy.bsky.social and delivered by Isabel Graham-Yool

Partners helping us celebrate the Institute of Philosophy’s 20th Anniversary yesterday. Good to commemorate Profs Colin Blakemore and Vincent Hayward who contributed so much to @ip-sas.bsky.social and to welcome our recent collaborators from Tate and Getty, the Crick Institute and Google Research

Thanks, Matthew! So good to have you with us!

We start the Institute of Philosophy’s20th Anniversary Celebrations by hearing from the first Director Prof Tim Crane @ip-sas.bsky.social

Trump’s bored of peace?

No its not

Well, well

Trip to Club Curling at Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross by @ip-sas.bsky.social Lab to see our Senses Unwrapped exhibition and to do some curling

The point i was trying to make is that it is isolationist in sentiment and outlook if expansionist in narrow self-interest

This is not euphemistic in the slightest

Why do people think the current US administration’s stance is inconsistent with its isolationism and its America First attitude? It’s aim is no longer to support its allies or promote democracy globally. Its military incursions are conducted in its own interests as it pursues a flawed protectionism

Tories regrouping under Reform banner to revive the nasty party

Demeaning. Makes her look like a grifter with a stunt that will do nothing for her presidential ambitions. He has no intention of helping her lead her country