Leda Berio
Philosopher and Cognitive Scientist at University College Dublin
Recovering 'cool girl', hiker, joyful feminist
I write about social cognition, ethics of technology, social groups, and self-knowledge
website: ledaberio.com
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- a-m-a-z-i-n-g work by @terezahendl.bsky.social, Morgan Thompson, and my good friend and co-author Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social
- Reposted by Leda BerioExcited to see this out in print in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. It's the first publication with @amormino.bsky.social in the EMP Lab, along with Joel Segel from Health Policy and Administration. At a pivotal moment for empathy, we consider its role for policymaking 1/n
- Will repost at appropriate times but.. we have a flyer! Excited we will have @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social present their brilliant book -- and discuss it with @camillafitz.bsky.social , Sinead Kennedy, Anh-Quâm Nguyen, and @matthewjcull.bsky.social over here in March!
- Join #UCDPhilosophy panellist Dr. Anh-Quân Nguyen and authors #AlexMadva #CalPolyPomona and #DanielKelly #Purdue for a lively book chat and panel at 'Somebody Should Do Something!' at #MoLIMuseum on March 24th. Please register using the QR code. #CEPL #SomebodyShouldDoSomething #MichaelBrownstein
- @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social hosts Perspectives, a Postgraduate journal! As it should be immediately obvious 1. they have great taste in covers 2. they publish very interesting stuff New CfP is out, tell your students! philevents.org/event/show/1... the theme is Hope.. a good theme. #PhilSky
- postdoc in history of philosophy at UCD! #philjobs
- Reposted by Leda BerioFor those cephalopod lovers among you, our new updated review of the evidence for cephalpod sentience has now been published in Biological Reviews. (Sadly the picture is of birds rather than cephalopods, as this is the journal cover!) doi.org/10.1002/brv....
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- awesome stuff by soon to be UCD colleague @quiteclare.bsky.social
- New paper forthcoming in Nous by Dan Harris (@danielwharris.bsky.social) and myself! Check it out! I think there is something useful here for people working on all sorts of topics in philosophy and elsewhere, and we plan to expand further on this ourselves in future work.
- Excited to be on this volume! In my chapter, I argue we ought to pay attention to how AI changes the socio-cultural conditions of our self-narratives
- As we launch into 2026, we are excited to announce a major milestone: my wonderful colleague @anatperry.bsky.social and I have just submitted our edited volume Empathy and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations to @universitypress.cambridge.org. 1/n
- The one with Seinfeld 👇
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- In 2025 I published a paper opening with an episode of The Good Place (linked below) and one opening with an episode of Seinfeld (with @dryan149.bsky.social, here link.springer.com/article/10.1...) Stay tuned, next goal is a Ted Lasso one
- Leda Berio with What’s my motivation? Reputational motives, virtue signaling, and self-directed mindshaping doi.org/10.1080/0951... Francesco Marchi on self-deception and automatic belief doi.org/10.1080/0951... #philsky #philpsy 2/2
- all good over here #UCD #UniMarketing
- reminder that @dryan149.bsky.social and I published a paper that authoritative sources defined "cool"
- Congratulations to Dr @ledaberio.bsky.social on her new publication in Topoi, co-authored with @dryan149.bsky.social (Purdue), on ‘Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-Switching’. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PhilPaper #ethics #identity
- Looking forward to being on today's panel on AI end Education with @wayne-holmes.bsky.social (UCL) and my UCD colleagues Rachel Farrell and Benjamin Cowan
- My ratings have been ranked very high so this must be true link.springer.com/article/10.1... for the cool paper
- @dryan149.bsky.social and I have published a paper on how we should all be a little less like Holden Caufield (i.e. obsessed with the idea of authenticity) and a bit more like María Lugones (i.e. celebrating our multiple facets)
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- Congratulations to Dr Anh-Quân Nguyen (UCD School of Philosophy), named a winner of the Oxford University Press First Book Prize 2025 for It’s Okay to Despair about Climate Change. His work explores “militant pessimism” as a radical response to climate crisis. www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...
- Excited to be flying to the Young Minds Conference for Marginalized Identities tomorrow! #philosophy #SWIP Something really special about seeing young, brilliant, motivated philosophers make their voices heard, and being invited to witness 💜
- @thebusyowl.bsky.social is giving the Annual Lecture for the Centre for Ethics in Public Life (CEPL) at UCD today!
- Today! #philosophy #PhilEvent
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