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Jared Smith

@jaredsmith.bsky.social
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Personal account. Silly guy. philosopher, clinical ethicist. Interested in OCD, bipolar disorder, bioethics, agency, psychiatry, clinical ethics, and AI/ML in medicine. Views are my own and do not represent those of my employer etc.

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University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy @ucphilosophy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We’re hiring for two positions! One is TT in Ancient, the other an open-rank TT position in mind, science, or ethics. Please share widely! See more on PhilJobs: TT Ancient: philjobs.org/job/show/32273 Open-rank Mind, Science, or Ethics: philjobs.org/job/show/32265
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Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Emily Heydon @emilyheydon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
hi everyone, as some of you already know, this week has been very stressful and sleepless for me. I've created a small gofundme for court costs, given that I am in the process of filing against the university of california. explanation + link to donate here: gofund.me/f6d71bd72 #helpsky #mutualaid
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Donate to Help me sue my former uni for whistleblower retaliation, organized by Emily Heydon
Update 1: Thank you to everyone who has privately contacted me wi… Emily Heydon needs your support for Help me sue my former uni for whistleblower retaliation
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Art Walaszek, MD @walaszek.art · 18/09/2026
I’m excited for the @wai-alzheimers.bsky.social 24th Annual Update in #Alzheimers & Related #Dementias conference today - an incredible line-up of speakers and topics! @uwmadison.bsky.social #medsky wai.wisc.edu/adrdupdate/
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Annual Update in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
September 18, 2026 Memorial Union – Great Hall, Madison, WI Conference Agenda Celebrating 24 years! WAI’s 24th Annual Update in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias is an opportunity to hear upda...
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Emily Heydon @emilyheydon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
big update: the court has accepted the papers (minus one spelling error that they’re allowing me to fix). I have a case number now, and they want to have an initial court meeting in Feb.
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My face when the scoundrel who operates a bed and breakfast with service so poor that it almost killed my best friend slathers my new wife’s horse in bacon grease knowing that my family castle is surrounded by wolves
A scowling and deflated white guy with extensive sideburns and dark brown hair gazes mournfully into the distance while leaning against a stone wall. He is wearing a dark blue jacket and floral print collared shirt that someone thought looked enough like a Regency era outfit to work.
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Two junior research fellowships @kingscollege.bsky.social opening soon due on Oct 1st. The theme is REPLICATION conceived broadly to encompass different research projects in humanities and social sciences. As a philosopher of science I am esp hoping for applications in #philsci #metascience #hps
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Current research opportunities
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But they will be
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My face when I have to retrench and let out Kellynch Hall in Somersetshire to Admiral Croft and his wife despite my dislike of Navy men
A red haired man in a floral Regency era jacket and vest stares blankly off into the distance
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
guy who wasn’t reading carefully: It’s not a river in Egypt, it’s actually a mountain in Alaska
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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fade to Blart
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Debs with cats @debswithcats.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hi everyone. It’s Wednesday, #MadSkyChat day. We chat tonight at 7pm BST for an hour It’s an hour early to give everyone who wants to watch England in the semi final a chance to do so. All mad and/or Neurodivergent people welcome. Just use the hashtag in every response to join in.
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Jim Henson, a white man in a leather jacket with 80’s hair and a bush beard, looks confused and concerned.
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Shrek lives apart from society and yet he endorses private property
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Celebrating July 4th by watching the classic 90’s sci fi film, directed by Roland Emmerich, in which we learn we are not alone in the universe and an advanced alien species with superior technology threatens our survival - Stargate.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/07/2026
What’s the difference between a lawyer and a catfish? Nothing after Albert’s inexplicable transformation. Every breath was agony.
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Kafka’s Joke Book
“Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” “Knock knock.” “Who’s there?” Alois asked again, more insistently. “Knock knock.” And so it went for years. It wasn’t until his...
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
nobody: Donny Osmond: You’re unsuited for the rage of war!
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
what
A screenshot of text that reads: “"Dance Magic [its title later changed to Magic Dance] gave me a bit of a problem," the singer explained in a TV interview promoting the film. "It's a song for the Goblin King and the baby. In the recording studio the baby I picked - one of the backing singers, Diva [Gray], had this cute little baby, and couldn't put two gurgles together! And it wouldn't work for me. I mean it just wouldn't go; I kicked it, I did everything to make it scream, and it really buttoned its lip. So I ended up doing the gurgles, I'm the baby on that track as well."”
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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Got a bunch of the disability zines printed. All the PDFs are free online here: linktr.ee/disabilityark
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Emily Higgs Kopin @ehkopin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/... Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue devoted to the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy (due Aug 1). The guest editors on this one are pretty great imo
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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Calls for Proposals
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Celebrating the World Cup by watching She’s the Man (2006)
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Orson Welles, more like "Person" Welles. The fellow enjoyed personhood by most legal and philosophical definitions
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
activating the Omega 13 device because I couldn’t hear two lines of side-plot dialogue
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
The Ground Beneath the Clinic On the scope of medical authority www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-ground...
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The Ground Beneath the Clinic
On the scope of medical authority
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.” -Prince Philippe Renaldi of Genovia
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My name’s Pennington Ty and this is Block The Rock, HGTVs first show designed around preventing unwise marriages
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Sometimes, food tastes weird
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
powering on Cerebro and expending all of my psychic energy to locate every Taco Bell serving the Baja Blast Midnight Pie
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I make this drink for my family called “boilin’ oil” where I take brewed drip coffee and reduce it on the stove, mix in some corn starch and tapioca powder. Everyone hates it.
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The TI-89 will always be there for us
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Surge in fake citations uncovered by audit of 2.5 million biomedical science papers. An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Surge in fake citations uncovered by audit of 2.5 million biomedical science papers
An analysis of 97 million citations has found that rates of fabricated citations have climbed steeply since 2023.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study published Thursday in the Lancet shows. Tools using generative AI are likely to blame, say the Columbia University researchers who authored the paper.”
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Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers
“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real academic papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study found
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
REUTERS, Minas Morgul: New AI startup, Witch King of Angmar, aims to revolutionize the production of shadow blades so that they are less biodegradable, allowing for multiple stabbings. The company’s COO was quoted saying “This is a great day for the Nazgûl and will usher in a new age of darkness.”
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Joshua Richardson @schizosemia.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My list of 100 films on themes relating to madness, mental illness, & addiction. (Link: boxd.it/pr9pa) • Posting this in anticipation of my talk on post-madness cinema at the Too Mad to be True IV conference at the Museum Dr. Guislain on Friday, May 15th. . . . #madness #toomadtobetrue
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Madness, Mental Illness , & Addiction
100 films on themes related to madness, mental illness, & addiction.
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CU Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities @cobioethics.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Join our friends @umnbioethics.bsky.social for their Ethics Grand Rounds webinar, “Race Matters in Medical Education, Research, and Practice,” on Fri, May 1 at 11 am MT/ 12:00 CT z.umn.edu/b8g2 #bioethics #EGRfriends
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Indeed. And LLMs cannot “grasp mathematics” because that is a cognitive capacity and LLMs have none.
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Medical schools must continue to teach students about structural barriers to care. The Liaison Committee on Medical Education’s decision to drop a requirement to teach about equity is worrisome. By Uché Blackstock. www.statnews.com/2026/04/15/l... via @statnews.com
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Medical schools must continue to teach students about structural barriers to care
“Patients don’t experience illness in a vacuum,” writes Uché Blackstock.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“Production of unregulated psychedelics has expanded in parallel with increasing scientific interest in psilocybin’s potential to treat depression and other complex mental health conditions. Lab-made imitations have not undergone the same clinical studies. Yet, they’re ubiquitous.”
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Some Philadelphia-area smoke shops sell unregulated psychedelics that often mislead customers
Philadelphia is a wonderland for unregulated “magic mushrooms.” Trip at your own risk.
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Rebecca Buxton @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
JOB! I'm hiring a Senior Research Associate in Social and Political Philosophy as part of the ERC LEAD Project. Deadline is May 3rd, and candidates would ideally begin in September 2026 or asap after. Feel free to contact me with any questions - Share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
University of Bristol Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 Contact us
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
delivering Oak’s Parcel like
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Victoria Justice as Fairness
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding. Who know what buttons to press but not why those buttons exist.”
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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 03/04/2026
”Employees at the company programmed Claude to appear as if it had emotions.” - fixed that for you. No matter how many times these companies try to convince us they’ve created sentient life, it‘s always going to be bullshit. They’re charlatans & I’m sick of credulous journalists falling for it.
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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A New Implant Aims to Rewire Stroke Patients’ Brains | WIRED www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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A New Implant Aims to Rewire the Brain to Help Stroke Patients
Epia Neuro’s brain-computer interface will include a motorized glove to help stroke patients recover movement in their hand.
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Jared Smith @jaredsmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
if it’s just one, the correct term is “Strombolo”
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Carl Elliott @carlelliott.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
New bioethics job at University of Colorado jobs.chronicle.com/job/37968079...
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Bioethics and Humanities Research- Assistant Professor - Aurora, Colorado, United States job with University of Colorado System | 37968079
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department: Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Center for Bioethics and Humanities Job...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/03/2026
"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?
The more I dug, the more I found it had been tweaking things left and right. Claude had been adjusting parameters to make plots match rather than finding actual errors. It faked results, hoping I wouldn’t notice.In addition to the growth in interest, the tools themselves have been steadily improving. I am now doing 100% of my research with LLMs. I don't encapsulate the LaTeX writing anymore since I actually enjoy writing papers and it helps me think, and I still write some Mathematica code on my own. But I haven’t compiled anything myself on the command line in months. I typically have four to five projects running at once and go between windows checking the output and sending a new prompt. It feels a bit like Magnus Carlsen taking on five grandmasters in parallel. People have asked me why I’m not writing a paper every two weeks. The answer is I don’t see why I should. I am growing intellectually—learning so much every day—and trying out some ambitious problems, most of which fail. I anticipate the floodgates will open very soon.
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