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Şerife Tekin, PhD

@thebusyowl.bsky.social
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Philosopher of Science/Psychiatry, Bioethicist, Cat Lady, Aegean. Prof. at the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. website: www.serifetekin.org

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🥳 The call for papers for the SSPP is now available! The QR code takes you to the submission page or find it linked below. Come hang out with me and @natashasnature.bsky.social 🥳
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So excited that this is out! Congratulations on this fantastic book, @devinsanchezcurry.com
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Natasha Haddal @natashasnature.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Really excited for the SSPP! Keep an eye out for the call, we'll be posting soon!!
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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
check out the invited program for the SSPP 🥳 It’s shaping up to be a great conference with some memorable sessions. call for papers coming soon! 👀 @natashasnature.bsky.social
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A précis of my book is now out in Philosophical Psychology as part of an upcoming book symposium. PP is the first journal in which I ever published an article. It’s a pleasure to come full circle. I’m looking forward to engaging with the thoughtful commentaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What the self does for psychiatry: testimony, cognitive science, and participatory objectivity
Reclaiming The Self in Psychiatry: Centering Personal Narratives for a Humanist Science argues that contemporary scientific psychiatry has sidelined its most essential object of study: the self. Dr...
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Had a great time joining the WCNY/PBS Cycle of Health: AI in Healthcare to discuss AI, medicine, and the future of healthcare. Grateful to Rich O’Neill and the team for the invitation and to my fellow guests for making it such a fun discussion. @pbs.org video.wcny.org/video/ai-in-...
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Cycle of Health | AI in Healthcare | Season 19 | Episode 1
On the season premiere, Dr. Rich and company discuss artificial intelligence in healthcare.
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My department is hiring! It’s an intellectually vibrant, deeply supportive, and a genuinely wonderful community to be part of. careers.upstate.edu/jobs/associa...
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Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities - Syracuse, New York, United States
Job Summary: Primary responsibilities include teaching bioethics, law and healthhumanities in diverse settings throughout the health sciences university; engaging in clinical ethics consultation at fo...
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our response to the commentaries on our paper, “Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy,” now out in AJOB! Access Without Accountability: Governing AI Psychotherapy Across Wellness, Clinical, and Tech Domains: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Access Without Accountability: Governing AI Psychotherapy Across Wellness, Clinical, and Tech Domains
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Excited to be in Montreal for the next couple of days for a workshop on Psychiatry on Demand!
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Artemis II will be on its way today! www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...
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NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Was so fun to be a guest on @wcnypbs last week!! The inimitable Rich O’Neill and I recorded two episodes on AI and medicine; will add the links once they are out! A picture with long time loves Bert and Ernie were the icing on the cake.
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Whatever happened to anonymous refereeing? I keep receiving review requests from journals that disclose the authors’ identities. My response is no.
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Our target article, “Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy,” is now out in the American Journal of Bioethics, accompanied by 15 terrific commentaries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Beyond Doomsday Fears: Why We Need to Consider the Potential Harms of AI Psychotherapy
There is increased enthusiasm about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in psychotherapy. Notably, AI psychotherapy chatbots are increasing in popularity, especially since the US F...
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Philosophical Psychology @journalphp.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Want to read some books? We have free book reviews for you! Follow this thread... #newbooks #philosophy #vol39issue1 #vol39issue2 1/10
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
like every year at this time of hte year, I am revieweing applications for the postdoc positions at the @center4philsci.bsky.social and here are some observations that might be useful for future applicants.
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I was interviewed by the Jerk Magazine on AI and love. “Help: I Fell in Love With My AI,” by Blakesley Rhett, jerkmagazine.net/9mfehhs6kt2v...
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HELP! I FELL IN LOVE WITH MY AI — Jerk Magazine
With Artificial Intelligence on the rise, some users turn to their chat bots for companionship
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Was interviewed by Politifact on AI safety and children: www.politifact.com/article/2025...
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How to talk to your kids about AI chatbots and their safety
Are you a parent trying to navigate the ever-changing AI chatbot landscape? We asked experts on adolescent psychiatry and psychology for their tips about how to talk to children about AI chatbots. Her...
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We’re excited to welcome Dr. Jim Tabery as this year’s Reiss Lecturer in Ethics and Equity at SUNY Upstate’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, April 23–24, 2026. Events are open to the public—register below and spread the word!
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Leda Berio @ledaberio.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Really grateful for a thoughtful and thorough review of my book by Seiara Imanova @seiaraimanova.bsky.social, just out in Philosophical Psychology! @journalphp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MENEA...
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Remembering the human in psychiatry: balancing science and humanism
Published in Philosophical Psychology (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Great review of @thebusyowl.bsky.social's book! Reclaiming the Self in Psychiatry is an extremely well written and empowering book that can appeal to an interdisciplinary audience ... it brings lived experience back into the heart of psychiatry www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Last pub of the year! The Philosphy of Space Exploration: An Immersive Course to Explore Next Generation Ethical Considerations. Co-authored with my friend Chris Packham based on a course we co-thought at UTSA in 2022. philpapers.org/rec/TEKTPO-5
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Şerife Tekin & Chris Packham, The Philosophy of Space Exploration (PoSE): An Immersive Course to Explore and Inspire Next Generation Ethical Considerations - PhilPapers
There are periods of time in humanity when a true inflection point in advancement occurs. Consider the industrial revolution, the (first) space race, or the dawn of the information age. It ...
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
On my way to the upside down for this cool workshop! events.uow.edu.au/narrativepra...
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
such an honor! blogs.upstate.edu/withdistinct...
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Upstate’s Tekin earns Exceptional Moments in Teaching honor – With Distinction
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So happy to be back in Canada 🍁 to give a talk at McMaster. Canada was my first home away from home as a 22 yr old MA student, and it still feels that way. philos.humanities.mcmaster.ca/events/philo...
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Philosophy Speaker Series: Bridging Science and Testimony: The Multitudinous Self Model for a Humanist Psychiatry – Department of Philosophy | Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Just started -- but it's been brewing for a while, as both @ledaberio.bsky.social and I have been much inspired by recent very cool work by many others, especially @thebusyowl.bsky.social, Elizabeth Schechter, and Daniela Dover
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
🚨New Paper!🚨 Do you love authenticity? @ledaberio.bsky.social and I argue that maybe you shouldn't! We think that everything would be better if we all just got over the idea of true selves and were cooler with the fact that we all contain multitudes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Challenges to Narrating a Multitudinous Self: Towards a Better Ethics of Code-switching - Topoi
We motivate and lay out the broad contours of a research program, namely that of developing a systematic ethics of code-switching. Such an ethics will articulate the values and norms that should gover...
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
On my way to Skilled Social Interactions in the Age of AI Workshop at the University of Florida to present new work by @lizbowen.bsky.social and I: www.denkwerkstatt.berlin/FUTURE-EVENTS/
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DenkWerkstatt - FUTURE EVENTS
DenkWerkstatt - zur Invasion akedemischer Elfenbeintürme
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
New discount code for my book! Just in time for the holidayzzz!
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Consider proposing a commentary to the American Journal of Bioethics on the forthcoming paper Megan Delehanty and I wrote on the harms of AI psychotherapy chatbots!
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"There’s really barely any evidence that shows that [AI therapy chatbots] are in fact effective...We do not have longitudinal studies that look at people with diagnosis of mental disorders who did not have any other kind of help, who used these chatbots, and can say that they benefited from these.”
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
"Plus, many studies are being conducted by the companies who are trying to sell their product, which is a “research integrity and conflict of interest issue,” Tekin notes."
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“Most of the studies, however, aren’t without limitations. So far, much of the current research on AI chatbots for mental health support has been non-randomized, non-controlled, and small in sample size, says Şerife Tekin"
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I talked to Prevention about the use of AI chatbots for psychotherapy. www.prevention.com/health/menta...
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Can an AI Chatbot Become Your Therapist? We Had Real People Put It to the Test
Some apps are promising to expand access to mental health care—but do the benefits outweigh the downsides?
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Emerged from my plague and made it to campus to be greeted by apples and this lovely recognition from my students, who declared me the exceptional teacher of the month. I love their comments, especially the part about my gusto 😂
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thank you for having me @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social! The most engaging community I could have hoped for!
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
After a super invigorating workshop in Wageningen I am now in Dublin for a talk and a dissertation defense. www.ucd.ie/philosophy/n...
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CEPL Annual Lecture: Şerife Tekin, Bridging Science and Testimony
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Check out this great post by @lisabortolotti.com on the expertise in mental health workshop that took place in June Radboud University where I provided an overview of my book. epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-...
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Who knows what in mental health? The conference (part one)
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Check out this great post by @lisabortolotti.com on the expertise in mental health workshop that took place in June Radboud University where I provided an overview of my book. epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/09/who-...
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Who knows what in mental health? The conference (part one)
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Super excited to be in Wageningen for @rachelankeny.bsky.social Rachel Allyson Ankeny’s Inaugural Lecture and the workshop leading to it.
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Just finished the busiest, all hands on deck teaching week of the year. It went so well, felt super connected to all the 180 first year med students and taught Bioethics in the way I like doing it: lots of philosophy of science, films, first person stories, and lectures by brilliant colleagues.
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
My two co-authors Michael Brownstein and Alex Madva talking about our soon-to-be-a-real-thing book _Somebody Should Do Something_ on The Philosopher's Zone podcast @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social @madva.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Who's responsible for solving the world's problems—me, or The System? - ABC listen
When it comes to global problems like climate change, it can be easy to feel as though your own individual efforts to stop it are too small to make a difference. But then when you consider the big pla...
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Alex Madva, co-author of "Someone should do something: how anyone can help create social change", most clearly articulated the connection between the problems raised by previous speakers & the tension between individual & structural frameworks www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/la-... #ClimateAction
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La Alhambra y la crisis climática: cómo los individuos empujan cambios estructurales
El impacto de la actividad humana en el planeta difícilmente pueda modificarse apelando a cambios en la conducta individual, alertan los expertos
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Lynn Chiu @drlynnchiu.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Read all Elements in The Philosophy of Biology series for FREE during the ISHPSSB conference 20 - 25 July. You can find all of these Elements free to download and read here: cup.org/4kEgivL
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Philosophy of Biology
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Daniel Kelly @dryan149.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Still waiting to hear about the part in our approved proposal for Purdue's new hub for philosophy of cognitive science (the Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center) that would require all CAIC events to serve this specific refreshment
Delicious red velvet cake, brain shaped
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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Hammer Down, CAIC'ed up.
A cartoon of a man with a large butt wearing a hard hat and holding a hammer, with a gold shirt and black pants.
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We are doing a special issue on "Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry" in Philosophical Psychology! Details below. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2026! Please share widely. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Ian Hacking and the Philosophy of Psychiatry
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Thanks to Carrie Figdor for having me on her New Books in Philosophy podcast to talk about my book! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%...
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Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 06/10/2025 · 1h 4m
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Şerife Tekin, PhD @thebusyowl.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New interview in the Salon on the self. www.salon.com/2025/05/26/t...
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Technology is breaking our concept of the self. It could help us heal the mind | Salon.com
Virtual reality is digging up age-old questions about who we are. That has profound implications for neuroscience
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