Edmond (Eddy) Awad
@EdmondAwad
Senior Research Fellow @UniofOxford. Senior Lecturer @UniofExeter. Associate Research Scientist @Max_Planck_CHM. Formerly @MIT @medialab. Moral Machine. Syrian.
🧠 Is your research still relying on Western participants? 15 years after “The WEIRDest People in the World” by @JoHenrich et al., most studies still overuse WEIRD samples. In this paper, published in Behavior Research Methods, I offer digital pathways to move beyond that.
Looking forward to presenting and meeting everyone there
🚨 Still time to register and join the conference online! Join us online this Thursday–Friday (June 26–27) for the Basel-Oxford-NUS Experimental Philosophical Bioethics (BioXPhi) Summit 2025. 🔗 Program & online registration: ibmb.unibas.ch/en/public-outr…
🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango (letstango.org), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months doi.org/10.1038/s41562…
How do we choose between protecting nature & meeting human needs? Exploring this through our Citizen Science project #LastHaven @EdmondAwad 's letter to the editor: shorturl.at/7csDc Take part▶️last-haven.net #antitheses #ethics #Philosophymatters
New paper: Applying computation tools to over 2000 years of textual data in Chinese, we test the hypothesis that the organization of families (kin-based institutions) shapes our psychology. @MohammadAtari90 @slingerland20 @KevinHong1991 @JF_Schulz
How do we choose between protecting nature & meeting human needs? Exploring this through our Citizen Science project #LastHaven @EdmondAwad's letter to the editor theguardian.com/politics/2025/… Take part▶️last-haven.net #CitizenScience #antitheses #landuse #housing #ethics
Glad to see that @guardian published my letter on one of the most urgent dilemmas we face today: how to balance housing needs with protecting nature. 📄 theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
This Perspective by @MohammadAtari90, @JoHenrich and Jonathan Schultz argues for psychology to become a historical and geographical science, a transformation they term the chronospatial revolution. nature.com/articles/s4156…
Explore our new research platform, Last Haven — a gamified experience where you make tough choices between protecting endangered species' habitats and advancing human needs. 👉 last-haven.net
Tigers, snakes, plants - what if their last habitat stood in the way of a hospital? #LastHaven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature and meeting human needs? Take part in this citizen science project today. Learn more:last-haven.net #PhilosophyMatters
Tigers, snakes, plants - what if their last habitat stood in the way of a hospital? #LastHaven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature and meeting human needs? Take part in this citizen science project today. Learn more:last-haven.net #PhilosophyMatters
Tigers, snakes, plants - what if their last habitat stood in the way of a hospital?🌴🐯🏥 Citizen science project Last Haven asks: how do we choose between protecting nature & meeting human needs? last-haven.net Take part in #LastHaven today! #CitizenScience #antitheses
Can an AI 'digital twin' of you help with substituted judgment in healthcare? A really nuanced and interesting discussion of our personalised patient preference predictor suggestion: "How AI could predict your preferences at the end of life" - ABC listen abc.net.au/listen/program……
Find out more and test it out here: medicine.nus.edu.sg/news/tinker-to… #TinkerTots #GeneticTesting #Bioethics #FutureOfIVF #ReproEthics #ScienceAndSociety #MedicalEthics #ReproductiveEthics