Edmond (Eddy) Awad

Senior Research Fellow @UniofOxford. Senior Lecturer @UniofExeter. Associate Research Scientist @Max_Planck_CHM. Formerly @MIT @medialab. Moral Machine. Syrian.

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

🧠 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.

[Mohammed Alsobay | محمد الصبي @malsobay]

🚨 Out in Science this week, with @DG_Rand @duncanjwatts and Abdullah Almaatouq 🚨

We apply an integrative approach to a classic question in behavioral econ and cooperation research: *when* does peer punishment help or hinder collective welfare?

[Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan]

Machine+Behavior conference is back! Pls spread the word.

18-19 May, 2026
Abstract submissions deadline 8 Feb

Speakers include: @cocosci_lab @ThoreG @summerfieldlab @weidingerlaura @a_baronca

https://t.co/9WRGRE8qcu

[Sydney Levine @sydneymlevine]

Recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1.
https://t.co/BNUfCKDZT5

[Azim Shariff @azimshariff]

As academic hiring season begins, search committees will again wrestle with the topic of faculty diversity. After years of these discussions, I’ve found they often skip the most fundamental question: Why does it matter? Diversity for what?
New piece in Nature Reviews Psych
🧵w/🔗

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

Lupin spent five episodes mastering disguise and plotting impossible heists at the Louvre. Meanwhile, someone just walked in during daylight and did it.

[Mohammad Atari @MohammadAtari90]

🚨 New Chapter Preprint: Is Empathic AI Possible?

W/ @firat_sekr & Aliah Zewail

Many AI researchers treat empathy as something to engineer into machines. But empathy is shaped by culture and context. We must first accept that there is no single "human" empathy.

@cam_lab_umass

[Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan]

If you know a 🚨 Scholar at Risk 🚨 please share!

I am delighted to share that applications are now open for the MAXMINDS mentoring program. This initiative supports researchers who have been displaced, or are at risk of displacement, due to war or natural disasters, and who currently have limited access to resources and institutional support.

It is open to scholars at all career stages and offers tailored mentoring – from guidance on applications for positions, fellowships, or guest programs within the Max Planck Society, to support based on the research interests of both mentors and mentees. Mentoring will last at least three months, with the option to extend to six.

Apply here: https://t.co/pK19YQF1dh

The deadline to apply is September 15.

Please share this opportunity with researchers who may benefit. Those interested in joining as mentors are warmly invited to contact us at [email protected] for more information.

[Azim Shariff @azimshariff]

Trying to figure out how future technologies will reshape behaviour and society is tough, but indispensable. In a new @Nature paper w/ @iyadrahwan & JF Bonnefon, we describe an experimental approach we call "the science fiction science method” (sci-fi-sci) https://t.co/EyMz22tkjR

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

Thanks to Jean-Francois Bonnefon Molly Crockett @DoniecKatarzyna @JoHenrich Julian Jamison, @iyadrahwan Zoe Rahwan, and Azim Shariff for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of the article.
@UniofExeter @UniofOxford @ethicsinthenews @mpib_berlin

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

🧠 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.

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

For the full text see:
👉 https://t.co/rmYtQ1XCAY

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

Looking forward to presenting and meeting everyone there

[Christian Rodriguez Perez @RodriguezP_Chri]

🚨 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: https://t.co/KdfyegCjXu

[Morality Lab @MoralityLab]

🧵1/12 New GreeneLab paper in Nature Human Behaviour—after 5+ years! Our cooperative quiz game, Tango (https://t.co/nyTTUInkbs), defuses political animosity and improves democracy-related attitudes. Some key effects last 4 months
https://t.co/fZr6MJQrWF

[Uehiro Oxford Institute @ethicsinthenews]

How do we choose between protecting nature & meeting human needs? Exploring this through our Citizen Science project #LastHaven
@EdmondAwad 's letter to the editor: https://t.co/jjFq24Orec

Take part▶️https://t.co/IPrdg4PxrW #antitheses #ethics #Philosophymatters

[Joe Henrich @JoHenrich]

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

[ANTITHESES Research Platform @ANTITH3SES]

How do we choose between protecting nature & meeting human needs?
Exploring this through our Citizen Science project #LastHaven

@EdmondAwad's letter to the editor https://t.co/FUUiwfiYYn

Take part▶️https://t.co/1Rbxx0GjRQ

#CitizenScience #antitheses #landuse #housing #ethics

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

That’s exactly what we explore in Last Haven: 🌍 https://t.co/dHJ6CiC0Fy

#LastHaven #conservation #planning #housing #biodiversity #publicopinion

@ANTITH3SES @Ethox_Centre @juliansavulescu @ethicsinthenews @mgreinecke @UniofOxford @UniofExeter

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

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.
📄 https://t.co/O2CG1SwLpN

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

These trade-offs are not just about land use—they reflect real choices about what we protect, what we sacrifice, and whose interests we prioritise.