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.

[Edmond (Eddy) Awad @EdmondAwad]

@JoHenrich @iyadrahwan @StevenHeine4 @slingerland20 @MohammadAtari90 @ThomasTalhelm Congrats @JoHenrich I had told many of my friends back home about the book. I am glad I can now tell them it is available in Arabic.

[Joe Henrich @JoHenrich]

Great to see this translation of WEIRD into Arabic! Thanks to ⁨حمزة قبلان المزيني⁩ for his excellent work. @iyadrahwan @EdmondAwad @StevenHeine4 @slingerland20 @MohammadAtari90 @ThomasTalhelm

[Joe Henrich @JoHenrich]

Hey, this is a great opportunity. Mohammad and I are working together on this so post-docs will have a chance to work between my lab at Harvard and his lab at Umass Am. @mmuthukrishna @slingerland20 @StevenHeine4

[lassefolkersen @lassefolkersen]

Very interesting study on public perception of PGT-P and embryo selection, including traits

[Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan]

📣 Job alert

I am hiring a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻-𝗔𝗜 𝗛𝘆𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀

📍 Berlin, Germany
📅 3-year position
💡 Ideal for researchers with a PhD in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or related fields and a strong background in AI, reinforcement learning, and computational social science.

Focus may include the following areas:

✅ Fine-tuning of large language models on rewards derived from social interactions or collective outcomes
✅ Evolutionary adaptations of AI agents in social simulations
✅ Behavioral experiments with human-AI hybrid groups
✅ Advancing the theoretical understanding of human-AI co-evolution

👉 Deadline: August 27, 2026
👉 Apply now: https://t.co/7hiHsjHNfl

[Julian Savulescu @juliansavulescu]

We're looking for a Research Fellow to join us at CBmE, NUS! This is an opportunity to work alongside an international team on innovative research with real-world impact. https://t.co/y3uBiklHOQ

[Mohammed Alsobay @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