Lisa Miracchi

Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. I work on foundational issues in intelligence research and on ethics of AI and robotics.

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

Exciting day ahead at #MindBrainSummit special event on Consciousness. Christof Koch and @AlisonGopnik currently discussing whether amoebas are aware - I’m up later & then new @CIFAR_News Global Scholar @meganakpeters, also @heather_berlin @LMiracchi & more

[megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters]

and now we talk consciousness #brainmind @anilkseth @heather_berlin @LMiracchi @AllenInstitute https://t.co/zsTHIP93rE

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

@DanielleWenner But yes. Repulsive.

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

Wow: this is how science dresses up slut shaming as research. Attractive => slutty => more likely to have diseases 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[evo psych googling @evopsychgoogle]

woman: im in terrible pain and i need help
doctor: the bad news is that u have rectovaginal endometriosis
woman: oh no...
doctor: but the good news is im enrolling u in a study
woman: u mean like a clinical trial?
doctor: [staring directly at the womans chest] oh, youll see...

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

@DanielleWenner I think the causality is the other way: "Intriguingly, such an emerging phenotype appears to be indirectly
linked with attractiveness..."

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

@cecilymwhiteley I love “phuggles”! 💗

[Jonathan Ichikawa @jichikawa]

Also while I'm on a related topic, are any of the philosophers who've been expressing worries about civility/profanity in philosophical discourse planning on reacting to this?

[dr. jentleman and a scholar 🐱 @philoso_foster]

In the year and a half I’ve been on philosophy twitter, I have seen no philosophers routinely be less civil, or more cruel, than the “gender critical” “feminists” and their allies.

It’s not even close.

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

"... and how to manage content that is disrespectful, fear-mongering, and misleading, while avoiding harm to the scholarly community."

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

A really important guest post came out in Daily Nous today. Please read.

https://t.co/VOMAE2QnTC

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

"...readers need to understand that the central problem is not how to uplift the message of 'gender-critical' voices, but how to understand them as activists...

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

Wow...

[worms cited @christapeterso]

Holly Lawford-Smith has this one medium piece that's like "the reason I disagree with you about trans rights is because when I think about trans women I think about a transphobic caricature" and yeah holly we know

[Liz Wayne @LizWaynePhD]

My academic experience has been this.

If I win, it’s because I’m black and a woman.

If I lose, it’s because I’m black and a woman.

In both instances *cough* *cough* white people feel the need to REMIND me that this is the case.

Can I live? Can I science?

[Anthony Chin-Quee, MD @CQ__MD]

@LizWaynePhD You better preach.

"Can I live? Can I science?" Will likely be soon posted in my office, on my windshield, and as a face tattoo.

[Liz Wayne @LizWaynePhD]

We all get a Reviewer #3.

But when you give me this extra work by telling me I don’t belong, making me prove that I do, & not believing the decades of research on discrimination & institutional racism...

well, now you’ve become Reviewer #4.

And Reviewer #5.

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

This is a form of gatekeeping: by refusing to move the level of discussion along with the experts in it, keeping it at a level only (the predominantly white) mainstream
is equipped to easily understand, we fail to allow the scholarship of people of color their due impact.

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

NDPR's choice of Kathleen Stock @Docstockk to review Serene Khader @SereneKhader 's recent book *Decolonizing Feminism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic* was both a terrible scholarly and ethical decision.

[Lisa Miracchi @LMiracchi]

@Docstockk @SereneKhader When predominantly people of color work on a topic and white people who are not specialists review it, the public discussion fails to move forward with the insights from the specialist domain, and so of the people of color working in that domain.