Samantha-Kaye Johnston

I am very happy to announce the official launch of "Oxford Intersections: AI in Society" an interdisciplinary corpus for understanding #AI and its global impact. @IAMSAMKJ and I are co-editors of the section addressing #AI personhood. academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

@dioscuri A good thing about philosophy is the norm of affective neutrality (debate controversial things without triggering emotional reactions). Viewing disagreement as moral monstrosity seems to be very much at odds with this, unfortunately. josephheath.substack.com/p/why-philosop…

Teaching ethics to undergrads in 2025 is bizarre, because: (1) They insist morality is entirely relative and culturally constructed... (2) ...while simultaneously holding unshakeable ethical convictions and viewing disagreement as moral monstrosity.

@dioscuri This reminds me of when I was growing up, I always heard this saying: "dress how you want to be addressed"

Just an anecdotal observation, but speaking as a 40-year old guy, for the last year I've been deliberately dressing up more (blazer+chinos instead of t-shirt+jeans) and it really changes the way people interact with you for the better.

Great to see advocacy for including student voices 👏👏👏

We're seeking a new Principal to lead our wonderful college from August 2026. You'll possess a strong track record of academic distinction, an ability to balance the needs of all our community & desire to strengthen our core values and aims. Details 👇 jesus.ox.ac.uk/about-jesus-co…

Great to see our work in print and it's open access too 👇👇👇

Let it snow! ❄️ First Quad looking so pretty as the first snowfall of the year arrives in Oxford. #jesuscollegeoxford #snowday

In this roundtable excerpt, Dr. Samantha-Kaye Johnston @IAMSAMKJ and Dr. Henry Shevlin @dioscuri explore generational differences in #AI views within the research community: oxford.ly/3Ua2XzW

Hot from the press - the use of AI in education congratulations to @AERC_UniMelb & @KelloggOx fellow @DrJoshMcGrane & @owen_henkel & colleagues for a timely article @EduMelb @IOE_London @AQA @AEAe_2000 @AERA_EdResearch @OECDdev @DerekCBriggs @carpe_dcu #Sec2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">link.springer.com/article/10.100…

25% of Early Career Researchers are skeptical of AI, whereas only 19% of Later Career Researchers share this view. In this roundtable excerpt, Dr. Samantha-Kaye Johnston @IAMSAMKJ and Dr. Henry Shevlin @dioscuri explore reasons for this divide: oxford.ly/4f81t17

Jesus Meets Jamaica! Thank you @JesusOxford for providing the funding and support for this project! It was great to work with Jamaican youth to co-design ethical guidelines for the Metaverse! @youthcandoit @OxWoCS @CompSciOxford @UniofOxford @UNESCO @CaribbeanUnesco @Meta

Thank you @oxmartinschool! We are pleased to be able to run this project together with @youthcandoit with funding from @JesusOxford - Please do let me know if you have any questions. Happy to talk more about our research findings & process! #Metaverse #youngpeople #codesign

Thank you for sharing @YogiD15! - We are pleased to be able to run this project together with @youthcandoit with funding from @JesusOxford - Please do let me know if you have any questions. Always happy to have a chat about this study! #Metaverse #youngpeople #codesign

Come and work with an amazing team! @CompSciOxford @UniofOxford @junszhao #ukri

🎨 A new portrait of Emeritus Professor Kathy Sylva OBE, painted by Beth Marsden, was unveiled this week! Professor Sylva was the first female Professor at our Department, and this portrait celebrates her enormous contribution to the Department and early education research 🎉 Read more ➡ bit.ly/3X509oo @UniofOxford @oxsocsci

"Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis...had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an #AI partnership with @Microsoft" No big surprise. It's already stipulated in the contract. thebookseller.com/news/academic-…

@kmdulay @UKRI_News Kay, this is amazing news! Very pleased for you and all the best on this journey! Congratulations.

It's official! I have been awarded the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to develop reading comprehension interventions for primary school students in the Philippines. Thank you @UKRI_News for this opportunity, also mentors & colleagues for all the support! bit.ly/4cLbjp2

Proceeding on the assumption that access to more/better information is going to change minds and transform things is naively optimistic and not fully informed by how communication works. James Carey's "A Culture Approach to Communication" (1989) can help. bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.psu.edu/…