Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026TEDx talk just went live! Originally daunting to distill a 300+ word book and 5+ years of work into a 10min talk. But the TED format is incredible - you become a better storyteller, and get to the heart of the matter. Let me know what you make of it 🐒 m.youtube.com/watch?v=zGGB... 253
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026THE ARROGANT APE has been short-listed for the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability. Congrats to the other candidates, in good company. www.library.upenn.edu/news/sustain...library.upenn.eduPenn Libraries Book Prize in SustainabilityThis annual award acknowledges outstanding contributions to the global discourse on environmental sustainability, with a specific focus on books that have a substantial impact on the public's understa... 0152
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Join me for an online conversation with The Plant Initiative May 19th @ 1pm ET Tix: www.eventbrite.com/o/the-plant-...eventbrite.comThe Plant InitiativePlants are aware and intelligent beings as demonstrated by recent scientific findings. Yet, plants typically continue to be treated as mere objects for use. In response, The Plant Initiative was start... 041
Reposted by Christine WebbInterspecies Internet @interspecies-io.bsky.social · 15/04/2026📣New Lecture! Humans are often seen as an apex species, but is this accurate? Join @christinewebb.bsky.social for “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism in Primatology and Beyond.” 📅Saturday, 25 April 🕓4 PM GMT |12 PM EST |9 AM PST 📍Online 🔗Register here: shorturl.at/fsYpx 4106
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026NYC: Saturday, March 28, 2026, 12 - 1 PM New York Public Library (Riverdale) book event web.nypl.org/events/progr...web.nypl.org 042
Reposted by Christine WebbThe Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 11/03/2026In this episode, Nate speaks with primatologist and author @christinewebb.bsky.social about human exceptionalism – the deeply embedded belief that humans are separate from and superior to the rest of nature. www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/213-... 53213
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026www.populationbalance.org/podcast/chri...populationbalance.orgConfronting Human Exceptionalism — Population BalanceThe myth of human exceptionalism casts humans as separate from and superior to the rest of life. Primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape , shows how science and culture reinforce thi... 1117
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 29/12/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b... THE ARROGANT APE made the list again! 🫶 Get your first edition now, second printing underway.nytimes.comThe Books Times Readers Were Most Excited About This Year 2143
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 26/11/2025THE ARROGANT APE has been named a New York Times Notable Book of 2025. Floored to be on this list and in such good company. And grateful to all who helped make it possible 🫶 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b... 1182
Reposted by Christine WebbNew Scientist @newscientist.com · 18/11/2025Christine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying out the evidence against it, says Elle Huntnewscientist.comSmart new book takes an axe to the myth of human exceptionalismChristine Webb's provocative and moving book The Arrogant Ape explores our unjustifiable sense of superiority in the living world, laying out the evidence against it, says Elle Hunt 0409
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11/11/2025A world beyond human exceptionalism is worth imagining. Join us at @TEDxBoston this weekend. 1150
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025UK publication day! www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/chris... 34311
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 23/10/2025I witness my students undergo major transformations as they learn to see past the basic ways their sense of the world has been framed by human exceptionalism. As the wool is pulled from their eyes, they come to experience Nature as more alive, animate, and aware. (1/2) 43018
Reposted by Christine WebbBig Think @bigthink.com · 14/10/2025If we build AI to think like humans, are we just teaching it to repeat our blind spots? Primatologist Christine Webb talks bias in AI and what we can learn from mosses. #Philosophy 161
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Tonight! Register here sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wild... 051
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Pioneering scientists past and present have broken from the pressures and limitations of human exceptionalist thinking. Charles Darwin, Lynn Margulis, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Frans de Waal–their work looms large in my own research (1/3). 34010
Reposted by Christine Webbbook culture @bookculture.com · 25/09/2025yes this is a post to let you know event season starts tonight bookculture.com/upcoming-eve... Mark Mazower TONIGHT! @alexandrahorowitz.bsky.social & @christinewebb.bsky.social in convo Monday Stephanie Cowell on her Brontë novel Tuesday @bernardharcourt.bsky.social on Foucault Wednesday & more!bookculture.com 063
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Corporate greed and deception, capitalist economics, and a lack of political will certainly play an outsize role. But we don’t just need an overhaul of these institutions; we need a new relationship to the world (1/2). 1115
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025The Arrogant Ape is #2 for non-fiction books New York Times readers say they’re most eager to dive into this season. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...nytimes.comThe Books Times Readers Are Most Excited About This Fall 1131
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025What does it mean to be human? The word “human” itself derives from the root world humus, meaning “earth.” To be human thus means to be of the earth, not apart from or better than any of the other beings with whom we share this planet. 412225
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025What’s it like to narrate your own audiobook? Some insights from This Is the Author: penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/this-is-the-...penguinrandomhouseaudio.comOn the Podcast: Christine Webb, Jim Reese, and Reza Aslan - Penguin Random House AudioS10 E35: Go behind the mic with the authors of The Arrogant Ape, Coming to a Neighborhood Near You, and No god But God. 020
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025More praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House), available now wherever books are sold. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436... 080
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 05/09/2025More NYT coverage of THE ARROGANT APE: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/b...nytimes.com6 Books We Loved This Week 163
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025THE ARROGANT APE IS OUT TODAY! The idea for this book began in 2019 in a seminar course I taught at Harvard. With each class discussion, it felt like my students and I were imagining and crafting a world beyond human exceptionalism. It was the world we wanted to live in. (1/3) 6309
Reposted by Christine WebbThe Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Here are this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b... Titles/authors in alt-text. Authors and publishers on Bluesky in comment 🧵 #Booksky 1115
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28/08/20255 key insights from the book here: nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/big...nextbigideaclub.comThe Biggest Threat to Humanity’s Survival is Not What You ThinkAuthor Christine Webb shares 5 key insights from her new book, The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters. 030
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Excited that the The Next Big Idea Club team has selected my book as a monthly must-read! nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/nex...nextbigideaclub.comThe Next Big Idea Club’s September 2025 Must-Read BooksThese titles will be included in our longlist of potential titles for Season 27 of the Next Big Idea Club. 031
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Once delusions of human superiority and separateness are broken down, we can no longer stand by a watch Nature’s destruction. Nature is not a means to human ends but an interdependent system whose well-being ultimately determines our own. 092
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The New York Times includes THE ARROGANT APE in their round-up of “25 Books Coming in September”! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...nytimes.com25 Books Coming in September 1110
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Consumed by a human superiority complex, the arrogant ape mirror Hamlet—a hubristic character caught in a tragedy of its own making. (1/3) 281
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Join us at P&T Knitwear September 3! @jeffsebo.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/christine-... 050
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025The renowned sociobiologist E.O. Wilson popularized the term “biophilia” (from the root bio, meaning “life,” and philia, meaning “love of”) to describe the natural tendency to seek connections with other forms of life. 1103
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I am humbled to have received much praise for THE ARROGANT APE (Avery / Penguin Random House) out September 2. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436/the-arrogant-ape-by-christine-webb 2247
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Win a galley copy of THE ARROGANT APE on Goodreads! 10 winners will be chosen, enter by August 11: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...goodreads.comBook giveaway for The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters by Christine E. Webb Jul 28-Aug 11, 2025Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jul 28-Aug 11, 2025. We're giving away 10 galley copies of The Arrogant Ape: The Myth o... 0184
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Once delusions of human superiority and separateness are broken down, we can no longer stand by and watch Nature’s destruction. Nature is not a means to human ends but an interdependent system whose well-being ultimately determines our own. 18022
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025The argument of THE ARROGANT APE is that human exceptionalism—a.k.a. anthropocentrism or human supremacy—is at the root of the ecological crisis, giving humans a sense of dominion over Nature, entitled to commodify earth and other species for our own exclusive benefit. 1318859
Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 16/07/2025I wonder, if we truly believe we are so much better than other species, why have we spent thousands of years driving home the point? 5589
Reposted by Christine WebbAvery Books @avery-books.bsky.social · 07/07/2025From primatologist @christinewebb.bsky.social comes #ArrogantApe, an impassioned celebration of humility before the living world that leads us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves. On sale 9/2. Available for pre-order today! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717436... 13410