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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

See you in England next spring for the third PAMBA meeting! Abstracts and submission for the PAMBA prize due January 7, 2027.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The call for papers for the 2027 PAMBA meeting at the University of Warwick is now live. We will update our own website with more information in the coming days, but in the meantime here is the PhilEvents page. philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Call for Papers - PAMBA 2027

CALL FOR PAPERSThe Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behaviour Association (PAMBA) invites submissions of abstracts for its 2027 biennial meeting, which will be held at the University of Warwick on April...

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

CUNY Philosophy PhD student Daniel West offers a friendly amendment to @birchlse.bsky.social Jonathan Birch's precautionary framework for developing policy relevant to our treatment of animals in Animal Sentience. Congratulations Daniel! www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol...

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Navigating the edge of sentience without a scientific meta-consensus

In The Edge of Sentience (2024, 2025), Birch develops a precautionary framework for crafting public policies about potentially sentient systems. Underlying this framework is a commitment to the democr...

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have a new paper with @susanamonso.com and @kristinandrews.bsky.social. This one is intended to be a short guide for ECRs interested in doing some philosophy of comparative psychology, and wondering how to approach it. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Philosophy of Comparative Psychology

The philosophy of comparative psychology investigates a range of issues connected to the study of animal minds. These include first-order questions about the nature of certain cognitive traits, the c...

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

When invited to write a commentary on a comparative cognition study on epistemic rationality in chimpanzees that was inspired by a philosophy paper, how could I resist? Fabulous study led by @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social rdcu.be/TFUYGQ85nrXa

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The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience @lseanimalsentience.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📢 Abstract submissions are now open for SENTIENCE: Science, Ethics, Law, a new conference exploring the scientific, philosophical, ethical, policy-relevant, and legal aspects of animal sentience. Full details and submission link: www.lse.ac.uk/asset-librar...

Infographic for the call for the abstracts.

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Great little piece about the value of philosophy for science. Susana nailed it!

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Fabulous new entry for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just dropped! 🐝🐵 🐘🐠Animal Normativity 🦌🐶🦜🐬https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/animal-normativity/ authored by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social

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Animal Normativity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Happy to hear this project has been funded! Looking forward to working with the team!

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Consciousness science has a measurement problem. In gray-area cases (bees, worms) we look for consciousness markers like learning or play. But to test which markers really track csness, we'd already need to know which beings are conscious; and that req's already having markers.

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Alexander Mugar Klein @alexandermklein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Full argument in my new @AmSciMag article, published by @SigmaXiSociety: “Hallmarks of Consciousness.” On decapitated frogs, William James, and the measurement problem. Based on my @OUPPhilosophy book "Consciousness Is Motor." www.americanscientist.org/article/hal...

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today I'm joining with many others to continue Jane Goodall's important work to end trophy hunting. You can too www.facebook.com/share/v/1BJv... actionnetwork.org/petitions/su...

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I spoke with Meagan Gillmore a few weeks ago about the Canadian sentience petition.

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Canadian government response to our petition on animal sentence was tabled. Highlight "Canadian courts have also recognized that animals are sentient beings in numerous cases dealing with animal cruelty prosecutions; sentience is a question of fact and science." www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-6955 - Petitions

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Proudest day for a mentor? When your former trainee is a Jeopardy clue! @susanamonso.com

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

1/6 Bruce and his “one-inch beak punch” Bruce the kea is the first “disabled” animal to reach alpha rank in his group without forming coalitions or receiving help from anyone. He achieved it, at least in part, thanks to his fighting technique. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Let's remember that good science doesn't come from traumatized animals, that there are alternatives to animal studies caat.jhsph.edu and that animals like macaques are sentient, thinking, social persons tinyurl.com/3he2s4tu whose use in research has a moral cost tinyurl.com/2wtpb8sh

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Are happy lab animals better for science?

Advocates are pushing to enrich the lives of rodents and fish in the lab, but critics worry about the impact on research

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Some dates for your diary: My research group will host the next PAMBA bi-annual meeting at @philoswarwick.bsky.social on April 27th-29th next year. Additionally, @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social will host a one day one workshop on animal/evolutionary syntax at Warwick on April 26th next year.

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Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association @pamba.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Wondering when the next Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association meeting will be? PAMBA 2027 will be at the University of Warwick on April 27-29, 2027. Confirmed keynotes: Steve Butterfill, Marta Halina, Susana Monsó @martahalina.bsky.social @susanamonso.com Stay tuned for CFP!

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Marriah Alcantara @marriah.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New open access publication in Topoi! @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I explore the ethics of AI animal translation projects. 🖥️🐬Before we build it, we need to take stock of the ethical implications. rdcu.be/fbZwv 🧵👇1/13

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Can we talk to the animals? The ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I'm so happy our paper on the ethics of decoding animal signals using AI is out! First conceived for a talk at Princeton's Center for Human Values conf AI and Animals in 2023 (talk 🔗 www.tinyurl.com/4vrdyeem) we argue against decoding without first having a robust ethical commitment to listening.

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Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a huge impact on our lives and will continue to do so in the future. While most discussions of AI’s impact are about impacts on humans, this conference a...

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Emily R. Trunnell, Ph.D. @ertrunnell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

✨ THIS THURSDAY ✨ is the first of 3️⃣ panels covering key themes of #JaneGoodall 's legacy, "bringing together panelists spanning across different regions and generations, all doing inspiring and transformational work connected to Dr. Jane Goodall’s life message." #animalwelfare #cognition #sentience

This image is a flyer for the "Dr. Jane Goodall Leadership Legacy Program" by the Parliament of the World's Religions. It announces Panel 1: "Animal Cognition, Consciousness, Sentience, and Ethics" on April 9, 2026, from 10-11:30am ET. Featured panelists include Marc Bekoff, Kristin Andrews, Lisa Jones-Engel, and Joyce D’Silva, with Kristy Drutman as weaver and Nayana Shah as facilitator. Logos of various organisations like Compassion in World Farming, BOS CAN, CIFAR, Templeton World Charity Foundation, PETA, Green Jobs Board, Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, and Youth Climate Save are at the bottom.

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'm looking forward to speaking on this panel in honor of Jane Goodall's contributions to science and conservation on April 9. parliamentofreligions.org/jane-goodall...

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I’m looking forward to speaking on this panel next week!

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 19/03/2026

Very happy to see this out in the world! A summary of one of my favourite publications, which I co-authored with the stellar @ldanon.bsky.social, so hopefully it will pique people's interest! (You can read it or listen to a very cringeworthy recording by yours truly)

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Dr. Walter Veit @walterveit.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Save the date :)

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Canadians, there are five days left to sign the E-Petition to the Government of Canada supporting Animal Sentience, introduced by Elizabeth May. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Mindscape 346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Title card for Mindscape podcast with Erica Cartmill.

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The Philosophy program at the CUNY GC is hiring a logician at the Associate level. Please share! cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

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Jobs | City University of New York

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

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Animal cultures matter for conservation, but also to animals

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Simon Fitzpatrick @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Happy to share this new paper with @kristinandrews.bsky.social. We discuss the logic of recent arguments for the conservation of animal cultures, and what they tend to overlook: animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Animal cultures matter for conservation, but also to animals - Learning & Behavior

A growing acceptance that many nonhuman animal communities have distinct cultures – group-variable patterns of behavior and information sustained over time by social learning – is beginning to reshape...

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Many Minds podcast @manymindspod.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

"Animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves." If you enjoyed our recent episode on the value of animal cultures, you may be interested in this new paper by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social & @kristinandrews.bsky.social! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Animal cultures matter for conservation, but also to animals - Learning & Behavior

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!

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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just published a revised entry on Animal Consciousness! By Michael Trestman, Jonathan Birch, Colin Allen @wileyprof.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons...

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Animal Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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