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Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association @pamba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good news/bad news. PAMBA people now number over 400! But this means we can no longer use Mailchimp to send free emails. Join the new PAMBA Google Group to say up to date with the Philosophy of Animal Minds! groups.google.com/g/pambalist

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not even close to being Kim's most controversial opinion, but still good trolling.

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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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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 01/09/2026

I can see it

Picture of a long-eared bat held in a hand with a purple sweater and red glasses painted on them

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I got so good at not having my face on the internet that recently, if you google me, it's my colleague Patrick Tomlin's face that comes up top. On the one hand, I'm thrilled about this. But on the other, that's not me.

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Federico Rossano @federicorossano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Chimpanzees usually fail a simple pointing task that human infants and dogs pass. In our new iScience paper, we provide a possible explanation: once their attention is engaged, chimpanzees use human pointing to find hidden food 73% of the time. Attention may be the missing piece.

Figure 2. Three photos showing the experimental conditions. Left: the experimenter points toward the baited container while calling the chimpanzee’s name and making food grunts. Center: he points without vocal attention-getting cues. Right: he provides gaze and food grunts but does not point. Chimpanzees succeeded only when attention-getting cues and pointing were combined.

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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

A chimp solving a puzzle box problem. Photo credit: MPI-EVA

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Adelaida, a subadult female chimpanzee, is seen wearing a leafy branch around her neck. This seems to be part of a cultural tradition in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park (Republic of Congo) seen on: wcs_congo (Instagram) www.instagram.com/p/DaxFAnfDkri/ photo: G. Gaudin/WCS

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Why don't more people talk about how Vini Jr looks like Saul Williams? Of all the celebrity look-alikes, this is the most compelling. (Ignore the thirty year age gap.)

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We're on Bluesky now! 🦋 Follow us here for updates, we're just getting started. @ucu.org.uk @exetergreens.bsky.social @exeterlabour.bsky.social Here are our six key messages:

'EXETER UCU: OUR SIX KEY MESSAGES

1. EXETER UNI'S FINANCES ARE STRONG. WE'VE LARGE CASH RESERVES (£200M IN 24/25). NEVER HAD A BUDGET DEFICIT. THIS 'CRISIS' IS MANUFACTURED.
2. EXECUTIVE PAY AT EXETER IS OUT OF CONTROL. IF JUST THE 16 HIGHEST-PAID EXECS CAPPED THEIR SALARY AT £120K, WE'D SAVE MORE MONEY THAN ALL THE CUTS TO ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY!
3. NO MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION, BUT A CONFUSED MESS: FAULTY AND INSUFFICIENT DATA, NO REAL DISCUSSION, AND AN IMPOSSIBLE, INSULTING AND UNREASONABLE TIMETABLE TO PUSH THIS THROUGH OVER THE SUMMER.
4. AN ALL-STAFF MEETING OF 600 STAFF RESOUNDINGLY VOTED NO CONFIDENCE IN VICE CHANCELLOR LISA ROBERTS (WHOSE PAY IS PUSHING £400K). WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE BIGGEST SINGLE VOTE BY ANY UNI STAFF IN THE HISTORY OF UK HE.
5. REDUNDANCIES ARE A MANAGEMENT CHOICE, NOT A FINANCIAL NECESSITY. THEY EVEN HAVE ALTERNATIVE COSTED PLANS WITH NO CUTS, BUT THINK IT'S EASIER TO GO FOR JOB LOSSES.
6. EXETER IS A FANTASTIC UNI, WITH WORLD CLASS RESEARCH, CREATIVE AND INSPIRING TEACHING, THOUGHTFUL AND IMAGINATIVE COMMUNITY OF STAFF AND STUDENTS. LET'S KEEP IT THAT WAY.'

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Philosophy department at Exeter is exceptional. It has both a concentration of world leading researchers in the philosophy of the biological and cognitive sciences, and a unique departmental profile in the UK. It would be a catastrophic loss to the UK philosophy scene.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Based on his performances this World Cup, Messi has overtaken some of the true greats in the football hall of fame - Beckham, Lampard, maybe even Stevie G. If Argentina win the trophy, he could even overtake Harry Kane. He's that good. #LionelMessi #WorldCup

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Small details aside, HOTD s3 has perfectly captured the essence of the GRRM books. There are too many characters with too similar names. They look vaguely familiar, but I've no idea who they are, or why they're doing what they're doing. Still into it though. #HOTD #GRRM

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 16/06/2026

Once upon a time, I approached biologists @biotay.bsky.social and @auersperga.bsky.social with some crazy ideas on how to test for animals’ concept of death. Many years later, our first study with the stellar cockatoos from the Goffin Lab is finally out! (More to come)

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

An excellent article on Epstein's relationship with scientists.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

'It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the Epstein files...' My investigation into the scientists bewitched by money and the dilettante superficiality of Jeffrey Epstein's need to be near clever men. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/a-t...

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A twisted breed

Jeffrey Epstein attempted to gather the best minds of science around him. His interests were rooted in a perverse, eugenic fantasy

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Caroline Robertson @carolinerobertson.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Very excited to share this paper, led by @ajhaskins.bsky.social ! We find that how people look around the world is stable and idiosyncratic — and that these gaze patterns are shaped in part by the conceptual priorities each person brings to a scene. 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Masters of the Universe was the funnest superhero film I've seen since Deadpool. People should get over themselves and watch it.

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📣NEW paper📣 To date, only humans demonstrate meaning-based, generative communication. However, recent discoveries of combinatorial versatility in chimpanzee + bonobo vocal sequences open the possibility of generative communication in other species. Read here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CPCAMM...

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Anyone who has studied philosophy suddenly calls themselves a philosopher afterwards. Quite a feat ... I don’t know if it is a serious malpractice or just a funny side effect, but ... all sorts of people start thinking that they can philosophize themselves too." Lol. Bert Keizer, Trouw, 15.11.24

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

At school I liked biology, but I would never have imagined it becoming central to my career. Physics was always my best subject. Now, however, it just makes me angry. www.youtube.com/shorts/kaIs0...

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What would a four dimensional object look like?

YouTube video by Hannah Fry

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I took part in a symposium on Philip Pettit's new book, When Minds Converse, for Mind & Language. I raised some concerns but I liked the book a lot. My review is below. Other commentators were Dorit Bar-On and Hannes Rakoczy, with a response by Pettit. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Genealogy and cognitive development: On Pettit's When minds converse

I discuss three key differences between Pettit's philosophical genealogy and other influential works of cognitive development. They are: (i) concern with the temporal distribution of changes from a s...

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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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Alex Sanchez-Amaro @alex-primate.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data. Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - EVApeCognition: An 18-Year Dataset of Great Ape Cognition

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Christine Webb @christinewebb.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

An absolutely excruciating moment at the Georgia Supreme Court this week. Justice Peterson pressed state attorney Deborah Leslie over her citations to cases that apparently don’t exist.

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 20/03/2026

The paperback arrived! And it's as cute as ever but now full of kind words 🥺♥️ Available for purchase from April 14: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

The front cover of Playing Possum, with the blurbs "Remarkable" by Peter Singer and "A major contribution" by The New Yorker.

The back cover of Playing Possum with more praise.

The first page of Playing Possum with more praise.

The second page of Playing Possum with more praise.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

A very interesting job opportunity for an ECR philosopher working at the intersection of human origins and the ethics of science. Tübingen is a beautiful city with great people in this field (Claudio Tennie and Marlen Frölich, for example). uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Independent Junior Group Leader Ethics Laboratory (m/f/d, E14 TV-L, 100%)

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Is your life blighted by the insufferable optimists around you? Get them this for Christmas, to make their new year less joyful.

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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

There's a field of writing on philosophical issues in animal cognition that is dedicated to reconceptualising established philosophical ideas.

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Given the ways in which Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson have involved themselves in this story, it seems possible that someone has a vested interested in destabilising this investigation and using it to harm the government. Is there any evidence that this is happening? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Grooming gangs inquiry: Why is there a row?

A national inquiry into grooming gangs in England and Wales is in turmoil - how did we get here?

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground". Share, apply, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd

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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I've always worried about Thiel being so rich, sinister, and clever. Turns he's just rich, sinister, and a deluded fantasist whose mind has lost touch with reality. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I am travelling to the ESPP in Warsaw. My flight from Birmingham to Frankfurt is delayed, and I will miss my Warsaw connection. Lufthansa's best offer so far is a 9pm flight from Frankfurt to Vienna, and then a late flight from Vienna to Warsaw. Today will suck. But at least there's EC261 🥹

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