iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Simon Fitzpatrick @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New article for the SEP: an overview of philosophical debates over normative phenomena in animals, including morality, moral agency, social norms, normative thought, and the implications for animal ethics and welfare. I hope it is useful! plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...

plato.stanford.edu

Animal Normativity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

094

Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert @virginiesimoneau.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thrilled to announce that my paper on practices of responsibility among animals has just been published in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! I argue that some social animals' capacity to experience anger and empathy allows them to engage in responsibility practices like blame and reconciliation.

link.springer.com

Can Nonhuman Animals Hold Each Other Morally Responsible? - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

Nonhuman animals have traditionally been excluded from the realm of beings who can be held morally responsible for their actions. In this article, I challenge this picture by expanding on anger’s rele...

030

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Julien Hernandez @barbusceptique.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

La morale est-elle le propre de humain ? Les animaux non-humains peuvent-ils être considérés comme des sujets voire des agents moraux ? Pour s'introduire très brièvement à ces questions, il faut acheter le 3ème numéro de @lamorce.co et lire l'article écrit par @virginiesimoneau.bsky.social !

172

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

lamorce.co @lamorce.co · 18/06/2026

Homo sapiens a-t-il le monopole de la moralité ? La philosophe @virginiesimoneau.bsky.social examine cette question vertigineuse dans un article inspiré de sa thèse de doctorat. À lire dans notre n°3, actuellement en librairie ! www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/978249...

“De la même manière que nous avons découvert, au fil des dernières décennies, des formes de rationalité, de langage et même de culture chez plusieurs espèces animales, nous découvrons aujourd’hui des formes de moralité, en particulier chez les mammifères et certains oiseaux.”
Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

“Ces découvertes nous invitent à réévaluer la thèse, longtemps dominante dans la tradition philosophique occidentale, selon laquelle les humains seraient supérieurs aux autres espèces parce qu’ils seraient les “seuls animaux moraux.”” Extrait de l’article « Homo sapiens, seul animal moral ? » De Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert, Dans L’Amorce - Revue contre le spécisme #3

2127

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

If insects are sentient and sentience implies rights, what follows for food security and public health? I call this the "insect challenge" for animal ethics. The Journal of Practical Ethics has a new symposium on it, with an article by me and 3 replies: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jpe/news/ 1/5

A photograph of a bumblebee on a flower (by Jonathan Birch)

56015

Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert @virginiesimoneau.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Delighted to co-author this piece with Leonie Bossert on the potential benefits and risks of using AI to communicate with animals! 🐋

1196

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

On 15 May I'll be a judge in the grand final of the first Coller Dolittle Prize, a $100K annual prize for the biggest recent step taken towards decoding animal communication. We'll hear from all the finalists then pick a winner. Join us online! jeremycollerfoundation.org/events/colle...

0275

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2) www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

lse.ac.uk

LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience

The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.

53729130

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

lamorce.co @lamorce.co · 24/03/2025

[Nouvel article] Pourquoi lire La politique sexuelle de la viande ? @edesaulniers.com montre comment le backlash antiféministe s’exprime aussi dans nos assiettes : la viande devient un symbole d’identité virile, une réaction aux avancées progressistes. lamorce.co/politique_vi...

lamorce.co

Ils reviennent. Nous aussi.

Ce texte est la préface d'Élise Desaulniers à l'édition québécoise de La politique sexuelle de la viande à paraitre aux éditions du Remue-ménage le 1er avril

23611

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Adriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

12365112319

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Here's a still-in-progress, woefully incomplete list of people interested in factory farming, animal rights, animal ethics, etc. from Twitter and elsewhere🦋🫶 Anyone I should add, LMK go.bsky.app/C73abV3

7323169

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

Comme un poisson dans l'eau @poissonpodcast.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Coucou le ciel bleu, je vois qu’on est de plus en plus ici ! 🌈 Très honoré que le podcast fasse partie de cette merveilleuse liste élaborée par @takara-orca.bsky.social ! 💜🐠 Je vous encourage vivement à suivre tous ces comptes 🙌🏼 go.bsky.app/9UhRBru

65513

Reposted by Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

lamorce.co @lamorce.co · 15/11/2024

📣 L'Amorce arrive sur Bluesky ! 📙 Principale revue francophone dédiée à l'exploration des enjeux éthiques, politiques et culturels de la lutte contre le spécisme, nous avons publié cette année notre premier numéro papier : lamorce.co/lamorce-en-p...

53919