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

Dear @susanamonso.com, congrats for an absolutely brilliant (and fundamentally antispeciesist) book, demonstrating what we felt to be true - so many animals know of death too It’s also REALLY FUN to read and reminded me of Safina’s « Becoming wild » -

A wonderful new resource for those wanting to explore the philosophical debates on animal minds!

Laura Danón@ldanon.bsky.social · 5d ago

My entry on Animal Thought for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is now online! plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

Birders out there, I need your help! I have a pair of birds coming to feed at my window sill (in Madrid, Spain) and I can't figure out the species. They look very similar to sparrows, but with a more uniform ash colour, slightly bigger in size, and with a longer tail. Any clues?

I’ve just been named subject editor for the new “Animal ethics” area in the SEP, following my complaint that there are too few articles on this topic (serves me right for complaining). So stay tuned for new entries in the area, and hit me up with suggestions on topics that you think merit one!

Had fun doing this interview for the @science.org podcast on the short column I wrote for them on the value of philosophy for science.

Sar Crespi@boron110.bsky.social · 2w ago

How philosophy can play a role in the scientific process, from defining terms to formulating questions--this week on the @science.org podcast w/ Expert Voices columnist Susana Monsó www.science.org/content/podc...

AI everything has also forced us to have so many meetings, discussions, policies, and changes. LLMs have wasted more of my time than any other anything. How such a wasteful, annoying, product is being successfully marketed as one that saves time & creates efficiencies I will never know.

1/17 Body awareness in cockatoos For the first time, we have adapted the “body-as-an-obstacle” task to birds, a paradigm originally designed to study the development of body awareness in children. (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited BEYOND MEASURE for @edyong209.bsky.social’s new book!!

Life Beyond Measure by Ed Yong: 9780593733288 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Just as he did in his New York Times bestseller, An Immense World, Ed Yong expands our perception of nature, this time by revealing the astonishing ways living things operate at different scales. "A...

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PAMBA 2027 April 27-29 at Warwick. Join us for bluebells, a castle walk, and great talks! Keynotes: Heather Browning @zoophilosophy.bsky.social Cameron Buckner @cameronbuckner.bsky.social Stephen Butterfill Paco Calvo Garzon Marta Halina @martahalina.bsky.social Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com

Conferences & other meetings — PAMBA

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This is going to be awesome.

Richard Moore@richardmoore.bsky.social · 2w ago

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...

🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/

PAMBA Call For Papers and PAMBA Prize announcement coming soon! April 27-29, 2027 at Warwick. Save the date!

Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association@pamba.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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!

This is a real photo from 1913. It hasn’t been colorized. It was made using a technique called the Autochrome Lumière which captured true color using microscopic dyed starch grains as color filters, decades before color film existed. Pretty incredible, no? More below 👇

We have a new little paper out: an introduction to the philosophy of comparative psychology. If you're tired of artificial intelligences, you can read about biological ones instead.

Richard Moore@richardmoore.bsky.social · 3w ago

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/...

Excited to announce KINDRED -- first-hand stories about chimpanzees like Chiffon and Eli who opened my eyes to their inner worlds and inspired their protection. Endorsed by the late Dr. Jane Goodall. 🧵 (1/2)

It's a traditionally neglected, but now rapidly growing, subfield of philosophy of science. I am currently writing a book on the philosophy of the geosciences that gives introduction, but in meantime I can recommend this survey paper by two members of my #PhiGeo research group

What is Philosophy of the Geosciences?

The philosophy of the geosciences is an emerging subfield in philosophy of science. Although past and present geoscientific disciplines differ substantially, we argue that they frequently face common...

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Can anyone recommend a good introduction to philosophy of geology? Asking for a geologist friend.

📣Este martes, @susanamonso.com dará la conferencia inaugural del Grado en Filosofía de la Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife) con la ponencia “Juegos animales”!

Interested in doing a PhD in philosophy of animal minds in lovely Murcia? We have just published a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD as part of our research project on ecological validity in comparative cognitive science. Please consider applying if this is up your street!

Call for expressions of interest: PhD position

The Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation is about to publish a call for pre-doctoral scholarships (FPI) adhered to scientific projects that have been approved for funding in 2026. We invite …

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The website of our research project is live! We will be announcing soon a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD with us. Stay tuned!

EVACCS

ecological validity in comparative cognitive science

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I wrote a little something on the value of philosophy for animal cognition. Out now in Science’s Expert Voices column.

Science is based on assumptions. Philosophy can make sure they’re the right ones.

When I was a postdoctoral researcher, I spent several years teaching at an interdisciplinary research institute in Vienna, Austria. There, my main course sought to train master’s students—mostly biolo...

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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

A proposition to all analytic philosophers (and likeminded theorists): PSUAFE because IIVAFR and IMTWRDI. Where: PSUAFE = Please stop using acronyms for everything. IIVAFR = It is very annoying for readers. IMTWRDI = It makes them want to read Derrida instead.

I have had the privilege to read a full draft of @kristinandrews.bsky.social’s new book on animal cultures and BOY are you all in for a TREAT!!

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!

Hiding from LA heat with @susanamonso.com’s fascinating book PLAYING POSSUM. (Research for novel 4) Highly recommend! Very accessible to the general reader.

A new paper reports orca using high speed ramming to smash up prey. Perhaps for fun 🧪🫍 www.frontiersin.org/journals/eth...

Would chimpanzees or bonobos huddle before a penalty shootout in the World Cup? 🐵⚽ In both species, reassuring body contact promotes social tolerance, read more in our new study led by Jake Brooker out now in @royalsociety.org Proc B. (doi.org/10.1098/rspb...) A thread of the main findings 🧵 (1/10)