After saying I’d do it for years, I finally set up an online shop 🦑 Alongside my work as a biologist, I make lino cut art prints (often nature- inspired) that I have sold at art markets. I make some jewellery too… Check it out! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Magp...

A gallery of bees:

Bees - Alex Wild

A gallery of bees.

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Possible social medication in bumblebees. In this study, bumblebees exposed to a fungus that affects larvae progressively increased their preference for artificial nectar containing quercetin (a vegetable antioxidant with antimicrobial properties) (paper) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

How do bees and wasps respond to warming in spring? Our very own Cristina Ganuza appeared on the Bee's Knees podcast 🐝 talking about her latest research! #pollinators #climatechange thebeesknees.website/spring-bees/

When Spring Comes Too Soon: The effects of warm springs on bees (Ep. 86) - The Bee's Knees

Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average—and wild bees are running out of time. When spring arrives early or scorching hot, it triggers a survival crisis. We speak with Dr. Cristina Ganuz...

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Our study covered on @sciencex.bsky.social @angelastoeger.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social phys.org/news/2026-10...

'Move away' and 'stop that!' Wild elephants use a rich gestural repertoire intentionally to 'mean business'

Wild African savanna elephants use a wide range of gestures when competing with other elephants, according to research from an international group of scientists, including researchers from the Univers...

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Getting my third years to categorise and order species by their perceptions of sentience. We learn lots about psychology, culture, & the state of scientific knowledge.

🟢¡¡Ya está disponible el calendario de sesiones del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 2026-27!! + info en nuestra página web y en la de @biokoinos.bsky.social: 🔗https://blogs.uned.es/metis/about/ 🔗https://www.biokoinos.org/

Super excited to share that this academic year I'm doing an eight-month research stay at @metisuned.bsky.social 🐘🌱 Our plan is to work on my article about epistemic agency in animals; I am really looking forward to get close feedback from my supervisor, @susanamonso.com 🙌🎉 #philsky #philosophy

METIS research group@metisuned.bsky.social · 5d ago

📣We’re very happy to announce that Josep Gasol will be joining us at UNED for a research stay with METIS from October to May! Welcome, @josepgasol.com !!

Why do people with ME claim to know more about the medical aspects of their disease than their doctors? Because the mechanisms that usually ensure doctors' knowledge fail in the case of ME, and sick people have created mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination to pick up the slack.

New #BookReview: "Animal History: History as if Animals Mattered" #Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalInteraction #Compassion doi.org/10.1080/0892...

I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?

Fabio Chiusi@fabiochiusi.bsky.social · last wk.

What? Are you ok, Economist?

Lots of good stuff in this debate - a link’s going straight into the folder on nonhuman citizenship on my third year course on animal rights and environmental philosophy.

GLOBALCIT@globalcit.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 New Forum Debate❗ Kickstarted by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, who ask 🤔 Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents❓ Stay tuned for the ensuing debate 💭 📖 tinyurl.com/5e6hn9ju

Do chimpanzees value their friendships enough to pass on juicy pineapple? In our new paper, out now at Evolution and Human Behavior, we find that they do! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

¡La naturaleza es increíble! Una cámara grabó de principio a fin cómo un pájaro construyó su nido y tuvo sus polluelos.

🟢 METIS Seminar Series 2026/27: First Semester Talks Everyone is welcome to attend! 📍 In person: Sala B, Edificio de Humanidades Paseo Senda del Rey, 7, Madrid 💻 Online: Email metis@fsof.uned.es or subscribe to our mailing list.

🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social

🍃BioKoinos Research Group begins a new academic year with new members, ongoing research stays, seminar series, and more. Thank you to everyone who follows and supports us. Keep up with our activities on this account and at biokoinos.org @filosofiaucm.bsky.social

Why care about weird animal behaviors? Just out as an advanced publication, my contribution to the next Frans de Waal special issue in Behaviour @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Unusual behaviors are a recurring theme in my career, and I much enjoyed writing this perspective! doi.org/10.1163/1568...

The science of the unusual: how rare observations reveal the diversity of animal behaviour

Abstract Behavioural biology often focuses on identifying general patterns, yet unusual or rare behaviours at both the population and individual level can provide insight into animal behaviour. Here, ...

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pub day! www.routledge.com/Introducing-...

Introducing Philosophy of Mind, Today

This coursebook introduces philosophy of mind as it is practiced in the third decade of the 21st century to a wide range of readers. It provides any interested student, researcher, or general reader—n...

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Devin Curry@devinsanchezcurry.com · last mo.

I wrote this book with Louise Daoust and forty of our friends.

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

Meet Veronika the cow, clever octopuses, smart kunekune pigs, and the wonderful Goffin's cockatoos. A documentary by Feuer & Flamme Film for those of you with access to ORF 2. CC @auersperga.bsky.social

✨ What if we didn't wait for legal change to start building compassionate futures for animals? At #ALAC2026, Elan Abrell, Iselin Gambert, M.H. Tse, & Matthew Liebman discuss prefigurative animal law & multispecies coexistence. 👉 https://bit.ly/4hsfSYM

To add to all the lovely videos of non-AI processes multicilia beating: ctenophore multiciliated cells! They can reach up to 1mm long, causing a rainbow light refraction effect with the correct light positioning! Taken by myself at MBL in 2019 embryology. Realtime frame-rate!

1/9 Ethnozoology of medicinal plants used by elephants on Mount Elgon (Kenya) The researchers interviewed 8 local experts on elephant behavior, all with more than 20 years of experience, and what they learned is astonishing. (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

🐟🚨 Fish paper alert! 🚨🐟 You might already know that individuals are unique, even when they’re genetically identical clones raised in identical environments. But what about groups? Groups of clones are distinct from birth, but (unlike individuals) those differences do not predict later behavior!

Group-level phenotypes are idiosyncratic yet unpredictable over development in a clonal fish

Behavioral differences among groups can have profound impacts on individual fitness,1 yet how group-level phenotypes arise and change during developme…

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Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?

As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsibly

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Tomorrow at 9:30 AM, I’ll be defending some Dennettian ideas about agency in animal cognition for the project @animalinvention.bsky.social Informations online: www.animalinventiveness.com Many thanks to @drmathildetahar.bsky.social and Alecia Carter for this wonderful workshop program @ucl.ac.uk

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 · 3w 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...

1/2 Kleptoparasitism in an Australian dolphin Researchers have documented the case of Bubbles, a dolphin that feeds by harassing horse mackerel until they regurgitate their food. It has not been observed feeding in any other way since 2017 (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...