Giulia Palazzolo
@giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Interested in animal communication and the evolution of language | Philosophy of mind, philosophy of science. She/her https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/people/palazzolo/
#philsci #HPbio #cogsci #evosky #philjobs
Susana Monsó@susanamonso.com · 3w agoInterested 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!
📣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...
🔥Call for PIPoLS Workshop!🔥 📆17-18 dicembre 2026 Il primo workshop PIPoLS è all'orizzonte! 🗒️In occasione del nostro primo evento in presenza, invitiamo dottorande/i e studentesse/i di laurea magistrale a inviare una proposta per un flash talk, un poster o un breve video da presentare all’incontro.
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.
Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association@pamba.bsky.social · 5mo agoWondering 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!
PIPoLS è su Bluesky! 🦋 Seguiteci per ricevere aggiornamenti sulle iniziative della rete italiana di filosofia delle scienze della vita! 🧪🧬🌿🐙
PIPoLS: People of the Italian Philosophy of Life Sciences@pipols-italy.bsky.social · 5mo ago📣Nasce #PIPoLS, People of the Italian Philosophy of Life Sciences!📣In questo e nei prossimi thread vi racconteremo chi siamo, i nostri obiettivi e i valori che condividiamo. Seguiteci e condividete per restare aggiornati sulle nostre attività! ⏭️ #philsky #philbio #philmed #philcogsci #evosky
Nice coverage in The Guardian of our article on the importance of conserving culture for conservation. with @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bonobos enjoy pretend tea parties and chimps think rationally: why apes are more like us than we ever thought
A series of stunning findings about great apes’ mental capabilities in recent years has transformed how we see our closest relatives
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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
Can we talk to the animals? The ethics of using machine learning to decode animal communication
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I am really lucky, and I get to recruit for a PhD position in the UCD School of Philosophy! Deadline: April 15th The School of Philosophy is an incredible place to work, full of incredible expertise and amazing kindness. Please share/forward! :) More details below!
Ad Astra PhD Scholarship UCD School of Philosophy - UCD School of Philosophy
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📣📣📣 Applications for the 2026 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org
✨️Call for abstracts✨️ Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop "Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations" Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026 Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜 Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025 philevents.org/event/show/1...
Ruhr-University Bochum & London School of Economics joint workshop “Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations”
The following speakers are confirmed: Colin Allen, Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Tomer Czaczkes, Rebecca Dreier, Leonard Dung, Albert Newen, Simone Pika, Sanja Sreckovic, and Daria Zakharova.
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My new paper has just been published online in @journalphp.bsky.social! Popperian animals and instrumental reasoning: Philosophical Psychology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Popperian animals and instrumental reasoning: Philosophical Psychology: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
Browse all journals
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Excited to be appearing at a Philosophy in the Bookshop event at Blackwell’s flagship store in Oxford. Please repost and register now! @blackwells.bsky.social @nigelwarburton.bsky.social @philoswarwick.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophy...
PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with David Bather Woods
For this months Philosophy in the Bookshop event, David Bather Woods discusses his new biography of Schopenhauer with Nigel Warburton
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I wrote a commentary on @enactedmind.bsky.social's recent Proceedings B paper, to show why I think the insights of his postnatal dependency hypothesis are so powerful. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
If you care about language evolution, or are just looking for some heavy-ish weekend reading, Geurts & Moore (Eds.) Evolutionary Pragmatics is now available to order. The paper version won't be shipped until the end of August, but there's an electronic version on Oxford Academic today.
Department of Philosophy at Warwick celebrates its 60th anniversary in Senate House @uolpress.bsky.social with speeches on why #philosophymatters by Qassim Cassam, Heather Widdows, @guylongworth.bsky.social and @mmmccabe.bsky.social
New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University. Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence. Please share widely! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547
Center for Possible Minds Postdoctoral Fellow
The Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellows to join its Program for Advanced Research in Diverse Intelligences. The fellowship provi...
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Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution | Max Planck InstituteMax Planck Institute for psycholinguistics
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Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
Seeing an old friend might prompt vivid memories of times you spent together. Do other animals have the same kind of memory - episodic memory? @aliboyle.bsky.social and I introduce philosophical issues around such questions in a new Phil. Compass piece doi.org/10.1111/phc3... 1/9
Traditions of behaviour have been found to be passed on in numerous species of animals. Now, major #conservation agencies have begun to recognize that these discoveries could have big implications for conservation agendas. Explore the new #PhilTransB issue: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
@pamba.bsky.social unsurprisingly has some of the best non-human participants of any academic conference (and many great humans too)
Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association@pamba.bsky.social · last yr.After a great talk by Caroline Ristau we went to the beach to see the plovers. No broken wing displays in sight. #PAMBA25
🐸 We're excited to announce our upcoming workshop on Animal Communication 📅Save the date... see you in Valencia! 🔗: decrep.blogs.uv.es/workshop-ani...
Funding scheme for anyone to come and do a two-year postdoc on aesthetics at York! british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/po.... Application deadline: 31 May 2025.
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We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 PAMBA Prize, Giulia Palazzolo @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social for her paper Toward a bounded hierarchy framework for the study of the evolution of human syntax www.the-pamba.com/prize Congratulations Giulia!
Roman Frigg and I have revised our entry on Models in Science for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It is now online. plato.stanford.edu/entries/mode...
Models in Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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If you're interested in philosophy of biology—particularly its intersections with #evolution, #paleosky, and comparative studies of #behavior, #cognition, and #culture —consider following @theramseylab.bsky.social! We're a cool group of philosophers with a broad range of expertise! #philsci #HPbio
The Ramsey Lab@theramseylab.bsky.social · last yr.Hello! We are a collaborative philosophy group, led by Grant Ramsey, interested in the life sciences—esp. #evobio, paleoanthropology, and the behavioral & cognitive sciences. We will share our research updates and highlight exciting work across philosophy & science! #philsci #HPbio #CogSci #philsky
