Tragic that Happy has had to die in a zoo rather than in a sanctuary, where she should have been moved to.

If you teach using the image on the left, please please please teach the 175 words on the right.* Source: 1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/11/23/e... *Bonus points for reading/teaching the 39 words in my second post below.

I‘m heartily sick of being told ascribing preferences, interests, & desires to nonhuman animals is bad because it‘s anthropomorphism, & then seeing eleven billion articles talking about LLMs as if they have minds and agency.

It's not often that you can say a publication is a "first of its kind", but this may very well be the first handbook of its kind. We'll be exploring animal politics from all its angles, and provide a genuinely broad overview of this exciting and urgent field. Well keen to get going.

Brilliant news to share! Just heard from OUP that our proposal has been accepted to co-edit an "Oxford Handbook of Animal Politics" featuring over 40 commissioned chapters surveying the field. Co-editors @drsvg.bsky.social, @stevecooke.org, @joshmilburn.bsky.social, Alasdair Cochrane & Angie Pepper

‼️Today's the CFP deadline for the MANCEPT panel on 'Speciesism, Power and Prejudice' (2nd-4th September 2026). More information: philevents.org/event/show/1... @mattwperry.bsky.social

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

Deadline for this is on Monday!

Reminder: abstracts for the conference 'Social Ties in Animal Politics: Mutuality Beyond Humanity', hosted at the University of Sheffield, are due by 12th June. Last year's conference was really good. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Have you paused to listen lately? Chiffchaffs calling, Blackbirds in full song, and the first Swallows on the wing. Which spring sound always makes you smile? 🎵

📰 I have a new paper out with Peter Sands @anthropocenebio.bsky.social in Society & Animals - setting out the idea of a #PoliticalEcology of reanimating to understand current trends in #rewilding through the lens of individual animal lives brill.com/view/journal...

📆 are you interested in working with a team on understanding animal-human interactions and health? There is just under one week left to apply for these post doc roles. 🐦‍⬛🐄🐴🐕‍🦺

A couple thoughts on some of my latest work concerning our attitudes to animal minds. The post tries to convey why this is an issue that goes beyond a concern with sentience-based interests. Opinions welcome. And more definitely coming on this topic in future!

Painfully true about academic writing too. More true even.

More MANCEPT promotion! It’s such a wonderful conference in an awesome city. I don’t go any more because my university is broke & so I don’t have a research budget, but if you can get there it’s brilliant.

🟨 Print Edition — ‘We Are Still a Society Where the Postcode of the Bed You Are Born In, Sadly, Still Pretty Much Determines Where You End Up in Life’ Last month, Byline Times was invited to the launch of ‘Class Ceiling’ – a new report reviewing working-class participation in the arts across…

Call for abstracts! MANCEPT panel on 'Speciesism, Power and Prejudice' co-organised by me, @drhannahbattersby.bsky.social, and Valérie Topf. Dates: 2nd-4th September 2026. Will feature great talks by @francoisjaquet.bsky.social and @ccfaria.bsky.social. Details here: philevents.org/event/show/1...

This year's Warrender Lecture will be given by Professor Duncan Ivison ( @duncanivison.bsky.social ), President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester (and political philosopher!). Deatails of the lecture can be found at the below link. sheffield.ac.uk/spir/school/...

1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥 digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...

Excited to be co-organising this again, and this time at University of Sheffield. Please send in your abstracts and spread the word!

Conference announcement/CFP: Social Ties in Animal Politics: Mutuality Beyond Humanity University of Sheffield 8-9 September 2026 This is the latest installment in the long-running Animal Politics series. Abstracts due 12 June. Spread the word!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Political realists believe that we shouldn’t criticize political phenomena on moral grounds. If they are right, are animal ethicists in trouble? Can we still criticize speciesist social orders? In this new paper, I argue that we can.

Excited for this! Presenting some fresh work from my new project on the social status of animals. The talk is open to everyone so please come along if you want to hear more :)

I am extremely happy to share this! Here are my thoughts on what an appropriate international regime of human rights should like today - and it is also in open access degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…

How much incarceration is too much? Vincent Chiao (Toronto) discusses the insights from his recently published article in @the-joap.bsky.social justice-everywhere.org/general/how-...

It's that time of year! If you are a new PhD student in philosophy starting this fall, please let me know to add you to the starter pack! Alternatively, add the starter pack to get some fresh perspectives. :-)

I'm speaking at the next Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy event at the Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law in 10 days time! Excited and grateful for the opportunity to share my work

Before the world wakes, the birds are already singing… This week, we’re celebrating the dawn chorus at its peak. 😍 Each day, we’ll be spotlighting a few of the voices, building up to #InternationalDawnChorusDay this Sunday 4th May. Who'll be getting up early with us to catch the magic? 🎵

Are you writing on animals and (non)violence? Are you interested in getting it published in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence? If so, I have brilliant news for you: I'm putting together a Special Issue on Animals and (Non)violence! Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do... #polisky #animalsky

Real pleasure to be interviewed by @drsvg.bsky.social for @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social How to start a podcast, how academics can build a public profile, & how Mill relates to the manosphere justice-everywhere.org/general/beyo...

Call for papers: Forgotten Animals, 17th-18th September 2025, University of Leicester. Political philosophy conference on nonhuman animals, send me your abstracts! More details here: stevecooke.org?p=290

With @stevecooke.org, @drsvg.bsky.social, @mattwperry.bsky.social, and others I'm organizing the latest conference in the 'Animal Politics' series, this time hosted in Leicester. The theme is 'Forgotten Animals', and we're now accepting abstracts. Spread the word! philevents.org/event/show/1...

Our book came out today 🥳 In 'What Are Zoos For?' we examine the common justifications for zoos and argue that zoos are (or should be) for animals, placing animal welfare at the centre of their operations. Order here, or through most online booksellers: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...

Justice and Security-based Attachment, which I co authored with Stephanie Collins (Monash) is out in the Journal of Moral Philosophy now. brill.com/view/journal...

I've built myself a website, which includes a list of journals for animal rights philosophers to submit to (organised by publisher), a couple of syllabi, my essay writing guide for political philosophy students, & articles that philosophers say have changed their minds: stevecooke.org

"Humans and animals have something in common despite our differences: a shared capacity for sentience, and so, a shared dignity that extends across the species." My paper detailing and defending the idea of sentient dignity is out with Politics, Philosophy & Economics. Please read and share!

Sunday Read: Gary L. Francione looks to the history of philosophy to dismantle the conventional wisdom that it is acceptable to use and kill animals as long as we do so humanely. www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/animals...

Us prepping for the soon-to-exist Ethics for the Everyday podcast. It's more work than we thought, but we promise we will exist soon!!!

I think too that philosophy being based in vibes is one of its strengths. Paper here philarchive.org/rec/DECITM-2

📣Conference alert📣 Rethinking Wild Europe, University of Vienna With keynote speakers @monicavasile.bsky.social and @martindrenthen.bsky.social! I'll also give a talk on wildlife representation 🤓 Come join if you're around! cetep.eu/rethinking-w... #PhilSky #Environment #Biodiversity #Animals

Pre-orders of the collection I edited for Bloomsbury on care ethics are now available. So excited to have found a home for some fantastic contributions from across our international scholarly community!

Call for papers: political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. Please circulate. #polisky @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

wake up babe Hart's *new* paper just dropped academic.oup.com/ajj/advance-...

Our starter pack for Manchester Politics connected researchers, let us know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/J8MN89B

Just published in the Journal of Applied Animal Ethics Research: 'Eating Food Produced in Harmful Ways: Wrongful Complicity or Moral Tragedy?', which I co-authored with Chris Bobier. #philsky #animalethics #animalrights #foodethics doi.org/10.1163/2588...

I would like to see this in medicine as well. You know how it's (rightly) a major scandal when a surgeon is found to have "signed" his name inside their patients? Then why do people have to go around with disorders named after people? #medsky #bioethics

New Post! More Than a Name: Decolonising Wildlife Matthew Perry argues that eponymously named animals (named after a person), ideally so that the new name reorients us to each animal's importance independent of human history. justice-everywhere.org/general/more...

Successful academic writing: That’s goodness that’s finished. Oh no, peer review comments. Phew, done. Oh no, copy editors comments. Phew done. Oh no proof reading. Phew done. Published!! (Reads it again. Thinks to self: Who wrote this rubbish?)

My 7-year-old was given a prompt at school to write what she would do if she were a Thanksgiving turkey. Her answer is, legit, amazing. #proudmom

Part of our Reflections on Ukraine Series: Should we cancel Russia and Dostoevsky? Not quite, writes George Pattison justice-everywhere.org/general/to-c...