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...

Four philosophers are on the 2024 edition of Vox's list of "innovators from around the world who are tackling our biggest challenges," alongside some well-known cultural figures like Christopher Nolan, Billie Eilish, Jose Andres, and others...

Great issue of CRISPP now out - from socialism and republicanism to homelessness, climate budgets and the interests of nonhuman animals - a real intellectual feast

On popular demand, here is part two! go.bsky.app/3mESMAN

Hi Everyone! Finally made my way over to bsky - I'm Matt, a postdoc in ethics and political & social philosophy at the University of British Columbia. Follow me for posts on dignity, political theory, ethics and nonhuman animals! 🐕🐖🐿️ (I can't promise I won't be predominantly lurking though...!)