In Osaka meeting the first fish to have been shown to possess self-awareness in mirror experiments!

Next week's lecture :)

The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes. She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until October 6! Walter Veit examines the role of models in evolutionary biology: their types, testability, and interrelations 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #HPBio #evobio

My new book 'Modelling Evolution' is now published! Please share. Available for free download for 2 weeks with this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Last week @walterveit.bsky.social and I found a little wood pigeon nestling who'd come out of his nest. We were able to care for him at home for a couple of days and he's now safely with a wildlife rescue for his rehabilitation and eventual release 🐦❤️

Followed in the footsteps of Ancient philosophers and completed a 7 day water only fast (178 hours).

New book chapter out with @walterveit.bsky.social, arguing that animals should still be important even from a longtermist perspective academic.oup.com/book/60794/c...

Now published open access!! Browning, Heather, and Walter Veit, 'Longtermism and Animals', in Hilary Greaves, Jacob Barrett, and David Thorstad (eds), Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Small announcement: my third book "Modelling Evolution" has been accepted for publication with CUP. 😊

New podcast out! @walterveit.bsky.social and I talk with Kyle Johannsen about our book 'What Are Zoos For?' newbooksnetwork.com/what-are-zoo...

If you're an animal lover and haven't bought @zoophilosophy.bsky.social & @walterveit.bsky.social book yet, you need to. Their book “What are Zoos For?” is filled with info that can help you debate, discuss and inform others more confidently. #philsky #animalrights #science

New paper: Self-Awareness and Personhood in Non-Human Animals link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New paper published :) "The Role of Emotional Suffering in the Animal Kingdom" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Talked about my research for a kids science radio :) podcastnetwork.funkidslive.com/uncategorise...

📖 NEW BOOK REVIEW 📖 Check out the latest book review published in Animal Welfare: What Are Zoos For? By Heather Browning and Walter Veit. Reviewed by Lisa Riley. 🔗 Read the full review here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #AnimalWelfare #AnimalWelfareScience

I have a new short paper out today, commenting on Walter Veit's (excellent) 2023 book on animal consciousness. Open access. doi.org/10.1177/1059...

Fantastic report from the Humane Slaughter Association on how to transition to humane slaughter for wild-caught fish (of which *trillions* are caught and killed annually) www.hsa.org.uk/downloads/hs...

Made an appearance on a BBC radio station :) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Special issue on my book is now online: journals.sagepub.com/toc/adba/33/3

New podcast episode :) open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

Looks like I'll be in Latvia for a workshop in Riga next month. :)

My comment on the assisted dying bill www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Ex...

The philosophy student society awarded me a prize for the most popular philosopher in the department 😊

Wrote an editorial doi.org/10.1177/1059...

Running my first workshop "Are there Unidimensional ‘Common Currencies’ of Value?" - come by on the 18th of June :) philevents.org/event/show/1...

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a raven or a crow? These birds are clever, curious and socially complex. New research by philosophers @walterveit.bsky.social & @zoophilosophy.bsky.social is helping us understand the conscious experience behind those sharp eyes.

New article alert (if anyone has institutional access please send me a pdf...): Browning, H., & Veit, W. (2025). Best Practice for Farmed Insect Welfare: Lessons from Black Soldier Flies. Animal Behaviour and Welfare Cases, 15(5), e29452. doi.org/10.1079/abwc...

Wrote a piece for the Conversation with Heather theconversation.com/whats-it-lik...

New open access article! Veit, Walter. (2025). Animal consciousness: Why it matters. Metode Science Studies Journal, 15(5), e29452. doi.org/10.7203/meto...

New podcast episode! open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

New podcast episode open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

Doing some shrimp welfare research and suddenly it's featured by the Daily Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNbI...

Not just larger, but suffering from lots of health conditions like broken bones

In our latest @salgoteam.bsky.social publication, we propose a new metric to quantify life history complexity. Led by Walter Veit, with Sam Gascoigne. Out now at Biological Theory: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

walter veit and I talk about synthetic philosophy and meta-philosophy on his podcast. youtu.be/hq-GUToISuo?...

Eric Schliesser "Synthetic Philosophy: A Restatement," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2024 appeared. A picture of the abstract below. The paper is dedicated to Dan Dennett (at the suggestion of Walter Veit). academic.oup.com/aristotelian... In the next comments a bit of pre-history 1/

In this episode of my podcast, I speak with Dr. Walter Veit, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Reading: codyturnercreations.com/56-evolution...

Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness link.springer.com/article/10.1... - really nice paper by Walter Veit, in which he argues that subjectively felt (valenced) experience arose as a solution to the problem of adaptive action selection under exploding ("pathological") complexity

“This research is difficult and faced with methodological and conceptual problems that are being addressed. But it is nevertheless moving recognizably closer towards understanding what it is like to be a corvid, or for that matter, any nonhuman animal species” Excellent (and #openaccess) review 🐦‍⬛🧪

Ever wondered what life is like for a crow or magpie? Check out our new paper on corvid consciousness doi.org/10.1007/s100...

Lovely thread on our new paper on corvid consciousness

Recording now available from our recent webinar on the harms of de-extinction, hosted by GW Animal Law Program's Animal Law and Science Project www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCwI...

Pathological complexity and African elephant consciousness by Don Ross doi.org/10.1177/1059...

What is it like to be a crow? Wrote a new essay :) open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

Teaching testimonial injustice tomorrow. :)

New blog post on Donald Griffin 🦇 open.substack.com/pub/walterve...