My book Playing Possum has been nominated for the German Wissensbuch des Jahres (non-fiction book of the year) award! If you think it deserves to win, you can vote for it here under the category Überraschung. Thank you kindly 😇

Delighted to learn that our project 'Ecological validity in comparative cognitive science' (co-led by @segundo-ortin.bsky.social and yours truly) has been funded! 👇

What a magnificient topic! And delightful book. Best use of conceptual analysis I have seen in years. Thank you @susanamonso.com

Welp. It finally happened. Found a reference to a non-existent paper of mine in a manuscript I was reviewing.

We have an exciting new position in our group for a PhD on parrot innovation !!! The position will be part of our new @fwf-at.bsky.social Emerging Fields project with @barbaraklump.bsky.social , @mohara.bsky.social , @christophvoelter.bsky.social and Justus Piater. Apply & share!!

Loving the cover of the Polish edition of my book Playing Possum. Out soon!

Totally unexpected but the author of this article has now read my book and written a positive review on it.

Once upon a time, I approached biologists @biotay.bsky.social and @auersperga.bsky.social with some crazy ideas on how to test for animals’ concept of death. Many years later, our first study with the stellar cockatoos from the Goffin Lab is finally out! (More to come)

Do we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Thanks reviewer two, I respond in a footnote, Like shoots under snow.

Feeling some sympathy for this author as I read the abstract for their paper. The fact/fart distinction does seem important though.

👋Hi! 📥The latest issue (Vol.41, No. 1. 2026) of our international open access journal is available at: 🔗https://ojs.ehu.eus/index.php/THEORIA/issue/view/2181 🙂One retweet?

Proudest day for a mentor? When your former trainee is a Jeopardy clue! @susanamonso.com

My book was a clue on Jeopardy!! Wtf this is too cool I think I’m ready to die now

Now in #paperback, @susanamonso.com's Playing Possum explores how animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality. Read a free preview of this fascinating book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Philosophy

The Dutch newspaper Trouw publishes a “review” of my book by a guy who admits to not having read it, calls me a biologist, uses “counterarguments” that I refute in my book, and shows absolutely zero understanding of animal behaviour. The audacity.

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

Day 3 and final day of the Embodied Cognition and Comparative Psychology Conference with @susanamonso.com, @miguelborrajo.bsky.social and myself presenting. It has been a wonderful (and exhausting) experience. @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social and Gabriel Corda in the last photo too! ✨🐾

My favourite souvenir from last week’s conference: me looking back at my PhD student, @miguelborrajo.bsky.social, whose work criticises AI animal translation projects, as Louise Barrett sarcastically comments on anthropocentric animal cognition.

Day 1 at the Embodied Cognition And Comparative Psychology Conference at the Universidad de Murcia with keynote speakers Louise Barrett and Lucia F. Jacobs. What a fantastic opportunity to be here! 🐙🦇🐬

Delighted to wake up to an extremely generous review of my book in @thebjps.bsky.social by Tiffani Thomason and @wileyprof.bsky.social. “Playing Possum is detailed, funny, and probably the closest a dense philosophical work can get to being called a page turner.”

Wondering 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!

Next week I will be keynoting at this. My wonderful PhD students @miguelborrajo.bsky.social, @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social, and @josepgasol.com will also be presenting. Fun times!

Job Alert 🚨 - please share! My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings! Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I know I’m late to this party but I recently read David Peña-Guzmán’s When Animals Dream and loved it! Here’s my review of it for Environmental Ethics (behind a paywall — DM or email me for a copy)

Thrilled to be featured alongside a number of colleagues I admire in this beautiful piece in @theguardian.com on stunning discoveries about the minds of our closest ape relatives! @gloriadickie.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I like ba-o-babs and I can not lie… but as it turns out I’m not the only one! Fongoli chimpanzees incorporate baobab hollows into their vocal drumming displays!! 🧪🐵🥁 Are you sitting comfortably… 1/n #newpaper #sciencestorytelling brill.com/view/journal...

I'm so honored to have received this award in memory of Frans de Waal for my PhD thesis! His work (and briefly working with him) truly shaped my scientific thinking and research. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

[CONFERENCE ALERT] May 5-7, EMBODIED COGNITION AND COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY Universidad de Murcia (Spain) Invited speakers: Louise Barrett, Lucia Jacobs, Susana Monsó, Paco Calvo, Matt Sims & Aditya Ponkshe. Check out the full program here: embodiedcomparativepsychology.square.site/program

Not me crying because I’m giving a talk at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour and a bunch of scientists show up to listen to my silly little thoughts

How animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality. @susanamonso.com's Playing Possum is out now in #paperback! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Philosophy

You know you’re in Germany when you can barely see yourself in the hotel mirror.

This 100%. Good science requires good philosophy.

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

I'm used to my name being misspelled but this one's new

💶🧿 Value illusions in insects 🐝🐜🦗 Insects make many of the same weird choices we do, and fall for many of the same marketing tricks - but not all! A very short piece by Tanya Latty and me doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

In Playing Possum, @susanamonso.com explores how animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality. The #paperback edition arrives on 14 April! Preorder yours here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Philosophy

The inimitable Amalia Bastos is accepting applications for PhD students, through @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 4-year funding is available for students with the right to work in the UK: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Awesome project, dreamy place, stellar mentor

The paperback arrived! And it's as cute as ever but now full of kind words 🥺♥️ Available for purchase from April 14: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Very happy to see this out in the world! A summary of one of my favourite publications, which I co-authored with the stellar @ldanon.bsky.social, so hopefully it will pique people's interest! (You can read it or listen to a very cringeworthy recording by yours truly)

📕Próximo Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-Metis. 👨‍🎓 Josep Gasol (UPCE) presentará "Animales silenciados: Injusticia epistémica hacia los animales no humanos". 🕓 Miércoles 18 de marzo 16:00-18:00h 📍 Sala 0.6, Edificio de Humanidades, UNED. 💻 Info www.biokoinos.org/seminario-do... @josepgasol.com

📚 La profesora de la UNED Susana Monsó ha sido reconocida internacionalmente por su investigación sobre la muerte en los animales

Yesterday was a truly special day as I returned to my beloved Vienna to receive a prize for a book that I conceived and wrote in that same city. Moved by the presence of friends in the audience and so thankful to everyone who voted for me.

"Animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves." If you enjoyed our recent episode on the value of animal cultures, you may be interested in this new paper by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social & @kristinandrews.bsky.social! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

I don’t know who needs to hear this but philosophy of animal minds is an actual field, and if you have an “idea” about animal minds that you want to publish you need to engage with the literature. Same with animal ethics. Signed: a frustrated reviewer.

I got a copy of the Chinese edition of my book and it is so cute!

My paper on 🌱🦧 ANIMAL MEDICINE 🐜🍄, written with Cristian Saborido (office mate and tip-top philosopher of biology and medicine), is finally out in Philosophy of Science. We offer a cool new framework for understanding medicine in different species, including our own. And it's ✨ OPEN ACCESS ✨

🎉 Great news! ⭐ Susana Monsó’s book Das Schweigen der Schimpansen (German edition of Playing Possum) has won the Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres 2026 award. Congratulations to @susanamonso.com on this well-deserved recognition! 👏📚