I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

📅✨ Plan chulísimo para todos los públicos este viernes 19 (18:00–19:00h) en Madrid: En el Círculo de Bellas Artes, dentro del Festival de las Ideas, @susanamonso.com y Paco Calvo hablarán sobre inteligencias no humanas 🐒🌱 🎟️ Entrada libre hasta completar aforo ℹ️ festivaldelasideas.es/eventos/las-...

Estaré este viernes en el Círculo de Bellas Artes charlando sobre inteligencias no humanas con el gran Paco Calvo como parte del Festival de las Ideas. ¡Entrada libre hasta completar aforo!

Animal experts! Please can you help me figure out the culprit behind what I found in my office drawer after returning from my holidays? Is it a mouse or a rat? Or something else entirely? I should have it all disinfected right? 😬

Es cuestión de tiempo que firme accidentalmente un email como “Sudaba”.

I'm so looking forward to reading this. Zoopolis had a huge influence on my own ethical thinking and I'm excited to see how Donaldson & Kymlicka have integrated scientific work on animal culture and agency in this one.

APA member @kristinandrews.bsky.social brings "philosophy or animal minds" to the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/human-q...

Join us September 12 for the 4th annual Normactivity Online Workshop, with four talks on 🐘 animal normativity 🐒, and dedicated to the memory of Frans de Waal, who launched the field. Speakers: Sarah Brosnan @lgruen.bsky.social Pier Francesco Ferrari, Phillip Kitcher. Register 👉 tinyurl.com/5akaw2j6

Postgrads! Call for papers: "Do animals understand death?" with @susanamonso.com on her (wonderful) book "Playing Possum". Submission deadline 30th September, workshop December 15-16, Ruhr University Bochum: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...

September 📚 🏫 In August we took a little vacation 🌞🏖 from the department’s social media, but some members of METIS kept moving. A very brief thread with some of their activities 👇 🧵

🔷 METIS has a new social media team! 🚀 From now on, we will be behind the keyboard: Ignasi @ignasigil.bsky.social & Marco @raciondeser.bsky.social We will continue to share the work, ideas, activity and good humour that make METIS what it is. Stay tuned! 📚

Apologies to subscribers of my mailing list for the flurry of emails, but I took August off 🥹

Maravillosa entrevista sobre el concepto de la muerte en especies no humanas de @susanamonso.com en @science.org podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/s...

Die Zeit has chosen my Playing Possum (German edition) as one of its books of the month!

El debate que divide a España: 🥔 Tortilla: ¿Con cebolla o sin cebolla? 🧅 Desde la UNED queremos resolverlo con DATOS. 📊 Solo 2 min. Pásasela a tus padres, tu cuñado, tu vecina. tinyurl.com/mt6e6mbh

Had a wonderful time in China at SAPoLSN 2025! And yes I flail my arms a lot when I speak.

1. The philosophy of science sometimes gets an unearned reputation as a purely academic exercise that offers little by way of concrete tools for advancing research. This is wrong. And today, as we grapple with how AI is changing the nature of scientific activity, it's desperately wrong.

My paper ‘Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... has just been published at @the-joap.bsky.social In it, I argue for fostering a sense of wonder at individual nonhuman animals, & for making this the basis of a reverence-based respect.

Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science! You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In Shanghai, at SAPoLSN 2025, talking about possums, naturally making my dead possum face. [Picture credit goes to @segundo-ortin.bsky.social]

Inauguramos nuestro perfil con el anuncio del Premio de Ensayo Edición 2026. Toda la info aquí: revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/te... wpd.ugr.es/~swipa/wordp...

I wonder, if we truly believe we are so much better than other species, why have we spent thousands of years driving home the point?

Loved this review of Playing Possum in Fortean Times. "[A] bracing, rigorous, jaunty and downright brilliant study" -- thank you, kind stranger!

🎓 The 2024–25 academic year has been a period of growth and consolidation for the VlC Philosophy LAB. Here's an overview of the key highlights of our academic activity and relevant information👇 🙃A RT is always appreciated!

New call for papers: think.taylorandfranc... Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! What a lovely way to honour our editorial board member Helen De Cruz who was a philosopher, a musician, an artist, and a fiction writer! #philsky

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪

Cerramos el curso con alegría y muchas razones para celebrar. Gracias a todas las personas que hacen posible METIS, chin chin y larga vida! ✨ ¡Seguimos!

François Jaquet wrote a lovely review of my book for Metascience: “Playing Pos- sum is a wonderful book, and I recommend it without reservation to anyone inter- ested in the mental lives of animals.” 🥰

Here we show that the skill of following pointing gestures was easily trained in 44 adult chimpanzees. We speculate that reports of apes' poor pointing comprehension likely stem from their inadequate learning histories, not their evolutionary histories. dx.doi.org/10.1037/com0...

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.

In this edition of Ideas, philosopher Susana Monsó explores a new study which has uncovered the mysterious burial of elephant calves in Indian tea plantations and what these findings reveal about elephants’ remarkable understanding of death. hubs.ly/Q03tFH6m0 #Animals #Philosophy @susanamonso.com

✦ 1. ¿Alguna vez te has preguntado si el tiempo es ilusorio? ¿O si el futuro está abierto? Mi #HiloTesis explora si la biología puede ayudarnos en estas disputas metafísicas sobre la naturaleza del tiempo. @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social ky.social @uneduniv.bsky.social

You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds. In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17

Un placer enorme, como de costumbre, colaborar con Carne Cruda.

Mañana a las 10 estaré en directo en Carne Cruda hablando de comunicación animal, con apariciones también de mis doctorandos @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social y @miguelborrajo.bsky.social.

1/ Last week, @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social and I presented our posters at ARED in Stirling. We were lucky to exchange ideas with brilliant philosophers working on animal communication, like @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social, Mike Dacey or Luca Di Vincenzo

The philosophy website Daily Nous just published (dailynous.com/2025/06/02/p...) several short pieces, including one I wrote, discussing the science and ethics of de-extinction efforts. My own piece is on the effects of de-extinction efforts on individual animal welfare.

👋Our colleague Ignacio Sánchez-Moreno has just published a paper in Mètode titled "Ethics and Pets: Home Beyond Species"🐕More info here➡️https://turia.uv.es/index.php/Metode/article/view/28372

Today in 'Animals being assholes'... capuchin monkeys abducting howler monkey babies seemingly for the sake of it

I’ll be presenting ideas from my current draft at the ARED Conference, held at @stir.ac.uk — focusing on the epistemological models behind AI-driven attempts to “translate” sperm whale vocalizations. 🐋📡 My colleague @isanchezmoreno.bsky.social will be there, talking about dogs and speech buttons. 🐕

“One must understand that animals can sometimes be assholes.” Can’t say I dislike what the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin people picked out as a headline for this interview I did with them :D

Absolument fabuleux ce texte. C’est long mais il faut le lire. Ou au minimum cette citation de @susanamonso.com : nautil.us/how-animals-...

There've been many stories lately about how animals understand death ... but I hope you'll make space for this one. It goes deep on the philosophy & the science; it asks not only what other animals share with us, but what we share with them. My latest, for @nautil.us: nautil.us/how-animals-...

Nice interview for Die Zeit with gorgeous pictures by Carlos Chavarría. My book Playing Possum will come out in German in August 2025!

The 2025 PAMBA prize has been awared to @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social. The judges - @wileyprof.bsky.social, @kristinandrews.bsky.social, @susanamonso.com, @lgruen.bsky.social, and me - thought her a worthy winner. It was a very strong field, though.

Delighted to read Playing Possum by @susanamonso.com. Excellent example of integrating interdisciplinary research and translating academic research to a broader audience

I wouldn’t normally share my theatre stuff here but I’m very proud to be playing Helena in the Madrid Players’ 60th anniversary production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. If you’re in Madrid next weekend, you can come watch our magical show at Teatro Soho.

Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

Escribí una reseña de "La zarigüeya de Schrödinger", el maravilloso libro de @susanamonso.com En mi nuevo correo de Receta para el desastre en @cenital.com 💌