Núria Almiron, co-founder and co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, is editing a Special Issue for Animals MDPI titled: 🪶“Species Framed as Invasive or Pests: Influence, Governance, and Storylines in Conservation Biology.”

Director of Animal Welfare (Rethink Priorities) and member of the UPF-CAE board Daniela R. Waldhorn was featured in a recently released documentary: 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦! Alongside fellow sentience and aquatic animal experts.

El proper 29 d'octubre de 2025, la membre del UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics Marta Tafalla participarà en una taula a la Jornada de Pensament i Cinema. 📍Casa Montjuïc (Barcelona) 🗓️29 d'octubre de 2025 – 18:15–19:45 h / Taula 5

Next 10th November 2025, Núria Almiron will participate as a special guest at the Forum 2025: Perception and Power – Barriers to Animal-Free Research, organized by Animal Free Research. 🗣️Prof. Almiron will deliver a talk titled “Exposing Propaganda in Animal Experimentation.”

Laura Fernández, miembro del comité científico del UPF-CAE, escribe sobre el #1N en @caballodenietzsche.bsky.social 👇

El UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics participa en la reunió de treball amb el ministre de Drets Socials per impulsar una llei de protecció dels grans simis

🔴| Next Monday, October 27, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., a new session of the CAE Talks will take place. On this occasion, the conversation will focus on 15 years of Carnism: the impact and Catalan translation of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, the renowned work by Melanie Joy, PhD.

Paula Casal, presidenta del Proyecto Gran Simio-España, co-directora del UPF-CAE: “El mejor homenaje que podemos hacer a Goodall es que se apruebe la ley de Grandes Simios” www.lavanguardia.com/natural/2025...

Dr. Jane Goodall dedicated her life to improving the lives of animals and protecting their habitats. She forever changed science by revealing that chimpanzees make and use tools, and her decades of research at Gombe remain a cornerstone of primatology.

1 millón de ocas y patos son alimentados a la fuerza para producir foie gras, una de las prácticas más crueles de la industria cárnica. Firma ahora la petición para que el Gobierno de España prohíba este maltrato animal de una vez por todas👇 igualdadanimal.org/firmas/petic...

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Join the workshop "How advocates can improve communication to achieve more for animals" with Dr. Melanie Joy! 📍Heura House 🗓️September 20, Saturday 🕓9:30–13:30

Presentación del libro "La hamburguesa que devoró el mundo- un panfleto ecoanimalista" Con la participación de Javier Morales, Marta Tafalla y Gabi Marínez 📅18 de septiembre 📍Taifa Llibres, Barcelona 🕓19.00h www.plazayvaldes.es/libro/la-ham...

The keynote by Corey Wrenn is now available on our YouTube channel 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUHN...

Don't miss this symposium! 👇

We recommend this anti-bullfighting book that has faced some pressure against its publication. If you are sensitive to the plight of "fighting" bulls in Europe and Latin America, you might find it interesting: t.co/zszAgtypET

¡Hoy traemos más buenas noticias! 📔El libro Especismo y lenguaje, coordinado por Catia Faria y Núria Almiron, ya está disponible en acceso abierto 👉Este libro fue publicado por Plaza y Valdés en junio de 2024, y desde entonces lo hemos presentado en varias ferias y congresos

📢 Exciting news from the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics! Our edited volume Animal Suffering and Public Relations: The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal-Industrial Complex (edited by Núria Almiron) is now open access!

Global Research Network Think Tank has recently opened some grants, spanning collaborative awards and individual fellowships in Animal Welfare & Biodiversity & Climate Change; War, Conflict & Migration; and Economy & International Finance. Full details follow below: mailchi.mp/grn.global/j...

Laura Fernández, miembro del CAE, ha sido entrevistada en en el programa Vida Verde de Pilar Sanpietro de RNE Radio: "Informar sobre Ecocidis, Reflexionar el Mar i els Incendis, Pintar Muralls d’Ocells”)."

En aquest fragment de #LSDLF El professor Eze Paez ens explica l'estat actual dels drets dels animals @upf-cae.bsky.social 🔴YouTube: buff.ly/ZLQIPcd 🟢Spotify: buff.ly/djlZgA8 🟠iVoox: buff.ly/HpuwYAX

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El Proyecto Wild animal ethics-USC ha abierto la solicitud de propuestas para las "Jornadas: La IA y las fronteras de la consideración moral", que tendrán lugar el 26 y 27 de septiembre en la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

Benestar Animal vs. Indústria Alimentària. Demà celebrem una sobretaula amb Eze Paez, filòsof i especialista en Ètica Animal #LSDLF @upf-cae.bsky.social

El 18 de juny de 2025, en el marc del congrés internacional Compassionate Futures, s'ha projectat al campus de la UPF a Poblenou el documental Sí Als Bous - El Documental , dirigit per Jusep Moreno i produit per Branta Films.

Capacitisme i Ètica Animal. Ens veiem aquest divendres a #LSDLF amb Eze Paez, filòsof i especialista en Ètica Animal. @upf-cae.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce that the newly published Proceedings of the XXI and XXII International Conferences of Young Scientists “Vectors” (Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences, 2025) include a dedicated section on (Critical) Animal Studies.

Laura Fernández, miembro del CAE, ha sido entrevistada en el programa de RTVE "Hoy Empieza Todo", de Radio 3. 🎙️En el programa hablan sobre el ciclo “Ecologías urbanas imprevistas”.

Research by #UPFBarcelona reveals how Spanish industrial lobbies are countering growing sensitivity towards animal welfare. Núria Almirón (@upf-cae.bsky.social) describes that lobbies' discourse denies animals’ ability to feel. ➡️ www.upf.edu/web/focus/w/... #RecercaUPF

Desde el CAE recomendamos este documental que refleja el esfuerzo y valentía de Carlota Saorsa infiltrándose en los laboratorios de Vivotecnia para dar visibilidad a la lamentable realidad que viven los animales allí y denunciar este tipo de prácticas.

Are you a researcher? Are you looking for resources on potential academic journals to submit your work? Or institutes to visit? You can find information about all this and more on our webpage 👇 www.upf.edu/web/cae-cent...

"Como sociedad, ¿cómo debemos valorar el Chupinazo solidario? Aun admitiendo que la injusticia de Palestina sea peor que la de la tauromaquia, ¿es aceptable que una injusticia grande se coma a otra chica?". Por José Tarín @upf-cae.bsky.social @eldiario.es

Jose Tarín, miembro del consejo científico del UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, pública en El Caballo de Nietzsche y habla sobre el chupinazo solidario de San Fermines 👇 www.eldiario.es/caballodenie...

Per unes festes i celebracions sense #pirotècnia: Des del UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, volem expressar el nostre desconcert davant el fet que siguin les pròpies autoritats públiques les que mantinguin la intenció de continuar destinant els diners de tota la ciutadania ->

Vasile Stănescu: “We are led to believe we're not many. That’s not true — vegans and vegetarians are 10% of the population in many countries. What we need is to politicize the movement. We can win this fight. Veganism isn’t a diet — it’s a social justice movement"

Final session of #CompassionateFutures 💥 Closing Keynote by Vasile Stănescu: “Slaughterhouse Capitalism: Animal Resistance, Effeminate Rice Eaters, and Solidarity as the Basis for Animal Liberation” Thank you to everyone who joined and followed these powerful, necessary conversations. 🖤🌿🥦✊

Panel 9 of #CompassionateFutures — Animal Advocacy Across Contexts 🌍🗣️ • Luke Stange: Punking Academia • Iana Fishova: Vegan Education & Strategic Communication • Rocío Thovar: Banning Bullfighting in Catalonia • Riaz Ahmad: Animals, Sufis & Shrines in Pakistan

Good morning! 🌞 Starting the last day of #CompassionateFutures with: Panel 8: Lobbying and Compassion. Zipporah Weisberg in conversation with Núria Almiron, Estela Díaz, Olatz Aranceta-Reboredo & Laura Fernández, discussing the COMPASS research project.

Last event of a great Day 2 at #CompassionateFutures🌙!🎬Screening of “Sí als bous” (Yes to the Bulls), dir. Jusep Moreno. Followed by a roundtable with: 🎥 Jusep Moreno (Brantafilms) 🎓 Claudia Alonso Recarte 🎓 Ariadna Cordal García www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vryg... See you tomorrow!

Now Starting! Panel 7 — Moral Dynamics & Communication Practices💬 • Matthew Melsa: Rebranding Speciesism after Brexit • Juan Jo Ponce: Affective Action in Slaughter • Iara Rossetti & Asunción Bernardez: Hybridization in Fiction • Claudia Alonso: Tradition & Documentary

Now live: Panel 6 — News Media Representation 📰 • Sonja Mutanen: Treatment of Non-Human Animals in Finnish Media • Lumi Kauppinen: Farmed Animals in Finnish Online News • Karolina Krawczyk: Dog Meat & Western Media • Irene Barañano-Díaz: Media & Activism

Today’s keynote is Corey Wrenn (University of Kent). She gives a talk on “Vegan Feminist Visions”, unpacking the exciting history of vegan feminist thought and practice, championing it as essential theory for collective liberation. 🧠🥬

Now: Challenging Animal Experimentation🧪🚫 • Núria Almiron: Debunking Myths of Animal Experimentation in Antiquity • Marta Tafalla: Arguments Against Vivisection • Kathrin Herrmann: Normalization of Animal Experimentation • Sara Vidal-Ramón: 'Invasive Species' Management

Good morning! 🌞 We’re kicking off Day 2 of #CompassionateFutures with: Panel 4 – Ethics, Intersectionality & Cities 🌆 • Emma Cepeda: Toward an Intersectional Understanding of the Animal Question • Carlo Salzani & Zipporah Weisberg: Free-roaming Dogs and the Right to the City

Wrapping up Day 1 with the Roundtable (in Spanish): Reflexiones desde el activismo antiespecista de base ✊ An important and moving conversation on grassroots resistance. With Paloma Serrano, Marta Mañero, Rubén Perera, Elena Tova and Óscar Sánchez.

Live now! Panel 3 — Film & Literature Studies 🎬📖With Liis Nimik (Tallinn University), Esther Igual Lafuente (University of Valencia), and Ina Karkani (Freie Universität Berlin). #CompassionateFutures

Live now: Panel on Animal Ethics, Justice & Law 💡With María González (INTERCIDS) — “Octopus Farms: How Law Should Face New Forms of Animal Exploitation” and Paula Casal (ICREA–UPF) — “How Does Justice Require that we Distribute Planetary Resources with other Species?”

Members of the REWEST research group — Naiara Berganzo-Besga, Adrián Arana-Armesto, Ane B. Ruiz-Lejarcegui, Tamara Rojo-Castro — opened PANEL 1 on Human/Nonhuman Animal Relations in (post)Western and Fantastic Literatures!

“The world’s largest animal industries are owned and managed by men.” Opening keynote Kadri Aavi (Tallinn University) reminds us: masculinity plays a crucial role in institutionalized violence — especially white, middle-class men in the Global North.

We’re kicking off "Compassionate Futures: Dismantling the Dynamics of Power and Violence in Human-Animal Relationships" here at UPF Barcelona 💫. Welcome by Núria Almiron (UPF-CAE) and Opening Keynote by Kadri Aavi (Tallinn University).