Fun fact: Scherfig's gravesite doesn't have any name or inscription. The tombstone is, however, an animal statue (not an okapi, though). Anyone can go to Assistens Kirkegård in Copenhagen to see if they can find it 🙂🐢

“But you are making plans / without a future and my now / is twisted into your crying.” Read “Entanglements,” a poem by Ursula K. Le Guin about cats.

And he proposed farther, that by employing Spiders, the Charge of dying Silks would be wholly saved; whereof I was fully convinced when he shewed me a vast Number of Flies most beautifully coloured, wherewith he fed his Spiders; Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1735)

And so f*cking what? When did we decide that having a business model that relies on theft is okay?

Jeg har spist sojapølser siden 80erne. Dengang var ingen forbrugere i tvivl, og det er de heller ikke nu. Det her er et resultat af lobbyisme, fordi plantebaserede produkter har vind i sejlene og den animalske industri vil lave benspænd for de virksomheder, der laver dem. Klimafodslæb. #suk

I suspect a double-edged sword here. At least, I remember when one of the most racist politicians in Danish history cited liking hummus as proof that his political views were not motivated by racism.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

Jeg havde for et stykke tid siden en god snak om dyr og fortællinger med @sofiegraarup.bsky.social. Det var sjovt, og det er der nu kommet et podcastafsnit ud af, som du kan lytte til når og hvor du vil :-)

Soon all the pigs were calm and quiet, as they had never been in life. But that did not excuse the crime. Their betrayal. Neil Astley, The End of My Tether (2002) #Animals #Literature #Novels #Slaughterhouse

“Horses were a part of the daily fabric of life for many enslaved Black people.” On the importance of the horse in escaping slavery.

What about the caged half-crazed orang-utan who vomits because he has nothing else to do? Miroslav Holub, From "Collision" #InternationalOrangutanDay #Zoos #Animals #Poetry

The collared lizards cry at night because El Paso is too hot for their detachable blue tails. The desert turtle stops and waits as a cartel truck drives by and dark houses illuminate what is hidden there. Ray Gonzales, From "El Paso" (2023) #WorldLizardDay

What makes a dog run away, then? The desire to live. You’ve never seen a dog trembling? A dog trembles when he doesn’t know what to do. Like us! No, you tremble when you know what to do as much as when you don’t. Fart off, dog. John Berger, King: A Street Story (1999) #dogs #literature

"I refuse to bend the knee to those environmental alarmist Thoreau-lovers—and not just because I’m missing a leg."

Ah, the simple beauty and truth of an Allingham couplet. #animals #literaryanimalstudies #poetry

The way to all modern assembly lines started here, with disassembly lines. Sinclair's novel has its issues, but remains an absolute classic and the first modern #slaughterhouse fiction. #animals #pigs

Fascinating results here. I wonder what it would look like with a more complex study that holds gendering up against the degree of anthropomorphization. #animalstudies #literature

Still one of the best animal novels ever written, even though one could argue #animals never take center stage.

A lovely little bronze #Roman mouse figurine, shown holding a morsel of food in his little front paws (a nut or seed maybe?), perhaps about to take a little nibble from it. It is about 1900-2000 years old 🐭 (📷 Christie's) 🏺 AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

‘Good morning,’ the pig replied. ‘I wasn’t sure if you could see me.’ ‘It’s a new ability.’ ‘Ah,’ said the pig. ‘Tell me, pig, how did you die?’ I asked. ‘That’s a personal question,’ the pig said. Ceridwen Dovey, ‘Hundstage’ (Only the Animals) (2014) #animals #pigs #literature #BookSky

The swirl of fur and dust and the smell of cat shit both acrid and sweet—the smell of life, for us. The felines appeal through the bars as I waddle through the caged aisles. @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social, ‘Cats at the Fire Front’ (newsroom.co.nz/2023/02/24/s... )

There we no physical barriers to his freedom, but the lions of the plains do not accept into their respected fraternity an individual bearing in his coat the smell of men. Beryl Markham, ‘He Was A Good Lion’ (1942)

She could tell him to fetch his toys from the upstairs landing and he would. But he walked on all fours, always grunted before he ate, and idly put his finger in his anus and smelled his finger, sometimes licked it. Colin McAdam, A Beautiful Truth #WorldChimpanzeeDay

‘Do you ever see horses walking up and down the sides of rooms in reality – in fact? Do you?’ Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)

“We have a responsibility to think about a future where we’re not centered; there’s an optimism in that. Human beings are irresponsible. If I think about us controlling everything in the future, that feels sad.” —Joyce Hwang IN CONVERSATION w/ @slaydok.bsky.social & @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social:

I can assure you that if mankind thinks of you, it thinks you are the missing link. You ought to be shut up and exhibited here in the Zoo … with the gorilla on one side and the chimpanzee on the other. David Garnett, A Man in the Zoo (1924)

1) Man skal generelt holde sig fra at give dyr som gave. Af en række grunde. 2) Man kan nok diskutere, hvad en "dyreven" er, og om en forening, hvis formål er at fremme avl, kvalificerer sig til den titel. 3) Videoer med æsler er ofte fantastiske. www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/danmark/det-...

A good poem, albeit a quite violent one. I've used it in teaching a few times and, if I remember correctly, Aaron Moe uses it as an example in the introduction to his seminal book on zoopoetics. Also, even if #animals is not your thing, Gonzalez is worth reading. #AnimalStudies #poetry

Sylvia would have liked him vastly better without his gun; she could not understand why he killed the very birds he seemed to like so much. Sarah Orne Jewett, ‘A White Heron’ (1886)

Weird. It's almost as if they never cared about #dogs and #cats at all, even though they argued for this by saying immigrants were eating them.

Much thanks to everyone who replied! Here's the updated list: OTHER MINDS: A curated list of fiction featuring animal narrators, protagonists, and perspectives

Tak, jeg vil sådan set hellere have ulve end 250 meter ekstra af en motorvej, der giver øget forurening og begrænser naturens bevægelighed. #ulv #dknatur

This thread is worth your time even if you haven't really followed the whole NYT/Mamdani thing. It says a lot about how diasporas work, the legacy of colonialism, and how racism is used strategically to fuel violence and genocide (which understandably cause people to flee if they have the option).

There's a long and interesting history of dogs being used to confer humanity onto fascists, authoritarians, and cops. Want to keep your stormtroopers happy (or at least not suicidal)? Get 'em a dog!

Altid inspirerende og overordnet bare fedt at høre perspektiver på #dyreforskning på tværs af discipliner. Tak til alle, der talte og alle, der dukkede op og brugte jeres lørdag eftermiddag sammen med os.

Just a little over a week to go until the @mindinganimals.dk event on the 14th! If you are interested and/or working in #AnimalStudies, you won’t want to miss it! 👏 Come and join in the conversation… and meet fellow animal studies folk within and beyond your field 🎉

En uge fra i dag / One week from today Kom og vær med! / Come join us!

Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...

Sabrina Brando and I wrote an article 10 y ago about the lack of animal welfare friendly food in zoos. Recently, I was at Aalborg Zoo and was a bit disheartened by the lack of progress there. So, I wrote an opinion piece for the local paper (sorry, in Danish). www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Lazy, fraudulent idiots cut corners. Always have, always will. And now they have new tools to make it even easier. The results will correspond to this. So maybe don't put the lazy, fraudulent idiots in charge of keeping together and developing the very fabrics of the society we all depend on. 🤦‍♂️

Indeed. And the presentations and panel discussion will be in English, so don't be scared to show up just because your Danish may be a bit shaky (or non-existent).

Pop by Aarhus University on Saturday the 14th of June for our seminar on human-animal studies. Hear examples of what it (might) be, and where it (might) be heading :-) #animalphilosophy #andmuchmore www.linkedin.com/events/human...

Kom og vær med den 14. juni, hvor vi skal snakke på tværs af discipliner om forskning i forholdet mellem mennesker og andre #dyr. Det er på Aarhus Universitet og det er kl. 13-16. Se detaljerne på vores LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/human...

Can anyone think of an upbeat song about (or partially rewriting the story of) a human who died under tragic circumstances? I am trying to think through the representational ( #animal ) ethics of Ireland's contribution to #Eurovision this year.

Who said studying animal poetry isn't useful? www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/05/what...

Så hørte jeg det første afsnit af #ArternesPodcast. Masser af potentiale for spændende emner. Ser frem til at høre, hvad der kommer. Et par emneforslag, der umiddelbart faldt mig ind, i tråden herunder til @soesdalgaard.bsky.social, @sofiegraarup.bsky.social, @liseldk.bsky.social :-)

I've been less present on social media for a while. In the meantime, a little vignette of mine on bats, D.H. Lawrence, and interspecies relations was published by Society and Animals. brill.com/view/journal... (Paywalled, but PM me if you don't have access and need the article).

Given that habitat loss is demonstrably the single biggest threat to endangered species, this move effectively ends protection for most species, and a lot of things will go extinct.