The most colorful #squid I’ve ever seen! And such a cooperative poser too! #🦑 #cephalopod #chromatophores #calamari #underwater #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #blackwatervideo #kumeisland #kumejima #okinawa #chrisgug #gugunderwater #gug

The megalops life stage of a crab. Shot for my Aliens Collection, in the wild, out over the deep water of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, miles from shore, at night. . . . #crab #megalops #🦀 #crabmegalopa #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #blackwaterphotography #underwater #gug #ChrisGug #gugunderwater

From the first sighting of a colossal squid in the wild to a seriously goofy octopus, 2025 delivered some astounding photos from the ocean’s depths

We know that birds can sense magnetic fields for navigation. But how does that work? Do they have little magnets wired up to their brains? The most likely answer is 1000X times weirder than that, and involves quantum spin. Let's talk about 'cryptochromes' & magnetic sensing.🧪

El punto de vista de los cerdos sobre la peste, por @marilaraleixandre.bsky.social en @caballodenietzsche.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/132_c3b204?u...

Lovely to receive books as a Christmas gift, even more so when they are so beautiful and super interesting (and necessary)! ✨🌱🐾 #philsky #booksky @kristinandrews.bsky.social @martahalina.bsky.social @christinewebb.bsky.social @jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social

1 hour 8 minutes? You probably don't have the time. But in case you do, here is a recording of my @gsiexeter.bsky.social seminar at @exeter.ac.uk earlier this week in which I talk about overshoot, consequences and possible ways forward. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpbH...

1/12 Consciousness and attention in honeybees This study provides evidence of consciousness-like states in bees, revealing strong and fascinating parallels with vertebrate awareness. I will try to explain it in a few "tweets". (paper) www.cell.com/iscience/ful... by @catherinemacri.bsky.social

¿El valor de una vida depende de su inteligencia? ¿Qué es la sintiencia? El documental SEANTIENCE nos ofrece una nueva mirada sobre los animales marinos. Hablo de ello en @infoanimal.bsky.social en @elsaltodiario.com www.elsaltodiario.com/infoanimal/v...

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... #EffectiveAltruism #transhumanists Fascinating and in many respects chilling discussion regarding the minds behind these ideas and their goals…

I was interviewed about my research and my experience with the viral response to my DPhil viva! Video here 👇 youtu.be/v_46GqZDZCk?...

Found only in the Galapagos Islands the marine iguana is the only marine lizard species in the world, they can dive as deep as 30m (98 ft) and spend up to 30 minutes at a time underwater 📹Shelton Dupreez

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

1/2 Collaboration between killer whales and dolphins on Canada's Pacific coast Killer whales follow dolphins in search of salmon. They alternate their echolocation to avoid overlap. The killer whales catch the salmon (too large for the dolphins) and the dolphins get the scraps.

Call for Abstracts 📣 I'm organizing a Workshop in Prague next February, "Confronting Oppression with Care: Interspecies Perspectives" 🐾 Please share widely! #Animals #Ethics #AcadamicSky #PhilSky #PolTheory philevents.org/event/show/1...

Iain Douglas-Hamilton was a champion for elephants 🐘 & one of the inspirations for my own research. He was among the 1st to study ele social behaviour & it was his life's work to protect them Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

Super excited that Osseily Hanna's "The Last Bee" won the Best Fiction Film Trophy at the Festival Internacional de Cine Animal y Ambiental in Mexico this week. The film will be released in 2026 - stay tuned!

I’m very excited to be soon featuring on one of the best channels on YouTube! 🐜 🐝 If you like the sound of scientific concepts explained accessibly and engagingly, check out Stated Clearly and Stated Casually

On Fri. 12/19 I'll join Andreas Malm and Wim Carton to discuss our new books, the deadly combination of accelerating global warming and stalling political action, and what is to be done from a left perspective. Moderated by @learning2live.bsky.social via @haymarketbooks.org & @versobooks.bsky.social

I wrote about the race to stop octopus farming before it starts. This issue has been covered a fair amount, so I wanted to look at one under-covered aspect of it -- why do so many people who study octopuses, and are fascinated by them, support farming them?

Spectacular strawberry squid! Histioteuthis squid w/massively asymmetrical eyes: 1 larger for viewing the silhouettes of predators & prey above, & 1 smaller eye for capturing glimmers of bioluminescent snacks below. #AsgardArchea - 730m - ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute

Part of the task is learning to see through false solutions that are stymieing genuine climate action In 'The Value of A Whale' @adriennebuller.bsky.social pulls back the curtain on mainstream myths of market-centric thinking that put profit before planet, & asks us to examine what we really value🧵

Our Essay Competition is back! 📝 This year, we are inviting essays on the following title: "Martha Nussbaum argues that animals need certain rights so that they can flourish. How far should human interests be limited in order to enable animals to flourish?" (1/2)

🚨CFA for the XIV PBCS that will be held at UNED (Madrid) 18-19 June 2026, where several of our METIS members are part of the organisation committee: Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) and Cristian Saborido. More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

📢 Seminario METIS #10: Mañana, Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) hablará sobre “La metafísica de la biología desde la práctica científica biológica’’. 🗓️ Martes, 2 de diciembre | 🕚 11:30–13:30 | 📍 Paseo Senda Rey 7, Edificio de Humanidades, Aula B 💻 Asistencia online: blogs.uned.es/metis/contact/

Conferencia virtual: ¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes de los animales Susana Monsó y Laura Danón 10 de diciembre, 13hs (Argentina) Inscripción: forms.gle/BixUX45jnGgV...

Need a gift idea for a bird-lover? What about ordering a copy of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them from your local bookstore? It’s all about chickens and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Best of all (imo) I wrote it! #booksky

Clicked the link expecting a hefty price tag and I was delighted to see that the paperback is only 36 euro with the discount!

✨️Call for abstracts✨️ Excited to be organizing together with @leonarddung.bsky.social, @birchlse.bsky.social and Albert Newen the RUB-LSE joint workshop "Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations" Bochum 9-10 Feb 2026 Join us! 🦧🐦🐙🐀🐬🦀🐜 Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025 philevents.org/event/show/1...

I've had more snow in one week than in the rest of my life ❄️☃️ 📍Pardubice

Don't miss this new @vox.com project that uncovers the rapidly changing world of fish farming. Stories from @mbolotnikova.bsky.social + team challenge everything you think you know about the billions of aquatic animals that shape our planet’s future: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Peter D Carter: Humanity faces its ultimate challenge due to its failure so far in addressing the escalating risks, which are pushing the world into a deepening crisis. (1) Rapid phase-out of fossil fuels (2) Transformation of food system from net carbon source

1/14 Evidence of visual awareness in insects Some have argued that insects behave like small robots without consciousness. In this article (mostly focusing on bees), evidence is gathered to show that they have subjective experience. (paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Is this wolf using a tool to get a seafood snack? Or does it not count, because the animal didn't construct the trap itself? @phiejacobs.bsky.social dives into that debate, plus more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

In how many ways can this be wrong? Not only disgusting, but unnecessary and of course immoral! Why can't we leave animals alone?

💋 Kissing is unhygienic and has no obvious reproductive benefits - but it evolved ~21 million years ago, and stuck with most great apes until today. 🧪 In fact, paper by @matildabrindle.bsky.social shows that Neanderthals and humans probably kissed each other. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🔥Segunda sesión del Seminario de Doctorandos BioKoinos-METIS 25/26. Alejandro Di Rienzo (@dirienzo.bsky.social)(USC) presenta “Mereología musical”, con comentario a cargo de Ramon Carnota (UNED). Más info 👉 blogs.uned.es/metis/alejan...

The intelligence of slime mold is that of its materials All of Physarum's intelligent behaviors can be explained by physics, as in non-living materials (e.g., water following the path of least resistance), and do not require a representation of the problem. (preprint) arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08531

Our special issue on Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness, coedited with Tecumseh Fitch and Adina Roskies, now online royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... Contributions by (1) Irina Mikhalevich; (2) Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg; (3) Nicholas Humphrey; (cont'd)

I set out to write a story about the practical ills of salmon farming (and I did), but also found an even bigger story kinda hidden in plain sight: How humanity is speedrunning the domestication of hundreds of aquatic species, and what it means for them.

Wikie and Keijo, a mother and son who have been left abandoned in a grimy theme park tank, have been found dead. The two orcas were abandoned and left to suffer at the closed Marineland Antibes park in France. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...

No, they really haven't. Calling spectral peaks vowels is as inane as saying that because my washing up gloves are also yellow, they have the same nutritional content as a banana. Zero evidence of vowel-like function. It's pure clickbait, and a new low in irresponsible claims from this group 🙄🐳🦑🧪

Today I presented my research proposal at the PhD seminar; very pleased with all the comments and questions to continue improving and trying to iterate this first draft. #philosophy #philsky

1/7 Vocal mimicry, robots, and music The ability to mimic sounds could be extremely common among corvids. Here, it has been found in 39 species (30%), but it is predicted that it could be present in around 82% of them. (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Which animals do you co-construct behaviours with? Read our new paper and get inspired! @anthrofuentes.bsky.social Thank you to @carlsbergfondet.dk, @aiasdk.bsky.social and the John F. Templeton Foundation

1/2 Lethal violence in bonobos On February 18, five females fatally beat a male at the LuiKotale Bonobo Project (Congo). The authors believe this may have been due to a minor attack on a baby two days earlier. The details are horrific. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

This is an interesting article that categorizes 350 theories of consciousness. (blog) www.newscientist.com/article/2498... And it works perfectly as an introduction to exploring the Closer to Truth website, where the topics are compiled and explained one by one. (blog) loc.closertotruth.com/map