In Rosa Dyer's final animal highlight she considers whether zoos could be considers "living collections". Focusing on Moo-Deng she discusses ethical concerns related to zoos and ideas of preservation. Listen/Read the full highlight here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-...

The latest blog written by Herre de Bondt considers some of the context and discourses circulating Bram, an offspring of some of the first wolves to re-settle in the Netherlands. Read here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/bf65038... #TheAnimalTurn #Wolves #Bram #Conservation #AnimalEthics

Rosa Dyer questions whether zoos are “living collections” that objectifying animals in ways that are similar to the animal objects one finds in a museum or archive. She considers the internet sensation Moo Deng and asks what her fame has achieved. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/living-...

Large bird collections like the one at Tring are considered an invaluable and irreplaceable resource for science but they also raise a host of questions about the role and ethics of collecting animals. Listen to/Read the full animal highlight here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectac...

Rosa returns to feathers in this episode, this time to discuss the infamous 2009 “feather heist”, in which Edwin Rist stole an invaluable collection of bright-coloured feathers from tropical birds for the hobby of fly-tying. Read/Listen to more: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/spectac...

Today marks World Day for Laboratory Animals. Established in 1979, April 24th is a day to confront a practice that many would prefer to ignore. Carlo Salzani writes a blog asking if it should be thought of as a day of commemoration. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/a-day-o... #WDAIL2026

In this episode Rosa considers how museum collections and archives could be thought of as living ecosystems. She discusses how webbing clothes moths are understood as ‘pests’ and some of the strategies curators are trying to employ to manage them. More: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/munchin...

The Oxford Dodo is an important specimen because it is one of few surviving dodo specimens in existence & the only one which also includes soft tissue material. But what do we know about the bird behind the specimen? Rosa gives it some thought! www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fra...

In the latest blog post, Carlo Salzani discusses the recent killing of baboons at a zoo in Switzerland. He considers some of the discourses and language used. Read the full post here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/surplus... #zoos #conservation #baboons #animalethics #animalrights

Rosa focuses on the Oxford Dodo, attempting to trace the life history of a bird whose only trace is a fragile head and foot in the Oxford University of Natural History. Listen/read here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-fra...

While there are many movies that frame animals as monsters there seems to have been a shift in recent times in which it is not animals, but humans, that are the monsters. At least that's what Claudia thinks. Do you agree? #animalstudies #criticalanimalstudies #mediastudies

In the The Animal Highlight, Rosa explores the implications of a feather colouring process for thinking about ethical relationality between species and what it means for birds to be included in kinship networks. Read/Listen to learn more: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots...

Rosa traces a Munduruku feather cap from Brazil to the museum case and discusses how tapirage was a process used to turned green parrots feathers a blazing yellow by using frog toxins, dyes and time. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/parrots...

In "Monstrous Others with Rachel Dean-Ruzicka", we explore how #StrangerThings signals a new monstrous moment, moving from unknowable creatures to human-made villains, & what that shift says about power, identity, and culture. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod... #TheAnimalTurn

Rosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. The object brings into focus the differences between indigenous mythologies and western ideas of hummingbirds and what the impacts of global trade were www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/humming...

Gina Song Lopez and Taylor Jobling shared quotes during the Grad Review focused on "Animals and Media". Both quotes highlight how the boundaries of what constitutes suffering seem to have been drawn arbitrarily. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8

Using a feather fan as her base, Rosa Dyer traces how Victorian fashion turned fierce hummingbirds into quiet ornaments. To find out more about the fan and the birds listen to/read the full story here: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/humming...

Gina Song Lopez and Taylor Jobling come on to the show to discuss the main themes and tensions to emerge in Season 8, Animals and Media www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e10

Rosa Dyer looks at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-ext... #huai #animalhighlight #theanimalturn #NewZealand #extinction

We start S6 of The Animal Highlight "Museum Collections/Objects" with Rosa Dyer looking at the Huia, a New Zealand songbird whose dimorphic beaks garnered the attention of science, fashion, and empire. Rosa uses the museum object to ask questions about how different knowledge systems value animals.

Animals are partly absent in news stories because their lives are generally marginalized in human understandings of the world. The stories of animals used for meat are also often absent in mainstream media because it is in the interests of big industry for them to be. Quotes shared by guests in S8E9

In this episode Shatabdi Chakrabarti, Jessica Scott-Reid, and Jan Dutkiewicz discuss animals and the news. We discuss different types of news as well as some of the challenges that come with creating news content that focuses on animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e9 #TheAnimalTurn

In this blog Claudia reflects on the fate of baboons killed at Nürnberg Zoo in 2025. She questions the relationship between animals and zoos making simple observations that while zoos inform science they are also places that breed and kill animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/the-los...

In S8E8 Lynda Korimboccus used this quote from Kate Stewart and Matthew Cole to discuss the disconnect between how children consume animals as beloved characters and the ways in which they consume them as meat. What are your thoughts on how media present animals to kids?

Ankita Rathour and Lynda Korimboccus discuss the interconnections of film, tv, and animals. They touch on everything from the Peppa Pig paradox in children’s media to the shifting role of animals in Hindi cinema, nationalism and caste politics. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e8

Herre de Bondt writes a blog entry highlighting some of the ways in which street dogs in India emerged during conversations about cities and health in Season 7. Read the full entry: www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/inclusi...

The quotes shared during S8E7, focused on social media, all speak to the tensions of freedom and captivity. In your experience, what role does social media play in animals' lives?

Just had a great conversation with Claudia Hirtenfelder of @theanimalturn.bsky.social. We talked #zoos, #war, #elephants, hungry #animals, and much more. Part of a new series from @theanimalturn.bsky.social on "Animals and War" coming in 2026!

Laura Fernández, Amanda Weiss, & Siobhan Speiran unfurl the complex relations of social media and animals. They probe how social media packages animals as content, why that changes real lives, and where activism, policy, and platform design can push back. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e7

Check out this guest post by ethicist Carlo Salzani in response to FarmKind's newly launched "Forget Veganuary" campaign. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/post/forget-... Learn more about the original #veganuary campaign here: veganuary.com

We celebrate 100 episodes of the The Animal Turn by asking how podcasting can teach, build community, and improve animal welfare across languages, disciplines, and daily routines. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e6 #education #podcasting #TheAnimalTurn

Looking for a graduate student who has an interest in the intersections of animals, race and/or media to join us in the upcoming Grad Review. If you are interested send us an email ([email protected])

One of my favourite things about this episode is that Doris named three early career colleagues as the scholars who inspire her: Pablo Castello, Claudia Hirtenfelder (of @theanimalturn.bsky.social), and @nicodmueller.bsky.social.

On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Doris Schneeberger about her 2024 Palgrave book Envisioning a Better Future for Nonhuman Animals: Towards Future Animal Rights Declarations. The episode is available free below or in all the usual places. knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-243-...

Carrie Freeman & Christopher Eubanks explore animal (mis)representation in media. They examine the representation of animals in activist messaging & the interconnections of animal rights with other social justice movements. lnkd.in/d6TWpb5a #TheAnimalTurn #mediastudies #criticalanimalstudies

In 1903 the plight of Brown Dog, at the hands of medical students at a London, helped spark the antivivisection movement in England. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5kaf3nvx #theanimalhighlight #TheAnimalTurn #dogs #browndogaffair #animalethics #animalexperiments #ethics #criticalanimalstudies

The Animal Turn podcast launches Season 8 with a dive into the intersections of media, racism, and speciesism. Tobias Linné, Ellen Gorsevski, and Natalie Khazaal discuss race, species, their Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS) test. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s8-media/s8e1

Just been alerted that some folks subscription to The Animal Turn on Apple Podcasts has been removed and they are struggling to re-subscribe. Trying to see if this is a wide-spread issue. Anyone else having this problem?

Death permeates our relationships with animals, yet we rarely confront the complex ethical questions it raises. In this conversation with the editors of "When Animals Die," we delve into the emerging field of animal death studies. shorturl.at/FOb7s #TheAnimalTurn #death #animalstudies

Thom Norman joins Claudia to discuss FarmKind's work and the tenets of effective altruism. They talk about FarmKind’s compassion calculator and its lack of vegan messaging, the organizations FarmKind supports, and the critiques levelled against EA. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod...

In this Animal Highlight, Virginia Thomas focuses on the domestic dog and the ways in which they might be thought of as citizens. Fun fact - the dog in the artwork is Linus! www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/s5-animals-a... #animals #politics #dogs #animalhighlight #urbananimals #animalstudies

CFP for "Animals and Business Ethics", deadline for abstracts fast approaching (30 April 2025). Find out more here: www.viennaanimalstudies.com/post/cfp-ani...

I spoke with Kyle Johannsen about The Moral Circle for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Check it out!

When the triple disaster hit Japan in 2011, people left the area but animals, such as boars, stayed. In this animal highlight Herre discusses how the animals started to roam more in the urban areas and showed no adverse radioactive side-effects. theanimalhighlight.buzzsprout.com/1950946/epis...

It's been a full year since I made my first post for @nichecanada.bsky.social writing about my book: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada. Thank you @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social for being so encouraging and making it happen! niche-canada.org/2024/04/22/n...

Are you writing on animals and (non)violence? Are you interested in getting it published in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence? If so, I have brilliant news for you: I'm putting together a Special Issue on Animals and (Non)violence! Details here: brill.com/fileasset/do... #polisky #animalsky

In this highlight, Herre de Bondt looks at how nuclear waste from the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima impacted the lives of wild boars in Japan. He discusses how boars responded to the departure of humans and are being impacted by their return. theanimalhighlight.buzzsprout.com/1950946/epis...

Laura and I published a book chapter: "Critical Animal Media Studies: Challenging the Hegemonic Representations of Oppressed Groups through Communication Research". lup.lub.lu.se/search/publi... #CriticalAnimalStudies #MediaStudies #Intersectionality

Vanessa Amoroso from Four Paws International explains how captive breeding facilities create a "conveyor belt of cubs" that fuel tourism attractions while obscuring the darker reality of what happens to these animals. www.theanimalturnpodcast.com/bonus-episod...