There is something that you never really learn until you are pretty deep in the guts of the academic machine. The things you love, that you go into academia puruse, end up being replaced by various administrative tasks and ongoing attempts to keep the ship afloat...

New Year’s Resolution 🎆 I will finish my first article on Frederik Christian Eilschov (1725–1750) and his fabulously titled book: “Philosophical Letters – On Various Useful and Important Matters.” He argues against eating meat, while still supporting hunting as a form of just war. #animalphilosophy

My son (11yo) likes to be given LEGO tasks. Yesterday, I told him to 'make me a philosopher in the style of The School of Athens for my office at the university.' I love how he even captured some Diogenes-like too-cool-for-school. And of course a couple of really excellent NPUs going on. #philosophy

We have a new book review out, taking an interdisciplinary perspective on Martha Nussbaum's 'Justice for Animals' Coauthored with Lisa Dickel, @suzannetruong.bsky.social, @harfeld.bsky.social & Anna Rademann Read here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mEjgcF2Ow...

Great talk yesterday on perspectival flexibility as a virtue by @pasliwa.bsky.social from @univie.ac.at. It was at the annual Hartnack Lecture at the philosophy section of @au.dk and I had brought along some of my students from @aau.dk who said the talk was "difficult but interesting". I agree 😊

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.

The GOAT @goatswhostare.bsky.social sharing some inspiring and fascinating insights on how to more cleverly understand the clever inner lives of livestock in opening this morning’s @applied-ethology.bsky.social #ISAE2025 session

I've been interviewed about public philosophy by Mara-Daria Cojocaru for the 'Philosophy Going Wild!'-project open.substack.com/pub/thedryno...

Always fun to be a bit out of my depth academically. This time talking about hunting in the nexus between philosophy and Danish literature at 'Nordspråk' summer course in front of Nordic language teachers. Tak til @lottepraetorius.bsky.social for invitation og foto. nordspraak.com/2024/12/19/s...

I samarbejde med Folkeuniversitetet i Aalborg afholder jeg 2x #Filosofaen her i efteråret. Det er godt, skønt og fyldt med mulige sandheder at være med til filosofiske samtaler. Så kig forbi Café Ordgeist til oktober. www.linkedin.com/posts/folkeu...

There's a common pattern where the early works in a new format are stunning, then it slows down, and people say "oh they got the low hanging fruit" - but I think that's a bad metaphor. It's more that magic happens when people are free to innovate format and content at the same time...

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/...

This is the most perfect description of Jordan Peterson I‘ve ever read.

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...

Congrats to Thomas Kainberger - and thanks for letting me collaborate on this little project. Great working on moral epistemology in animal philosophy again and learning from the young-and-upcoming :-) (in collaboration w. Herwig Grimm) #animalethics #murdoch #shame link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Every year the same duck uses our little pond area in the atrium at @aau.dk as a nesting ground. And every year she's stuck there with her little bunch of ducklings. The kind people from AAU Facility Service must then gently guide them through the building and out on the other side. #mixedcommunity

Great department and great people. 5* Would recommand :-) anivet.au.dk/om-institutt...

US researchers, help me out: More and more of my European colleagues are in the proces of cancelling visits to your institutions. For reasons of both politics and safety. What is your sense? How do Europe best support you?

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) will open a new research centre to study animal sentience in autumn 2025! The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience will be lead by #LSEPhilosophy Professor Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b...

There are few greater joys in teaching than old students returning and presenting their research to our current students here at Applied Philosophy, Aalborg University @aau.dk. Thanks to Mads Hansen, postdoc. at @bristoluni.bsky.social, for introducing us to the contemporary debate on teleology.

På mandag gæster filosof og kropsligt væsen, Jacob Aremark, Filosofaen til en samtale om filosofiens forhold til kroppen og kroppens forhold til filosofien. Det er noget med en hammer - men uden Nietzsche. Og der er tapas og vin. Vi ses! #kropsfilosofi #anvendtfilosofi fuaalborg.dk/aalborg/prog...

The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is thrilled to be hosting an online panel with Heather Browning and Oscar Horta on March 19 at 12pm ET! This event will settle once and for all the question whether wild animal welfare is net positive or negative. RSVP below :) sites.google.com/nyu.edu/wild...

The time has come! We finally start coverage of early modern philosophy (17-18th centuries) on the #HoPWaG podcast, beginning with an episode on the concept of "Enlightenment." www.historyofphilosophy.net/introduction... #philsky #earlymodern #podcasts #enlightenment

I have had the happy opportunity to be part of some meaningful conceptual engineering on ‘animal welfare’. “Flourishing through positive mental states, resilience and competence” @liftcostaction.bsky.social #PositiveAnimalWelfare #AppliedPhilosophy royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Fra ‘All's Well That Ends Well’, Act 4, Scene 3.

Our new study on the diet of one of Europe's more controversial animals, racoon dog provides no evidence that it is a threat to ground-nesting #birds nor to endangered #amphibians🐾🦆🐸 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #racoondog #mesopredator #alienspecies #dknatur

#ATSPolitiken vinder internettet i dag 😂

I det nyeste nummeret av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, som også markerer tidsskriftets 40-årsjubileum, bidrar Bjørn Myskja og jeg med en artikkel om både Genteknologiutvalget og spørsmålet om hvorvidt genredigering av oppdrettslaksen kan være svaret på miljø- og velferdsproblemene i oppdrettsnæringen.

As a philosophy student in Scandinavia in the 1990s, the University of Aarhus was the place to be for post-Kantian thought – thanks, in no small part, to the legendary Justus Hartnack. Needless to say, I’m thrilled to give the 2024 Hartnack Lecture on Dec. 10. #Philsky #Aarhus #WomenInPhilosophy

@Animals&Society is closing down. It has been one of the important connection hubs in human-animal studies for decades. www.animalsandsociety.org/news/asi-clo...

There are too many Institutes for Advanced Studies. I’m seeking funding for my new Institute for Studies So Out There, Forget About It!

Once upon a time I worried about people 'stealing my ideas'. But in the areas I work, anyway, no one has time enough even to write up their own ideas, let alone working on someone else's.

Successful academic writing: That’s goodness that’s finished. Oh no, peer review comments. Phew, done. Oh no, copy editors comments. Phew done. Oh no proof reading. Phew done. Published!! (Reads it again. Thinks to self: Who wrote this rubbish?)

1/ Kandidatudvalget er kommet med deres afsluttende rapport om fremtidens kandidatuddannelser: ufm.dk/publikatione... I rapporten fremlægger udvalget sine anbefalinger til, hvordan folketingsforliget om ændringer af de danske universitetsuddannelser skal implementeres #uddpol #dkpol

Schopenhauer said that we should address each other not as "Mr" or "Mrs", but as "fellow sufferer, companion in misery" - thinking of trying this out.

So excited to receive the advance copies of our forthcoming book 'What Are Zoos For?'. Available for preorder now: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...