On November 8, @ethicsiit.bsky.social at @illinoistech.bsky.social held our Ethics of Technology conference. Great to connect with many amazing international scholars, and to present my research incorporating John Dewey’s work on agency and architecture into ethical questions regarding urban animals

Call for Abstracts: 2nd Sawyier Philosophy Conference on Ethics of Technology: Promises and Perils See full call for proposals and register for this free event at 2025sawyierconference.eventbrite.com

I recently had the opportunity to present some of my research on street dogs and multispecies waste relations at Waste Matters: The Many Afterlives of Junk conference in Helsinki. An amazing interdisciplinary conference focused on social, political, ethical, and aesthetic considerations of waste!

Here is a piece on Mary Midgley that I wrote for the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social public philosophy blog! #marymidgley #philsky

Take a look at @science.org's article describing our work in @globalchangebio.bsky.social showing that beak morphology of hummingbirds has changed in association with feeders! science.org/content/arti...

Ahead of this Sunday's episode on Mary Midgley, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to explore Midgley’s ideas about animals and the Gaia hypothesis with @philosophellie from King's College London and Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Project Director of "Philosophy in the Wild." youtu.be/yraIY5Uhb98?...

What I really care about is obvious, because the first thing I noticed when I saw this breaking news was the seagulls. Currently the most visible birds on the planet.

Today is the day! My book Lab Dog is out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social a week early and you can find it wherever you find books. For @thedrift-mag.bsky.social, I put it in context with xenotransplantation, “trans rats,” & contemporary lab animal politics newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/from-capit...

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions to devastate the National Endowment for the Humanities. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

#Zoos aren't woke, but they've never been apolitical. Check out a short piece I wrote for The Conversation. #worldwarzoos @uchicagopress.bsky.social theconversation.com/pandas-and-p...

"Invasive species" -- the very term creates an "ethical shortcut" that makes killing non-native animals easier. (People, too.) @soljbrager.bsky.social explores this conundrum in a comic co-published today by @therevelator.org and @crucialcomix.bsky.social therevelator.org/invasive-swa...

Read Hannah’s article “You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local”: ourworldindata.org/food-choice-...

While we might intuitively think that “food miles” — how far our food has traveled to reach us — play a big role, transport accounts for just 5% of the global emissions from our food system.

Most food is transported by boat, so food miles are a relatively small part of the carbon footprint of most diets

1. There has been a major effort by that old combination – big business and the far right – to diss foods derived from plants. The meat lobby invests big time in misinformation. And the far right hates “soyboys”, while associating itself with red meat-eating. It's a match made in hell. 🧵

A belated post in honor of World Penguin Day on Friday. Here are a few photos from September of 2022 when I had the honor of visiting the African penguin colony at Boulders Beach in Cape Town, South Africa.

People don’t need to “learn to use AI”. They need to learn how to think and make connections themselves and thus will facilitate their efficient use of whatever technology comes along. Crafting the right prompt for AI doesn’t take AI training, it takes liberal arts training.

A red-tailed hawk on campus today at the University of Oregon

Winnipeg will gas ground squirrels to death in public parks using toxic "Giant Destroyer" gas bombs starting May 20 💔 🐿️ Take action before April 30—urge Manitoba to reject this cruel plan & choose humane, non-lethal alternatives: ➡️ animaljustice.ca/GroundSquirrels

Ila and John Mellow Prize winner @bjornkristensen.com puts Dewey & Singer in conversation, focusing on commonalities/differences in their moral approaches, in particular conceptions of how individuals can be understood within moral problems. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pluralis...

A paper in Nature Communications maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines and finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-23 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston. 🧪

One of the highlights of my recent trip to San Francisco was meeting Major, who is perhaps the most famous dog in the city. His human, Omar, owns Key Food Market in Lower Haight, where Major “works” behind the counter and is a central part of the local community.

Excited to be in San Francisco for the American Philosophical Association Pacific division meeting! I’m part of a session this evening on new directions in American philosophy where I’m presenting some research on John Dewey and animal agency. #APAPacific25

Please share with students interested in #Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalStudies Call for papers closes 16 June: #AIP2025 is a perfect opportunity for 1st-time presenters to present, network, & learn. Check out website for FAQs & links to resources: anthrozoologyconference.com

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is already celebrating the news of “de-extinction” technology as a win for conservation, but he’s forgetting our best de-extinction tool: the Endangered Species Act. We can’t Frankenstein our way into the future while we destroy our present. dfnd.us/4jt6mUU

Nature Isn’t Binary: Discovering the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale • today on @the-revelator.bsky.social republished from @biographic.bsky.social therevelator.org/intersex-wha...

The Pluralist 20.1, is here with Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP) 2024 Conference Proceedings! Check it out for contributions from @bjornkristensen.com @osopher.bsky.social and more! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pluralis...

Happy to see the latest issue of The Pluralist in print, which includes my paper on Dewey, Singer, and Effective Altruism!

So cool to be in Helsinki when President Zelenskyy of Ukraine happened to come to town! 🇺🇦

Thanks to Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human (PHLUSH) for highlighting the installation exploring a multispecies approach to sanitation that I co-developed with Kory Russel and Audrey Rycewicz for the Venice Biennale of Architecture. www.phlush.org/designing-fo...

I'm happy to share that my paper, "Consequentialism in the Work of John Dewey and Peter Singer: Considering the Case of Effective Altruism" has been published in The Pluralist. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

We wrote a letter to FIFA about the killing of stray dogs in Morocco! 🚨 Find out what's happening 👇 www.eurogroupforanimals.org/news/fifa-ur...

An hour of Brunito’s day in 30 seconds. It’s a common misconception that street dogs tend to have very active and stressful lives. This depends on context. Yet, in my time researching street dogs in Peru I have found them to often be some of the most relaxed and content beings I have ever met.

Consider signing and circulating this statement of support for my department as we are facing full annihilation by the CSU. It’s a cruel move and a worrisome sign about the reality and future of higher ed. www.change.org/p/saving-ssu...

This term at the University of Oregon, I'm thrilled to be teaching an interdisciplinary course focused on multispecies urban entanglements (Multispecies Cities), which draws on the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with close attention to non-Western and Global South perspectives.