A FOUL ON VIK CALLED. you gotta keep living. the things you'll see

Thrilled to report that the edited collection that I've been working on with André Krebber, ~Zoopolitical Thought: Seeking Interspecies Justice in and beyond Western Political Traditions~ has been approved for publication with University of Toronto Press! Stay tuned!

What a beautiful essay by @brandonkeim.bsky.social in @nautil.us on dreaming bumblebees and asters. It is a balm for the heavy heart. The perfect autumn read. (And such masterful writing!) nautil.us/the-dreams-o...

📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 28, Issue 1 'Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign' by @ariadnevromen.bsky.social, @serrinrp.bsky.social & Michael Vaughan 🔗 buff.ly/GsBpt9L @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Credit where it's due!

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The rain is coming down like a waterfall and still Mikel's hair is perfect

No, *you’re* crying

Missing you already, Cookie ❤️🐶

Art

Bike lane with low traffic is often considered unnecessary and underutilized. Car lane with low traffic is considered luxurious.

Arsenal lately.

Own Goal FC!! 💪🏼⚽💪🏼 #arsbha

PSA! I just read this article by @stevecooke.org and it was genuinely ~wonderful~ and I think you should read it too: doi.org/10.1111/japp...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

AASA is very excited to announce that the winner of the inaugural round of the Siobhan O' Book Prize is Yamini Narayanan for the incredible book Mother Cow Mother India (Stanford UP, 2023)! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GCu8CL7EwM...

Congrats to my fantastic PhD student, Will Salkeld, for his recent publication in Environmental Values! In the paper, he highlights the Martu people's fire-stick farming, arguing that restoring practices like these can be a form of environmental moral repair: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Well done to the Arsenal Academy for breaking Liverpool's unbeaten run 👏👏 🔴⚪ #cryliv #arsenal

Now on the Oxford University Press website, complete with cover: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's Animals and the Right to Politics, the long-awaited sequel to 2011's Zoopolis. An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Join us September 12 for the 4th annual Normactivity Online Workshop, with four talks on 🐘 animal normativity 🐒, and dedicated to the memory of Frans de Waal, who launched the field. Speakers: Sarah Brosnan @lgruen.bsky.social Pier Francesco Ferrari, Phillip Kitcher. Register 👉 tinyurl.com/5akaw2j6

Perfection from Arsenal; perfection from @poorlydrawnarsenal.com ❤️🦖🤍 #arslee

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.

Hannah Arendt, telling it like it - literally, currently - is.

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...even your emotions have an echo... in so much space... #transferwindow

🥁Introducing🥁... My book-length account of why animals (and probably trees and rivers, too) should be able to sue us. Featuring: covergirl Kristy, who escaped the greyhound racing industry to enjoy a life of comfy couches, long walks, and peanut butter snacks. Enjoy! 😀🐕🌲🏔️ tinyurl.com/55myb64k

In England “wood with beaver facets [were found] in multiple human constructions, along with extensive networks of ancient beaver dams and channels that had been integrated into prehistoric settlements.” A fascinating piece by Sarah Newman on how animals inspired culture 🦫 aeon.co/essays/did-a...

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

No kings! No tyrants!

Some very excellent pro-animal signage found on a recent trip to NYC that emphasises animals' subjectivity - rather than just their capacity to suffer. Kudos to @peta.org 👏🏼💚🐔🐦

What a bunch of bloody legends! ❤️🤍

ARSENAL ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPE

ARRRRRSENALLLLL!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️🏆🤍 #wcl #arsbar

IN NEW ISSUE: Animal political theory - @serrinrp.bsky.social‬ argues rights can be attributed to animals under the will theory a well as the interest theory & that legal protections can enable the autonomy of animals too. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/RAdVRR4 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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"The woodpecker could not be reached for comment." ❤️🖤🤍🐦 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/u...

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

Visit Tottenham. Because anything would be better than Visit Rwanda. Sign the petition here. #GunnersForPeace www.gunnersforpeace.co.uk

"Beach Haven is Trump's Tower". I had no idea such a song existed until five minutes ago, when my friend Mike Collett casually mentioned that "some pals and I were talking about Woody Guthrie at lunch the other day, and…." Good Lord. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

"10/10 would enjoy again." ❤️🦖🤍

Rice Rice Baby 🍚⚽💯

Yes please! 💚 @philcosta.bsky.social

When photographs of industrially farmed animals are too overwhelming, illustrations can be such a good way of sharing the realities of "life" on the factory farm - I wish I had this to share with students this past semester! (Thanks for your work @mbolotnikova.bsky.social!)

I am very lucky to have been part of the team (consisting of the wonderful Laura Davy, Ariadne Vromen, and Molly Saunders) that put together this new, open access paper on attitudes towards care work in Australia: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

If you're wondering what happens when a democracy slides into authoritarianism, here it is! truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

My new article written with @serrinrp.bsky.social & @michaelvaughan.bsky.social has just been published in @bjpir.bsky.social “Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign” available OA at doi.org/10.1177/1369...

I'm going to spend my entire Friday wondering what it feels like to be "briefly swallowed" by a humpback whale then spit out again. #whales 🌿🌊

Arsenal W 4 - Man City W 3 Arsenal M 5 - Man City M 1 Not feeling very humble ❤️😌🤍 #stayhumblederby #arsmci #wslmciars