Last call for papers for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology! Don't miss a fabulous program in sunny Atlanta this February. Submissions due Nov 20. See you there! #philosophy #psychology #CFP southernsociety.org

SSPP submission deadline extended to Nov 20th!

The Philosophy call for papers for SSPP 26 is out! Speakers include Elisabeth Camp, Kristin Andrews, Muhammad Ali Khalidi, and Roberta Millstein. There'll also be a session in honor of Frans de Waal. Tell your friends! See you in Atlanta. southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/

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

Don't forget to submit to SSPP '26! Deadline is Nov 10th.

The Philosophy call for papers for SSPP 26 is out! Speakers include Elisabeth Camp, Kristin Andrews, Muhammad Ali Khalidi, and Roberta Millstein. There'll also be a session in honor of Frans de Waal. Tell your friends! See you in Atlanta. southernsociety.org/AnnualMeeting/

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

PAMBA Santa Barbara begins! @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social examines how and why animal culture matters

In the past 5 years, there’s been an explosion of new work on the philosophy & cog sci of norms. If you want to get up to speed on it, check out this newly revised SEP entry on the Psychology of Normative Cognition by @dryan149.bsky.social, Stephen Setman & me. plato.stanford.edu/entries/psyc...

New paper alert 📢📢📢 Study from the Taï chimpanzees shows that some gestures used by chimpanzees reflect dialects and that human activity has led to loss of cultural signal use. Please read here: Signal traditions and cultural loss in chimpanzees: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

In case you need a distraction from... *gestures broadly at everything* here's a cool 🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨: Philosopher of medicine Cristian Saborido and I tackle the question of whether animals engage in medical practices. Spoiler alert: we think they very much do👇🧵 1/20

Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information? In @pnas.org, Luke Townrow and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 PAMBA Prize essay contest in the philosophy of animal minds for early-career researchers. The winning paper will be published in Biology & Philosophy and presented as a keynote at the meeting in Santa Barbara. For details: www.the-pamba.com/prize

More cool work on nonhuman normativity! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 New publication! Most animals used in research are also killed. The traditional 3Rs framework (Replace, Reduce, Refine) focuses solely on decreasing distress while ignoring the harm of death itself. This needs to change. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My latest book (w/ Andrew Fenton & Mary Lee Jensvold) is finally out! We argue that harmful research w/ NHPs must be held to same ethical standards as research w/ vulnerable humans. The digital version is free Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #Bioethics #ResearchEthics #AnimalEthics

Looking forward to the second (but my first) PAMBA in April! Should be a good time.

PAMBA 2025 in Santa Barbara is inching closer! April 24-26 will be here before you know it, with keynote speakers Dorit Bar-On Laura Danón Simon Fitzpatrick Mark Rowlands Stay tuned for the CFP and exciting news!

New paper out in Animal Cognition: bumblebee social learning, Lego, and DeepLabCut 🙂 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For once I really like the headline that an outlet picked: "To truly understand non-human grief, we need to think like the animals", my latest piece for New Scientist.

Animals—from bees to butterflies, porcupines to primates—medicate themselves. They seek out bitter plants, they treat wounds, they amputate limbs, they eat clay. How do they know what they know? Our latest episode—a chat with @jaapderoode.bsky.social & M. Huffman! Listen: disi.org/animal-heal-...

Our book came out today 🥳 In 'What Are Zoos For?' we examine the common justifications for zoos and argue that zoos are (or should be) for animals, placing animal welfare at the centre of their operations. Order here, or through most online booksellers: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...

"Older animals perform vital roles in populations and ecosystems," writes @kellerfish.bsky.social, but "the value of old, wise animals is not usually considered when we manage animal populations and seek to protect biodiversity." theconversation.com/humans-are-k...

Philosophers and psychologists- don't forget to submit to the OG conference! The SSPP has long fostered deep conversations between philosophers and psychologists-and has long been a place for animal cognition researchers and philosophers to exchange ideas. Deadline for Phil Nov 22, for Psych Dec 1

The SPP can for papers is out. The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) invites submissions of papers to be presented at its 51st Annual Meeting, to be held June 19-21, 2025 at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Please submit an abstract by January 24, 2025 at 11:59pm EST.

New chapter in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping. philpapers.org/rec/FITMIN