New video essay - link in first comment

⏰ This Saturday (7 Feb): “Letting Animals Speak” with @zoophilosophy.bsky.social (University of Southampton). How can animal-computer interaction support animal agency and welfare?  📅 5 PM GMT | Online 🔗 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HpyXUDk7QSOsH3tyGiHE4A#/registration

Recorded a new episode substack.com/home/post/p-...

New post: walterveit.substack.com/p/panpsychis...

Now available in essay format - link below!

📣 What if animals could help design their own worlds? Join @zoophilosophy.bsky.social for Letting Animals Speak—a lecture on animal agency, ethics & animal-computer interaction. 📅 Feb 7 | Online | Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The IWRS is hiring! Help us build the infrastructure for invertebrate welfare research—from husbandry databases to educational resources. 🐛📖 Remote Research Scientist position, $55-60K. We will begin reviewing applications on March 15. Learn more and apply here:

Local specialists’ experience and skills in animal behaviour studies: insights from wild chimpanzee field assistants royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Philosophy friends - I've written a case for why you should become a nihilist to create a better world. Please let me know your thoughts! walterveit.substack.com/p/why-effect...

For those cephalopod lovers among you, our new updated review of the evidence for cephalpod sentience has now been published in Biological Reviews. (Sadly the picture is of birds rather than cephalopods, as this is the journal cover!) doi.org/10.1002/brv....

Love this new evidence of the cognitive sophistication of cows and hope that it might make a few people rethink whether they want meat on their plates www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

Just posted some more reflections on panpsychism and the state of philosophy. walterveit.substack.com/p/minds-all-...

I wrote about a small essay about metaphilosophy open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

New RSPCA Animal Welfare Science Update, including articles on reptile enrichment, factors influencing dog adoptions, rehoming racehorses, welfare assessment for farmed fish, and best practice for tagging wild sharks www.rspca.org.au/learn/animal...

New newsletter post. Consider subscribing. :) walterveit.substack.com/p/more-than-...

1st draft of the book I've been editing submitted: 'The Welfare of Wildlife'. Both milestone & anticlimax. Looking forward to publication in late 2026. @zoophilosophy.bsky.social @walterveit.bsky.social @nikolaj-bi.bsky.social @markjonesvet.bsky.social @vassilipapa.bsky.social @5mbooks.bsky.social

Now available in video format: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swpx...

Wrote a new essay: open.substack.com/pub/walterve...

Interesting new paper shining light on the welfare issues within the exotic animal cafes common throughout Japan. While it might be nice to have a chance to get up close with an exotic animal, most species' needs cannot be met in these spaces. doi.org/10.1292/jvms...

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LOOK! it's Walt! I looking, k? ease up on teh choke-hold, already! #philsky #philsci #sentience #consciousness #science

Ever wonder what it’s like to be inside the mischievous mind of a crafty corvid like a raven or a crow? Philosophers Drs Dr Heather Browning (Veit) and Dr. Walter Veit have pondered this question of consciousness too. Get inside their mind in this piece for The Conversation UK 🔗 rdg.ac/3SRoEnk

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

EVERYBODY !!! Justice for *Animals !!! #philsci #philsky #sentience Heather and friends have a new #book review out. Applied Animal Behaviour Science Volume 295, February 2026, 106886 *especially ones with bunny hats !!!

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...

The ability to lean your chair backwards on airplanes is basically giving everyone a button that gains you one utile upon pressing it but costs the person behind you five.

Today for the first time in several weeks I've got time to work on my book project, and I'm buzzing with excitement for it. A nice reminder of why I do this work, and how much I love it (when not bogged down by other tasks!)

Interesting new paper by Ned Block, exploring the implications if subcomputational biological mechanisms turn out to be necessary for consciousness (the entertainingly named "meat hypothesis") www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Very happy to see the UK government making a commitment to phasing out animal testing www.gov.uk/government/n...

In Osaka meeting the first fish to have been shown to possess self-awareness in mirror experiments!

Very cool new resource frm @faunalytics.bsky.social covering the major current issues in aquaculture faunalytics.org/fundamentals...

This study shows that in-person encounters with animals help build connection and empathy, but I can't help feel sad for the poor stingrays who were less popular across all conditions than the more charismatic elephants doi.org/10.1002/zoo....

#science #philsci #books #education Walt's got a new book out! I should be reading it, but I can't stop watching gullible wealth-hoarding elite participate in their new favourite pastime — starfish yoga! Thankfully, his book can be downloaded, free for the next 2 weeks. I hear it's worth a read.

My new book 'Modelling Evolution' is now published! Please share. Available for free download for 2 weeks with this link: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Last week @walterveit.bsky.social and I found a little wood pigeon nestling who'd come out of his nest. We were able to care for him at home for a couple of days and he's now safely with a wildlife rescue for his rehabilitation and eventual release 🐦❤️

New book chapter out with @walterveit.bsky.social, arguing that animals should still be important even from a longtermist perspective academic.oup.com/book/60794/c...

Small announcement: my third book "Modelling Evolution" has been accepted for publication with CUP. 😊

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.

If you're an animal lover and haven't bought @zoophilosophy.bsky.social & @walterveit.bsky.social book yet, you need to. Their book “What are Zoos For?” is filled with info that can help you debate, discuss and inform others more confidently. #philsky #animalrights #science

New podcast out! @walterveit.bsky.social and I talk with Kyle Johannsen about our book 'What Are Zoos For?' newbooksnetwork.com/what-are-zoo...

Looks fascinating book 📕 chapter @zoophilosophy.bsky.social

Auction of beautiful wildlife art, fundraising for an excellent cause (zoo welfare charity Wild Welfare) www.jumblebee.co.uk/charityaucti...

Our new book chapter is out, looking at self-awareness/personhood in nonhuman animals, and how it may relate to questions of suffering link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New paper published :) "The Role of Emotional Suffering in the Animal Kingdom" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A groundbreaking study reveals that red-footed #Tortoises experience long-term mood states, much like mammals and birds. Evidence of their #Sentience has implications for captive husbandry and #AnimalLaw. #Reptiles #AnimalWelfare #AnimalBehaviour #Cognition 🔗➡️🐢 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I recently participated as an expert panellist at a citizen’s assembly on the future of animal welfare, part of the RSPCA’s Animal Futures: The Big Conversation. Heather Browning, one of the other panellists, has written about the importance of work like this.

#Philsky #Sentience www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb74...