Richard Moore
@richardmoore.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the EPP BA/BSc at the University of Warwick. My UKRI-funded FLF Communicative Mind project researches human and non-human great ape communication and cognition, and the evolution of language. 🇪🇺🍉 he/him
Is your life blighted by the insufferable optimists around you? Get them this for Christmas, to make their new year less joyful.
It’s publication day! Spread the word. The perfect Christmas gift for the pessimist in your life.
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Is your life blighted by the insufferable optimists around you? Get them this for Christmas, to make their new year less joyful.
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
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We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
There's a field of writing on philosophical issues in animal cognition that is dedicated to reconceptualising established philosophical ideas.
The way analytic philosophers take however an issue is first conceptualized as immovable goalposts, never consider an alternative, and just toggle parameters within it til kingdom come makes me fucking depressed
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
There's a field of writing on philosophical issues in animal cognition that is dedicated to reconceptualising established philosophical ideas.
Given the ways in which Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson have involved themselves in this story, it seems possible that someone has a vested interested in destabilising this investigation and using it to harm the government. Is there any evidence that this is happening?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Grooming gangs inquiry: Why is there a row?
A national inquiry into grooming gangs in England and Wales is in turmoil - how did we get here?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Given the ways in which Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson have involved themselves in this story, it seems possible that someone has a vested interested in destabilising this investigation and using it to harm the government. Is there any evidence that this is happening?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on
Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
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Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
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October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on
Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
Share, apply, or reach out for details!
tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd
Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication
Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".
Share, apply, or reach out for details!
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I've always worried about Thiel being so rich, sinister, and clever. Turns he's just rich, sinister, and a deluded fantasist whose mind has lost touch with reality.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I've always worried about Thiel being so rich, sinister, and clever. Turns he's just rich, sinister, and a deluded fantasist whose mind has lost touch with reality.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
What a loss for the field of primatology. A genuine pioneer, a brilliant scientist, and an inspirational writer.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What a loss for the field of primatology. A genuine pioneer, a brilliant scientist, and an inspirational writer.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
So much money and still they're willing to sell their dignity.
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
September 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
So much money and still they're willing to sell their dignity.
I am travelling to the ESPP in Warsaw. My flight from Birmingham to Frankfurt is delayed, and I will miss my Warsaw connection. Lufthansa's best offer so far is a 9pm flight from Frankfurt to Vienna, and then a late flight from Vienna to Warsaw.
Today will suck. But at least there's EC261 🥹
Today will suck. But at least there's EC261 🥹
September 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I am travelling to the ESPP in Warsaw. My flight from Birmingham to Frankfurt is delayed, and I will miss my Warsaw connection. Lufthansa's best offer so far is a 9pm flight from Frankfurt to Vienna, and then a late flight from Vienna to Warsaw.
Today will suck. But at least there's EC261 🥹
Today will suck. But at least there's EC261 🥹
One of the great series of recent years.
I just reread The Wicked+The Divine by @mckelvie.bsky.social & @kierongillen.bsky.social in it's entirety and it's such a perfect book. A full and complete story that doesn't need a page more or less. It's a book that while reading seems it's about everything you need it to be about it. A miracle.
August 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
One of the great series of recent years.
Does every citation count? What about the ones that have to be cut and paste mistakes?
August 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Does every citation count? What about the ones that have to be cut and paste mistakes?
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Move over chimps, it's the mountain gorillas' time to slide (carefully) into action as the true gesture gods they are!
Huge congrats to Charlotte Grund on the 1st moutain gorilla gesture repertoire 🦍🤘🦍👏🦍
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
🧪 @erc.europa.eu @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 1/6
Huge congrats to Charlotte Grund on the 1st moutain gorilla gesture repertoire 🦍🤘🦍👏🦍
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
🧪 @erc.europa.eu @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 1/6
August 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Move over chimps, it's the mountain gorillas' time to slide (carefully) into action as the true gesture gods they are!
Huge congrats to Charlotte Grund on the 1st moutain gorilla gesture repertoire 🦍🤘🦍👏🦍
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
🧪 @erc.europa.eu @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 1/6
Huge congrats to Charlotte Grund on the 1st moutain gorilla gesture repertoire 🦍🤘🦍👏🦍
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
🧪 @erc.europa.eu @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 1/6
I was a reviewer on this paper. It introduces some much needed clarity into primate pragmatics debates, and will become an important touchstone in future research.
Now published! 📝✅📢
Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access).
Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them!
📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....
Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access).
Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them!
📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....
July 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
I was a reviewer on this paper. It introduces some much needed clarity into primate pragmatics debates, and will become an important touchstone in future research.
I made full professor 😌
July 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I made full professor 😌
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🌟Deeply honoured to have been selected as the 1st-Place Winner in the Interdisciplinary category of the Warwick Open Research Awards 2025, for my open-approach work on infants’ comprehension of pointing gestures 👶👉
Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience
Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience
July 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
🌟Deeply honoured to have been selected as the 1st-Place Winner in the Interdisciplinary category of the Warwick Open Research Awards 2025, for my open-approach work on infants’ comprehension of pointing gestures 👶👉
Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience
Excited to keep pushing for open, rigorous, and collaborative science!💡🔍 #OpenScience
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President of the Israeli Academy of Sciences Issues Warning: Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and Securing the Release of Hostages - A National Moral Imperative www.academy.ac.il/News/NewsIte...
President of the Academy Issues Warning: Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and Securing the Release of Hostages - A National Moral Imperative
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July 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
President of the Israeli Academy of Sciences Issues Warning: Addressing the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza and Securing the Release of Hostages - A National Moral Imperative www.academy.ac.il/News/NewsIte...
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Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power
paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122
press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249
paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122
press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249
July 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power
paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122
press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249
paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122
press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249
I wrote a commentary on @enactedmind.bsky.social's recent Proceedings B paper, to show why I think the insights of his postnatal dependency hypothesis are so powerful.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
July 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I wrote a commentary on @enactedmind.bsky.social's recent Proceedings B paper, to show why I think the insights of his postnatal dependency hypothesis are so powerful.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
May 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
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Never thought of it this way. Ahahahaha!
June 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Never thought of it this way. Ahahahaha!
If you care about language evolution, or are just looking for some heavy-ish weekend reading, Geurts & Moore (Eds.) Evolutionary Pragmatics is now available to order. The paper version won't be shipped until the end of August, but there's an electronic version on Oxford Academic today.
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you care about language evolution, or are just looking for some heavy-ish weekend reading, Geurts & Moore (Eds.) Evolutionary Pragmatics is now available to order. The paper version won't be shipped until the end of August, but there's an electronic version on Oxford Academic today.
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You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds.
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
APA PsycNet
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June 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds.
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
I'm leaving to Leipzig today, to spend three weeks at the @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social with @dbmhaun.bsky.social's group. Looking forward to catching up with members of all five great ape species.
June 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I'm leaving to Leipzig today, to spend three weeks at the @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social with @dbmhaun.bsky.social's group. Looking forward to catching up with members of all five great ape species.
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🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
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Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
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Career Opportunities: PhD position Cooperative Sustainability (14208)
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June 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏