Serrin Rutledge-Prior
@serrinrp.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Ethics at Queen's University | thinking, reading, talking and writing about animal politics, environmental ethics, green advocacy, and democracy | North London is red ❤️🤍
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Multispecies Legality
Cambridge Core - Legal Philosophy - Multispecies Legality
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🥁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
tinyurl.com/55myb64k
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📝 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
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'Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign' by @ariadnevromen.bsky.social, @serrinrp.bsky.social & Michael Vaughan
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February 11, 2026 at 2:38 PM
📝 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
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@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
'Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign' by @ariadnevromen.bsky.social, @serrinrp.bsky.social & Michael Vaughan
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Credit where it's due!
On Liberty: with Related Writings
Forthcoming - March 2026
"With Harriet Taylor's name at last joined to that of her beloved husband John Stuart Mill as the co-author of this timeless book, we get to see On Liberty even more clearly ...
hackettpublishing.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Credit where it's due!
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The rain is coming down like a waterfall and still Mikel's hair is perfect
January 31, 2026 at 4:43 PM
The rain is coming down like a waterfall and still Mikel's hair is perfect
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Missing you already, Cookie ❤️🐶
January 31, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Missing you already, Cookie ❤️🐶
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Arsenal lately.
December 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Arsenal lately.
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...
Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman ani...
doi.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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...
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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".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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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...
Mother Cow, Mother India | Stanford University Press
India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among the world's lead...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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/...
Care and moral repair: Restoring historical land-caring practices - William Salkeld, 2025
Do we have an obligation to restore historical land-caring practices as an act of moral repair? Recently, Almassi has put forward ecological restoration as a fo...
journals.sagepub.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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/...
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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."
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“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."
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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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...
“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...
September 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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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!
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An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!
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September 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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...
An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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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
September 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
August 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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.
Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman ani...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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.
July 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hannah Arendt, telling it like it - literally, currently - is.
🥺😩😫😭😭😭
What a time for CBS to cancel Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” and blame it on a “purely financial decision”: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’
CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night
variety.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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...even your emotions have an echo... in so much space... #transferwindow
A video in which James daydreams on the Arsecast Extra.
James daydreaming - from Arsecast Extra 648. Animated by @poorlydrawnarsenal
YouTube video by Arseblog
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July 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
...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
tinyurl.com/55myb64k
Multispecies Legality
Cambridge Core - Legal Philosophy - Multispecies Legality
www.cambridge.org
June 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🥁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
tinyurl.com/55myb64k
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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...
A fascinating piece by Sarah Newman on how animals inspired culture 🦫
aeon.co/essays/did-a...
Did animals provide the blueprints for human culture? | Aeon Essays
Prehistoric humans didn’t create art and architecture out of nothing. They took inspiration from the nonhuman world
aeon.co
June 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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...
A fascinating piece by Sarah Newman on how animals inspired culture 🦫
aeon.co/essays/did-a...