Canadians, time to write your MP and if you are in Ontario your MPP about Marineland's threat to kill the 30 belugas they are supposed to care for. Canada rightly denied their request to sell these animals to China. The response from Marineland is murder. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I don’t remember when I first heard of Jane Goodall. She was there before I knew anything, showing me that you can do science without following the old rules. Thank you Jane, for creating a path through the forest.

Yes, you will be able to see these talks on the Normactivity YouTube channel. They were great! www.youtube.com/channel/UCrt...

Hope to see folks on-line tomorrow for this great line up of talks on animal normativity, dedicated to Frans de Waal.

@compcogsoc.bsky.social

I just found out today that the Comparative Cognition Society is on Bluesky!

As a Fellow in CIFAR's Future Flourishing Program, I've seen the real impact of the Global Scholar program for ECRs. New call for GS in:

Child & Brain Development
Multiscale Human
Future Flourishing
Humanity’s Urban Future
Learning in Machines & Brains
Quantum Materials

cifar.ca/global-scholars

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

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Nice story by @abeloomis.bsky.social! Glad to see Riddle in there too. 🙏

Interested in the Future of Food? CIFAR will be announcing a new call for Discovery Workshops to support a new program (or two?) on this topic.

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Our paper on 🌱🦧ANIMAL MEDICINE🐜🍄 has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science!

You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Congratulations to William O'Shea for successfully defending his dissertation "Social Norms in Transition: Identity, Ethics, and Social Change"! 👏🎉 Proud philosophy mama! #Philosophy #YorkU

This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about the Caleb Scholars program. We give students funds to return home to learn from elders as they go to school, and we find undergrads though professional/PhD programs bc I know how hard it was to return home during grad school.

www.calebscholars.org

Cambridge Elements are free to download until 7/25-check out my little book How To Study Animal Minds. I had fun writing this one, and I'll never forget how nervous I was in front of a bunch of scientist friends, including Sara Shettleworth, hearing their thoughts on the draft! tinyurl.com/3yy6a52c

Octopuses respond to the rubber hand illusion. Check out the video abstract. Cool work by Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda--these are the kinds of questions we can be asking to investigate the nature of consciousness www.cell.com/current-biol...

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.

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

Susana and I have a joint theory paper out—comparative psychology is also WEIRD.

It took a number of emails and phone calls over a month to get this done for my daughter.

Reminds me of this Gary Larson classic. ca.pinterest.com/pin/48807767...

I also think that we should be aware of the responsibilities we gain when we start developing two-way communication with other species, as I argued at the first meeting on AI and animal ethics. uchv.princeton.edu/events/artif...

I think we should be optimistic that machine learning will help us better understand animal signals, as I say in this @nautil.us article by Sarah Scoles also out yesterday. nautil.us/ai-could-hel...

Dolphin researcher Laela Sayigh wins the first Coller-Dolittle Prize for Two-way Inter-species Communication. Fabulous work with Peter Tyak on the meaning and function of dolphin whistles. What are the larger implications of this kind of research? 👇

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

In today's online final (at 2pm UK time) the first ever Coller Dolittle Prize for the best recent work decoding animal communication will be awarded, with $100,000 for the winner. But who are the four finalists? A quick 🧵. 1/5 jeremycollerfoundation.org/events/colle...