Andrew Crump

Lecturer in Animal Cognition & Welfare at the Royal Veterinary College

[Royal Veterinary College (RVC) @RoyalVetCollege]

🐦‍⬛ The RVC in partnership with the @UniofExeter has been awarded a prestigious multi-million-pound Leverhulme Centenary Doctoral Scholarship grant by The Leverhulme Trust.

➡️ Read more at: https://t.co/cKFPuvE8gE

[Insect Welfare Research Society @InsectWRS]

Still time to apply for the IWRS Graduate Student Research Awards!

💸 2 x 2000 USD available
🦀 Sponsoring projects in #invertebrate #sentience or #welfare
📅 Application deadline 31st October

ℹ️More info here: https://t.co/YlQP8fcGO2

[Animal Welfare Research Network (AWRN) @AnimalWelfareRN]

We're excited to share a free workshop: Farmed invertebrate welfare: What do we know & what’s left to find out? Hybrid event, with also in-person spaces for AWRN members. Register for the workshop (both in-person and virtually), by 27 April 20https://forms.office.com/e/JmVxpsZbdu

[Animal Welfare Research Network (AWRN) @AnimalWelfareRN]

Registration is now open for "Insect Welfare: What do we know and what's left to find out?" workshop co-funded by AWRN, @InsectWRS and the @LSE Foundations of Animal Sentience Project. Register here ➡️https://t.co/Llb6ar7NLr

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

🐭🦐🐝 Everyone knows the best talks are given by early career people. So we are hosting an Animal Minds Workshop at the LSE in April for early career researchers. Submit your abstracts by 9 Jan. Details: https://t.co/2OFr40ucEC 🐟🦈🦆

[Insect Welfare Research Society @InsectWRS]

🚨Graduate Student Funding Alert! 🚨

IWRS Student Research Awards for Sentience and Welfare are LIVE! Click the link below for more information on how to apply and to register for the upcoming incredibly informative seminar:

https://t.co/YlQP8fcGO2

[Alex Rattee @alexrattee]

A @ukhomeoffice call for evidence to understand how decapods are currently used in science and education in the UK. The evidence will inform future policy development, including whether the use of decapods in science should be regulated and, if so, how.

https://t.co/4lZF9QNvlS

[Insect Welfare Research Society @InsectWRS]

Are you a graduate student working in entomology, animal welfare or sentience? Do you like having funding?

The IWRS Student Research Awards are launching soon. $2000 available to support research or projects on both Sentience and Welfare!

https://t.co/YlQP8fcGO2

[Animal Welfare Research Network (AWRN) @AnimalWelfareRN]

We have just launched our Lab Exchange Scheme. Up to £1,500 available for ECRs to visit another research group and learn a new technique or start a new collaboration. Find out more here: https://t.co/cQrpWHsx8B

[PLOS Biology @PLOSBiology]

Evidence suggests that some #insect species might feel #pain. @AndrewCrump94 @matilda_gibbons @Bee_Bytes @birchlse & @LChittka argue that researchers need to consider the welfare implications of these findings for insect experiments #PLOSBiology
https://t.co/c9KmagudCo

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

Unlikely moment in which I present the Dalai Lama with a copy of our special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies on "Animal Consciousness".

[CrustaceanCompassion @crab_welfare]

...And we’re live!

Crustacean Compassion have officially launched The Snapshot, an inaugural benchmark on decapod crustacean welfare designed to assess leading seafood producers, processors and retailers in the UK.

Read the report now 👉https://t.co/odZ2juvFvl

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

We're approaching the end of Year 3 of my "Foundations of Animal Sentience" project, so a good time for a roundup of what we've been doing in 2022. A thread with open access links. (1/18)

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

Hard to believe that our recent target article on the evidence for 🦀🦞🦐 sentience attracted 29 peer commentaries. Our responses (which took a while to write) have just come out. Read the whole exchange here: https://t.co/rTHr4tuAQP

[Matilda Gibbons @matilda_gibbons]

https://t.co/SoyMpjgLTO @AndrewCrump94 @LChittka

[Matilda Gibbons @matilda_gibbons]

Can insects feel pain? We review whether insects fulfil neural and behaviour indicators of pain, with @AndrewCrump94 @Bee_Bytes
@LChittka @birchlse and Sajedeh Sarlak. https://t.co/CFxYZtLzRk

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

Animal sentience should be central to "sustainability", in my view. The question should be: what is needed to create and sustain a planet of flourishing sentient life? And invertebrates have to be part of that. We have a new paper on this in Nature Food: https://t.co/nr0XfHkUQ2

[Dr Alex Schnell @Dr_AlexSchnell]

Our new paper led by @AndrewCrump94 is out in Nature Food! We discuss sentience in cephalopods 🐙🦑& decapods 🦞🦀🦐 & how current practices in the seafood industry present challenges for animal welfare
@birchlse, @zoophilosophy & Charlotte Burn.
https://t.co/y1KJgeW4wQ