🐒 Primatologist, artist, and sentientist on a mission for a world beyond speciesism | PhD student @WRC_KyotoUniv 👉 Langurs, allomothering, animal ethnography
My advisor is answering questions about almost anything you want to know, such as about his research in proboscis monkeys! Yes you can submit in English 🐒
New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University.
Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence.
Please share widely! https://t.co/NAhqr0qGHn
In response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students, Kyoto University has announced its policy of allowing those affected to transfer
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Animal cruelty ordered by the one and only: the sickening US administration. Will the rest of humanity do something or not? Until that happens this is my last post here.
Macaques in Cambodia are a step closer to extinction🚨
The CITES Standing Committee has delayed a key decision on halting the corrupt trade of monkeys in Cambodia. This international body is ignoring evidence of illegal activity and safeguarding profiteering corporations rather than the animals they are charged with protecting 🐒💔
Not to sound cheesy, but DISI was life-changing for me—and a lot of fun. Can’t think of a better way to spend three weeks of your summer, so.. consider this call if this calls to you!
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Applications for DISI 2025 are now open!!
Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: https://t.co/xR6lgTIvZ6
@evan_westra Probably redundant because you’ve considered it already, but I’d definitely put some papers from Frans de Waal in there, on empathy, morality and/or fairness. And of course from Birte Wrage, Susana Monsó and Kristin Andrews, but again: good chance you already covered those! 😉
The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is thrilled to be hosting an online talk by Natale Jacewicz on October 22 at noon ET on why and how to consider animal welfare in wildlife management.
The talk is free and open to all. Please RSVP and share widely!
https://t.co/d5kBP1vLTs
@ERoseEngland@WeAnimals ...and despite the fact that they are sentient and incredibly sensitive beings who were snatched from their families, robbed of their homes and freedom, and innocently sentenced to a life in a torture prison.
If you'd ask me, the man deserved therapy, not a trophy. We may partially blame it on the Zeitgeist, but I find the casual exploitation of animals very hard to ignore.
As you read on, you find that Skinner’s project nearly failed if it wasn't for a young man who proposed using dogs in torpedoes (p. 29). Followed by disturbing descriptions and pictures of how the pigeons were trained, and more stories of war animal applications.
A statement riddled with fallacies: an appeal to fear by suggesting ethics are irrelevant in war, and a false dichotomy by implying we can only care about ethics in peace.
I just learned that B.F. Skinner posthumously won an Ig Nobel Peace Prize for experiments on the feasibility of housing live pigeons inside missiles to guide their flight path. How exploiting innocent animals to kill humans can win a prize, let alone a peace prize, is beyond me🧶
Skinner's own thoughts on the moral matter: "The ethical question of our right to convert a lower creature into an unwitting hero is a peace-time luxury" (p. 28) https://t.co/bsyczPyfnT