Bjørn Ralf Kristensen
Environmental Philosopher | Animal and Environmental Ethics, Multispecies Studies, American Pragmatism | Sawyier Fellow, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Tech | PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
- On November 8, @ethicsiit.bsky.social at @illinoistech.bsky.social held our Ethics of Technology conference. Great to connect with many amazing international scholars, and to present my research incorporating John Dewey’s work on agency and architecture into ethical questions regarding urban animals
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- I recently had the opportunity to present some of my research on street dogs and multispecies waste relations at Waste Matters: The Many Afterlives of Junk conference in Helsinki. An amazing interdisciplinary conference focused on social, political, ethical, and aesthetic considerations of waste!
- Reposted by Bjørn Ralf KristensenHere is a piece on Mary Midgley that I wrote for the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social public philosophy blog! #marymidgley #philsky
- Reposted by Bjørn Ralf KristensenTake a look at @science.org's article describing our work in @globalchangebio.bsky.social showing that beak morphology of hummingbirds has changed in association with feeders! science.org/content/arti...
- 🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology
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- What I really care about is obvious, because the first thing I noticed when I saw this breaking news was the seagulls. Currently the most visible birds on the planet.
- Reposted by Bjørn Ralf KristensenToday is the day! My book Lab Dog is out from @uchicagopress.bsky.social a week early and you can find it wherever you find books. For @thedrift-mag.bsky.social, I put it in context with xenotransplantation, “trans rats,” & contemporary lab animal politics newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/from-capit...
- Reposted by Bjørn Ralf KristensenProof this guy is full of SITH.
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- A belated post in honor of World Penguin Day on Friday. Here are a few photos from September of 2022 when I had the honor of visiting the African penguin colony at Boulders Beach in Cape Town, South Africa.
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- A red-tailed hawk on campus today at the University of Oregon
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- One of the highlights of my recent trip to San Francisco was meeting Major, who is perhaps the most famous dog in the city. His human, Omar, owns Key Food Market in Lower Haight, where Major “works” behind the counter and is a central part of the local community.
- Excited to be in San Francisco for the American Philosophical Association Pacific division meeting! I’m part of a session this evening on new directions in American philosophy where I’m presenting some research on John Dewey and animal agency. #APAPacific25
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- Happy to see the latest issue of The Pluralist in print, which includes my paper on Dewey, Singer, and Effective Altruism!
- So cool to be in Helsinki when President Zelenskyy of Ukraine happened to come to town! 🇺🇦
- Thanks to Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human (PHLUSH) for highlighting the installation exploring a multispecies approach to sanitation that I co-developed with Kory Russel and Audrey Rycewicz for the Venice Biennale of Architecture. www.phlush.org/designing-fo...
- I'm happy to share that my paper, "Consequentialism in the Work of John Dewey and Peter Singer: Considering the Case of Effective Altruism" has been published in The Pluralist. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
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- An hour of Brunito’s day in 30 seconds. It’s a common misconception that street dogs tend to have very active and stressful lives. This depends on context. Yet, in my time researching street dogs in Peru I have found them to often be some of the most relaxed and content beings I have ever met.
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