Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Philosopher. How animal cognition research informs philosophy, and vice versa. Social norms, evolution of tech, ToM, personhood, consciousness, AI. Prof and York Research Chair in Animal Minds at YorkU and Prof at CUNY Grad Center. www.kristinandrews.org
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸I know I keep posting about this but every time I check, the list gets longer and longer and longer. Hundreds and hundreds of places, everything from huge local institutions to small spots that will definitely struggle. No exaggeration, it's the most astonishing act of solidarity I've ever seen.
- there are a bunch of big names on this list, including multiple beard award winners, and some places i never would have guessed in a hundred years (the malt shop?!) and i'm genuinely floored and delighted to see so many participants bringmethenews.com/minnesota-li...
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- Time to get the knitting needles back out.
- So glad this study is getting so much media attention! www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸I've been working for ages on a comprehensive revamp of the Stanford Encyclopedia Entry on "Animal Consciousness", with new sections on non-Western perspectives, methodological challenges and evolutionary big pictures, and it's out today: plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons.... Hope you find it useful!
- The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy just published a revised entry on Animal Consciousness! By Michael Trestman, Jonathan Birch, Colin Allen @wileyprof.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social plato.stanford.edu/entries/cons...
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸Loved this paper by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Noam Miller. A very convincing argument for the function of consciousness.
- Last call for papers for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology! Don't miss a fabulous program in sunny Atlanta this February. Submissions due Nov 20. See you there! #philosophy #psychology #CFP southernsociety.org
- 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.
- Hope to see folks on-line tomorrow for this great line up of talks on animal normativity, dedicated to Frans de Waal.
- 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
- @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
- Nice story by @abeloomis.bsky.social! Glad to see Riddle in there too. 🙏
- Join us in welcoming our new faculty member, @kristinandrews.bsky.social! With appointments in Philosophy and Psychology, she explores animal culture and consciousness and shows how the animal world illuminates the human one www.gc.cuny.edu/news...
- 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. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://cifar.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Future-of-Food-2025-EN.pdf
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸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
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- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸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...
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸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.
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸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.
- You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds. In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸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...
- I’m moving from York to take up a Professorship at the CUNY Grad Center this fall! Graduate student training has been a focus these past years and I’m excited to help mentor next gen philosophy of animal minds in NYC!
- So glad to be back together for PAMBA in Santa Barbara!
- PAMBA Santa Barbara begins! @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social examines how and why animal culture matters
- Giulia Palazzolo @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social wrote the PAMBA prizewinning paper for 2025, and before long you will get to read it in Biology & Philosophy! Congratulations Giulia, and look forward to seeing you in Santa Barbara to share your important work!
- We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 PAMBA Prize, Giulia Palazzolo @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social for her paper Toward a bounded hierarchy framework for the study of the evolution of human syntax www.the-pamba.com/prize Congratulations Giulia!
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸The 2025 PAMBA prize has been awared to @giuliapalazzolo.bsky.social. The judges - @wileyprof.bsky.social, @kristinandrews.bsky.social, @susanamonso.com, @lgruen.bsky.social, and me - thought her a worthy winner. It was a very strong field, though.
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- Noam Miller presents the reptile 🐍 sentience markers in a new paper for the Journal of Consciousness Studies. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/...
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication
- So proud of my awesome students presenting their research. @tylerdelmore.bsky.social at CO3 on Toleman’s maps revisited, and at SSPP Marriah Alcantara @marriah.bsky.social on animal privacy, and Elizabeth Waldberg on theory light beyond consciousness. ❤️
- Really nice Science perspective by Ammie Kalan @ammiekalan.bsky.social & Lydia Luncz on the intrinsic value of animal culture-and nice contrast with many of the instrumental arguments out there. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸Animal play can seem trivial, even laughable, and such scenes make us grin with delight. But is that all there is to it? buff.ly/yQcVjNj
- Great news for philosophy of animal minds! Congratulations @birchlse.bsky.social! Looking forward to seeing the Postdoc advertisements for this important work.
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸Animal emotions—like joy—could be key indicators of consciousness. For @sciam.bsky.social Jacek Krywko interviews @jeffsebo.bsky.social on animal consciousness. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧵
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸how is this real life? how are any of these people in charge of their own bedtimes and toys let alone the united states of america? "The spokesman confirmed the veracity of the signal group, 'This appears to be an authentic message chain'...” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸I have a new interview at @sciam.bsky.social about my recent @science.org perspective with @kristinandrews.bsky.social and @birchlse.bsky.social on animal consciousness. We discuss why many animals might be conscious and how we can study this topic in an ethically and scientifically sound way.
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸And, my @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social-inspired op-ed is online at LNP/Lancaster Online — in print, it's alongside a piece from two geoscientists with local roots on the front page of the Sunday Perspectives section lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...
- Reposted by Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸We sat with @chriskrupenye.bsky.social, a leading figure in ape-hollywood as well as actual science, to cover some important questions. Can apes read minds? What skills are actually needed to succeed in social situations (asking for a friend)? How does one make a soap opera for chimpanzees?
