Animal Studies/Animal Ethics
Philosophers, social scientists, and other academics working on animal ethics and related subjects.
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@stevecooke.org
@pablopcastello.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Harvard Law School; Associate Editor, Political Animals section, Society & Animals; Animal Political Theory, Conservation Biology, Animal Law & Policy, Ecofeminism, Animal Studies
@animalsociology.bsky.social
Prof at Uni Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. Critical animal studies. Violence against animals. Neoliberalisation of education. Dog and pig obsessed. Views my own.
@animalinvention.bsky.social
Our research explores how & why non-human animals invent new behaviours by studying their play. The project is led by Mathilde Tahar & Alecia Carter. We are by the Leverhulme Trust and hosted by UCL. https://www.animalinventiveness.com
@drmathildetahar.bsky.social
Leverhulme Research fellow in Philosophy of Biology at UCL working on animal inventions. Animal behaviour, evolutionary theory, evolutionary ecology. Also: I am a Bergson lover, dog lover, cat lover, and running addict. https://www.drmathildetahar.com
@simonkleinert.bsky.social
XVX / PhD project on the role of animals in German vegetarianism 1850-1900 / Animal History / Animal Rights History / he/him 🏳️🌈
@icareanimals.bsky.social
We educate, mentor, and unite animal rights advocates globally to turn research and advocacy into legal protections for animals. Join us for legal updates and more information about animal rights and ethics: https://www.icare-animals.org
@rgs-agwg.bsky.social
Animal Geographies Working Group of the Royal Geographical Society. We bring together geographers and others interested in human-animal relations, and the spaces, practices, and experiences of animals.
@drhannahbattersby.bsky.social
Philosopher 🧠⚖️🐾 (Research: Animal & Enviro. Ethics, Multispecies & Climate Justice, Environmental Values) They/She https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah-Battersby I mostly prattle about academia, disability, wrestling, video games, and my cat
@williamgildea.bsky.social
Human equality, justice, animal ethics. Researcher in philosophy at McGill and the Centre for Research in Ethics in Montreal.
@evabernetkempers.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher in animal law at University of Antwerp ; JRA at Cambridge Centre for animal rights law
@mattwperry.bsky.social
Postdoc in Philosophy at UBC Mainly working on dignity and nonhuman animals https://matthewwrayperry.wixsite.com/mattperry
@lgruen.bsky.social
Philosopher working on prisons, animals, ecofeminism. Advisor for Freedom Reads (freedomreads.org). More on my writing and other work at lorigruen.com.
@charlotteblattner.bsky.social
Profile in development ⏳ Bear with me! Dr. iur., LL.M. (Harvard), associate professor in environmental & administrative law @UniL, specialized in #climatelaw & #animallaw. Former postdoc @UniBE @Harvard_Law & @QueensU More info? -> charlotteblattner.net
@heidilynphd.bsky.social
Scientist, cosplayer, teacher, musician, can I find more “contradictions”? We are all all of these things! LGBTQ+, Mom, professor of animal cognition and communication. (She/her) Follow my lab’s work @c3polab.bsky.social ;-)
@c3polab.bsky.social
Comparative Cognition and Communication Lab at the University of South Alabama. Studying dolphins, dogs, apes, hermit crabs, and any other fascinating animal someone brings to us! Director: Heidi Lyn @heidilynphd@bsky.social
@aliboyle.bsky.social
Philosopher of science. Thinking about nonhuman minds, memory, living things. Cat person.
@bjornjohann.bsky.social
Professional science communicator. On the Research team at Faunalytics. I write about animals, food, and climate. Barcelona based. Bird dad. Views my own.
@mattiwilks.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Prof) in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. Interested in morality and related things.
@benjaminbuttlar.bsky.social
I am a social and environmental psychologist at the University of Trier. I'm particularly interested in cognitive conflicts and how people make and follow through with decisions that go against their attitudes.
@chopwood.bsky.social
UZH Psychology Professor Personality, Interpersonal Processes, Human-Animal Intergroup Relations Editor https://phair.psychopen.eu/index.php/phair
@joswabe.bsky.social
Senior Director of Public Affairs for Humane World for Animals Europe (formerly Humane Society International). Advocate for animals. EU policy wonk. Erstwhile sociologist. Bird nerd & nature lover. Vegan foodie. Posting in EN & NL. Usual disclaimers apply.
@caroljadams.bsky.social
author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory" and other books. Activist. Check out "Protest Kitchen" as we cope with Republican rollbacks to climate protection. Vegan cook and recipe collector. caroljadams.com
@animalstudies.bsky.social
The Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) is the preeminent association for animal studies in the region. www.animalstudies.org.au https://www.youtube.com/@AASA_Animals
@pmagana94.bsky.social
Political philosopher | IRC postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin | Animals, future generations, and democratic theory | Also, memes and shitposting. https://sites.google.com/view/pablomagana
@jeshooper.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Multispecies Ethnographer, Animal Studies Lecturer, Founder of The Civet Project Foundation. Studying civets, coffee, pets, and poop. 🐈💩☕ Sussex, UK
@teresamangum.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof still cooking with gas on 19th-century studies, animal studies, age studies burners. Co-editor U Iowa Press Humanities and Public Life book series.
@martahalina.bsky.social
philosophy of science, comparative cognition, animal minds, artificial minds, AI in scientific practice, HPS Cambridge
@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Pratt Institute Contributing Writer at Vox Contributing Editor at The New Republic Feed the People! (w/ Gabriel Rosenberg) in 2026 from Basic Books www.jandutkiewicz.com
@animalcrim.bsky.social
AKA Crimtweets. Senior Lecturer Criminology & Associate Dean for Research. Nonhuman animal victimology, vegan criminology, environmental justice, crime analysis, crime prevention, evidence based policing, spatial crime concentrations, routine activities.
@angecass.bsky.social
Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm. Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
@marisul.bsky.social
Co-host of Our Hen House podcast and host of Animal Law Podcast. Lawyer, teacher, animal lover.
@kdriscoll.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. Comp. Lit. Utrecht University | Editor-in-Chief, Humanimalia | zoopoetics, reading zoos, more-than-human communities | he / him
@leiderer.bsky.social
historian 📚. teacher (history/latin/spanish) 🧑🏼🏫. writing the #IndustrialisationOfAnimals 🏭🐄🐖. interested in #humans, #animals and everything in between and beyond. what they do and why. ⌨https://uni-freiburg.academia.edu/AnnetteLeiderer
@tuomivaara.bsky.social
Sociologist (Ph.D), writer, Executive Director @oikeuttaelaimille.fi #animalrights #veganism #biodiversity #humanrights #criticalanimalstudies
@fgusmao.bsky.social
"A minor marginalised philosopher writing in the early twenty-first century" Professor of Conservation at UNIFESP I was once suspended from Twitter for defending animal rights... 🇦🇺 🇧🇷 and I love cats...
@realprimatthias.bsky.social
Studies great ape cognition and behavior at Leipzig Zoo. Themes: metacognition, communication, cultural learning, animal emotions. ManyPrimates 3.
@hannahwinther.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in philosophy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Animal ethics, bioethics, and ethics after Wittgenstein. Editor at forlagethof.no (H//O//F). https://www.ntnu.edu/employees/hannah.winther
@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social
Political Theorist at University of Münster Assistant Professor in Political Theory, interested in democratic theory: legal mobilization, political representation, migration, religion, animal politics https://sites.google.com/view/svenja-ahlhaus/home
@suneborkfelt.bsky.social
PhD, researcher. Animal studies, literary studies, ecocriticism, human-animal relations, green postcolonial studies, posthumanism etc.
@danielbreeze.com
PhD @ Loughborough (lboro) University : an animal-human history of vegetarians in Britain, 1850-1939. Also thinking about: biography, env hum, landscapes, gender, emotions. Editor @ RRR Journal. Volunteer @ National Trust. He/him. danielbreeze.com
@dlclough.bsky.social
Chair in Theology & Applied Sciences @abdndivinity.bsky.social Researching animals and food systems in Christian theology & ethics. Co-Chair @ucuaberdeen.bsky.social (he/him)
@slaydok.bsky.social
Anthropologist of design & multispecies ethnographer, thinking about biomimicry 🌱⚙️ and animal architecture 🦝🏛️. Postdoc @ the University of Rochester. Job market 2024-2025. Assistant editor w/ 4S Backchannels. For more: https://www.richardfadok.com
@rosaleenduffy.bsky.social
Political Ecologist, interested in IWT, conservation politics and animals. Professor at Sheffield University. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/politics/people/academic-staff/rosaleen-duffy
@richardmoore.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the EPP BA/BSc at the University of Warwick. My UKRI-funded FLF Communicative Mind project researches human and non-human great ape communication and cognition, and the evolution of language. 🇪🇺 he/him
@drejosephine.bsky.social
Gender Studies PhD. Literature Masters & Hons. Critical animal studies - men and masculinities; Cultural histories, Social futures. Utopia/Dystopia Sociologist, Narrative Therapist with #CRPS 💖 🐇s, manta rays #pigoneer Unceded Bundjalung Country, AUS
@danielbowman.bsky.social
MSCA Postdoc with The Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Researching Indigenous American Literature, Automobility, and the Environment (also writing a book about horses and horsepower) #envlit #ecocriticism #envhum ⛰️🌲🚗📚
@kimstallwood.bsky.social
Animal Rights Author & Independent Scholar. The British Library holds my archive. Tier im Recht has my collection. Writing the biography of Topsy the Elephant.
@amwaltermann.com
Legal theory & philosophy @ Maastricht University (NL). Interests: non-human agents and the social construction of (legal) reality, law & cognitive science. Also: plants, cats, food, hiking, mostly at @gardenandlibrary.bsky.social
@susanamonso.com
She/her. Associate professor of philosophy at UNED, Madrid. Interested in all things animal. Author of PLAYING POSSUM: HOW ANIMALS UNDERSTAND DEATH. susanamonso.com [Profile pic: © Gianfranco Tripodo]
@nicodmueller.bsky.social
🐾 Animal rights | 🐭 Animal experimentation ethics | ☝️ Kantian ethics | 📚 I post about books I'm reading & engage in shameless self-promotion Philosopher at University of Basel🇨🇭| https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0866-8235
@tristankatz.bsky.social
PhD student at Uni Fribourg studying environmental ethics / animal ethics I also have a separated account where I post photos: @tristan-katz-photo
@serrinrp.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in Animal Ethics at Queen's University | thinking, reading, talking and writing about animal politics, green advocacy, and liberalism | North London is red ❤️🤍
@valerygiroux.bsky.social
LLM, PhD en philosophie, Université de Montréal. Directrice adjointe du Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ), membre du Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA) et Fellow du Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics.
@jeffsebo.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program, New York University. jeffsebo.net
@drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social
Does Jurisprudence. Senior Lecturer at Newcastle Law School; Academic Fellow, Middle Temple; Past visitor @ Library of Congress, MPIL Heidelberg & Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights Law; Long-suffering fan of Barnsley FC. Views/opinions my own (He/him)
@visakurki.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Helsinki. Animal law, legal philosophy, rights, legal personhood etc. Director, Helsinki Animal Law Centre
@elisaaaltola.bsky.social
Filosofi, Eläinoikeusakatemian puheenjohtaja. Here to serve nonhuman nature and animals. ❤️
@joshmilburn.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Loughborough University. Books: Just Fodder (McGill-Queen's, 2022) and Food, Justice, and Animals (Oxford, 2023). Host of the podcast Knowing Animals. Website: https://josh-milburn.com
@kristofdhontphd.bsky.social
Social psychologist Founding president PHAIR Society SHARKLab Director - University of Kent human-animal relations - intergroup relations - animal advocacy research - veganism - speciesism - … Why We Love and Exploit Animals
@andrulus.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State. Views my own, etc. Animal Philosophy, Social & Political Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, Latin American Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology
@pamba.bsky.social
The Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behavior Association (PAMBA) promotes and supports the work of philosophers and scientists interested in philosophical questions about minds across species. https://www.the-pamba.com/
@katiecmoliver.bsky.social
geographer. lecturer. research urban chickens in London, the (disappearing) birds of Morecambe Bay, and the geographies of veganism (not at the same time) https://catherinecmoliver.com/
@zoophilosophy.bsky.social
Scientist & Philosopher | Former zookeeper, now Lecturer at University of Southampton, specialising in animal welfare, sentience, and ethics
@kristinandrews.bsky.social
Philosopher and writer. 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 in Toronto. www.kristinandrews.org 🧺 🦧
@friderikespang.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher @Center for Environmental & Technology Ethics Prague Political philosophy, environmental & animal ethics. Also interested in everything on emotions.
@bjking.bsky.social
Anthropologist, animal advocate, science writer, caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more.
@stevecooke.org
Grumpy. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy. Animal rights, ethics of activism, political philosophy. Homepage: https://stevecooke.org/