Eva Read
@evaroseread.bsky.social
phd candidate at the lse, into sentience, ethics and animal welfare science
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More than five years in the making, my paper about the metaphysics of pregnancy is out today, open-access in PPR 🧵1/7
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
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Lady Parts and Baby Parts: What Is a Fetus?
A common-sense view of mammalian pregnancy treats the fetus as (a) an organism and (b) co-extensive with the approximately baby-shaped entity developing in the uterus. In this paper, I draw on metabo...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
More than five years in the making, my paper about the metaphysics of pregnancy is out today, open-access in PPR 🧵1/7
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
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Congratulations @birchlse.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize! 👏
The winner of the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize is @jonathanbirch.bsky.social for his book, The Edge of Sentience. Congratulations! And bravo for the vision speech about how philosophy is changing
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Congratulations @birchlse.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Royal Institute of Philosophy Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize! 👏
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Do we see things as we are? @anilseth.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth
We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil Seth
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July 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Do we see things as we are? @anilseth.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Looking forward to talking to UFAW about one of my main preoccupations, defining animal welfare
📢 Meet Eva Read, one of the keynote speakers at the UFAW International Animal Welfare Conference 2025!
Don’t miss out on hearing Eva's talk! Register to attend the online conference here: www.ufaw.org.uk/ufaw-events/...
#AnimalWelfare #AnimalWelfareScience #UFAW2025
Don’t miss out on hearing Eva's talk! Register to attend the online conference here: www.ufaw.org.uk/ufaw-events/...
#AnimalWelfare #AnimalWelfareScience #UFAW2025
June 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Looking forward to talking to UFAW about one of my main preoccupations, defining animal welfare
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📽️ The recording of the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture 2025 by @petergs.bsky.social on freedom and tolerance is now available online!
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/1TWy0xa...
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/1TWy0xa...
June 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📽️ The recording of the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture 2025 by @petergs.bsky.social on freedom and tolerance is now available online!
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/1TWy0xa...
Watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/1TWy0xa...
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An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
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LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience
The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.
www.lse.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...
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Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health
Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
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March 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Brilliant news! At last, confirmation that the Govt *will* go ahead with the #NaturalHistoryGCSE 🎉 We have to get to know our fellow travellers on this planet again. Young people who know & love nature are far more likely to protect & restore it - as well as enjoying better physical & mental health
This is an excellent article
1/ Today, @Vox published a piece that's very close to my heart. Science depends on animal testing, but the work comes at a steep psychological cost—one that too many researchers have been told to endure in silence.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
The harrowing lives of animal researchers
Science depends on animal testing. But the work comes at a steep, hidden cost.
www.vox.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is an excellent article
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When and why are motivational trade-offs evidence of sentience? New paper with @birchlse.bsky.social forthcoming at Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B and available to download for free here: philpapers.org/rec/BROWAW-10 (1/11)
March 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
When and why are motivational trade-offs evidence of sentience? New paper with @birchlse.bsky.social forthcoming at Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B and available to download for free here: philpapers.org/rec/BROWAW-10 (1/11)
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I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...
February 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...
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I'm working on a project about the life of a dairy cow and - wow - the things we do to gentle, maternal animals for no good reason at all shocks the conscience. Mostly all things I already knew, but there's knowing and then there's knowing
February 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I'm working on a project about the life of a dairy cow and - wow - the things we do to gentle, maternal animals for no good reason at all shocks the conscience. Mostly all things I already knew, but there's knowing and then there's knowing
This is made for us let's go www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nominate your invertebrate species of the year
We’re asking readers from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our second Invertebrate of the Year competition
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February 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This is made for us let's go www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Many factors contribute to slaughterhouse workers’ poor mental health, and the subsequent violence that permeates surrounding communities — but the systematic killing and objectification of animals appears to play a specific role.
Slaughterhouse Work Is Still Some of the Most Exploited Labor in the World
We need to talk about the humans most affected by factory farming.
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February 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Many factors contribute to slaughterhouse workers’ poor mental health, and the subsequent violence that permeates surrounding communities — but the systematic killing and objectification of animals appears to play a specific role.
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The latest issue of the New Yorker has a profile of the insect sentience squad - featuring Tilda Gibbons, Lars Chittka, Meghan Barrett, Sarah Skeels and me. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
Do Insects Feel Pain?
Insects make up about forty per cent of living species, and we tend to kill them without pause. New research explores the possibility that they are sentient.
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January 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The latest issue of the New Yorker has a profile of the insect sentience squad - featuring Tilda Gibbons, Lars Chittka, Meghan Barrett, Sarah Skeels and me. www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...