Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@kristinandrews.bsky.social
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
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I guess I'm really writing a trade book for Norton on animal culture! Absolutely thrilled with this process and proud to be a part of the @wwnorton community--so many of my favorite thinkers have published with them.
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
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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...
Marineland’s belugas face euthanasia threat as Ottawa, Ontario point fingers
Marineland has asked the federal government for an infusion of emergency cash to help it feed and care for the whales
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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.
October 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Hope to see folks on-line tomorrow for this great line up of talks on animal normativity, dedicated to Frans de Waal.
@compcogsoc.bsky.social
I just found out today that the Comparative Cognition Society is on Bluesky!
I just found out today that the Comparative Cognition Society is on Bluesky!
September 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
@compcogsoc.bsky.social
I just found out today that the Comparative Cognition Society is on Bluesky!
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
Child & Brain Development
Multiscale Human
Future Flourishing
Humanity’s Urban Future
Learning in Machines & Brains
Quantum Materials
cifar.ca/global-scholars
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
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
September 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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...
September 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Nice story by @abeloomis.bsky.social! Glad to see Riddle in there too. 🙏
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.
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August 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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.
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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...
You can find the accepted version here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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...
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
August 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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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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
www.calebscholars.org
Caleb Scholars Program – Inuit-led conservation advocacy.
A fellowship program focused on providing community and cultural connection, professional development, mentorship, and financial support to students in the arctic.
www.calebscholars.org
July 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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
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
How to Study Animal Minds
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - How to Study Animal Minds
www.cambridge.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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...
Rubber arm illusion in octopus
The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership
and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the
sense of body ownership in an octo...
www.cell.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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...
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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.
June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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.
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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.
Iran
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
www.ricksteves.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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
In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17
APA PsycNet
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June 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Susana and I have a joint theory paper out—comparative psychology is also WEIRD.
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...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Dolphin whistle decoders win $100,000 interspecies communication prize
Coller-Dolittle award won by US team for discovering call that triggers avoidance and could be used as alarm signal
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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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...
May 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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!
May 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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
April 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So glad to be back together for PAMBA in Santa Barbara!
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!
Toward a bounded hierarchy framework for the study of the evolution of human syntax
www.the-pamba.com/prize
Congratulations Giulia!
April 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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!
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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.
April 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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.