Susana Monsó
@susanamonso.com
She/her. Associate professor of philosophy at UNED, Madrid. Interested in all things animal. Author of PLAYING POSSUM: HOW ANIMALS UNDERSTAND DEATH.
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Susana Monsó
@susanamonso.com
· Aug 13
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...
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Blue Tits are famous for learning to peel foil lids off the milk bottles left by milkmen on UK doorstops. I wanted to know if Great Tits have been observed doing the same thing, possibly having learned from their cousins. In hindsight, I should not have googled Milk bottle Great Tits. Don't do this.
January 7, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Blue Tits are famous for learning to peel foil lids off the milk bottles left by milkmen on UK doorstops. I wanted to know if Great Tits have been observed doing the same thing, possibly having learned from their cousins. In hindsight, I should not have googled Milk bottle Great Tits. Don't do this.
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I had the honour of working to bring @auersperga.bsky.social’s baby to life. It’s a VERY heavy baby - over 200 references (and yes I read them all) - but necessary to do justice to our new hypothesis of combinatory tool use origins 📝👶🛠️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The flexible, the stereotyped and the in‐between: putting together the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis
Tool use research has long made the distinction between tool using that is considered learned and flexible, and that which appears to be instinctive and stereotyped. However, animals with an inherite...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I had the honour of working to bring @auersperga.bsky.social’s baby to life. It’s a VERY heavy baby - over 200 references (and yes I read them all) - but necessary to do justice to our new hypothesis of combinatory tool use origins 📝👶🛠️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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⭐ Cerramos el año con buena compañía y muchas razones para celebrar. Desde METIS, os deseamos unas felices fiestas y un excelente comienzo de año.
Wrapping up the year with great company and lots of reasons to celebrate. Warm holiday wishes from all of us at METIS. 🎄✨
Wrapping up the year with great company and lots of reasons to celebrate. Warm holiday wishes from all of us at METIS. 🎄✨
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
⭐ Cerramos el año con buena compañía y muchas razones para celebrar. Desde METIS, os deseamos unas felices fiestas y un excelente comienzo de año.
Wrapping up the year with great company and lots of reasons to celebrate. Warm holiday wishes from all of us at METIS. 🎄✨
Wrapping up the year with great company and lots of reasons to celebrate. Warm holiday wishes from all of us at METIS. 🎄✨
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We're glad to share that a workshop will be held around the work of Susana Monsó (@susanamonso.com)
📅 15–16 December 2025
📍 Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Susana will be joined by other specialists to explore this fascinating topic.
More info: n9.cl/l2j3y
📅 15–16 December 2025
📍 Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Susana will be joined by other specialists to explore this fascinating topic.
More info: n9.cl/l2j3y
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We're glad to share that a workshop will be held around the work of Susana Monsó (@susanamonso.com)
📅 15–16 December 2025
📍 Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Susana will be joined by other specialists to explore this fascinating topic.
More info: n9.cl/l2j3y
📅 15–16 December 2025
📍 Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Susana will be joined by other specialists to explore this fascinating topic.
More info: n9.cl/l2j3y
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Iain Douglas-Hamilton was a champion for elephants 🐘 & one of the inspirations for my own research. He was among the 1st to study ele social behaviour & it was his life's work to protect them
Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, pioneering elephant conservationist, dies aged 83
His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from poachers.
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Iain Douglas-Hamilton was a champion for elephants 🐘 & one of the inspirations for my own research. He was among the 1st to study ele social behaviour & it was his life's work to protect them
Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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☝️📢 Mañana a las 13 h (Argentina) / 17 h (España),
@susanamonso.com y Laura Danón darán una charla online titulada: “¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes” en @grupoanfibio.bsky.social
💻Para participar: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@susanamonso.com y Laura Danón darán una charla online titulada: “¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes” en @grupoanfibio.bsky.social
💻Para participar: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
☝️📢 Mañana a las 13 h (Argentina) / 17 h (España),
@susanamonso.com y Laura Danón darán una charla online titulada: “¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes” en @grupoanfibio.bsky.social
💻Para participar: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@susanamonso.com y Laura Danón darán una charla online titulada: “¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes” en @grupoanfibio.bsky.social
💻Para participar: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
So cool!
New paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
December 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
So cool!
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📢 Se ofertan 29 contratos predoctorales concedidos a @universidadgranada.bsky.social, uno de ellos para trabajar con nosotrxs en el proyecto PID2024 sobre inferencias de estados mentales en el dominio moral!
⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25
🔗 investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...
⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25
🔗 investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...
Convocatoria de contratos predoctorales 2025 | Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia
investigacion.ugr.es
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
📢 Se ofertan 29 contratos predoctorales concedidos a @universidadgranada.bsky.social, uno de ellos para trabajar con nosotrxs en el proyecto PID2024 sobre inferencias de estados mentales en el dominio moral!
⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25
🔗 investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...
⏳ Plazo de presentación: 18/12/25
🔗 investigacion.ugr.es/recursos-hum...
This is going to be so much fun!! Apply and come hang out in Madrid!
I am incredibly honored to have been invited as one of the keynote speakers for the XIV PBCS! This long-standing initiative is very supportive of graduate students & early-career researchers, so I encourage everyone to submit their abstracts! See you in Madrid next year! #HPS #HPbio #cogsci #philsky
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is going to be so much fun!! Apply and come hang out in Madrid!
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🚨CFA for the XIV PBCS that will be held at UNED (Madrid) 18-19 June 2026, where several of our METIS members are part of the organisation committee: Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) and Cristian Saborido.
More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🚨CFA for the XIV PBCS that will be held at UNED (Madrid) 18-19 June 2026, where several of our METIS members are part of the organisation committee: Losner Briones (@losnerbriones.com), Jorge Ramos (@jsramos.bsky.social) and Cristian Saborido.
More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
More info: sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs...
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🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
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Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Conferencia virtual:
¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes de los animales
Susana Monsó y Laura Danón
10 de diciembre, 13hs (Argentina)
Inscripción: forms.gle/BixUX45jnGgV...
¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes de los animales
Susana Monsó y Laura Danón
10 de diciembre, 13hs (Argentina)
Inscripción: forms.gle/BixUX45jnGgV...
November 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Conferencia virtual:
¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes de los animales
Susana Monsó y Laura Danón
10 de diciembre, 13hs (Argentina)
Inscripción: forms.gle/BixUX45jnGgV...
¿Tienen los animales un concepto de muerte? Lo que puede enseñarnos la tanatosis sobre las mentes de los animales
Susana Monsó y Laura Danón
10 de diciembre, 13hs (Argentina)
Inscripción: forms.gle/BixUX45jnGgV...
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Por cierto, para una contrapartida a la propuesta de filósofos como Schopenhauer sobre el uso de conceptos en animales, recomiendo el libro de @susanamonso.com "La zarigüeya de Schrödinger".
www.casadellibro.com/libro-la-zar...
www.casadellibro.com/libro-la-zar...
LA ZARIGÜEYA DE SCHRÖDINGER | | Casa del Libro
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November 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Por cierto, para una contrapartida a la propuesta de filósofos como Schopenhauer sobre el uso de conceptos en animales, recomiendo el libro de @susanamonso.com "La zarigüeya de Schrödinger".
www.casadellibro.com/libro-la-zar...
www.casadellibro.com/libro-la-zar...
Lovely review of Playing Possum by Travis Timmerman, published in Ethics. Above all I'm thrilled that the extremely silly word "jepperfication" (made up by @richardmoore.bsky.social to help me translate the also made up "jontrinfuncación") has made it into such a posh journal.
philpapers.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Lovely review of Playing Possum by Travis Timmerman, published in Ethics. Above all I'm thrilled that the extremely silly word "jepperfication" (made up by @richardmoore.bsky.social to help me translate the also made up "jontrinfuncación") has made it into such a posh journal.
Loved this paper by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Noam Miller. A very convincing argument for the function of consciousness.
The social origins of consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
We present the social origins of consciousness hypothesis, according to which the
ability to coordinate with group members was the original adaptive function of consciousness.
We offer three arguments...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Loved this paper by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Noam Miller. A very convincing argument for the function of consciousness.
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Esta ilustración para @plazayvaldes.bsky.social la hice hace años y recuerdo que disfruté mucho el proceso de trabajo. Aprendí sobre el concepto de la muerte que tienen algunos animales y a dibujar una zarigüeya. Es un libro muy interesante de @susanamonso.com que ya va por la tercera edición.
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Esta ilustración para @plazayvaldes.bsky.social la hice hace años y recuerdo que disfruté mucho el proceso de trabajo. Aprendí sobre el concepto de la muerte que tienen algunos animales y a dibujar una zarigüeya. Es un libro muy interesante de @susanamonso.com que ya va por la tercera edición.
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
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No, they really haven't. Calling spectral peaks vowels is as inane as saying that because my washing up gloves are also yellow, they have the same nutritional content as a banana. Zero evidence of vowel-like function. It's pure clickbait, and a new low in irresponsible claims from this group 🙄🐳🦑🧪
CETI scientists have discovered vowel and diphthong-like patterns in sperm whale communication! Read: bit.ly/3WSn9rc
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
No, they really haven't. Calling spectral peaks vowels is as inane as saying that because my washing up gloves are also yellow, they have the same nutritional content as a banana. Zero evidence of vowel-like function. It's pure clickbait, and a new low in irresponsible claims from this group 🙄🐳🦑🧪
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✨ Great news! The German edition of Playing Possum is nominated for “Science Book of the Year”. Congratulations Susana!
➡️ We know it deserves to win. Do you agree? Vote here! 👇
➡️ We know it deserves to win. Do you agree? Vote here! 👇
My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇
Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
Die Wahl zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
www.wissenschaftsbuch.at
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
✨ Great news! The German edition of Playing Possum is nominated for “Science Book of the Year”. Congratulations Susana!
➡️ We know it deserves to win. Do you agree? Vote here! 👇
➡️ We know it deserves to win. Do you agree? Vote here! 👇
My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇
Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
Die Wahl zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres
www.wissenschaftsbuch.at
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
My book Playing Possum has been nominated in its German edition for 'Science book of the year' (Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres)! Please kindly vote for it if you think it deserves to win 😇
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📢 Call for expressions of interest
The METIS Group (UNED, Madrid) welcomes researchers interested in applying to the Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship with our support.
➡️ Send CV + 400-word project summary.
⏰ Deadline: 20 Nov 2025.
Questions? Feel free to contact us.
blogs.uned.es/metis/
The METIS Group (UNED, Madrid) welcomes researchers interested in applying to the Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship with our support.
➡️ Send CV + 400-word project summary.
⏰ Deadline: 20 Nov 2025.
Questions? Feel free to contact us.
blogs.uned.es/metis/
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📢 Call for expressions of interest
The METIS Group (UNED, Madrid) welcomes researchers interested in applying to the Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship with our support.
➡️ Send CV + 400-word project summary.
⏰ Deadline: 20 Nov 2025.
Questions? Feel free to contact us.
blogs.uned.es/metis/
The METIS Group (UNED, Madrid) welcomes researchers interested in applying to the Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship with our support.
➡️ Send CV + 400-word project summary.
⏰ Deadline: 20 Nov 2025.
Questions? Feel free to contact us.
blogs.uned.es/metis/
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📣We’re happy to announce that tomorrow, Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com will present “Animal Medicine” at the IAST General Seminar in Toulouse!
More info: www.iast.fr/seminars/202...
More info: www.iast.fr/seminars/202...
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
📣We’re happy to announce that tomorrow, Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com will present “Animal Medicine” at the IAST General Seminar in Toulouse!
More info: www.iast.fr/seminars/202...
More info: www.iast.fr/seminars/202...
Obsessed with the cover of the Chinese edition of my book!!
November 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Obsessed with the cover of the Chinese edition of my book!!
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🏛️The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy 2025 award ceremony took place yesterday.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🏛️The Nayef Al-Rodhan International Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy 2025 award ceremony took place yesterday.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.
👏We are proud that Manuel Almagro, a member of the VLC Philosophy Lab, was a finalist with his book 'The Rise of Polarization: Affects, Politics, and Philosophy'.