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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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'.
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Si esto es verdad, será lamarck de interesante.
Se demuestra por primera vez (en ratones) que se pueden transmitir a la descendencia por vía paterna los beneficios de salud obtenidos por los padres al hacer ejercicio físico. Esta transmisión de patrones epigenéticos tendría lugar mediante el microARN del esperma. www.science.org/content/arti...
Well-exercised male mice appear to pass fitness to their male offspring
Surprising epigenetic effect relies on snippets of RNA packaged within sperm
www.science.org
October 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Si esto es verdad, será lamarck de interesante.
Super cool study!
So excited that our first major empirical @themanybirds.bsky.social paper is now out in @plosbiology.org!
Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
Leading this big team science project, with our excellent core leadership team, is a labour of love for me, delighted to see our hard work over the past 4 years has reached this milestone!
🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Super cool study!
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👋📢 METIS Seminars 2025-2026!
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵
September 25, 2025 at 9:57 AM
👋📢 METIS Seminars 2025-2026!
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵
Hi 😊 As every year, we’re back with our weekly philosophy seminars. They are one of METIS’s main activities, and everyone is more than welcome to join. Here’s a thread on who we are, what we do, and how you can take part 👇🧵
If this doesn’t end bonobos’ reputation as the hippies of the great apes I don’t know what will. www.cell.com/current-biol...
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos
Sonya Pashchevskaya and colleagues document a potentially fatal attack of a male bonobo
by a group of females.
www.cell.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If this doesn’t end bonobos’ reputation as the hippies of the great apes I don’t know what will. www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan.
Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚
Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚
October 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hoy hemos celebrado una comida para despedir a Francisco Álvarez, Manuel Sellés y Eduardo Bustos, fundadores del Departamento de LHFC de la UNED, que se jubilan.
Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚
Gracias por todo vuestro legado. Paco, Manolo y Eduardo, esta siempre será vuestra casa💚
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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📅✨ Plan chulísimo para todos los públicos este viernes 19 (18:00–19:00h) en Madrid:
En el Círculo de Bellas Artes, dentro del Festival de las Ideas,
@susanamonso.com y Paco Calvo hablarán sobre inteligencias no humanas 🐒🌱
🎟️ Entrada libre hasta completar aforo
ℹ️ festivaldelasideas.es/eventos/las-...
En el Círculo de Bellas Artes, dentro del Festival de las Ideas,
@susanamonso.com y Paco Calvo hablarán sobre inteligencias no humanas 🐒🌱
🎟️ Entrada libre hasta completar aforo
ℹ️ festivaldelasideas.es/eventos/las-...
Las otras inteligencias - Festival de las Ideas
festivaldelasideas.es
September 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
📅✨ Plan chulísimo para todos los públicos este viernes 19 (18:00–19:00h) en Madrid:
En el Círculo de Bellas Artes, dentro del Festival de las Ideas,
@susanamonso.com y Paco Calvo hablarán sobre inteligencias no humanas 🐒🌱
🎟️ Entrada libre hasta completar aforo
ℹ️ festivaldelasideas.es/eventos/las-...
En el Círculo de Bellas Artes, dentro del Festival de las Ideas,
@susanamonso.com y Paco Calvo hablarán sobre inteligencias no humanas 🐒🌱
🎟️ Entrada libre hasta completar aforo
ℹ️ festivaldelasideas.es/eventos/las-...
Estaré este viernes en el Círculo de Bellas Artes charlando sobre inteligencias no humanas con el gran Paco Calvo como parte del Festival de las Ideas. ¡Entrada libre hasta completar aforo!
Las otras inteligencias - Festival de las Ideas
festivaldelasideas.es
September 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Estaré este viernes en el Círculo de Bellas Artes charlando sobre inteligencias no humanas con el gran Paco Calvo como parte del Festival de las Ideas. ¡Entrada libre hasta completar aforo!
Animal experts! Please can you help me figure out the culprit behind what I found in my office drawer after returning from my holidays? Is it a mouse or a rat? Or something else entirely? I should have it all disinfected right? 😬
September 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Animal experts! Please can you help me figure out the culprit behind what I found in my office drawer after returning from my holidays? Is it a mouse or a rat? Or something else entirely? I should have it all disinfected right? 😬
Es cuestión de tiempo que firme accidentalmente un email como “Sudaba”.
September 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Es cuestión de tiempo que firme accidentalmente un email como “Sudaba”.
I'm so looking forward to reading this. Zoopolis had a huge influence on my own ethical thinking and I'm excited to see how Donaldson & Kymlicka have integrated scientific work on animal culture and agency in this one.
Now on the Oxford University Press website, complete with cover: Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka's Animals and the Right to Politics, the long-awaited sequel to 2011's Zoopolis.
An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
An expected release date of 11 December. Just in time for Christmas!
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
September 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I'm so looking forward to reading this. Zoopolis had a huge influence on my own ethical thinking and I'm excited to see how Donaldson & Kymlicka have integrated scientific work on animal culture and agency in this one.
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APA member @kristinandrews.bsky.social brings "philosophy or animal minds" to the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/human-q...
Human Questions, Animal Minds
New faculty member Kristin Andrews explores animal culture and consciousness and shows how the animal world illuminates the human one.
www.gc.cuny.edu
September 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
APA member @kristinandrews.bsky.social brings "philosophy or animal minds" to the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. www.gc.cuny.edu/news/human-q...
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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
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Postgrads! Call for papers: "Do animals understand death?" with @susanamonso.com on her (wonderful) book "Playing Possum". Submission deadline 30th September, workshop December 15-16, Ruhr University Bochum: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...
Philosophie des Bewusstseins und der Kognition (to be translated)
Philosophie des Bewusstseins und der Kognition (to be translated): Philosophie des Bewusstseins und der Kognition (to be translated)
www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
September 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Postgrads! Call for papers: "Do animals understand death?" with @susanamonso.com on her (wonderful) book "Playing Possum". Submission deadline 30th September, workshop December 15-16, Ruhr University Bochum: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...
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September 📚 🏫
In August we took a little vacation 🌞🏖 from the department’s social media, but some members of METIS kept moving. A very brief thread with some of their activities 👇 🧵
In August we took a little vacation 🌞🏖 from the department’s social media, but some members of METIS kept moving. A very brief thread with some of their activities 👇 🧵
September 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
September 📚 🏫
In August we took a little vacation 🌞🏖 from the department’s social media, but some members of METIS kept moving. A very brief thread with some of their activities 👇 🧵
In August we took a little vacation 🌞🏖 from the department’s social media, but some members of METIS kept moving. A very brief thread with some of their activities 👇 🧵