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Jonathan Birch
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Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.

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Jonathan Birch is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work addresses the philosophy of biology and behavioural sciences, especially questions concerning sentience, bioethics, animal welfare, and the evolution of social behaviour and social norms. .. more

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Mar 25
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.
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 23h
Scene from the Vegan Forest Festival, Sadhana Forest, Tamil Nadu. Truly a unique event!
The main hut at Sadhana Forest, made from long wooden poles with thatching on the roof, and filled with about 120 people sitting watching a talk.

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Tom Wenseleers @twenseleers.bsky.social · 3d
For those not so familiar with the whole controversy two nice overview papers by @birchlse.bsky.social giving a nice and balanced overview of the current state of affairs here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.... academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 3d
Rabindranath Tagore (even in translation) is so direct, so powerful and resonates with our own time so deeply.
Question God, again and again through the ages you have sent messengers To this pitiless world: They have said, 'Forgive everyone', they have said, 'Love one another— Rid your hearts of evil.' They are revered and remembered, yet still in these dark days We turn them away with hollow greetings, from outside the doors of our houses. And meanwhile I see secretive hatred murdering the helpless Under cover of night; And Justice weeping silently and furtively at power misused, No hope of redress. I see young men working themselves into a frenzy, In agony dashing their heads against stone to no avail. My voice is choked today; I have no music in my flute: Black moonless night Has imprisoned my world, plunged it into nightmare. And this is why, With tears in my eyes, I ask: Those who have poisoned your air, those who have extinguished your light, Can it be that you have forgiven them? Can it be that you love them?

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 4d
My book: a snip at £8.99. Buy it before I decide I was wrong about half the things I wrote. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/what-a...
What Are Animal Rights For?
What Are Animal Rights For?; How should we treat animals? The field of animal rights raises pressing questions about how humans treat the other animals as livestock farming exerts an increasing toll o...
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 5d
Yes, once. It would be nice to go back one day.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 5d
Fits the whole aesthetic beautifully.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 5d
Donald Trump isn't (from any angle) the realisation of a bold, idiosyncratic architectural vision.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 5d
I always tell people at Ruhr Universitat Bochum that I think their campus is beautiful but they never believe me.
The campus of Ruhr Universitat Bochum showing concrete pillars casting long shadows in peaceful morning sunlight.

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 9d
I'll be talking on Tuesday about how animals experience time as part of our Bochum-LSE Animal Minds workshop - and free online attendance is possible! 🦜🐝🕷️🐒 Details here: animal-cognition.philosophy-cognition.com
Joint workshop. Animal Minds: New theories and new observations. RU Bochum and London School of Economics.

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Center for Mind & Cognition @ Ruhr-Uni Bochum @mind-cognition-rub.bsky.social · 10d
🐈‍⬛Animal Minds: New Theories and new Observations🐒
09.-10.02. @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
ZEMOS Building & Online via Zoom
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@lsephilosophy.bsky.social #LSEPhilosophy #CognitiveScience #AnimalCognition @birchlse.bsky.social @kristinandrews.bsky.social #AnimalMinds
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 10d
I think one of the key things that inspires me to work harder is that morally depraved people don't stop - in every city in every country they're putting in long hours on behalf of evil, just look at this staggering example - and so if we stop they win. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands
A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 11d
I'm working on a unified theory of epistemic magnetism and epistemic electricity.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11d
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.