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Kris Hill
@academiccatlady.bsky.social
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Cats. Tattoos of cats. Anthrozoology. Midlife career change. ADHD. More cats. Sometimes squirrels. 1st gen academic. High-school dropout. 2x PHDs. https://academiccatlady.com/
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Are you on the eCATT mailing list (if you joined one of our Critical Cat Cafes you will be)? If so please check your email (and junk folder). If you want to be added, please share your email (or send to catacademicthinktank@gmail.com)

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Possible eCATT futures? We want your input!
Are you on the eCATT mailing list (if you joined one of our Critical Cat Cafes you will be)? If so please check your email (and junk folder). If you want to be added, please share your email (or se…
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November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Read our latest blog by SCAS member Sarah Oxley Heaney, who reflects on fieldwork undertaken as part of a SCAS funded project on cats and dogs in Sauraha, Nepal. Visit the 'SCAS Funded Research Projects’ page on our website to learn more about funding. www.scas.org.uk/blogs/in-the...
In the Shadows and the Sun: Reflections on Cats, Dogs and a Multispecies Community: Bonded Coexistence in Sauraha’s Sharing Society — Society for Companion Animal Studies
The morning heat was lifting the mist over Sauraha when I heard the distant, unmistakable call of captive elephants, an echo of enforced stillness. Their confinement stood in stark contrast to the qui...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Hot off the press!! Happy to share pdf.
Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography
Situated at the intersection of tourism, migration, and human-animal studies, this paper is based on a transspecies ethnographic study of a colony of cats (Felis catus) living on the Costa del Sol,...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Today (8 Nov) is International Human Animal Bond (IHAB) Day.
Read our blog, Celebrating Human–Animal Bond Day: SCAS Applauds New Housing Rights for Pet Owners:
www.scas.org.uk/blogs/celebr...
#HumanAnimalBond #HumanAnimalBondDay #PetsinHousing #Petfriendlyhousing #HABday
Celebrating Human–Animal Bond Day: SCAS Applauds New Housing Rights for Pet Owners — Society for Companion Animal Studies
Human Animal Bond (IHAB) Day is 8th November 2025. This dedicated day recognises, highlights and celebrates our animal companions and the wonderful relationships we can build with them. Originall...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Hot off the press!! Happy to share pdf.
Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cats, community, and tourism on the Costa del Sol: a transspecies ethnography
Situated at the intersection of tourism, migration, and human-animal studies, this paper is based on a transspecies ethnographic study of a colony of cats (Felis catus) living on the Costa del Sol,...
www.tandfonline.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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scas1979.bsky.social
Register for our webinar with Anita Franklin on ‘Unhousing the Norm: Disability, Pets, and the Politics of Home.’ Recordings available. FREE for SCAS members & small fee (£6.13) for non-members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1866276787...
#HumanAnimalBond #CompanionAnimal #Disability #PetFriendlyHousing
Unhousing the Norm: Disability, Pets, and the Politics of Home
Presenter: Anita Franklin, PhD Candidate, Flinders University
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October 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Please note this event is actually 12 November (not 26 November as previously listed). Sorry for any confusion. Recordings available to all registered participants. Free registration for SCAS members!! (join SCAS now to claim this offer). www.scas.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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we continue our conversation with Altamush Saeed, an interspecies justice lawyer, educator, & nonprofit leader exploring how Pakistan prepares for & responds to crises.
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#AnimalLaw #InterspeciesJustice #Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalStudies #AnimalStudies
Episode 46 - Altamush Saeed: Interspecies Justice, Animals in Islam, and Disaster Relief, pt 2/2
In this episode, we continue our conversation with Altamush Saeed, an interspecies justice lawyer, educator, and nonprofit leader redefining how Pakistan prepares for and responds to crises. From liv...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Last chance to join #SCAS2025 virtual conference live. Recordings available to all registered participants. Apply to join SCAS today & register at the member rate NOW.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2025-scas-...
#AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssitedServices #VeterinarySocialWok
2025 SCAS Virtual Conference
Unified Voices: Why the Human-Animal Bond is Important to You as Professionals
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October 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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We are delighted to announce the #AIP2025 award winners! The selection criteria were based on both delivery and alignment with our ethos. Well done to Ave, Maria, Natalie, Victoria, Danial, and Marilyn.
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#Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalStudies #AnimalStudies
Home - Anthrozoology as International Practice Conference
Welcome to Anthrozoology as International Practice   Announcing the AIP2025 Awards! Thanks to support from a Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference Grant, we were able to offer monetary prizes for several ...
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October 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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10 days till #SCAS2025 (19 Oct, Online). 3rd session of the day is ‘Animals as members of the classroom’, led by Prof. Helen Lewis & Prof. Kerstin Meints. See link for full programme. Recordings available.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1362302446...
#CompanionAnimals #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedServices
October 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Thank you everyone! Some excellent presentations & discussions (as always!).
September 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Everyone who registered before 10 Sept should have received AIP2025 join instructions (via Eventbrite). Reminders 1 hr before the start of day 1 and day 2.
Unless we reach capacity (likely!) we will continue issuing tickets until start of Day 2.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthrozool...
Anthrozoology as International Practice (AIP2025)
AIP brings together like-minded individuals with the goal of promoting and empowering the next generation of animal studies scholars.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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#Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalStudies. Thank you Marco for allowing me to share about our upcoming conference @azconference.bsky.social #AIP2025.
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anthrozool...
Wonderful to see the Mouth of the Wolf podcast is back
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Anthrozoology as International Practice: Kris Hill and the AIP Conference
Hi, your host Marco Adda here! In this episode of In the Mouth of the Wolf, I sit down with Kris Hill to talk about the upcoming Anthrozoology as International Practice (AIP) Conference—a unique gathe...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Those waiting on SCAS membership confirmation are welcome to registered members for our (online) conference. Programme includes Dr. Zenithson Ng & Dr. Aubrey Fine! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1362302446...
#SCAS2025 #AnimalAssisted #AnimalAssistedServices #CompanionAnimals #Pets #HumanAnimalBond
2025 SCAS Virtual Conference
Unified Voices: Why the Human-Animal Bond is Important to You as Professionals
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This is the sweetest little cat I met in Amsterdam EVER. She has a home. I saw her on my way home running in for dinner <3
10/10
August 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Amsterdam always has good cats. This one is missing a tail and falls over with affection for strangers. 10/10.
August 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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28 Aug is Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day. SCAS recognises the importance of the human animal bond. To support our work, please consider joining our charitable organisation. www.scas.org.uk/blogs/the-ra...
#RainbowBridgeRemembranceDay #PetLoss
The Rainbow Bridge Poem — Society for Companion Animal Studies
By SCAS Chairperson, Dr Elizabeth Ormerod, BVMS CF The writer of the Rainbow Bridge poem was finally identified as Edna Clyne-Rekhy in 2023. Edna, a Scot from Inverness, wrote it following the death...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Exited to start my 2-year term on the ISAZ International Society for Anthrozoology board! Thank you to those who voted for me :-)
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Board & Staff | International Society for Anthrozoology
The ISAZ Board of Directors consists of officers, board members, ex officio board members, and an administrative assistant
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August 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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We’ve got a new look! SCAS has a brand new logo and website—our first major update in over a decade! Visit our new website and see what’s new: scas.org.uk
#SCAS #HumanAnimalBond #OneHealthOneWelfare #NewLookSameMission
New logo design. http://scas.org.uk
August 5, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Registration now open for the 4th Critical Cat Café =^_^= an online 'science café' for anyone interested in the study of cat behaviour, the cat-human bond, & cat-human relations. Special guests Ayoe Hoff & PeterSandoe. 17 April (14:00 UK time)
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Cat Cafe with Ayoe Hoff & Peter Sandøe
157401724© Elena Miroshnichenko|Dreamstime.com Senior Researcher Ayoe Hoff and Professor Peter Sandøe will join the Critical Cat Café to share recent results and insights from their ongoing p…
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July 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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We are delighted to share the 2-day programme for #AIP2025 Register here: anthrozoologyconference.com
#anthrozoology AIP is an ONLINE conference for students (+ prospective students/research students) interested in the study of human encounters with other animals.
July 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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From Dogs to Frogs: A Summative Content Analysis Spanning Four Decades of Scholarly Contributions to Anthrozoology: Anthrozoös: Vol 38 , No 4 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From Dogs to Frogs: A Summative Content Analysis Spanning Four Decades of Scholarly Contributions to Anthrozoology
Academic interest in human–animal interactions steadily started to gain momentum in the 1970s, and “anthrozoology” was coined in 1990 to describe the study of human interactions with other animals....
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July 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Registration now open for the 4th Critical Cat Café =^_^= an online 'science café' for anyone interested in the study of cat behaviour, the cat-human bond, & cat-human relations. Special guests Ayoe Hoff & PeterSandoe. 17 April (14:00 UK time)
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Cat Cafe with Ayoe Hoff & Peter Sandøe
157401724© Elena Miroshnichenko|Dreamstime.com Senior Researcher Ayoe Hoff and Professor Peter Sandøe will join the Critical Cat Café to share recent results and insights from their ongoing p…
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July 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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AIP2025 organisers are all graduates of this excellent programme. The MA in #Anthrozoology can be completed FT or PT via distance learning from a top university. Perfect for anyone who cannot relocate or needs to study around other commitments!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Anthrozoology MA | Postgraduate Taught | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
July 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM