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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸
@kristinandrews.bsky.social
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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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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
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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
September 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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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
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So proud of my awesome students presenting their research. @tylerdelmore.bsky.social at CO3 on Toleman’s maps revisited, and at SSPP Marriah Alcantara @marriah.bsky.social on animal privacy, and Elizabeth Waldberg on theory light beyond consciousness. ❤️
April 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Holiday highlights.
Curious manatee visiting a kayaker.
January 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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December 16, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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Up early before the #CIFAR Future Flourishing meeting in Santa Fe watching the crows.
December 5, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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Susana keeps going!!!
December 4, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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I didn't get a selfie with Jane Goodall but I did help give her an honorary doctorate from York University earlier this year!
December 3, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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Check out the Calls for Papers and invited program:
November 20, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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We can’t wait for the newest Lindsey Lohan Christmas masterpiece!
November 16, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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Here you go—I made this basket and Riddle decided it was his. So it’s his.
November 6, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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The stochastic parrot problem was already apparent in 1555, as reported by Conrad Gesner in his 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮.
Recently a certain person told us a pleasant story of a parrot, which he said fell out of the palace of Henry VIII, at London in England, into the river Thames flowing nearby. It cried out, “a boat, a boat, for 20 pound!” which it had heard uttered very often, and which it had then memorized very easily, its voice accustomed to those who called the ferryman from the opposite bank by price. A certain ferryman, thus aroused, rowed out hastily and picked up the bird and returned it to the king (to whom he recognized it to belong) in hopes of just so much of a reward as the bird had promised. The king agreed that he would settle on whatever reward the bird named when again asked. The bird responded, “give the knave a groat.” (Gesner 1555, 693; trans. Boehrer 2010, 80)
November 3, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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See you soon on zoom! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 1, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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Reading Joe Shute’s book Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat and ran across this passage…Hey-that’s me and @susanamonso.com! 🐀 aeon.co/essays/why-d...
October 26, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Hello friends!
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October 22, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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This was fall break for York University, and what did my philosophy of animal minds students do? Spend the day with their prof at the #TorontoZoo!
Philosophy students at the zoo
October 19, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Stay tuned!
September 13, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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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.
April 3, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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After spending the weekend learning three different weaves and a new shaping technique I came into the door with this enormous basket wondering what I could use it for. Riddle had an idea. Thanks to Jes Clark and Sandra Kehoe and Sian Pritchard for the class! #willowsky #basketrysky
Little dog in a basket
November 20, 2023 at 3:12 AM
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This conversation between Jonathan Birch and Georgia Mason promises to be fun.
Dr. Jonathan Birch and Dr. Georgia Mason will be presenting an online seminar on "Sentience: a short introduction, and the case for mammals and birds" Dr. Jonathan Birch is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Philosophy, and the Principal Investigator on the Foundations of Animal Sentience project. Dr. Birch completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2013 and was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2014. Dr. Birch’s primary focus is on animal sentience, cognition and welfare, and the evolution of altruism and social behaviour. You can join the seminar on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93617038072
October 23, 2023 at 1:20 PM
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Philosophy field trip! My philosophy of animal minds students got some experience creating an ethogram and doing observations. #PhilosophyInTheField #TorontoZoo #YorkU
October 18, 2023 at 10:47 PM