Dr. Siobhan Speiran seeks postdoc/job for 2025
@siobhanisa.bsky.social
Postdoc studying the lives of monkeys in Costa Rican sanctuaries 🐒 wild animal welfare, care-based conservation & sustainable tourism 🐒 PDV (@YorkUEUC), Ph.D.(@Queen's U), M.A. & BAS (@UGuelph) 🍉 🇨🇦 🇮🇹
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Join our launch event for the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience!
👉 How AI is helping - and harming - animals
📅 30 September, 6.30pm (London time), LSE Campus
With Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo, & Roman Frigg
www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...
👉 How AI is helping - and harming - animals
📅 30 September, 6.30pm (London time), LSE Campus
With Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo, & Roman Frigg
www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...
AI and animals | Balancing risks and opportunities
6.30pm Tues 30 Sept | Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Leonie Bossert Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
www.lse.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Join our launch event for the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience!
👉 How AI is helping - and harming - animals
📅 30 September, 6.30pm (London time), LSE Campus
With Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo, & Roman Frigg
www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...
👉 How AI is helping - and harming - animals
📅 30 September, 6.30pm (London time), LSE Campus
With Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo, & Roman Frigg
www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...
Reposted by Dr. Siobhan Speiran seeks postdoc/job for 2025
Cool findings on gestures used by elephants around food access in a semi-captive situation in Zimbabwe. Nice details on sensitivity to audience. Research led by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social #elephants #animalcommunication #language #anthropology 🧪
How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Cool findings on gestures used by elephants around food access in a semi-captive situation in Zimbabwe. Nice details on sensitivity to audience. Research led by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social #elephants #animalcommunication #language #anthropology 🧪
So excited to announce that the methodological portion of my PhD research has been published open access in the Journal of Human-Animal Interactions!
"A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries"
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...
"A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries"
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...
A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries | Human-Animal Interactions
Abstract This article offers a methodological contribution to the study of field-based wild
animal welfare assessments in developing tourism contexts. Grounded in the interdisciplinary
fields of conse...
www.cabidigitallibrary.org
April 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So excited to announce that the methodological portion of my PhD research has been published open access in the Journal of Human-Animal Interactions!
"A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries"
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...
"A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries"
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...
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We programmed a crawler to search open web marketplaces for every animal on the IUCN red list.
Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species.
A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks:
🌏 🦑 🧪 🧵
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species.
A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks:
🌏 🦑 🧪 🧵
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
February 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We programmed a crawler to search open web marketplaces for every animal on the IUCN red list.
Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species.
A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks:
🌏 🦑 🧪 🧵
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species.
A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks:
🌏 🦑 🧪 🧵
urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Selling polar bear furs would be an international crime if it weren’t for World Wildlife Fund.
All the Arctic countries except Canada brought a joint proposal to CITES to list polar bears on Appendix I. Native nations backed it too.
WWF lobbied to kill it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
All the Arctic countries except Canada brought a joint proposal to CITES to list polar bears on Appendix I. Native nations backed it too.
WWF lobbied to kill it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals
Wildlife charity backs policy of exploitation of small number of some endangered species for economic purposes – such as trophy hunting
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Selling polar bear furs would be an international crime if it weren’t for World Wildlife Fund.
All the Arctic countries except Canada brought a joint proposal to CITES to list polar bears on Appendix I. Native nations backed it too.
WWF lobbied to kill it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
All the Arctic countries except Canada brought a joint proposal to CITES to list polar bears on Appendix I. Native nations backed it too.
WWF lobbied to kill it.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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edgeeffects.net/companion-sp...
Due date for submissions: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Due date for submissions: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Call for Submissions: "Companion Species" - Edge Effects
Edge Effects seeks submissions that explore the complex, boundary-pushing dimensions of living with companion species.
edgeeffects.net
February 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Due date for submissions: Thursday, February 20, 2025
Due date for submissions: Thursday, February 20, 2025
My recent Publication: The ‘Sanctuary Gap’: Reviewing the Research on Captive Wildlife Sanctuary Tourism www.mdpi.com/3175216 #mdpianimals via @Animals_MDPI #wildlifesanctuary #wildlifeconservation #animalwelfare
The ‘Sanctuary Gap’: Reviewing the Research on Captive Wildlife Sanctuary Tourism
Wildlife sanctuaries have gained popularity in recent years as settings for research into human–animal relations, captive wildlife tourism, and rehabilitation. While scholars from animal studies, ethi...
www.mdpi.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
My recent Publication: The ‘Sanctuary Gap’: Reviewing the Research on Captive Wildlife Sanctuary Tourism www.mdpi.com/3175216 #mdpianimals via @Animals_MDPI #wildlifesanctuary #wildlifeconservation #animalwelfare
Relied on #ZooMonitor to conduct some of my data collection for my PhD. So awesome to see it is now free!
My team at #LincolnParkZoo supports the #ZooMonitor app -a great tool for recording #animalbehavior & space use and making decisions to improve #animalwelfare. And, now it's FREE free. If you want more info, DM me and I'll share additional resources.
www.lpzoo.org/supporting-s...
www.lpzoo.org/supporting-s...
Supporting Animal Welfare Science for All: ZooMonitor Is Now Free for Everyone | Lincoln Park Zoo
ZooMonitor, which allows zoos and aquariums to monitor and record the behavior of animals, is now free to all institutions.
www.lpzoo.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Relied on #ZooMonitor to conduct some of my data collection for my PhD. So awesome to see it is now free!
Jhumpa is doing a cannonball in his sleep.
November 30, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Jhumpa is doing a cannonball in his sleep.