mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work

a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife

mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

Eze that was very beautiful

Invisible Victims, Invisible Crimes: Institutional Erasures of Animals as Victims of Cruelty To receive justice in the legal system, one must be seen by the legal system; this is as true for nonhuman animal victims of crime as it is for human victims. Situating animal cruelty within the invi...

Open access paper! In "Invisible Victims, Invisible Crimes", I analyse an original database of animal welfare offence prosecutions in Australia which reveals that, all too often, animal victims fail to be recognised as the valuable individuals that they are. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hats off to @romainchuffart.bsky.social for this most excellent acknowledgements section from his co-authored review of a book on more-than-human intellectual property (boo Taylor & Francis!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just you wait until you start reading up about the sexual politics of superb fairywrens!

A FOUL ON VIK CALLED. you gotta keep living. the things you'll see

Feat. fantastic contributors including @joshmilburn.bsky.social @stevecooke.org @diegorossello.bsky.social and @jasonhannan.bsky.social

Thrilled to report that the edited collection that I've been working on with André Krebber, ~Zoopolitical Thought:
Seeking Interspecies Justice in and beyond Western Political Traditions~ has been approved for publication with University of Toronto Press! Stay tuned!

The Dreams of a Bumblebee in Autumn The Dreams of a Bumblebee in Autumn: Yes, bees dream. We can even imagine what.

What a beautiful essay by @brandonkeim.bsky.social in @nautil.us on dreaming bumblebees and asters. It is a balm for the heavy heart. The perfect autumn read. (And such masterful writing!) nautil.us/the-dreams-o...

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📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from the current issue of #BJPIR - Volume 28, Issue 1

'Storytelling in the Australian 2023 voice referendum campaign' by @ariadnevromen.bsky.social, @serrinrp.bsky.social & Michael Vaughan

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@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

On Liberty: with Related Writings Forthcoming - March 2026 "With Harriet Taylor's name at last joined to that of her beloved husband John Stuart Mill as the co-author of this timeless book, we get to see On Liberty even more clearly ...

Credit where it's due!

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The rain is coming down like a waterfall and still Mikel's hair is perfect

Actors Catherine O’Hara and Macauley Culkin shown together in the same pose in Home Alone where she played ten year old Macauley’s mum and much later when Macauley was an adult.

No, *you’re* crying

Missing you already, Cookie ❤️🐶

Art

Bike lane with low traffic is often considered unnecessary and underutilized.

Car lane with low traffic is considered luxurious.

(Panel 1) Arteta: We need to change it up. Put our most reliable goalscorer on. (Panel 2) Albert: Okay, is that Jesus or Martinelli (Panel 3) Arteta: No. Him. (Panel 4) Own Goal sitting on bench

Arsenal lately.

Own Goal FC!! 💪🏼⚽💪🏼 #arsbha

Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman ani...

PSA! I just read this article by @stevecooke.org and it was genuinely ~wonderful~ and I think you should read it too: doi.org/10.1111/japp...

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Mother Cow, Mother India | Stanford University Press India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among the world's lead...

AASA is very excited to announce that the winner of the inaugural round of the Siobhan O' Book Prize is Yamini Narayanan for the incredible book Mother Cow Mother India (Stanford UP, 2023)! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GCu8CL7EwM...

Care and moral repair: Restoring historical land-caring practices - William Salkeld, 2025 Do we have an obligation to restore historical land-caring practices as an act of moral repair? Recently, Almassi has put forward ecological restoration as a fo...

Congrats to my fantastic PhD student, Will Salkeld, for his recent publication in Environmental Values! In the paper, he highlights the Martu people's fire-stick farming, arguing that restoring practices like these can be a form of environmental moral repair: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Well done to the Arsenal Academy for breaking Liverpool's unbeaten run 👏👏 🔴⚪ #cryliv #arsenal

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...

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

Perfection from Arsenal; perfection from @poorlydrawnarsenal.com ❤️🦖🤍
#arslee

Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman ani...

My paper ‘Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder’ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... has just been published at @the-joap.bsky.social In it, I argue for fostering a sense of wonder at individual nonhuman animals, & for making this the basis of a reverence-based respect.

Woohoo! Can't wait to read it 🤓