Scientists film whale giving birth while other whales work together to help her Female named Rounder surrounded by family members when about to give birth to her second calf

#AcademicSky

This might shock you, if you assume that animals are empty vessels. (spoiler alert: they ain't)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today! Super exciting 💚

Unfortunately having to spend some time looking into the bird catapult epidemic in the UK (apparently it is a TikTok trend?!?)

While I expected things to be bad, I certainly didn't expect to come across a website selling catapults directly referring to one as a 'pigeon popper'....

A picture of some puppies behind a wire fence and text about a free online Anthrozoology conference

FREE online postgraduate Anthrozoology conference, 27th-29th March. Learn more about what the MA and PhD Anthrozoology programmes at UoE have to offer! Link for registration and more info:
anthrozoologyassymbioticethics.com/online-anthr...

AMA HERE! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

Online Anthrozoology Postgraduate Conference, University of Exeter Join us online for a FREE Anthrozoology Conference — experience what the MA Anthrozoology has to offer through a varied programme of talks

Come along to the University of Exeter's (totally free and online) Anthrozoology Postgraduate Conference! 🐾💚

📆 27th-29th March 2026

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-ant...

Thankfully, I can cope with a ‘bad’ score being the consequence of caring about the environment…

In today’s episode of ‘what on earth is happening to academia’: I got *heavily* marked down on a paper for *not* wanting to use AI.

We live in a very strange world 😭

Save the date for #AIP2026 (a free, online, student conference in human-animal studies) Call for submissions opens beginning April (closing end of May 2026). anthrozoologyconference.com
#Anthrozoology #HumanAnimalStudies #AnimalStudies

A Robin, perched on a twig, staring somewhat intensely straight down the lens.

Rise and shine, it's the final day of #BigGardenBirdwatch!

Remember, you can still take part even if you haven't signed up.

Help us spread the word: share this post, text someone, or tell the whole table over your Sunday roast.

The more data we get, the better 🧑🔬

SCAS-Funded Research: Past, Present and Future Presenters: Dr Kris Hill & Dr Clare Thomas-Pino

This Webinar is FREE to non-members too (our Webinars are always free to members). We want to show off all the amazing results our grantees have been able to achieve. Pls. consider joining SCAS & supporting our continued efforts to fund excellent research.
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Opinion | The New Food Pyramid, Brought to You by Big Meat

The new food pyramid brought to you by the sexual politics of meat

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...

Frankenstein (2025) and Vegetarian Monstrosity Guillermo del Toro loves monsters. If there is any connective thread that runs through the director’s work, it is the very-same that the zealous Frankenstein uses to stitch together the patchwork f…

Did you know Frankenstein's creature was a vegetarian? Find out more in the inaugural post of a new blog, Creature Features, dedicated to animal welfare on screen!

Unhousing the Norm: Disability, Pets, and the Politics of Home Presenter: Anita Franklin, PhD Candidate, Flinders University

Register now for our next Webinar ‘Unhousing the Norm: Disability, Pets, and the Politics of Home’ with Anita Franklin! SCAS Webinars are Free to SCAS members and £6.13 to non-members. Recordings available.
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The Housing Studies Association has an open call for papers for their 2026 Annual Conference. Perhaps some of our members can present papers on the importance of pet-friendly housing? Deadline: 28 Nov
www.housing-studies-association.org/pages/inform...
#HSA2026 #PetFriendlyHousing #PetsInHousing

Instead, it embraced an interpretation that triggered public outrage across Europe. 🚨😠

📖 Read the blog: verfassungsblog.de/sentient-com... and share if you agree that sentient companions are not luggage. ✊🐕
👉 Check ICARE's pre-ruling legal analysis: www.icare-animals.org/publications...

Núria Almiron, co-founder and co-director of the UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics, is editing a Special Issue for Animals MDPI
titled:

🪶“Species Framed as Invasive or Pests: Influence, Governance, and Storylines in Conservation Biology.”

The cover of 'Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods'

Really wonderful (and open access!) book exploring how we can strive to include other animals in creative methodologies🐾🎨

jstor.org/stable/jj.34055362

Petition: Ban Fur Imports into the UK We ask the Government to ban the import and sale of all fur products in the UK. Fur farming is banned here due to cruelty, yet imports support suffering abroad. We believe that this ban would align UK laws with ethical and environmental responsibility, closing the loophole that fuels the fur trade.

Fur farming is banned in the UK, yet imports still fund the cruelty. It’s time to close this loophole and ban fur for good.

Sign the petition now! 🦊🚫

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