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Jonathan Birch

@birchlse

Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, evolution of altruism, animal consciousness. PI, Foundations of Animal Sentience project.

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linkhttps://www.lse.ac.uk/cpnss/research/ASENT calendar_today27-09-2019 10:05:05

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen)(@xuanalogue) 's Twitter Profile Photo

when I make a neo-Buddhist cult I'm gonna use this as evidence for the doctrine that everybody is a reincarnation of everybody else 😌

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🐭🦐🐝 Everyone knows the best talks are given by early career people. So we are hosting an Animal Minds Workshop at the LSE in April for early career researchers. Submit your abstracts by 9 Jan. Details: philevents.org/event/show/116… 🐟🦈🦆

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Sarah Skeels(@sarah_zoologist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Lovely write up in Scientific American by Elizabeth Anne Brown on our latest study demonstrating how movements help elephantnose fish to recognise and discriminate different shapes 🐟
scientificamerican.com/article/elepha…

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Sarah Skeels(@sarah_zoologist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So thrilled to share my latest research paper in Animal Behavior Society in collaboration with Theresa Burt & Gerhard von der Emde! 😁

Our study shows how weakly electric fish can use their own movements to facilitate shape recognition 🐟⚡️

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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A X Douglas(@alexxdouglas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sometimes reframing the language around feelings can help you see them in a new light. For example, instead of “career ambitions” or “life goals”, try: “my great, insatiable, soul-devouring black hole of an ego again demands live sacrifice”.

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen)(@xuanalogue) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For commercial models, my preferred solution is approximately that they have to license copyrighted data from collectively owned data trusts, and pay out social dividends on profits depending on how much public domain data they were trained on.

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Pablo Magaña(@pmagana94) 's Twitter Profile Photo

With 2023 almost gone, here are 10 books that I particularly enjoyed, and which I recommend. Eight non-fiction books and two fiction books - without repeating authors, and in no particular order.

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Earlier this year I was interviewed for ⁦The New Yorker⁩ by ⁦Han Zhang⁩ during a wonderful conference organised by ⁦⁦Amy Wilentz⁩ &⁦⁦Jeff Wasserstrom⁩ ⁦UC Irvine⁩.The profile, discussing freedom,literature & politics, is just out! newyorker.com/culture/person…

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As a child: Santa exists.
As a teenager: Santa doesn't exist.
As an adult: Santa is part of social reality like money, electrons and numbers.

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Do you have inner music playing in your head? For me one of the main attractions of listening to external music is to pick up new tunes for internal streaming.

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Liam Bright I always say 'wishing you every success in achieving your target mood during the school closure.' So many people just assume that students take a holiday and are capable of happiness.

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