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TOMORROW: Join us for the launch of a new seminar series in collaboration with Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and ZSL Science. Register to attend online or in person here: airtable.com/appTkO7ag6FEkB…

5 Fully-funded PhDs University of Bristol •Outdoor cat welfare •Boredom and welfare in 3 species •Sentience in Galliforms + Molluscan inverts •Cog bias in veterinary decision making •AI behavioral monitoring of livestock Deadline: Nov 15th, 2024 findaphd.com/phds/?Keywords…

Free webinar with Dr. Meghan Barrett exploring insect sentience, pain and welfare considerations. Insect Welfare Research Society BENHS Royal Entomological Society Buglife The Buzz Club UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology AES - amentsoc.org eventbrite.co.uk/e/1020373603917

Now Hiring: Assistant Professor and Assistant Entomologist in Conservation Genomics and Biodiversity | University of California Riverside: Riverside, California | joburl.ws/20730237 #jobs

When Republicans dismiss women who care about abortion rights as 'single issue' voters, they fail to consider that the 'single issue' is our humanity and lives. This new spot from the Harris campaign understands that, and may be the most powerful political ad I've ever seen.

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What are the ethical issues that manifest in lethal insect monitoring? Bob Fischer and I try to cover this issue in a short review for COIS: doi.org/10.1016/j.cois… Thanks to @zachportman.bsky.social and others in the bee community who have been thoughtfully engaged on this topic for a while!

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Interested in the behavior and physiology of farmed insect welfare (esp black soldier fly or yellow mealworm)? I'm recruiting a PhD student for Fall 2025 - check out my website, meghan-barrett.com, and IUI's graduate open house:

I study the 19th century and the 2020s look a lot like 1820s. Frequent epidemics? Check. Inflation? Check. Xenophobia and deportation schemes? Check. Womens rights losses? Check. Rampant backlash against womens economic freedoms and jobs outside the home? Check. 2/8

Interested in postdoc position in my lab? We do a lot of decomposition ecology (black soldier fly and blow fly as models). Will get experience in grant writing, as well as opportunity to diversify research toolbox - microbes, genetics, volatiles, behavior, more- DM if interested

I'm excited to share a new Ethos: Reflecting on Collecting: Ethical Challenges in Entomology Education Lethal collections are still a staple of many (not all!) entomologists' classes. How could these colleagues use it to teach ethical reflection skills? meghan-barrett.com/latest-news/et…

Great new article about insect pain in The New Yorker! I love the description of the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness as "both radical and cautious." newyorker.com/culture/annals…

The latest issue of the New Yorker has a profile of the insect sentience squad, featuring Tilda Gibbons, Lars Chittka, Meghan Barrett, Sarah Skeels and me. (Link in reply.)

Exciting to see #insectsentience covered in The New Yorker! For more on sentience and pain in insects and how recent scientific evidence might change the way we manage them, check out insectwelfare.com Insect Welfare Research Society

Great Tweetorial on our paper from first author Lydia J. Borjon, PhD! She did every experiment in this study with the exception of the mouse work done by our collaborators in IU Gill Institute for Neuroscience. Lydia is on the job market and she’d make an AMAZING colleague!

Entomologists' views on #InsectWelfare are evolving. A recent study in @EcolEnt by Dr. Meghan Barrett, Merritt Drewery & Bob Fischer provides valuable insights into the interest in insect welfare & the importance of ethical research guidelines. Read the paper 🔽 royensoc.co.uk/news/what-do-e…