My awesome department UCSD CogSci Dept is hiring THREE!!! Assistant Professors in any area of Cognitive Science. See job ad for details: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04016. I love my colleagues and the students are unbelievably talented and interdisciplinary minded. Join us!

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We may not all agree on which creatures are sentient. But we might be able to agree on which creatures are "sentience candidates"—and this alone should carry ethical weight. Just one of the topics discussed in our recent episode w/ Jonathan Birch! disi.org/the-space-of-p…

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The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program is thrilled to be hosting an online talk by Natale Jacewicz on October 22 at noon ET on why and how to consider animal welfare in wildlife management. The talk is free and open to all. Please RSVP and share widely! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Well, at least we debunked the idea of human supremacy today.

Not to sound cheesy, but DISI was life-changing for me—and a lot of fun. Can’t think of a better way to spend three weeks of your summer, so.. consider this call if this calls to you!

Animal cruelty ordered by the one and only: the sickening US administration. Will the rest of humanity do something or not? Until that happens this is my last post here.

I'm on Bluesky now! bsky.app/profile/brenda…

New postdoc positions at the (DISI-affiliated) Center for Possible Minds at Indiana University. Looking for scholars interested in interdisciplinary research on the nature of biological, artificial, and collective intelligence. Please share widely! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/29547

In response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to prevent Harvard University from enrolling international students, Kyoto University has announced its policy of allowing those affected to transfer japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/genera…