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Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert

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✍🏻 Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy | Queen’s University, Canada 📚 Postdoctoral Associate | Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford virginiesimoneaugilbert.com

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Virginie Simoneau-Gilbert @virginiesimoneau.bsky.social · 19h

Delighted to co-author this piece with Leonie Bossert on the potential benefits and risks of using AI to communicate with animals! 🐋

Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 19h

The human desire to communicate with animals is as old as it is universal. Today, that ancient dream might be closer than ever, thanks to rapidly evolving AI. But the potential for harm might outweigh the benefits

Even if we could speak to animals, should we? | Psyche Ideas

AI could satisfy our deeply held desire to talk to other creatures. But the potential for harm might outweigh the benefits

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Apr 23

On 15 May I'll be a judge in the grand final of the first Coller Dolittle Prize, a $100K annual prize for the biggest recent step taken towards decoding animal communication. We'll hear from all the finalists then pick a winner. Join us online! jeremycollerfoundation.org/events/colle...

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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · Mar 25

An emotional day - I can announce I'll be the first director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, supported by a £4m grant from the Jeremy Coller Foundation. Our mission: to develop better policies, laws and ways of caring for animals. (1/2)
www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

LSE announces new centre to study animal sentience

The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at LSE will develop new approaches to studying the feelings of other animals scientifically.

www.lse.ac.uk

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lamorce.co @lamorce.co · Mar 24

[Nouvel article] Pourquoi lire La politique sexuelle de la viande ? @edesaulniers.com montre comment le backlash antiféministe s’exprime aussi dans nos assiettes : la viande devient un symbole d’identité virile, une réaction aux avancées progressistes.
lamorce.co/politique_vi...

Ils reviennent. Nous aussi.

Ce texte est la préface d'Élise Desaulniers à l'édition québécoise de La politique sexuelle de la viande à paraitre aux éditions du Remue-ménage le 1er avril

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Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience.
No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent.
And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted.
... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

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Marina Bolotnikova @mbolotnikova.bsky.social · Nov 18

Here's a still-in-progress, woefully incomplete list of people interested in factory farming, animal rights, animal ethics, etc. from Twitter and elsewhere🦋🫶 Anyone I should add, LMK

go.bsky.app/C73abV3

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Comme un poisson dans l'eau @poissonpodcast.bsky.social · Nov 16

Coucou le ciel bleu, je vois qu’on est de plus en plus ici ! 🌈

Très honoré que le podcast fasse partie de cette merveilleuse liste élaborée par @takara-orca.bsky.social ! 💜🐠

Je vous encourage vivement à suivre tous ces comptes 🙌🏼 go.bsky.app/9UhRBru

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lamorce.co @lamorce.co · Nov 15

📣 L'Amorce arrive sur Bluesky !

📙 Principale revue francophone dédiée à l'exploration des enjeux éthiques, politiques et culturels de la lutte contre le spécisme, nous avons publié cette année notre premier numéro papier : lamorce.co/lamorce-en-p...

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