Dr. Siobhan Speiran seeks postdoc/job for 2025

AI and animals | Balancing risks and opportunities 6.30pm Tues 30 Sept | Kristin Andrews, Jonathan Birch, Leonie Bossert Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Join our launch event for the Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience!

👉 How AI is helping - and harming - animals

📅 30 September, 6.30pm (London time), LSE Campus

With Kristin Andrews, @birchlse.bsky.social, Leonie Bossert, Jane Lawton, Jeff Sebo, & Roman Frigg

www.lse.ac.uk/events/how-a...

How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples

Cool findings on gestures used by elephants around food access in a semi-captive situation in Zimbabwe. Nice details on sensitivity to audience. Research led by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social #elephants #animalcommunication #language #anthropology 🧪

A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries | Human-Animal Interactions Abstract This article offers a methodological contribution to the study of field-based wild animal welfare assessments in developing tourism contexts. Grounded in the interdisciplinary fields of conse...

So excited to announce that the methodological portion of my PhD research has been published open access in the Journal of Human-Animal Interactions!

"A field-based Conservation Welfare Assessment Framework for Costa Rican primate sanctuaries"
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...

Fig. 1. Threatened animal listings in major online marketplaces: Wedges indicate the proportion of unique full matches by English and Latin scientific names identified within a 15-week automated search crawl. A total of 546 matches were identified advertising body parts or eggs of 83 species listed as vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN or banned in international trade by CITES. 96 % of listings were hosted on domains ebay.com, etsy.com, thetaxidermystore.com, and gumtree.com.

We programmed a crawler to search open web marketplaces for every animal on the IUCN red list.

Nearly 2/3 of our matches were shark jaws, comprising 9 of the top 10 openly traded threatened species.

A glimpse of the global trophy trade of endangered sharks:

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WWF helping facilitate trade in polar bear fur, investigation reveals Wildlife charity backs policy of exploitation of small number of some endangered species for economic purposes – such as trophy hunting

Selling polar bear furs would be an international crime if it weren’t for World Wildlife Fund.

All the Arctic countries except Canada brought a joint proposal to CITES to list polar bears on Appendix I. Native nations backed it too.

WWF lobbied to kill it.

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Call for Submissions: "Companion Species" - Edge Effects Edge Effects seeks submissions that explore the complex, boundary-pushing dimensions of living with companion species.

edgeeffects.net/companion-sp...
Due date for submissions: Thursday, February 20, 2025

The ‘Sanctuary Gap’: Reviewing the Research on Captive Wildlife Sanctuary Tourism Wildlife sanctuaries have gained popularity in recent years as settings for research into human–animal relations, captive wildlife tourism, and rehabilitation. While scholars from animal studies, ethi...

My recent Publication: The ‘Sanctuary Gap’: Reviewing the Research on Captive Wildlife Sanctuary Tourism www.mdpi.com/3175216 #mdpianimals via @Animals_MDPI #wildlifesanctuary #wildlifeconservation #animalwelfare

Relied on #ZooMonitor to conduct some of my data collection for my PhD. So awesome to see it is now free!

Jhumpa is doing a cannonball in his sleep.