The philosophy student society awarded me a prize for the most popular philosopher in the department 😊

In Osaka meeting the first fish to have been shown to possess self-awareness in mirror experiments!

Next week's lecture :)

The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis)

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Modelling Evolution by @wrwveit Free access available until 6 October. https://t.co/4T1O7shSsW #cambridgeelements #philosophy

There's this common idea that cage-free eggs are no better than caged eggs for the hens. The egg industry and absolutist animal rights activists have both spread this idea -- for very different reasons. But it's really not true.

Excited to teach my new module Ethics for the Real World. :)

New Cambridge Element Modelling Evolution by @wrwveit is now free to read for 2 weeks! https://t.co/r5Ec2Snjgt #cambridgeelements #philosophy

My new book 'Modelling Evolution' is now published! Available for free download for 2 weeks with this link:

My new book 'Modelling Evolution' is now published! Available for free download for 2 weeks with this link:

Philosophers will appreciate the black swans.

Still more contributions: Stefan Riedener, @juliansavulescu, Andreas Schmidt, @StefanFSchubert, @CarlShulman, Dean Spears, Katie Steele, @OrriStefansson, Christian Tarsney, @ElliottThornley, @charlottefunruh, @aronvallinder, @wrwveit, @evavivalt, @HaydenWilko, @Christophkw

Thank you to everyone who has shared my TED talk on factory farming! Thanks to you the talk hit 235K views in its first week online. Hopefully one small step in breaking the cone of silence that protects factory farming's horrors.

1/5 @Lewis_Bollard, program director of our Farm Animal Welfare program, has a new TED Talk out today about the state of factory farming. A few stats worth highlighting from the talk [credit to Jasmina Tomic for the photos]:

Followed in the footsteps of Ancient philosophers and completed a 7 day water only fast (178 hours).

Factory farming is a classic race to the bottom dynamic. Once one pig farmer learned how to outcompete others by sacrificing animal welfare, all other pig farmers had to. Once one crammed more pigs in a barn by using gestation crates, cutting tails and teeth, and replacing

Now published open access!! Browning, Heather, and Walter Veit, 'Longtermism and Animals', in Hilary Greaves, Jacob Barrett, and David Thorstad (eds), Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future  https://t.co/hyKyjkuynK

Dwarkesh's factory farming fundraiser has now raised $1.7M! That includes ~100 people giving $1K+. Huge props to the matching donors: @dwarkesh_sp, @patrickc, @seemaychou, @JedMcCaleb, @gauravkapadia, @ArielNessel, @tylermaule, & the Dahna Foundation. Let's hit $2M!

Factory farming is a highly artificial system dependent on extreme genetic selection, manufactured living conditions and routine medication Nothing about this is 'natural'

the debate around lab grown meat doesn't make sense to me bc the amount of chemicals they use in factory farming already makes those animals more engineered than natural

I’m eating lab grown meat the second it’s mass market ready. It’s biologically identical to animal meat and will reduce suffering more than any technology in the history of our planet as long as enough people switch over from factory farmed meats.