Insect Welfare Research Society @InsectWRS
Connecting the global community of insect welfare researchers and stakeholders. Global Joined October 2022-
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Did you miss our excellent research seminar this morning by @jeffrsebo on the moral status of insects? Catch the recording here (under 'Past Seminars'): insectwelfare.com/seminars
Fantastic talk ongoing right now at the @InsectWRS by @jeffrsebo on moral status of insects and the call to be cautious in considering their welfare - and see: nydeclaration.com Really feeling grateful to have ethicists on board presenting in our research seminar series!
Webinar TODAY with @jeffrsebo at 4PM BST: 🪲🦋🦗 "The Moral Status of Insects" 🦗🦋🪲 How should we treat insects if they can experience morally relevant welfare states? Direct link for registration: shorturl.at/mqwxE
Coming this summer - online (free Open Access PDF) and in print. Sign up at edgeofsentience.com to get a PDF on release day.
tomorrow!
Are insects capable of experiencing #pleasure, #pain, and other morally significant #welfare states? @jeffrsebo explores this and more in our April Webinar: 🪲🐞🐝"The Moral Status of Insects" 🐝🐞🪲 🕔 4PM BST // 📅 April 26th // Register for FREE! 👇 insectwelfare.com/seminars
For @QuantaMagazine, @danfalk writes that: "For decades, there’s been a broad agreement among scientists that animals similar to us...have conscious experience." But what's changed in more recent years about our understanding of animal consciousness?
@QuantaMagazine @danfalk More recently, researchers have started to acknowledge the potential consciousness and experiences of animals dissimilar to humans—like insects, as @InsectWRS focuses on. Just recently, scholars signed a declaration embracing the possibility of animal consciousness across species
Our April Webinar is: "The Moral Status of Insects" with @jeffrsebo Join to hear about #insect #ethics and how taking #invertebrates seriously can complicate our ordinary beliefs, values and priorities 🕔 4PM BST // 📅April 26th // 👇Register for FREE! insectwelfare.com/seminars
We're excited to share a free workshop: Farmed invertebrate welfare: What do we know & what’s left to find out? Hybrid event, with also in-person spaces for AWRN members. Register for the workshop (both in-person and virtually), by 27 April 20https://forms.office.com/e/JmVxpsZbdu
Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness! It holds that all vertebrates and many invertebrates have a realistic chance of being conscious, and that their welfare merits consideration. If you have relevant expertise, please sign! nydeclaration.com
Excellent coverage of the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness at @QuantaMagazine! quantamagazine.org/insects-and-ot…
Do insects warrant moral consideration? How should we treat insects when uncertain whether our actions are helping or harmful? To find out, join @jeffrsebo for our April Webinar: The Moral Status of Insects 🪲🦗 🕔4PM BST // 📅April 26th // Register 👇 insectwelfare.com/seminars
May @ukrepro workshop - Introduction to power analysis via simulation in R – delivered by @InsectWRS More info here bit.ly/446Vq92 #insect #welfare #openresearch
Tune in at exactly 10am ET / 3pm BST on Friday for a big announcement and an opportunity to get involved in our ongoing field-building project.
Tune in at exactly 10am ET / 3pm BST on Friday for a big announcement and an opportunity to get involved in our ongoing field-building project.
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Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness! It holds that all vertebrates and many invertebrates have a realistic chance of being conscious, and that their welfare merits consideration. If you have relevant expertise, please sign! nydeclaration.com
May @ukrepro workshop - Introduction to power analysis via simulation in R – delivered by @InsectWRS More info here bit.ly/446Vq92 #insect #welfare #openresearch
I've joined the Animals in Science Committee, which provides independent advice to the UK government on the use of animals in science. Looking forward to working on some impactful reports over the next 3 years.🐀🐠🦀
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Comparing sentience across species is hugely consequential and dauntingly difficult. RP’s Moral Weight Project is the most serious and ambitious attempt I’ve seen to date, and this interview’s a great summary of it.
Unfamiliar with RP’s Moral Weight Project? Listen to the latest @80000Hours’ podcast episode with @bobfisc. Bob breaks down the estimation of welfare ranges, their assumptions and limitations – and much more: bit.ly/3TdNJsk
World's first publication on instant, and thus more humane, slaughter standard operating procedures for insects farmed as food and feed published today in Animal Welfare: barrett-lab.squarespace.com/latest-news/bl… Thanks to @FliesFacility for taking a chance on this seemingly eccentric project!
Our new paper is out today in @Nature , showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans nature.com/articles/s4158…
Job alert! Animal Welfare Scientist position open @brookfield_zoo in Chicago!#PhD level, basic and applied research to advance #zoo #animalwelfare. #jobs
Our 2hr workshop on "Community Sourced Strategies for Promoting Insect Welfare in Research and Education" is happening this Wednesday @ 8am at #EntSoc23 @EntsocAmerica We're looking forward to all the brainstorming!
Are you going to be @EntsocAmerica #EntSoc23? I'd love to see you at our 2hr workshop on "Community Sourced Strategies for Promoting Insect Welfare in Research and Education"! We have vets, ethicists, entos, and vertebrate ethologists coming to brainstorm w/our ESA community.
New preprint on humane slaughter for black soldier fly larvae with @FliesFacility can be found here: osf.io/j25pc/ #FarmedInsectWelfare #Blacksoldierfly #BSFL
Looking forward to this - Friday this week!
🚨 Don't forget to register in advance for the latest IWRS Research Webinar! 🚨 It's free and easy, click the link to sign-up: insectwelfare.com/seminars On 📅 27th October at 🕔 5PM BST @LChittka form @QMUL will be discuss #Insect #Sentience.
@FliesFacility @CEIF_InsectAg New preprint available on farmed cricket welfare for three species: osf.io/c4qp3/ Anything you've ever been curious about for crickets' welfare and biology in production settings, in only... 150 pages?🙃🥲🦗
Looking for a postdoc in #animalwelfare or #insectscience? How about both? The Barrett lab at IUPUI is recruiting a postdoctoral scholar in farmed insect welfare for 2024. Learn more here: meghan-barrett.com/opportunities
Two new preprints from the lab! 1. My amazing Phd student @OliProcenko developed an active choice test showing pessimistic cognitive biases in bees. Models by @jcaread show that their behaviour is explained by reduced reward expectations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
📢 Grants available for graduate students interested in #invertebrate #welfare & #sentience 🪰 Less than a month to submit an application for the @InsectWRS #student awards - Apply now ⬇️ insectwelfare.com/student-resear… 📅 DEADLINE: October 30 2023
Less than a month to submit an application for the @InsectWRS #student awards. Two grants available for graduate students interested in #invertebrate #welfare & #sentience 📅 DEADLINE: October 30 2023 $2000 available for research funds or living expenses insectwelfare.com/student-resear…
Less than a month to submit an application for the IWRS student awards! Two grants available for graduate students interested in invertebrate welfare and sentience 📅 DEADLINE: October 30 2023 📷 $2000 available for research funds or living expenses insectwelfare.com/student-resear…
A very informative thread on #InsectFarming and the insects as food and feed industry ⬇️
Today is World Farm Animal Day - which, by the numbers, really means World Farm Invertebrate Day! Did you know that more insects are farmed than any other group of animals? Trillions of insects are farmed each year for food, feed, silk, dyes, and more. Let's take a look: 🧵