Josh Milburn

Reminder about the below. The internal deadline is in one week. I'm open to supporting applications in my research areas, especially animal ethics. If you're interested, reach out.

On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to @mattiwilks.bsky.social of the University of Edinburgh about her work on children's conceptions of the moral circle. The podcast is available for free below or in all the usual podcast places. Tune in!

knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-240-...

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.

Huge thanks to Carlo Salzani and Zipporah Weisberg for their detailed review of BOTH of my books in the latest issue of Humanimalia.

'We admire Milburn’s courage in taking on difficult issues and applaud his rigorous reasoning and imaginative vision of (food) justice for humans and other animals.'

Fig. 1 illustrates a novel approach to research supervision focussed on practical space-based methodologies in history, drawing on insights from peripatetic philosophy.

Sadly, @peteryeandle.bsky.social, @danielbreeze.com, and I won’t win awards, as it just looks like some guys on a hike.

Journal of Political Philosophy Officially Ends - Daily Nous "The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...

Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.

Vegetarian Eating (Handbook of Eating and Drinking, Springer, 2025) The philosophical literature is apparently replete with arguments for vegetarianism based on harm to animals. However, these are really arguments for veganism, not vegetarianism. This chapter explores...

And if you don't have access, you can read an almost final version of the chapter below.

www.academia.edu/143125272/Ve...

Vegetarian Eating The philosophical literature is apparently replete with arguments for vegetarianism based on harm to animals. However, these are really arguments for veganism, not vegetarianism. This chapter explores...

Springer have published an updated version of my chapter 'Vegetarian Eating' in the Handbook of Eating and Drinking. I like this chapter, as it asks a tricky question: is there an ethical case for vegetarianism that isn't ultimately a case for veganism?

link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

‘I went vegan on the second day of filming’: James Cromwell on making Babe, the talking pig classic ‘I broke for lunch before everybody else and all the animals I had been working with were on the table – cut up, fricasseed, roasted and seared’

‘I went vegan on the second day of filming’: James Cromwell on making Babe, the talking pig classic

seed oils are fine, soy is a high quality protein, food preservatives are good because they reduce food waste, there is no reliable research linking GMOs to any ill health effects , it's what gets processed and not the processing itself that matters for nutrition, there are no superfoods.

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

"Jonathan Caravello...was reportedly “piled on by multiple agents all at once” as “he tried to help a man in a wheelchair” who was having difficulty moving after...[ICE] agents threw canisters of tear gas"

our colleague is still missing as of the last info I got

dailynous.com/2025/07/12/p...

I recently participated as an expert panellist at a citizen’s assembly on the future of animal welfare, part of the RSPCA’s Animal Futures: The Big Conversation. Heather Browning, one of the other panellists, has written about the importance of work like this.

Eligibility, alongside an impressive CV and research proposal: 1) British/EEA citizen, UK PhD, or 'strong prior association' with UK academia. 2) PhD completed (viva from 1 April 2023 to 1 April 2026). 3) No permanent academic post greater than 0.5FTE. 4) No prior submission to this scheme. (3/3)

I previously held a BA fellowship, and I am open to supporting candidates in my research areas. This includes, but isn't limited to, animals in moral/political philosophy. Our internal deadline is 12pm, 11 August. But reach out sooner, not later. (2/3)

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

My School (Social Sciences and Humanities, Loughborough University) is accepting expressions of interest for @britishacademy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships: prestigious early-career research positions, allowing three years of full-time research. (1/3)

On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I speak to Stanislav Roudavski (of the Melbourne School of Design) about more-than-human design, with a case study of alpine dingoes. The episode is available for free in all the usual podcast places.

knowinganimals.libsyn.com/podcast/epis...

"Many activists will have encountered challenges such as ‘If you want to eat a burger, just eat meat!’ … these are so wide of the mark that it is tricky to unpack them.”

Having regular encountered this, I’m impressed that
@joshmilburn.bsky.social has managed to remain so polite!

Postdoc position available @UniofNewcastle mapping weapons supply chains to produce a body of data for inquiry into munitions residues and environmental effects. jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lectureship in Political Theory Are you a political theory academic with an open and inclusive approach to the discipline? Are you passionate about delivering an exceptional student experience in a research-intensive Russell Group U...

New job alert! POLIS at Leeds @polisatleeds.bsky.social is hiring a lecturer in political theory, specialism open. You will be joining a vibrant and friendly community of researchers at CCPT @ccptleeds.bsky.social
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

A Military Ethics Professor Resigns in Protest Over the course of several months, Pauline Shanks Kaurin concluded she no longer had the academic freedom necessary for doing her job.

Seven years ago, Pauline Shanks Kaurin left a good job as a tenured professor, uprooted her family, and moved to teach military ethics at the Naval War College. Now she's leaving in protest of policies she can't support and that make her job impossible.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Come and work with us in Philosophy at Warwick, part II: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Come and work with us in Philosophy at Warwick: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Book Prize | Australasian Animal Studies Association

Congratulations to Josh Milburn, one of the shortlisted authors in the 2025 AASA Siobhan O’Sullivan Book Prize! Check out the book Food, Justice and Animals.

Book Prize: animalstudies.org.au/book-prize
About Josh: www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/pol...
More about the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Seafood Animals Are Probably Sentient — Now What? - Faunalytics Evidence indicates that octopuses, squids, lobsters, crabs, and shrimps experience pain and suffering. The seafood industry needs to change.

Great summary by @faunalytics.bsky.social of our recent paper on welfare risks for cephalopods and decapods
faunalytics.org/seafood-anim...

Animals Shouldn’t Be Weapons for the Police Horses and dogs don’t understand why they’ve been conscripted into human law enforcement. Forcing them to inflict violence on people, and get hurt in return, just isn’t right.

Horses and dogs don’t understand why they’ve been conscripted into human law enforcement. Forcing them to inflict violence on people, and get hurt in return, just isn’t right.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/animals...

PhD Position: Transforming Governance through Non-Human Animal Representation | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Transforming Governance through Non-Human Animal Representation at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

'Transforming governance through non-human animal representation': an extremely interesting PhD position at Radboud University in the Netherlands.

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Do you want to join us in Leicester to talk about 'Forgotten Animals' at the latest conference in our long-running Animal Politics series?

Abstracts are due Friday!

Only a week to go before the deadline (13th June): Call For Abstracts: Forgotten Animals, 17th-18th September 2025, University Of Leicester, UK - political philosophy & cognate disciplines conference. More details here:

stevecooke.org?p=290

Well. This is quite something. Birds on #Ukraine's front line using fibre optic cables for their nests
bsky.app/profile/sain...