Marcin Urbaniak

If anyone would like to read sad conversations about the terrible treatment of wild animals in the pet trade, two links:

1. oko.press/zwierzeta-bi...

2. www.onet.pl/informacje/s...

The 8th Anthrozoology Symposium, featuring intriguing presentations, November 6th to 8th - more information at: anthrozoology.acadiasi.org/2025-3/

I'll be talking about the problems the phenomenology gets into when it forgets about Morgan's canon or tries to criticize the canon.

Nie mamy i raczej nie będziemy mieć żadnych szans stać się naukowo poważanym krajem na tle Zachodu, państw anglosaskich czy Dalekiego Wschodu.

My mentor and leader for a very long time. Next week there is a conference where we will pay tribute to her scientific and social work 💚

Next week, two very interesting conferences: at the first one, I will be talking about affective states in synurbic animals, and at the second one, I'm going to honor my scientific mentor - Dr. Jane Goodall.

5th Animal Rights Congress in the Senate of the Republic of Poland - panel on laboratory animals and all irregularities and abuses in the area of ​​animal experiments.

I warmly invite you to the webinar on mammalian personality profiling (primates, dogs, cats, horses) based on individual cognitive, affective and social traits and preferences. There's going to be comparative analysis with the MHERA tests.

Address: www.facebook.com/events/12686...

I've been working in this paradigm with three lowland gorillas (males) at the Polish zoo since March and it's very difficult, but other interesting ideas and solutions come up along the way 🦍

Great interview about #InsectWelfare including 🦟 cognitive competences and affects 🐝 experiencing pain in insects 🐛 experimental research on insect sentience & intelligence 🦗 the problem of industrial insect breeding and much more! wyborcza.pl/7,177851,321...

Rubber arm illusion in octopus The feeling of a body as belonging to oneself is called the sense of body ownership and the centerpiece of conscious experience. Kawashima and Ikeda investigated the sense of body ownership in an octo...

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🐙 integrates the sensations intermodally / cross-modally; 🐙 perhaps has sensorimotor structures with somatotopic brain organization (without cortex though) and neuro-representations of the arms; and 🐙 has an experience of ownership of its body / bodily self-awareness; does 🐙 experience phantom pain?

Together with a fantastic team, we wrote such a book about exteroceptive perception. The photo shows a fragment of the table of contents 📙📖📚 In my chapter on the haptic-tactile sense, I consider whether insects are able to solve the so-called Molyneux's problem (yes, 🐝 are!)

My review of Jonathan @birchlse.bsky.social 's excellent book "The Edge of Sentience", has been published - many advantages, a few minor flaws with a warm recommendation for intensive study of Birch's book, as it is an extremely valuable, interdisciplinary work! journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ZO...

In the Polish Parliament, I was happy to participate - as an expert of Compassion (CIWF) Poland - in the work of the Committee on the draft amendment to the Animal Protection Act regarding the transport and sale of live fish (especially carp).

I warmly invite to an open meeting of the UKEN Cognitive Science Students' Club next Thursday at 6:30 p.m., where I will have the pleasure of presenting and discussing the Dispute over Consciousness and the Edge of Sentience in animal kingdom.
www.facebook.com/events/11577...

Congratulations! 💚

I cordially invite to the conference and my speech:
www.facebook.com/events/11172...

YouTube video by Diuna Language Services 🎥 PRZEtłumacze #138 - prof. Marcin Urbaniak: Komunikacja międzygatunkowa

🐝 How do different animals learn each other's languages?
🐦 What is zoosemiotics?
🐒 What are the characteristics of animal signal systems?
🐍 Will AI help us communicate effectively with animals?

I answer these and many other topics in an extremely interesting conversation 👇
youtu.be/Y2_1vu-sy8k?...

Thank you very much for your quick and extensive response - I've sent an email. Pointing gestures are actually a key requirement here.

Do you think it makes sense to replicate such ToM research on the Gorilla gorilla species?

Sounds great, I'll try to be present! A week ago I had a similar speech at a conference :)

Preparations for observing the exploratory behavior of porcellio scaber 🧐

I cordially invite you to the conference and my online talk regarding [1] neurobehavioral evidence for the experience of pain in shore crabs, red swamp crayfish and rockpool prawns and [2] ethical and political consequences that result from all this evidence. www.facebook.com/events/20507...

Great interview in which I present neurobehavioral and cognitive arguments against horrible plans of building octopus farms: wyborcza.pl/7,75400,3146...