.@nonhumanminds is seeking a postdoctoral associate to support our research on digital minds! We have exciting projects underway on embodiment, individuation, personhood, research ethics, population ethics, and more. Please apply if you have interest! apply.interfolio.com/193635

Longview Philanthropy is accepting digital minds proposals again! And @nonhumanminds is thrilled to host the next cohort of fellows at our spring 2027 summit, with all expenses paid.

I got tenure at NYU! A few brief reflections about my somewhat non-traditional path, along with a few expressions of gratitude. I spent the first twelve years after my PhD in two postdocs and two non-tenure-track teaching and admin jobs. I finally landed my first tenure-track job — my third job at NYU Environmental Studies — only two years ago. So, for about a decade, I was at a disadvantage relative to some tenure-stream faculty — lower salaries, fewer benefits, no sabbaticals (this has still never happened), and more teaching and admin responsibilities. But this path also had real upsides. It delayed the tenure clock, which gave me more freedom to explore different topics and fields, write and speak in a wider variety of venues, and combine my academic work with work that turned out to be equally important for me — like joining boards of animal protection NGOs, which gave me extremely valuable experience and connections for my current work on animal and AI welfare. Had I received a tenure-track offer from a top research university right out of my PhD, I likely would have taken it, and my career likely would have followed a more traditional trajectory. The path I ended up on is not one I could have planned, but I feel very grateful to have taken it. It allowed me to discover what I most want to be doing, develop the ability to do it, and eventually be hired to do it. It also helps that by the time I finally got my first tenure-track job, I was far enough along that tenure was less of an open question. So I never quite experienced the dagger of the tenure clock hanging over my head, though I did spend many years struggling to get my foot in the door. Tenure is always the culmination of a lot of hard work — as well as a lot of luck and support. There are too many people to thank individually, but I do want to generally thank my philosophy professors at TCU and NYU, my former colleagues at the NIH and UNC, my current colleagues at NYU (especially at CEAP and CMEP), our funders and collaborators, and everyone else who supported me along the way. Special thanks to my mentor Dale Jamieson, who hired me into my first postdoc and is likely the person most responsible for my trajectory over the past decade. Extremely grateful to all of you, along with many others, for making it possible for me to do this work :)