Dear colleagues, You are cordially invited to the Winter Lecture Series of the Vienna Animal Studies Group, which starts next Wednesday (Sept. 10) with a talk on a non-anthropocentric ethics of geoengineering. When: September 10th at 5:00 pm Where: NIG Hörsaal 3D What: Talk by Leonie Bossert on "Opium for the Earth at the expense of nonhuman animals? A non-anthropocentric perspective on Geoengineering" For more information on this and the upcoming events, please visit https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-list With best wishes on behalf of the VAS team, Leonie Bossert -- Dr. Leonie N. Bossert Post-Doctoral University Assistant Chair for Philosophy of Media and Technology University of Vienna Latest publications: "Why the carbon footprint of generative large language models alone will not help us assess their sustainability." Nature Machine Intelligence 2025 (7), 164-165, with Wulf Loh. "On the values of microbes: An ethical investigation of relational values associated with the microbial world." People and Nature 2025 (7/4), 804-814, with Davina Höll.