October 24 – 26, 2025
Lindell Bromham (Keynote), “The True Meaning of Darwinism (Or: The Only Thing in Biology That Gets Simpler the Closer you Look)”
Rory Smead, “Game of Red Thrones”
Chad Lee-Stronach, “Interdependent Conventions”
Krisztina Orbán, “Pointing as the Origin of Language”
Stewart Saunders, “Lithium: A Biological Mystery”
Kate Lynch & Thomas White, “Sentience and Flexible Behavior”
Hong Yu Wong, “Varieties of Agency: Is There Anything Unified?”
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Abstracts. Higher res version of the group photo.
T-shirt design by Ainsley Seago:
Left is a Sacred Kingfisher (very young, according to Kim). Rory Smead and I reckon the Lace Monitor might have been about 4 feet long, with the tail. A full photo here.
Below: Chad Lee-Stronach inducing waves of pessimism in his audience.
And Carl Brusse wearing a classic PBDB shirt (Ainsley Seago design), from PBDB 6 (2012).
