Meet the Neighbors with Brandon Keim

Meet the Neighbors with Brandon Keim

Brandon Keim’s latest book is Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World (2024). He draws on the explosion of research into animal cognition to argue that the cities and landscapes around us are filled with thinking, feeling individuals. Taking these animals seriously means they deserve to be understood not merely as populations to be managed, but as neighbours entitled to moral consideration.

HOSTS & GUESTS

Brandon Keim is a freelance journalist specializing in science, nature, and animals. His first book was The Eye of the Sandpiper (2017), and he’s written many articles on animals for National Geographic, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and WIRED. He is also a contributing editor at Nautilus Quarterly. You can learn more about Brandon’s fascinating work on his website, https://brandonkeim.net/.

William S. Lynn, PhD (Bill) is the founder of PAN Works and host of the PAN Thinks podcast. https://panworks.io/team/name/william-lynn/

Barbara J. King is a PAN Works Fellow and a freelance science writer and public speaker, https://panworks.io/team/name/barbara-king/.

Fred Koontz, PhD, is a PAN Works Emeritus Fellow and an ethological zoologist. https://panworks.io/team/name/fred-koontz/.

Production is by Gary Sheer. https://garysheerphotography.com/

Recorded on 22 May 2025.

Episode Art Kate Russell on Unsplash, https://unsplash.com/photos/a-squirrel-is-sitting-on-a-tree-branch-6vQ-Kq2dkZc?

FROM THIS EPISODE

Keim, B. (2017). The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World (1 ed.). Comstock Publishing Associates.

Keim, B. (2024). Meet the Neighbors: Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-Human World. W. W. Norton.

Keim, B. (2025). When That Chickadee Is No Longer “A Machine With Feathers”. Issues in Science and Technology, XLI(3 Spring), 52–59. https://doi.org/10.58875/PIKP7447

King, B. J. (2024). Valuing animal lives. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq5698

Lynn, W. S. (2025). Chickadee was Never a Feathered Machine. Issues in Science and Technology, XLI(4), forthcoming. https://issues.org/evolving-view-animal-minds-keim-forum/

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