Whose Fear Counts? By Tony Pentimalli A one-year-old boy is dead after police fired into a car outside a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, and the country is once again being asked to begin with the fear of the officer rather than the life of the child.

Just started reading @lutimestwo.bsky.social’s “Why Fish Don’t Exist” and wow can this woman write! Easy to see why it was a best seller.

We’re up to 41 species seen in the sidewalk pollinator pathway

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Shame on Barnes and Noble for not only shelving a #climate denial Cato institution book in their science section but having it facing out. Disinformation is not science!

I’m “evolved enough” to not equate evolution with progress 🤦‍♀️Please stop talking and go read a book.

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

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Love my students! 💚🌸

Yes or swamp/rose milkweed is another good choice of a milkweed that’s less aggressive.

Ivermectin in an anti-parasitic. It kills parasites. Viruses are not parasites. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Well so much for getting the rest of my grading done…

Climate Change is here. How will you help protect our earth ?

For today's #TransArtMay, a coati as suggested by @moritherapy.bsky.social! This one has decided to make a fashion statement because sometimes you feel like flaunting your favorite colors...

Happy #macromonday 🩷💛🩷

Squirrel of the Day for May 3, 2026 is giving Spider-Man x Black Panther #sqrlpix

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Today the 12yo has decided it’s Red-lipped Batfish Awareness Day! I don’t know why it looks like it’s wearing lipstick but these guys aren’t great swimmers and prefer to “walk” on their fins, along the seafloor near the Galapagos. Look at it!

Roughly half of STEM PhD students in the U.S. are international students. 75% of them stay in the U.S. long term after graduating to contribute their skills to U.S. scientific research and development. Cutting international student visas hurts U.S. science now and long into the future.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS? I have a bill to get that done.

Now do you believe me when I tell you the ocean has absorbed ~30% of the carbon dioxide we’ve emitted? 🩵 And that it has absorbed 90%+ of the heat trapped by greenhouse gasses? 🩵

I’m throwing Climate Dance Parties so people can get excited about the *many* climate solutions and possibilities. Meet us on the dance floor! 🌎🕺🏽✨ 🎟️: www.getitright.earth/tour And maybe come dressed as your favorite climate solution…?

Pasqueflowers shining in the sunlight today 🌿

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

your second moment of calm: newt! newt alert! squee!

Signs of spring in my backyard 😊

Updated book alert! Highly recommend!! New interviews 💚💚💚

Bullfrog* of the day! Sunday, 29 Mar 2026 *One of my favorites 😍

It's hard to comprehend this detail: "The site of the [Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire] tragedy is now a sprawling laboratory for postdoctoral students studying brain development."

Fantastic news! 🦋🦋 Link to full report in 🧵 www.worldwildlife.org/news/stories...

The Arc of the Energy Universe is Long, but It Bends toward Decarbonization

A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.

A small Lasioglossum in the spiderwort, which is blooming now around central Texas.

Okay, here’s today’s assignment: celebrate the joy of nudibranchs. First: read this thoroughly wonderful piece on artist Arina Bovenich and her felted nudibranchs. Tiny wool sea slugs. Maximum delight. If this doesn’t spark joy, nothing will. #Nudibranchs #OceanHoptimism

Like the Blaschka glass models of soft-bodied invertebrates, when you capture this record of shape and color, it helps future researchers AND creates a stunning body of artwork at the same time

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Hurrah - it’s World Pangolin Day!

Excited to announce I’ve got a book coming out this summer. If you are interested in reviewing it in advance, pop me a dm. I would particularly love to hear what folks who teach non-majors environmental courses think as I wrote it in part to serve as an alternative to current textbooks.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Who were those women playing violin and cello with Brandi Carlile? 💚

The wildest dream of a Cormorant🫧 #bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #fish #bitterling #animalart #creature #artist

i don’t think we should have to rely on our ability to get a small child’s photo to get enough internet attention so that their representative can successfully physically extract them from the concentration camp for children

Bullfrog of the day! Saturday, 7 Feb 2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This who runs this account 😊

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Reagan-appointee Judge Young on Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio: “These cabinet secretaries have failed in their duties to protect the Constitution.”