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.”

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Minn AG Keith Ellison spoke to me today on need for accountability in the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent

If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you.

A quizzical Collared Aracari #CostaRica #toucanoftheday #toucantuesday #birds #toucans #nature

Day 24 of #ArtAdventCalendar, and one of my favourites from this year. (Also because we are almost beginning with #InverteFest) #WeevilWednesday #Nature #SciArt #TradArt #ColorPencil p.s. check reply for the link to original photo this was referenced from.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

What a lovely thread…

Oooooh cool shit happening at Skype a Scientiiiiiist. Check out our first look at the biodiversity beers project (coming in 2026). The test print arrived today!

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild Periodical cicada Banana slug Groundhog Blue heron Black vulture

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Dobsonfly Orca Mot-Mot Marmot Red-eyed tree frog

#sciart makes a great gift

BREAKING: An Illinois jury convicted a former sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who had called 911 asking for help.

Here is your Sunday Spider, I think a Psecas chapoda jumping spider. From what I've read, they have a mutualistic relationship with a bromeliad, Bromelia balansae. The spiders live exclusively among the plant's spiny rosettes; in turn their debris/droppings feed the plant. #Arachtober #Bugsky 🌿🐙

Here is your Wednesday Weevil, Watching Warily. Seen at night in a Costa Rican rainforest. Love the giant eyes on this little nugget of a beetle. 🐙🌿 🕶️

“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news. NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

This is important.

Free shipping from @bookshop.org today and tomorrow if you, ya know, want to order books with free shipping from somewhere that isn't evil!

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Gene therapy works- the challenge is to make these expensive therapies accessible to all who could benefit.

I bought one!! You should too!

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.