🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran... #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪

Hell yeah, brother

DID YOU KNOW that emissions from manure management in the U.S. are likely even higher than official EPA estimates? A thread about 💩 1/

I've been carrying my cello for weeks through snow, ice, wind, and rain so that YOU can hear us play on Sunday March 1st! DC, get your tickets here! dccos.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

Although her first attempts were punching her fist into her hand, which made her look more like a baby mob boss 😅

My baby learned to clap while listening to some Dvorak with me. What can I say, she is a baby genius!

We are giving up streaming services for Lent. I admit it means I'm on my phone more in the evenings, because I get sleepy from reading.

Toddler just shone a flashlight at the cat’s butthole and told me, “It’s weird in there.”

Husband is so sick of me talking about Punch the adorable Japanese macaque. IFKYK.

Now THAT's a headline. "The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents" fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Special clue in today's NYTimes crossword related to enteric fermentation! 🐄

The more I learn about Epstein the more I'm glad I never went to an Ivy League.

NPR continues to bring you all the news you can use about Nazgul.

Life with Momo the cat is never boring. What should the caption be…

I WAS WATCHING WHEN THIS HAPPENED! LOOK AT THIS BEST DOG! Apparently the owner lives just round the corner from the stadium and didn't realise the dog had nipped out of the garden to become an Olympian until she saw the footage on TV. I hope that's true, for it is amusing.

My daughter is just learning to crawl and also really into babbling. This is her most unhinged era yet 😂😂😂

big pop culture news: Chappell Roan has undergone the spice agony, transmuted the Water of Life, and attained Reverend Mother status

food systems are the leading cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss on land, freshwater use, and overfishing, and the number two cause of climate change after energy use

Indonesia’s steel sector — already a major emitter — could grow far more polluting as global demand rises, a nonprofit report warns. Coal-based production drives both climate emissions and local health risks, while current policies lack binding targets and enforcement.

Also, I have questions 🤔

Well that's a new one #DC.

excuse me, "croyons" ✅✅✅✅✅✅

Going to attempt bringing the stroller outside after 2 weeks of near-impassable sidewalks on our walk to daycare. Still going to take the bus for most of it, but hopefully most of the intersections are clear enough by now.

But the other piece of evidence -- the point of this thread -- is that we now have an example of what it looks like when US political & corporate elites *really are* obsessed with and committed to something. Namely: AI.

No owlettes. Just this adult with 2 Muppets. 🐣🪶

Good tips here!

Thinking more and more about how much certain actors are pushing us towards a post-truth, post-data world, a world driven purely by narratives and vibes It's not good.

My orchestra is having a makeup rehearsal on Sunday. When I realized it will be Superbowl Sunday, I also remembered that us orchestra people aren't really sports people 😅

What a week for my husband to be on work travel. Baby's first fever and now I threw out my back trying to clear some ice from our back steps 😩

💻 Current bottom-up emission models for natural flooded ecosystems miss critical dynamics. 🌐 Many widely used models underestimated wetland and inland-water emissions and their dynamics during the surge, highlighting urgent gaps in monitoring wet ecosystems and microbial methane emission processes.

🌧️ Exceptionally wet conditions during a prolonged La Niña (2020–2023) boosted methane emissions from wetlands and inland waters, especially in tropical Africa and Southeast Asia, with additional increases in Arctic regions.

😷 COVID-19–related air pollution changes played a central role. Reductions in nitrogen oxides (NOₓ) during pandemic lockdowns reduced OH levels, allowing methane to accumulate faster in the atmosphere. 🌿 Climate-driven wetland emissions amplified the surge.

The key findings are: 🧪 This early-2020s methane surge was mainly caused by a weakened atmospheric chemistry sink, not runaway emissions. 🌍 A temporary drop in hydroxyl (OH) radicals—the atmosphere's primary methane "cleanser" explains about 80–85% of the year-to-year variability in methane growth.

The Methane spike in the early 2020’s has been explained in two new studies. A combination of weakened atmospheric removal and increased emissions from warming wetlands, rivers, lakes, and agricultural land are to blame. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...  www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #methane

Sent a freelance journalist for @mongabay.com to this event & his report is delicious I'm seriously jealous ~ from forest honey to Taiwanese teas, he sampled so much goodness from around the Asia & Pacific region, which now has an #agroecology based @slowfoodhq.bsky.social hub in the #Philippines:

From 2019: Jeffrey Epstein liked to describe himself as a “science philanthropist,” and academics liked to take his money. As more of Epstein’s enablers are uncovered, it’s worth asking why it was so easy for him to infiltrate science in the first place. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:

I realized one reason I like being a parent way more than I expected is that I thrive in chaos. One reason I loved and miss Bangkok! ADHD life 😆

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth. (This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)

This is who runs this account

‘In the end, the potato campaign may have bitten off more than it can chew. Only about 200 tonnes — 5 per cent of the planned 4,000 tonnes — have been delivered to Berlin as of January 27.’ Great piece showing even giving away potatoes is a big logistical challenge! www.ft.com/content/1554...

I love the term Kartoffel-Flut www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I regret to inform everyone that doing a small amount of planks has improved my back pain.

I was very glad to be asked by @vittles.bsky.social to contribute to this weekend’s Six of One - Myanmar Special. I did so for two main reasons www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/six-of-one... (1/2)

I think about this a lot: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

TED talks, airport books, all that shit

One thing the Epstein files make clear is that the entire thinkfluencer-industrial complex needs to be burned down.

Michael Crow knocking it out of the park as usual. Worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTd_...

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

There's so many cuts because AI isn't good at generating longer scenes. This seems highly unwatchable.

Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.