As someone who knows how hard it is to get an architecture book, an urbanism book, or a criticism book for a general audience published ...

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - [email protected]

I saw Backrooms and now every empty indoor space looks creepy and a little sinister.

It was a high of 95 today in Portland, Oregon and this sign popped up on a telephone pole!

when I got laid off from Vice, I later found out that members of the c-suite had awarded themselves bonuses that were higher than my annual salary. I hope that answers your question.

I’m really enjoying watching ER for the first time after seeing The Pitt. It’s like I’m seeing Noah Wyle’s origin story.

One fun part of working in Portland media is watching OPB and the Oregonian bend over backwards not to attribute this reporting to @thewesternedge.bsky.social. They cite press release; we actually spoke to human beings.

Brooklyn. 🏀 (via Paul Williams) 💕

Today I learned Hey, Arnold! is NOT set in NYC but some fictional mashup of Seattle, Portland, and Brooklyn I have never felt more lied to!

Today in license plates

“Putting nets on hoops isn’t going to necessarily solve the world’s problems,” Campanella said. “But it’s something I can do. It’s tangible. It makes me smile, and it makes other people in the park smile, and so I just do it.” 🥹

Dogs need carry on luggage too!

This article by @jwoolington.bsky.social for @highcountrynews.org is a must read. Stunningly written piece about the frankly shocking lack of research into the effects of river dredging on creatures who rely on these waters. #longread www.hcn.org/issues/58-6/...

Always great when people are talking about your HS…😬 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/a...

Could not believe someone had a GOONER license plate

The Trump admin's next planned lease sale for potential oil and gas development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (where the Porcupine caribou herd goes to calve) is slated for later this week. People on both sides of the border are working to try to stop the area from being drilled:

I spent all day writing up this book list with mini-reviews for each one! I truly believe there’s something for every reader on here. tovedanovich.substack.com/p/books-i-ca... #booksky

lots of reasons I love working at Defector but the latest is that we decided to increase our freelance rates, simply because they’ve been the same for 5 years and it felt like we should be paying more now

I have a memory of editorial boards not being completely batshit but it seems to be an epidemic

I had to read that twice. THREE. TIMES. THE. SIZE. OF. SAN. FRANCISCO. What the fuck are we doing?

Just checked out seeds from my library!! Libraries are so good.

For the last six years I’ve volunteered at the local wildlife rehab center. A few weeks ago I got to release a crow! I made a little video about the experience if anyone wants to see this beautiful bird fly free! #birdlovers

There’s a fact in Under the Henfluence that took me two full days to figure it out. I’ve seen it cited in two places since my book’s release—one cited me and the other didn’t. I will hold a grudge!

FWIW I also did this with my book because I was so mad about how many made up facts were just being repeated in every book about chickens without any citation beyond the last book to use the incorrect fact.

Just saw this letter from The Sun that the IRS has revoked their nonprofit status. I know of several magazines that operate as nonprofits and wonder if this is a standalone event or something that’s going to be a sweeping change moving forward? www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/289...

A few weeks ago I started waking up absurdly early. At first, I thought it was stress. Then I realized it was my body responding to springtime. No matter how far humans get from nature, we’re all just animals responding to daylight. @wbur.org www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

This is such sad news. I really hope someone steps up for @biographic.bsky.social!

Finishing up this memoir by a woman who joined her husband to live in the arctic in the 1930s. They had a teenage daughter at home who I guess was fine. Happy Mother’s Day! (Really love this book so far. Moms should have wild adventures too.)

A coyote that turned up on Alcatraz was presumed to have swam over from San Francisco. But a DNA sample from the animal’s droppings showed it was from the much farther Angel Island. Park staff were prepared to trap and relocate the coyote but it is no longer on the island.

C.S. Lewis on the nature of friendship. This is essentially what philosophers mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.

According to PBS, Dump has paid up to $2 billion to cancel offshore wind farms on both coasts. He actually spent taxpayer money to shelve economically viable private company projects which would have provided electricity to Americans at a fraction of the current average price

inspired by a post I saw on here and have since lost, I've started reading "AI companies" as "cigarette manufacturers," so something like this becomes "maker of Newports backs bill to fund smoking literacy in schools"

Hello to this perfect Canada Goose family

This piece about the people who tried to save a beached whale in Oregon was so moving. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Weirdly Short Creek is in the news thanks to the new Netflix doc, Trust Me. Years ago, I went there to report this story about what happened to the area in the wake of the FLDS losing its grip on it. Why rebuild in a place with so much trauma? www.theringer.com/2019/06/24/n...

We are rapidly losing the outlets where new writers can learn to shape a voice, where they can cultivate skills beyond quick news hits and PR with the guidance and mentorship of strong editors and the benefit of a trusted name, and it’s such a loss for writers and readers alike.

This is so, so good. You might think you don’t care about nonfiction paperbacks, but you do. I promise you. We are losing something, which Rahawa articulates so tenderly and fiercely.

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

In 2026 Portland Oregon you are much more likely to be killed by a vehicle than murdered but Portland Police keep letting drivers off without holding them responsible. A driver who breaks traffic laws and hits pedestrians or a bicycle rider needs to be held responsible. This is not controversial.

If you’re in Portland, OR, you’ve got a few more days to sign up for an in person nature writing class I’m teaching. It’ll be held at the Bird Alliance sanctuary. Outside! All levels welcome. Still a couple spots left I’d love to fill! birdallianceoregon.org/event/writin...

Does anyone know what store would carry a single bungee cord lock? I put some on my day hike bag and want to tie it off. But I need one, not 25!

Met this cold bumblebee today and moved her off the trail so she didn’t get smooshed!

It seems impossible that I got the most beautiful, perfect dog in the world and yet here she is!

If you’re a reporter covering Gertie, the world’s oldest living chicken, and want another expert to weigh in, I’ve got you! I wrote a book about chickens and am always happy to talk. They live a lot longer than people think!

I have a ton of deadlines so of course I spent a couple hours making flyers for my book and posting them up around town.

When I testified in front of Congress in 2021 on illegal logging and its impact on communities, I recommended increasing funding for the U.S. Forest Service which got audible bipartisan support in my hearing. It's almost unbelievable how things have changed. These research stations are vital.

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Online writing defaults to block paragraphs with spaces between them and no indents. I think it really changes something about how we read and how I—at least—write. tovedanovich.substack.com/p/a-shift-in...

My Western Edge co-founder @leahsottile.bsky.social obtained the 911 calls related to this death. A worker who called for an ambulance described a man who was bleeding from some type of headwound and was blue in the face while some employees were told to keep working.

I love @leahsottile.bsky.social work but this piece on how to define domestic terrorism for @highcountrynews.org is especially excellent. I couldn’t stop reading. www.hcn.org/issues/58-4/...

Much of the West Coast and Hawaii faces some degree of tsunami risk. But if communities lack high ground to flee to before the waves hit, they really have one option: build up. Tsunami shelters are ubiquitous in tsunami-prone Japan, but the US has only a handful. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/r...