A quite lovely photo of a worm inside this tunicate! Is it eating? or... ? #wormwednesday #tunicatetuesday via @biographic.bsky.social www.biographic.com/friends-or-f...

Last week the @biographic.bsky.social team learned that, owing to an ongoing deficit, the California Academy of Sciences will no longer provide us with financial support. We're reaching out to foundations that support environmental journalism. We've got plans, we just need some help!

Cannot believe that those of us from Hakai are going through this again. This industry is brutal, man.

Stolen from FB....

"And what might a bumblebee dream of? The moments of their life, perhaps: the flowers they have visited, their taste and smell. The paths they followed to get there. Other bees they have known." This @brandonkeim.bsky.social essay, originally published in @nautil.us, is an absolute beauty

Oof, and another one from @highcountrynews.org: March’s record-smashing heat on the tail of a warm, dry winter echoes the 2021 heat dome, just as scientists are beginning to grasp the long-term ecological consequences of that event.

“When March looked like June, what are June and July going to look like?” An incredibly sobering but well-reported @highcountrynews.org article on what happens when drought and heat come for the already overtaxed Colorado River system.

"Many beloved ecosystems were maintained by people—through burning, weeding, hunting, harvesting, grazing, & cultivation. Landscapes with low-intensity use are often more biodiverse than places with no use. The idea of keeping people out of nature to preserve it is making less and less sense."

I really wanted to make this headline "Puff Puff Pass" but sadly got voted down

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn't that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.” —Madeline Lucas, Thirst for Salt

Aztec, NM ! We Love Jack's Plastic Welding !!

Can anyone here answer some questions about sea squirts for me? @echinoblog.bsky.social do you know anyone who specializes in tunicates?

Best sticker ever

It's always a delight to work with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social, and this story checks all the boxes for me as an editor: ✅ Weird invertebrate with fascinating biology ✅ Traditional ecological knowledge that matters in the modern world ✅ Pacific Islands culture ✅ Myths and symbolism

Here's the @biographic.bsky.social feature in case you missed it! Featuring stellar editing by @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social and immersive photography and video by Bennett Whitnell. Thanks also to @hakai.org and @ijnr.bsky.social for the support.

Incredibly honored to see my @biographic.bsky.social feature "Welcome to the Great Bear Sea" (edited by the talented @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social) on the long list for the Environmental Reporting category of the 2026 @oneworldmedia.bsky.social awards 🙏

This is something tech people don't grasp about nonfiction writing: the process of deep research, of deciding which little details are interesting or which obscure anecdotes have historical value, is all part of the creative work of writing. It's not grunt work. It can't just be automated.

It’s 8:15 am and I’ve already dipped in the salty Salish sea with a friend and seen an orca from the living room window, so I think that means it’s going to be a very good day

Going to make a real effort to call loons “stupid Canadian wolf-birds” from now on

Some very good tide pools

Sweet freelance journalism gig here with @magiccanoe.bsky.social magiccanoe.org/accepting-ap...

Tucson, Arizona today. 121 degrees Fahrenheit in the sun

THANK YOU! I feel like this was made for me. I love writing, hate math, and feel shamefully disorganized and stupid around tax time

One tiny upside of AI, as someone who’s always loved first-person writing: editors are now celebrating pitches with quirky firsthand details because those pitches stand out from the too-smooth AI ones and shows us they were written by a real person 🙌

It’s not every day that you’re walking your dog and happen to see an owl perched at eye level sleepily watching you pass

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

"The false idols fall away. Mama, Dada, the frothing hog-child Peppa Pig, the simpering zoo beast Daniel Tiger, that orange wretch Blippi—the whole obsolete pantheon. These voices are but muffled ghosts beneath My bright refrains." DYING @theonion.com

British Columbia is making Daylight Savings Time permanent?!?! news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg Upper Colorado River region: 66% Oregon: 34% "Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future." www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org

For a century, the United States dominated & influenced conservation around the world--for better and for worse. That era is over. @biographic.bsky.social has a special issue on the next era of conservation--what it looks like, who's funding it, & what it means for people, species, & ecosystems 🌱

Help the Canadian public school system is radicalizing my child

Um yes please Firefox

With the unrest in Mexican tourist hubs this week, it seems timely to re-up this old story that explains how the mass tourism promoted by the Mexican government leads to displacement and economic disparity so pronounced that one researcher calls it "de facto social and economic apartheid.”

“When someone publishes something important, this should be subject to public debate and people should hold power to account for it. But when you don’t live in a healthy society, when citizens are oppressed by the dictatorship, journalism’s impact is not as big as it should be”

@amyjanebeer.bsky.social with what is, to me, a lovely version of The Credo: “A belief that if you keep walking the land – any land – with your mind and senses open, then small, slim chances accumulate and coalesce until, sooner or later, extraordinary things become almost certain to happen.”

The more homogeneous the social fabric of a community, the less likely the neighborhood has a biodiverse range of plants. "In other words, the economic and racial diversity that American communities fail to cultivate is reflected in the plant-scape. Mono-crop vegetation matches mono-crop demography"

I am just here to say that The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones is so fucking good and you should absolutely read it

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Huge #landback win today in British Columbia: the Tla'amin Nation just reacquired 150,000 hectares of land. "This single act increases our land holdings from 8% to over 51% of our territory." This was industrially-logged land that will now be restored, respected, and managed on a 300-year-plan 🌱

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Pronghorn can run 11 kilometers in 10 minutes, achieving bursts of 97 km/hour. But after a fast-moving Wyoming wildfire, at least 70 pronghorn died, overtaken by the flames. A Wyoming writer whose roots are intertwined with pronghorn asks: Can our fastest land mammal outrun a warming climate?

I saw a fogbow! Did not even know such a thing existed until today. All kinds of wonders out there

If you write primarily about nature and environmental issues, it can be hard to see the value of your work during times like these. I wrote about this a bit in my introduction to @biographic.bsky.social's weekly newsletter.

Follow me on this: Subscription and membership are not the same thing. Subscribers buy a product. Members join a cause. The distinction matters because around the world readers are being asked to pay more of the costs for quality journalism. 23/

Key distinction number two: journalism vs. the media (vs. the press) I think of the media as the attention business, an industry whose product is audiences. Journalism is a social practice, the purpose of which is to keep publics informed and hold power to account. 7/

How much bengal spice tea can one woman drink? An investigation

Chinga la migra

In bleak times, we need art to remind us that there is still beauty in the world. My dear friend @sarahmgilman.bsky.social is launching her regular installment of illustrated poems, Terra Affirma, as a Substack. You can sign up here, and I highly recommend you do sarahmgilman.substack.com