Oh give me a bay With a turtle and ray And a shopping cart where corals grow Where disease isn't seen And the algae that's green Doesn't kill but instead gives a glow (Loved editing this gem by @cgeib.bsky.social about @coralcitycamera.bsky.social and Miami's urban corals!)

"More than 60 percent of Google searches in the United States now end without the user clicking on a link. ... What used to be a meandering journey through the internet [is now] an immediate arrival at your destination." Fascinating stuff here, by a neuroscientist and former Google employee

huge thanks to @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social for allowing me to inaugurate this new column! I'm excited to read more Field Notes; if there's anything I've learned from science reporting it's that there are miles of strange journey before most newsworthy destinations

are you interested in toad calls, cemeteries, walking around at night, and/or what the wood frog has in common with Jesus Christ? you can learn about all these things and more in my new essay for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/listening-fo...

This sounds exactly like the kind of project I've thought about doing but never actually followed through on. Ever since I was a baby newspaper reporter, I've thought there was so much story potential in the unsung lives of regular folks' obituaries: www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...

If you're familiar with John McPhee's 1973 classic "Travels in Georgia," you'll be tickled to know that the young naturalist who spent her time “collecting skulls and pelts, eating rattlesnakes, preserving natural areas, and charting the ranges of river frogs” is still doing much the same

"We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting...we also have reason to believe that the sale was motivated by fear within Springer Nature that our attempts to doggedly report on the crisis facing science in America today would lead to repercussions from the Trump administration."

📣 BIG NEWS! 📣 We're re-launching bioGraphic as a completely independent nonprofit! As we make this transition, we're taking a publishing (and social media) break in July and August. Then we'll be back with more inspiring, paywall-free journalism about the natural world. More details below 👇

"On a dripping-hot morning in July, the kind of day that makes you wonder why anyone moves to Florida, I exited the interstate and headed toward a ragged field sandwiched between Hollywood Boulevard and a Walmart Supercenter." One of the best openers I've had the pleasure of editing this year

Good morning. May the day bring you a modicum of the joy felt by this bear after he swam a kilometer across frigid water Glacier Bay, Alaska, and came upon a scrawny tree. Video by my friend Whitney while I floated next to her in a kayak audibly gasping

Hi pals! I've got something I'm REALLY excited about in the works... I'll be editing a nonfiction anthology about the Yukon River. Timelines are tight so I'm mostly seeking out existing work (in your publication archive, sitting on your hard drive...) Please submit / share! forms.gle/Q622LYHExe7x...

It’s telling that even @jfleck.bsky.social is burning out in Colorado River Basin dysfunction & is turning his “attention to the local level, which is where the problem solving responsibility seems to rest right now.” Gulp. 🚰🚱🥃🔫🌊

"'Why do we do astrophysics?' Hogg offered an answer. It wasn’t to solve the cosmos but to grapple with it: a journey, not a destination." THIS, from @joshuasokol.bsky.social, gets at the heart of why I despise genAI: it assumes that writing is a product rather than an experience

Listen, I wear as much Patagucci as the next outdoorsy middle-class white woman, but i found this super thought-provoking. “It’s outrageous that a corporation that exploits a name as part of its marketing sues others for doing the same.”

We've got a big feature out today (with gorgeous photographs) about the Ukrainian conservationists working to save a herd of bison from the ongoing Russian invasion. It's about the hope that conservation can offer in times of war, and the ways that animals' lives are entangled human geopolitics.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.

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