In case you're wondering how bad the affordable housing crisis is in Colorado, I present two stories: 1) In Durango, the school district is purchasing an apartment complex to house teachers because there isn't enough regular affordable housing

There is some actual great reporting in this story, but framing this violation of basic human rights as a national security issue instead of just, like, a human rights issue is very weird. (ht @taotaotasi.bsky.social) www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Do you work in conservation science, particularly outside the U.S.? Did you lose your job or funding for your job because of cuts to U.S. federal agencies? Do you want to talk about it? DM me please. (This is for a @biographic.bsky.social story) [Iceland photo for attention only]

The first public media station to go dark thanks to Trump’s cutoff of federal funding to public media is a 70 year old station in Pennsylvania. https://loom.ly/IjOHdzI

📣 What do we want? A free, independent press that covers the natural world! 📣 Why do we want it? Because good journalism costs money, and nature deserves good journalism! 📣 When do we want it? By Friday! (we @biographic.bsky.social would be v grateful if you could kick us a few dollars)

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Filmed at Bakers Bridge on the Animas River in Durango, Colorado 🩵

I truly didn’t think Business Insider could fall any farther, and then…

RIP GOAT Be like Robert. Support badass journalism.

Between stories like this--a 7-year-old ripped from his community and forced to spend a month in a detention center--and kids who are scared to go to school because of gun violence, we are traumatizing children. The work of undoing this will take generations.

Tfw you wrap something up on a Friday that you’ve been working on all week and suddenly get to close like 20 tabs in your browser

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Anyway here’s a baby trying on glasses.

"Scientists who study dark taxa argue that lifting the shadow on these organisms is essential to our own survival. If we don’t know what constitutes our ecosystems, we risk killing off the key players that make them function.." Even when we DO know what other beings are essential we kill them off

Report from Canada: wheat thins taste different

I’ve been absent here for a few weeks, but I have a good excuse: I moved from the U.S. to Canada! The view from this side of the border is pretty great tbh

I've loved sea stars my whole life. So when I found out that @biographic.bsky.social was getting exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the scientists tracking a notorious sea star killer, I knew we had to send the best of the best. Enter @craigwelch.bsky.social. A must read:

This story's got it all! Gorgeous visuals, immersive writing, and one of the most dynamic places on Earth: the Central Coast of British Columbia, where salmon streams pour through old-growth forests and whales breach and First Nations are breaking new ground in environmental and cultural protections

Sweet lil bebe fawn couldn’t wait to nurse so mama held up traffic for a bit

The New Mexico green chile mob has come for the Merriam Webster social media person

Make Selling Out Lame Again

How to make peace with with cormorants nesting in a Toronto park—adapt! Stellar feature by @sarahmgilman.bsky.social, edited by the talented @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social, with fantastic images by Patricia Homonylo, in @biographic.bsky.social. Well done, Team! www.biographic.com/a-wild-home-...

I adore working with @sarahmgilman.bsky.social . Sometimes I edit her writing and sometimes she edits mine, but the end result is always 🔥 Our latest collab is this quiet, beautiful story about making space for a bird that many people love to hate

CAE 52 is out, with the best things I read in June including: - @rachelplotnick.bsky.social on electronics in the bathroom - @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social on wild animals within Rome's ruins - @meerasub.bsky.social on the beautiful adaptability of fungi jodiettenberg.substack.com/p/fifty-two

Report from Iowa: fireflies in a wet field, lightning flickering above, and a cardinal singing from a telephone wire in between

the journey itself is home

"In modern Rome, boars knock over trash bins, wolves roam the urban fringes, raptors nest atop marble pillars, and ducks tend to their eggs inside world-renowned art museums." @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/the-wild-wit...

Wolves, people. Wolves in the middle of Rome, a big city full of accidental wildlife corridors. Wonderfully presented by @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/the-wild-wit...

there's a lot of bad shit happening and i know not everyone has the capacity for more, but if you think colonialism is something that happened in the past, take a minute to read this

why do so many people I follow live in nyc

Moving from full-time freelance journalist to behind-the-scenes editor means fewer bylines. So it was fun to stretch the ol' writing muscles for this piece that weaves together ancient history, archaeology, and why modern-day Rome is home to such an astounding array of urban wildlife.

the world is passing me by and I do what I can to ignore it and lose all sense of time in a mossy forest

Bold lemurs, curious wolves, and flying mudskippers all await you in this year's BigPicture Photography Competition gallery on @biographic.bsky.social. Words by me and the incomparable @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social. Check out some of the best nature photos in the world 👇

I’m here for the glimmers of hope

If you need a ten-minute break from the horrors, ogle this selection of the year's best nature photography and read the story behind each photo, as written by me and @skylarknight.bsky.social. You will learn things that make the world seem a tiny bit brighter, I promise.

I for one I think it's cool and good that the largest engine of speculative wealth in America went all in on robots that lie to you to tell you what you want to hear just in time for people to be coming to terms with the tremendous social alienation and loss that was the pandemic.

This stunner by @meerasub.bsky.social in @orionmagazine.bsky.social is exactly what I want to read and hope to edit. It's so good. If you want to try to write something like this about biodiversity or conservation, I want to edit you. Get in touch. orionmagazine.org/article/out-...

[Exit King.]

#nokings in Durango, Colorado, population 19,000. Lots more people showed up than I could fit in this video

I cannot emphasize enough about much I hate AI

So... traffic to online journalism sites is tanking because search engine users are no longer clicking on links and instead just relying on AI-generated "answers" at the top of Google searches. But those "answers" are often flat-out wrong. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...

Haaaa well played @newyorker.com

Quality of life goes up when time spent in a car goes down. This is the very simple equation I live by.

Nobody is coming to save us. The only way out is together.

Ok, I think I need to stop using Google as my default search. Too much AI slop in the results, and I definitely don't want my default search to be using AI. What should I use instead, and how do I make it my default in Chrome?

Since fall, 2022, I've been trying to figure out why Newtok's relocation is riddled with problems - the same kind this move was supposed to solve. Newtok’s residents are Americans - not a “they,” but an “us,” and that’s why I chased this story for so long. www.propublica.org/article/newt...

Local journalists at The Berskhire Eagle are doing the lord's work documenting not just this but other ICE raids in Western Mass. Local, independent journalism matters. www.berkshireeagle.com/news/souther...

headline award.

All I wanted for my 41st bday was to play volleyball, and we ended up sharing the court w/ some high schoolers. At one point they played TLC on their speaker and I said, “this was my first concert!” and one said “o no way, that’s so cool” and having a teenager call me cool was actually the best gift