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

“Liam’s older brother, a middle schooler, came home 20 minutes later to find his father and brother missing”

The solution to protecting loons from lead poisoning is straightforward, writes @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social. Yet efforts to educate anglers about the dangers of lead tackle and convince them to switch gear have hardly moved the needle. Why? In two words: gun rights. From @biographic.bsky.social

Sad to lose you, Bobby. Thought we had a few more years together. 🌹

Been happening since last year at this time in Navajo Nation… www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/u...

Some 17 million seniors watch these videos w/ health advice, complete with cited references from reputable journals. But it's all AI generated, and the citations aren't real. "Unlike with the quacks of old, nothing is being sold here. Your attention is what puts money into their pockets."

This is some full on dystopian tech surveillance bullshit (also support independent journalism that brings you stories like this)

“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”

"When you're a gun everyone is a target."

Thanks for republishing my story, @motherjones.com!

Me, to 7-year-old: “we’re gonna try to go somewhere fun for New Years!” 7-year-old: “it better not be camping or hiking. I’ve had my fill of that.”

Since you’re on Bluesky you probably didn’t need another reason to resent the gun lobby, but just in case you were on the fence… it’s killing the loons! (Though we anglers deserve most of the blame tbh.) Great/frustrating @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social feature. 👇 www.biographic.com/why-are-loon...

In an era when many species are declining because of multi-pronged, seemingly intractable problems, the solution to protecting common loons is relatively straightforward. So why are these beloved birds still dying?

Who drops a feature two days before Christmas? I do. And I hope you'll read it! It's about a bird I love dearly, and how its survival has somehow gotten tangled up with American gun culture. Oh, and it's got some Mary Oliver in it. www.biographic.com/why-are-loon...

After 12 landlocked years, I’m living near the ocean again, and I’m so happy about it that I swam first thing in the morning on the shortest day of the year. May you also find joy in the darkness. May you find the medicine your soul has been yearning for.

In case you missed it Canada changed their citizenship laws recently. If you have Canadian ancestry you may be eligible for citizenship by descent. I need to look into it some more but this is amazing. immigration.ca/claiming-can...

A Colorado Christmas Parable: a former monastery with senior water rights where monks practiced silence and humility was just bought for $120 million to be turned into a private residence for a tech dude

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

We are SO CLOSE to reaching our $75,000 fundraising goal! If you support independent, nonprofit journalism about biodiversity and conservation, your donation could help us get to the finish line! 🫶 give.calacademy.org/campaign/746...

Gutting news for anyone (coughmecough) who moved away from the Southwest in part for climate reasons and is now feeling nostalgic for it

November 2025 snowfall departure from normal.

I find so much new music when you all share your Spotify wrapped. I will not share mine because my six-year-old hijacks my Spotify but thank you for sharing yours!

Coming back from vacation to some good news! The first baby whale of the 2025-2026 North American right whale calving season was spotted Nov 28 near South Carolina. Mom is Champagne (ID #3904) and its her 2nd documented calf. What joyful news for a species with 384 whales remaining.

We *really* need to actively differentiate Machine Learning from GenAI. GenAI is riding the Machine Learning coattails and risks destroying an incredibly useful innovation by conflating it with absolute slop that codes decently.

“It felt like, this thing that I’ve spent my whole career doing, there’s just not a lot of opportunity anymore. The thing that I love just doesn’t exist anymore.” —my pal Emily Guerin on leaving longform audio journalism

🦇🦍🦉 Do you root for the weird, wild, under-appreciated species of the world? The slime molds and sunflower stars; the cormorants and caddisflies? So do we. And we need your help! A donation of any amount goes straight to supporting narrative journalism about biodiversity. Pls spread the word! 🐢🐛🌵

My latest labor of editing love is this stunner by @christianelliott.me about herbicide drift, a silent ecological crisis ravaging the remaining native hardwood trees of the U.S. Midwest. Sadly I did not get to use my preferred hed, The Fast and the Furious: Midwest Drift

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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

Absolutely wild story here, relevant to anyone working in journalism today. AI pitches with fabricated content have taken over editors' inboxes, including my own. This graf sums it up perfectly:

The Republic of the Marshall Islands is implementing Universal Basic Income 💪

The fascinating and touching story of how humanity saved the ginkgo (in case you need your faith in humanity restored) www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/23/g...

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

Love reading something personal from Jesmyn Ward, one of the absolute best fiction writers of all time

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I moved away from Durango, Colorado, 10 weeks ago. In that time, at least six people in the town of 20,000 have been killed by gun violence.

Sharing this feels very vulnerable -- I'm bracing for criticism -- but I'm doing it anyway, because if it felt important enough to write about, I might as well share it. www.hcn.org/articles/ice...

British Columbia things: my daughter had an actual dead salmon in her classroom that the students painted and then used like a stamp to create this awesome art work. And today they’ve having a school wide local salmon lunch 🤩

Today I learned that lemur vulvas are usually closed up so tight that the females couldn't have sex if they wanted to. But on auspicious years, in July, they open like a flower for 24-72 hours 🤯 #themoreyouknow

Bluesky, you deserve EVEN more joy tonight:

The real winners are all the women who will bring Rama Duwaji’s photo to their hair stylists this week

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.