in sum: chinook salmon in California are showing a vitamin deficiency linked to their diet becoming overly reliant on anchovies (which is probably due to climate-driven shifts in fish populations as well as overfishing/habitat destruction of herring, crab etc) www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...

Emotional support bees? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mexico considers shrinking protected areas for endangered vaquita porpoise news.mongabay.com/2026/02/mexi...

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I'm excited to be included in @scibri.com's proposed pitch slam for the next Science Writers and Communicators of Canada @swc-can.bsky.social meeting They're still looking for session proposals here. Hopefully they take our panel and I get to see you all there :) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A Mysterious Salmon-Killing Affliction is a Mystery No More In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that’s killing endangered fish. www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...

Post a banger that's not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D1f...

The Tyee Is Recruiting Our Next Editor-in-Chief thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

This is a really interesting article that links vitamin deficiencies and food webs along with anthropogenic change. If you teach biology, which is a great starting point for understanding ecosystems at all scales.

"Across the planet, animals are suffering a surprising and severe lack of vitamin B1. For many populations, scientists are just beginning to understand what is at the root of the problem. Now, for some of California’s salmon, at least, we know what’s gone wrong."

A Mysterious Salmon-Killing Affliction is a Mystery No More In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that’s killing endangered fish. www.biographic.com/a-mysterious...

A lot of people seem to be realizing that some of their scientific heroes are, at best, creeps.

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

A lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.

turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan

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Ex-leader Harper says Canada should make ‘any sacrifice necessary’ to preserve independence from US apnews.com/article/step...

English is my wife's 4th language, so when we're both tired we tend to talk this way just to make things easier

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Just published: The new edition of my newsletter for journalists (and anyone else) interested in biodiversity, the ecological crisis and nature-based solutions to climate change. 🌏🧪 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/nature-bea...

The Behind the Bastards episodes on the court at Versailles will scratch that Epstein itch in a historical way. Powerful people have always been trash--fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdEI...

Launch delayed 'til March due to hydrogen leaks, a balky hatch, need to launch a crew to Space Station, & geometry with the Moon. Next opportunities: March 6, 7, 8, 9, 11. Sorry, families. Another month of training & preparation to get it all right. The Moon will patiently wait. (photo NASA KSC)

"As marine heat waves increase in number and intensity, coral reefs around the world bleach and decay. Kopecky’s findings hint at a potentially overlooked tactic to help these struggling reefs recover." www.biographic.com/the-curse-of...

"Several phytomining startups have already begun commercial operations." Like GenoMines, a French firm, that's using a genetically engineered plant in the daisy family to farm nickel in South Africa. www.biographic.com/critical-min...

These Hungry Starfish Are Spiraling Out of Control in Australia. Now Scientists Say They Have a New Plan to Fight Back www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

1. Philosophy of Science 2. Industrial Chemistry 3. Environmental Journalism 4. Meteorology 5. Toxicology

"In the longer term, the greatest danger posed by AI isn’t fake images themselves, it’s the collapse of trust in real evidence. Seeing is no longer believing — and our institutions are unprepared for it." www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

“Canadians need to understand that our neighbour has desires and ambitions and goals under the current administration that no other administration in American history has had,” says Bob Rae, Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations, calling the threats “existential” to Canada’s future"

"We’ve been critically dependent on the friendship and benignness of the United States, and all of a sudden, both those things have just disappeared. They’ve vanished and I worry that only now Canadians fully appreciate what this means.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"“We are seeing cracks in the resilience of the Earth’s systems,” concluded Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “Nature has so far balanced our abuse. This is coming to an end."" e360.yale.edu/features/1.5...

Evidence for early whaling in Brazil shows that Indigenous people hunted whales 5,000 years ago www.sciencenews.org/article/whal...

""AI swarms" will form part of a new frontier in information warfare, capable of mimicking human behavior to avoid detection while creating the illusion of an authentic online movement"" www.livescience.com/technology/a...

Engineers create laser-based wireless power system that charges drones from the ground www.livescience.com/technology/r...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly mulling a merger with xAI www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon...

"The US, previously a leader in growth rates for container shipping, is now lagging much of the world." gcaptain.com/us-container... "The downward turn in 2025 was due solely to tariffs,” McCown wrote. “Unfortunately there is nothing at present that suggests it will be short-lived.”

Oh sorry wrong dictator 🙃

This is your reminder to open your computer and blow all the dust out of it

"As marine heat waves increase in number and intensity, coral reefs around the world bleach and decay. Kopecky’s findings hint at a potentially overlooked tactic to help these struggling reefs recover." www.biographic.com/the-curse-of...

The Curse of Dead Corals When heat waves bleach reefs, do dead coral skeletons help or hinder recovery? The answer might surprise you. by @andrewchapman.bsky.social www.biographic.com/the-curse-of...

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested after protest inside Minneapolis church www.cbc.ca/news/world/m...

First, it was American Samoa; then my home, the Northern Mariana Islands; now the Trump administration is looking at Alaskan waters for deep sea mining. … another home to Indigenous peoples, fisheries and some of the world’s most fragile ecosystems. www.eenews.net/articles/fed...

“What I am seeing consistently,” he added, “is people who are historically not interested in guns — or even opposed to gun ownership — seeking that out now because they’re looking out the window and seeing what’s going on and they’re saying this is no longer theoretical.”

Minneapolis firearm instructors see surge in interest amid ongoing turmoil “Most are people afraid of ICE."

The Curse of Dead Corals When heat waves bleach reefs, do dead coral skeletons help or hinder recovery? The answer might surprise you. by @andrewchapman.bsky.social www.biographic.com/the-curse-of...

You guys know about this right? www.npr.org/sections/cod...

I have listened to this album in full pretty much every day for the past 6 months. Not sure what that means. But it helps with _waves at everything_ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK0m...

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Scientists have "a new way to help control crown-of-thorns starfish—one that co-opts the animals’ own communication systems to lure them to their deaths. " www.biographic.com/how-to-kill-... Australians “have been fighting against [COTS] for 50 years,” Cummins says. “It’s an exciting time.”

Environmentally, Offshore Wind Is … Fine How often can you say that about an energy generation system? hakaimagazine.com/news/offshor...

I love when people who are professionally wrong for a living describe it as being really into "nuance"