Also reminds me an all-time favorite grassland / rangeland photography book www.amazon.com/Cowboys-Amer...

Very cool paper. A journey through the rangelands of Latin America w those who live and make their livelihoods there.

🏺 Fascinating site, part of my #Matriarcha research... did you know that Neolithic people in this region had colourful burnished terrazzo floors over 9000 years ago? Pic here from another site, Boncuklu Tarla (Kodaş et al 2025) hal.science/hal-05463659...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

As someone who saw this unfold firsthand in the Bay Area, this is right and unfortunately very predictable. Would that we had not gone from prohibition straight to ever present corporate super weed www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

You know, kids only get to be kids once

Burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia) are found throughout the Americas wherever vegetation is low, and soil permits burrows. They're prevalent in the mountain states of Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, especially in area where prairie dogs create convenient burrows. (pic: Wendy Miller)

Just discovered a fun Central Asia/Appalachia overlap: www.instagram.com/reel/DQxGhBi...

This chart. Wow. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin... via @chriscmooney.bsky.social

They're removing any informational signs from Big Bend National Park that are in Spanish & English or talk about cooperation with Mexico. They want to ensure Spanish-speakers can't learn about nature at a national park on the US/Mexico border. One originally conceived as a Peace Park with Mexico.

We’ve crossed the halfway mark of our #EasternIndigoSnake survey season and have already captured and collected data on several snakes, helping us monitor population health. This individual was showing off some incredible iridescence!

Excited to have this one out after over a decade of work. Strong evidence for why migration matters for ungulates.

New study on mule deer in Wyoming reveals that migration is critical to maintain a robust population. I got the chance to chat with lead author Anna Ortega and @wyokauffman.bsky.social about their recent @currentbiology.bsky.social research: www.uwyo.edu/news/2026/02...

how often do you think about the not-that-long-lost Dog 2? At least once a month for me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuegian...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

It's that time of year again...the Snow Goose Festival! For all the Southeastern Colorado bird lovers and nature enthusiasts! Don't miss Colorado's famous and magnificent snow goose migration 🦆 Come find us at the Lamar High School on Saturday! https://highplainssnowgoose.com/ 📸 by K. Voepel

Oh no

This is quite a good and well-informed read

What is nature? Some see nature as a set of 'stocks of resources' to be exchanged and traded. But there are many more complex ways of valuing nature. Frank Matose spoke at our online event on rangelands & the myth of 'Tragedy of the Commons'. #rangelandmyths #IYRP2026 @iyrp2026.bsky.social

The western U.S. faces its lowest snowpack on record despite average or above-average rainfall. Warmer temperatures mean more precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, and will worsen droughts in areas like the Pacific Northwest and the Colorado River Basin. science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Don’t hear enough about postural attitudes of writers. Lots of articles like this about standing writers thanks to our grindset culture, but then you’ve also got Twain, Proust, Wharton all did it laying down. www.writingroutines.com/famous-write...

One of the most surprising things I've learned from my research is that "how hot it's gotten so far" doesn't tell us much about "how hot it's going to get eventually". Long-ago, really weird climates can tell us a lot more about where we're headed.

Or make a video www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_R...

Very cool grassland research using old poems and songs to show that western Indian savannas are ancient. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Just returned home from the anti-ICE protest in Portland today. A 100% peaceful crowd that the Portland Police Department (PPD) estimated to be "in the thousands" marched past ICE's Portland HQ. ICE, of course, responded with a barrage of tear gas and chemical rounds to suppress free speech.

Paul Salopek (walking around the world) is in North America

One of my "If I had Mackenzie Scott Money" fantasies is "How much of the coal industry could I dismantle for $10B?" You can, after all, buy Peabody Energy, about 20-25% of the market, for $4.4B. Perhaps things would cascade from there...

Somehow I never knew that people actually need CO2 and that plants need oxygen Scientists on here shaking their heads probly

The optimist vs pessimist divide in #climate debates isn’t usually about the data. It’s about how the same graphs are read, what people emphasise, what they discount, and how they interpret pace and stakes. Here’s what I mean 🧵👇

I used to walk into libraries with a sense of reverence. These days, I'm like: wow, a monument to so many poor life decisions

A. This guy ran on immigrants eating pets. B. This effort is still ramping up. We should see pivoting as a way to buy time to build more force.

If you need good news: highly endangered North Atlantic Right Whales are having lots of babies suddenly. 21 mother-calf pairs have been recorded so far, double last season! Endangered by fishing lines and ship strikes, less than 400 remain. But this is hopeful news www.wired.com/story/a-nort...

Anyone able to provide a pdf of this? #icanhazpdf (am i doing this right?) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If anyone else is obsessed with river cane stories, this looks cool! (tomorrow) moprairie.org/event/mpf-we...

professor and writer Anton Treuer gave us an Ojibwe version of “ICE OUT” ikogaan mikwam=ice, go away!

Feel like this list is missing someone

catherine are sharks soft?

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Bravery may be the most important virtue in the present moment

Sometimes I think about how Donald Trump is officially 6 foot 3, 224 lbs

Don’t watch the video. It was a murder, an execution. You do not need to watch it, it won’t help anyone. Warrants should be issued today if the government up there is anything other than a dead letter.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

definitely not sobbing as i sit here and watch this

Sucks. Bolts are great.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

This is your regularly scheduled reminder that I am sharing 5-10 job ads a day on my LinkedIn, broadly across marine biology, conservation policy, and science communication. Want to see them? Connect with me over there. 🧪🦑🌍 #SciComm www.linkedin.com/in/david-shi...