Myself and a number of Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellows recently wrote about how massive cuts and lay-offs in federal science in Canada are super concerning due to their lack of clear strategy or transparency. Thinking of the govt scientists who have lost their jobs www.hilltimes.com/2026/05/28/c...

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grants www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit... How about no?

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

A majestic grove of 1,000-year-old redwoods in Northern California is facing an imminent threat — and it needs your help. Please take a moment to uge California Governor @governor.ca.gov to save Richardson Grove.⬇️

Recovery strategies are not just paperwork. They help turn concern for endangered species into action. Our work on Mottled Duskywing recovery in Ontario has relied on this kind of public guidance. Transparency matters for species-at-risk recovery. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

Getting understudied taxonomic groups the conservation attention they need can be difficult. Luckily, our new paper shows that community occupancy modelling can reconstruct distribution trends for these species, and help with species-at-risk listing decisions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"...part of the “reorganization” announced last week involved the ceasing of most of the experimental-forest research and closure of the research stations in the U.S.F.S. network. These are the sites of experiments that can reach back for decades" www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

BREAKING: Huge win for the Endangered Species Act! Today’s ruling restores the Endangered Species Act to the status it held for decades before the *first* Trump administration attacked the ESA.

This makes me so sad, how something as beneficial as a wildlife crossing becomes polarized in this day.