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We’ve pulled together a Rewilding Booklist for adults and kids: 🌿Adults can explore the history, science, and big ideas behind ecological restoration. Feral, Reclaiming Nature, Wild by Design are just three of the reads to help inspire action. 👉 Read the list here: wildones.org/rewilding-bo...

More destruction of US Science: USDA plan to shutter Beltsville Agricultural Research Center marylandmatters.org/2025/08/29/m...

This headline needs correcting @nytimes.com: www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/n...

If you think A.I. will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems.

Emily Stevenson, lead author and PhD researcher with @exetermarine.bsky.social and PML, says: “Our reliance on fossil fuel-derived plastics may be inadvertently driving the evolution of AMR within environmental populations of bacteria.” www.packaginginsights.com/news/antimic...

One week left to apply for this tenured #envhist job!

Onset of extensive human fire use 50k years ago 🧎🔥🌏🌐 @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #Anthropocene #Pyrocene

My conversation with @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social and Joyce Hwang about animal architecture is now out in @placesjournal.bsky.social! Always a pleasure to chat with these two 🤩

"Martin examines how restoration efforts are often driven by human desires rather than ecological necessity." —Mairéad O’Donnell reviews Laura J. Martin’s Wild by Design, recently reissued in paperback by @harvard.edu @maireadod.bsky.social @nssrnews.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2025/05/wild...

Big news: After nearly a decade, DuPont has agreed to settle a class-action suit brought by the people of Hoosick Falls, NY, the community I spent years following for my book. All told, the village's roughly 3,000 residents will receive about $90 million in damages. #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Is Fake Grass Safe? A Manufacturer Sues to Stop a Discussion. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/c...

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

PhD course/retreat "What does it mean to be educated in the Anthropocene - how to make sense of teaching, learning and the role of knowledge?" Sigtuna (near Stockholm), Sweden, 4-7 Nov 2025. Organized by EBAN network. I'll be one of the instructors. Room & board included. Applications due 30 June.

During my time with @uslnyc.bsky.social, I had the opportunity to review @laurajmartin.bsky.social’s remarkable book Wild by Design for @publicseminar.bsky.social You can read the full review below 👇 publicseminar.org/2025/05/wild...

“This splendid account offers a rich new perspective on the origins of climate science”—wow, and thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the starred review of my new book on the FRANKLIN STOVE

Here's the letter Noem sent Harvard, as posted on X. Nothing alleges ANY specific violation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. Nothing. She cites no law violated, no regulation broken, no policy ignored. I don't care what you think of Harvard; this is clear weaponization of government.

And there it is… Our third and final release of fresh festival names. With 19 new additions we are excited to share: the festival lineup is complete! Let the wildness begin. 🌀 Get lost in the programme and visit our website to learn about the new names. 2025.fiberfestival.nl

From plant taxonomy to invasion ecology & finally, to bridging science and the humanities, her journey proves that conservation isn’t just about being in the field—it’s also about the power of storytelling Dive into her inspiring journey & discover how conservation takes many forms buff.ly/40VvhZl

"I'm still in shock. I know that there have been political issues around Harvard in recent weeks, but antibiotic resistance isn't one of them." My conversation with Harvard microbiologist @baym.lol, one of many researchers there who just lost millions in fed. grants. www.wbur.org/news/2025/05...

What an amazing event! Thank you, @laurajmartin.bsky.social, for organizing!

An incredible two days convening Beyond Biophilia -- advancing the intersection of #architecture and #ecology to design buildings for conservation

Hello, bluesky! I finally left the other place. Looking forward to connecting here on #biodiversity / #environmentaljustice / #nature / #history / #authors

Hey, I got to choose a book for this and write about it, and listen, you should all read Laura J Martin’s truly awesome Wild by Design! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

And if you're new to us, great! To get a better feel for our content, check out our favorite pieces from 2024. This list explores ideas from why we should rewild the internet to the many possibilities of lucid dreaming to why AI might help rebuild the middle class: www.noemamag.com/noemas-top-1...

Our latest on the Mongabay Newscast features @racheldonald.bsky.social speaking with Laura Martin from Williams College who argues that focusing on collaborate ecological restoration is key for saving biodiversity: news.mongabay.com/2023/12/wild...

I hadn't looked in Leopold's papers for his Opinions on the Vassar lab until reading @laurajmartin.bsky.social Leopold describes The First Prairie Restoration as "The idea which Dr. Roberts has already carried out at Vassar is the one we are hoping to apply to The University of Wisconsin Arboretum"

Next Friday at University of Virginia — biodiversity + design