New research by Chico-Ortiz et al.: "Predator response diversity to warming enables ecosystem resilience in the Galápagos" journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Number Of Fish Species In The United States 17 more maps in the series: brilliantmaps.com/biodivers...

Indigenous communities in the Philippines and Morocco built terraced mountain farms centuries ago to manage rainfall and drought. Those systems offer lessons for living with climate uncertainty today. buff.ly/LgevSCN #climatesky

This piece on @nichecanada.bsky.social reflects on some of the “killed darlings” from my dissertation that will hopefully give you new ways to think of fire during the climate crisis! niche-canada.org/2026/01/14/c...

Global subsidence of river deltas

I know this is a lot to ask for given *everything* but I really wish these commented would extend past the boundary of "US citizen." If we didn't tolerate this for ANYONE, then we wouldn't have to hope a fascist police force respects that one specific distinction (that they already don't respect)

The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

US hiring is crawling now, and the slowdown is spreading fast ->MSN News | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

This thread is kinda cool!

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

More songs: youtu.be/Cg-NuVg-Fp0?...

be the tiny but unflappable roe deer you wish to see in this world

Any free trade agreement always faces opposition (many times justified) as local workers and farmers fear being out-competed by cheap imports. The question is how to provide alternatives without risking protectionist backlash a few decades down the line. This has already taken decades to arrive at.

A Mercosur-EU shared market is post-American Transatlanticism

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Interesting channel exploring Asian business, social and political affairs.

2026 off to a great start

The post that has the unique distinction of raising my blood pressure today....

The Tufted Flycatcher is a fantastic little bird found in above 700m in Costa Rica. These little birds will return to one perch repeatedly, hunting for insects. This one was tracking lunch from below. Santa Elena Reserve #CostaRica #birds #nature

Point of no return: academic #funding is at a tipping point. When the effort and money spent applying for grants equals or exceeds the funding awarded, the system stops serving science and starts draining it. Time to rethink how we fund #research. 🧪🌐🌍 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I get asked all the time about data needed to make better climate risk decisions Usually not another gridded temp map (sorry) But better adaptation data would help! - Households behind non-accredited levees paid 2x for flood insurance vs accredited levee iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

"Looking at the share of a justice's decisions that favor the wealthy over the course of our analysis period, we see that the court becomes more and more polarized along partisan lines." www.nber.org/papers/w34643 American democracy is truly in dire straits...

Fascinating and insightful podcast video!

When you're spoonbill and you know it. 🪶

Sea cow, mouse opossum, spider, snailfish, live-birthing toad: In 2026 let's keep science discovery alive, work towards multispecies protection, and carry out good trouble always! #biology #wildlife #animals #conservation #multispecies #humananimal #HappyNewYear

Democracies cannot function like this. The President is a public servant of the people, not a diety who doles out government services based on perceived personal slights.

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Archaeologists use Munsell books to describe soil colour all the time. I never thought to dig deeper into this colour system! 🧪 🏺

Opponents of a plan to remove two Pacific Gas & Electric Co. dams from the Eel River in Lake and Mendocino counties have gained a powerful ally: the Trump administration. #cawater www.marinij.com/2025/12/22/t...

New Harvard/MIT study tested whether AI chatbots can actually do science (form hypotheses, run experiments, revise theories, etc.)...and found they can't. While AI can talk like scientists, they struggle with the thinking real discovery requires and often fail at key parts of the research process.

This was an amazing video!!

ICYMI: "The pages had been foxed, a process resulting in discoloration and forming of the irregular spots on the page ... What environmental factors may have contributed to the foxing of the pages in just twenty years?" - @sritamabarna.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/17/p... #envhist #envhum

These are some amazing drawings! I'm old enough to remember how in school science labs and classes we would draw diagrams and pictures along with lab notes. Was a lot of fun!

Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."