I ran into one of my first year students at the new books section of our college library. My favorite bookstore, I said, and it’s all free! She looked confused. “What do you mean?” she asked. She was stunned to learn you could check books out. Nobody had ever told her.

Thank you @nytimes.com Magazine for including bonobo Kanzi in your remembrance of artists and innovators who died in 2025. I expected Jane Goodall, of course, but delighted to see you embrace a #multispecies memorial. #primates #Kanzi #JaneGoodall #anthropology #death #deathstudies

Su Blackwell, UK artist who works with disgarded books to create paper sculptures often based on fairy tales and nature #WomensArt 🎄❄️

Emma Haworth, contemporary UK painter known for her observations of parks, with a hint of otherworldliness #womensart

'Stag in the birches' by printmaker Celia Lewis #WomensArt ❄️

"The light was no more than a mean and taunting reminder of what light could be, a rumor of what light there once was." – a #SundaySentence from Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter, once again, because the book could supply Sunday Sentences to last several glorious years.

It's an unpleasant feeling, having this anger at someone who is dying. -- This week's #SundaySentence is from Lily King's gorgeous Heart the Lover. #Booksky

Always my sweetheart. Tuxedo cat Marie. #Caturday

Have you heard of #SmallBirdSaturday ?? Join in and have fun! The little ones are worth it 🥰 #BirdOfTheDay #Quietmoments #colourfulcaptures #birds #birding #wildlife #SensoryArt #moments #photography #nature #thelittlethings #EastCoastKin

The US East Coast - one of the places that ice lost from Greenland ends up. Counterintuitively, places far from where land ice is lost are most impacted by the resulting sea level rise. The drumbeat remains - mitigation + adaptation.

Visit of a red-bellied woodpecker to our front oak tree is a great way to start a morning. #birds #woodpeckers #birding #nature

Beautiful state park walk this morning followed by birding. Always restorative, this connection with nature. Even a half hour or hour, it makes a positive difference! #nature #naturewalk #birds #birding #today #walking

My beautiful Finnegan (brother of Phoebe), for Day 17 of #ArtAdventCalendar 🐈‍⬛❤️ #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #Photography #CatsOfBluesky #Cats #DailyArt #ArtYear #SmArtist #OnlyBeautifulThings #SensoryArt #Moments #AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYearPast

Excited in the new year to read (and am assigned to review!) this biography of the pioneering wildlife biologist and conservationist George Schaller, by Miriam Horn. Coming in April. #Booksky #wildlife #wildlifebiology #conservation #gorillas #bookreview

Remarkable bird science! Urban juncos developed shorter beaks over time, but "when UCLA.’s campus shut down during the pandemic, something remarkable happened: The beaks of juncos born on campus reverted to their wildland shape." #birds #birding #multispecies #pandemic #evolutionarybiology 🧪

Yannis Baladi on how working for chimpanzees and monkeys a an African primate sanctuary changed his life. (The headline @theguardian.com SHOULD clarify: NOT living with a baby monkey as a pet.) #primates #anthropology #animalrescue #animalsanctuary #primatesarenotpets

This is terrible news. I can't vouch for accuracy of the homicide details, but multiple sources at this point do confirm Rob Reiner and wife Michele Reiner have been murdered. #RobReiner

Arkady Renko ranks among my favorite characters in fiction, and i was so sad with Cruz’s passing this year. Just now read his last one. My #sundaysentence: “Regardless of denomination, a church always felt as though it needed its windows opened”

How my colleagues bicker like they're never going to die, but they will, and their nemesis from another department will dance on their grave.---from How to Grieve Like A Victorian, an academic novel wrapped up in a grief novel by @amycarolreeves.bsky.social. #SundaySentence #Booksky

In the midst of the darkest of times, a hero stands up for what is right. The brutal, deliberate attack against Jewish Australians celebrating Hanukkah at #Bondi Beach today is an abomination. For those murdered while celebrating the 1st day of the Festival of Lights, may their memory be a blessing.

Hey maybe you would like a safe place to just read and talk about books and be weird? Here you go: peculiarbookclub.com

10 seconds of a happy robust calico cat collecting the wintery sun as she self-bathes. #Caturday

Macaques "appeared to be treasured companions, according to items placed in their graves including collars, shiny shells, food, small pets of their own..detailed in Journal of Roman Archaeology." Fascinating- we know today, primate pet-keeping is unethical! #primates #anthropology #archaeology 🧪🏺

Ha, that was supposed to be 'thanks' - not a command of 'thank'!

Thank @humaneworldorg.bsky.social for including my thoughts on the expressions of grief by our pets! It's great to read other experts' comments in this article, as we discuss how to recognize and help our animal companions who mourn. #animals #grief #animalcognition #animalemotion #cats #dogs

"Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered a 1,400-year-old skull shaped like a cube. The find came from Balcón de Montezuma in Tamaulipas, and it immediately stood out because the usual cranial modification styles there don’t come anywhere close to this." #archaeology #anthropology 🧪🏺

Cardinals in snow always delight, and I like the postural orientation of the male and female to each other here. A significant snow for southern Virginia. #birds #birding #nature #snow

What the current US regime has done here-- replacing transgender Admiral Rachel Levine's name with her dead name--- encapsulates their cruelty and their attempt to erase transgender individuals and communities. They will not, of course, succeed. #transgenderrightsarehumanrights #gender #transgender

Deep in the depths of the Shakem wreck, an octopus rests in the coral that's arisen all around on the ship's structures. #MarineLife #Grenada #photography

A shy spotted trunkfish hiding in the reef in Grenada. #MarineLife #scuba #photography

I maintained my focus, which had ascended into determination. -- my #SundaySentence this week comes @drkendracoulter.bsky.social 's novel The Tortoise's Tale. The book's tortoise narrator and storyline are both wonderful. #Booksky #animals

Bird people do not miss this! #birds #birding #nature

"A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery. [The bird died] with more than 800 tiny pebbles in its throat." Interesting discussion in this piece. #birds #ornithology #paleontology #nature 🧪

Snow hush- the quiet that accompanies snowfall- is a rare and beautiful thing where I live! #Snow #snowday #nature

Star Trek does a normal Star Trek show - "Ugh it's just Star Trek, no one wants that anymore but existing fans" Star Trek does literally anything else to engage with new viewers "Ugh can't they just make a normal Trek show?" Welcome back to the Nothing Is Actually Good Enough pipeline.

A red-shouldered hawk is a fine sighting! #birds #birding #nature

Photo contest finalists from @royalsociety.org in areas of Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science and Climatology, Ecology and Environmental Science, are just stunning! Wonderful images and detailed descriptions including of #animals. #naturephotography #environment #astronomy #climate 🧪

Hi @ou.edu, proud PhD alumna here (Anthropology '89), but not proud at all of your decision to put this graduate-student instructor on leave for upholding standards of scholarship. Please reconsider. #highered #UniversityofOklahoma #gender #anthropology 🧪

Making this painting of the tuxedo cat, done by a friend, the center of this Christmas display. As it should be! #cats #tuxedocat #Christmas #holiday

Immersed in The Tortoise's Tale, a novel by animal ethics scholar @drkendracoulter.bsky.social - the tortoise narrator is wonderful. She delights in being seen as someone, not something. #tortoise #turtle #animals #Booksky

(3,3) My question for everyone who is looking into the National Guard shooting is simple. How did the killer get his guns and what is your plan to stop future killers (American citizens or not) from acquiring weapons in a country that currently makes that easy?

Thanks to @sabs.bsky.social for inviting my thoughts on leopard-seal moms' behaviors at pup death, reported by Sperou et al.; I ask, shouldn't maternal grief (not only post-mortem attention) be considered in peer-reviewed science? #animalemotion #pinnipeds #wildlife #polarbiology #multispecies 🧪

"Suddenly suffused with this love, Krysia felt like a brand-new kettle, filled for the very first time with crystal clear water." -- HOUSE OF DAY, HOUSE OF NIGHT By Olga Tokarczuk (publishes Tuesday) #SundaySentence

In America, where the populace had proven time and again to be particularly susceptible to paranoia, suspicions took root deeply and quickly. -- Nikki Erlick, The Measure. A quick, enjoyable, thoughtful novel. #SundaySentence #Booksky

Major relief this #Caturday morning. Just back from vet and our tuxedo Marie does not have pneumonia. Xray shows clear lungs! But Convenia antibiotic on board via injection plus subQ fluids for this wheezing. This progressed rapidly from a typical cold. #veterinary

You may be shopping today or avoiding shopping today- whatever you're doing may I recommend looking and listening for the birds all around you? A never-fails joy in any season. #BlackFriday #birds #birding #nature

Wouldn't it be awesome if International Space Station astronauts ate plant foods from NASA for Thanksgiving instead of turkey and lobster and salmon, in aid of our Earth, and the lives of animals? What do you think, @roguenasa.altgov.info? #Thanksgiving #NASA #ISS #space #plantbased #vegan

Diving into this Penguin @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social book on penguins! All 18 species fascinate me for their adaptations to cold and ice, and sometimes, heat. #Booksky #penguin #birds #birding

I like this post. #writing #freelance

Paleogenomics: "Nearly two-thirds of modern dog breeds, including even Chihuahuas, contain traces of recent wolf DNA." #dogs #wolves #paleogenomics #evolution