Dangerous, disappointing, wrong, any policy that would disallow self identifying one's gender on passports. #gender #transgenderrightsarehumanrights #passport www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Exemplar for why rush to lethal management of "invasive" animals requires enormous caution: "Reptiles on a Mexican island were considered an invasive species, but DNA evidence proves they beat humans to the island by hundreds of thousands of years." #conservation #reptile #invasivespecies #maybenot

The tuxedo sneer. Good morning to you, too, Marie! #cats

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

An energy rebound from silence, explained in research on zebra finches' dawn singing: "When light returned, everything released at once. That release – the shift from stillness to song – is what people hear as the dawn chorus." #birds #birding #nature #animalcommunication 🧪

Look what we did, Virginia! "Ghazala Hashmi, a Democrat who was elected as lieutenant governor, became the first Muslim woman elected to statewide office in any state." #Virginia #VoteBlue #BlueWave #Hashmi

《EXHALE》 #Virginia #Spanberger

Here in Virginia, a critical race for governor. Like many thousands of others, I voted early. The polls show Abigail Spanberger securely ahead, but please please please Virginians, do not rest on that prediction--as is true also in NJ, in NYC, today is so crucial. #VoteBlue #Election2025 #Spanberger

Well, this counts as an intriguing foraging technique: When the orcas have paralyzed a juvenile great white shark, "they rip out and feast on its energy-rich liver, which is full of nutrients." #orcas #killerwhales #cetaceans #sharks #ocean #animalculture #animalcognition

Hard no. We can do better than this for the cats and dogs who share our lives. "Competitive speed eating is an increasingly popular sport for pets in Thailand." #cats #dogs #pets #animals #veterinary

My #SundaySentence this week comes from Wreck, Catherine Newman's sequel novel to Sandwich. It's a thought expressed by Rocky, a middle-aged mother, about her early-adult daughter living temporarily again at home: "My besottedness with her feels like a gift or an affliction or both." #Booksky

Sarah Bays,contemporary artist, printmaker, living in Norfolk, UK producing prints from a small etching press on a tea trolley her dining room and is inspired by local nature.... #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Three Suns - from my Cosmic collection. A bright abstract painting for a gray cold day here in ATL. #art #artist #painting #sun #abstract

An unexpected but welcome face at our kitchen window today! Large eastern rat snake. #snake #snakes #nature #wildlife

"The project that was terminated was on this hummingbird, the white-necked jacobin....I suspect that it has something to do with studying a species that doesn’t fit the binary." Researcher @jjinsing.bsky.social interviewed by @carlzimmer.com #birds #nature #science #fundscience #nonbinary 🧪

Intrigued to read these authors on non-biological kinship in prehistoric times--- beyond genetic reductionism! See link to paper, below. #anthropology #archaeology #genetics

@catsofyore.bsky.social I'm writing a book, combination science + personal narrative about cats, and frequently post about my cats. Could I please be added to the starter pack?

Great news for all of us who adore, appreciate, and always try to help spiders: "A critically endangered spider, not seen in the UK for 40 years, has been rediscovered in a remote nature reserve accessible only by boat." #spider #spiders #arachnology #nature #UK

Ten years ago, this blog post by @bjking.bsky.social put Grandmother Fish on the map. It went viral, and my small run of self-published books sold out. Wish I'd printed a lot more copies! This question is just as timely today as it was 10 years ago. #evolution www.npr.org/sections/13....

On mountain gorillas: A biodiversity reporter "heads up into the Virunga mountains, guided by wildlife vets, to find out how they achieved this rare and extraordinary conservation success." A podcast with @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social from @theguardian.com #gorillas #conservation #anthropology 🧪

Join Profs. @traciecanada.bsky.social @anandian.bsky.social and me Wed. 10/29 at 3:30 Eastern, for a webinar on promoting our scholarship for a wider impact. Free for @americananthro.bsky.social members, small fee for non-members. Click link to register. #anthropology #publicanthropology #writing

Genuinely alarming- "Clients accused [the veterinarian] of pushing the vaccines to line her own pockets...increasingly, pet owners insisted on spacing out shots or refused vaccines altogether, including for deadly and incurable viruses like rabies." #pets #cats #dogs #vaccine #veterinary

Another in the great blue heron series. This bird was directly alongside the water on a road I drove down- big thrill for me. #birds #birding #nature

I might as well have written it with a twig on the surface of a puddle. - Ed Park, in Same Bed Different Dreams. (Halfway through and mesmerized if occasionally totally unsure of what I'm reading!) #SundaySentence #Korea #Booksky

Always a pleasure to sight a great blue heron. #birds #birding #nature

Mushrooms are quietly fighting climate change 🍄🫶🌍 Fungi help forests store carbon by breaking down organic matter and linking with trees underground. These networks also boost plant health. See a mushroom on a fall hike? It’s part of nature’s climate toolkit. 🌱

A calm #Caturday.

"Where the hell have you been?! Apparently we missed the memo about sleeping in on the weekend..." -- Dexter / Oliver / Rico 😼 #Caturday #CatsLover #CatsOfBluesky

1st showing of Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere. Brave, beautiful, showcasing not only Bruce's artistry but also his openness and strength in dealing with tough family and individual mental illness. Jeremy Allen White and Stephen Graham are outstanding. #DeliverMeFromNowhere #Springsteen

From the fabulous @ourhenhouse.org, an interview with Drs. Kris Stewart and Liv Baker from @panworks.bsky.social on how animal trusteeship can vitalize advocacy for wild animals. Becoming a wolf trustee, a bear trustee-- exciting ideas here! www.ourhenhouse.org/ep861/ #wildlife #animals #ethics

My morning starts with watching the movements of a deep-sea octopus courtesy of @nautiluslive.org. Totally captivating: click through for video. #octopus #cephalopod #nature #deepsea #ocean 🧪

Listen to @anthrofuentes.bsky.social at the link below: The Biological Inadequacy of the Sex Binary. More important now than ever. #Anthropology #sex #gender

Contemplation, in box. #cats

Idaho activists succeed in passing law that makes it illegal for schools, daycares, etc. to require any vaccines at all. Now they want to push their initiative nationwide. I'd like to say "I can't imagine where this is headed" but of course I can, with great risks for us all. #vaccine #publichealth

If you want to pursue something, don't be discouraged by how long it may take. The time is going to go by anyway. You can either be moving toward something you want to see happen, or not.

I don’t understand (I mean, I do) why book coverage keeps shrinking while a huge number of books are still published every week.

Ha, even female otters' behavior gets reduced to pregnancy hormones/ biological determinism! "After she gave birth, she stopped trying to steal surfboards, leading many to believe her behavior was the result of pregnancy-related hormones." #otters #wildlife #surfing #biology #pregnancy

This:

Hello birders, an exciting week here in southeastern Virginia as the first white-throated sparrows have made their way back to our yard. My traditional first-sighting-of-autumn photos are not always my best but they are special to me. #birds #birding #nature #autumn

I am accomplishing quite a lot in my own nice quiet noisy way. ~May Sarton, "As We Are Now" #SundaySentence (I don't say this frequently or lightly, but THIS IS A PERFECT BOOK. It can be read in one sitting but I stretched my time with it over a week, savoring it like a piece of candy in my mouth.)

Karen sees her mother's eye become so strangely orange from within. - from The Wax Child by the wonderful @olgaravn.bsky.social, a story of the women accused as witches and sometimes burned as witches in 17th-century Denmark. #SundaySentence #Booksky #witchcraft

1. Washington DC #NoKings 👑

Yesterday we celebrated the 1-year anniversary of Caroline joining our family. I know I've said it before, but, adopting her age 11 after 17 months in the shelter brought both joys + challenges. At the year mark she lets us pet her on the back almost every day! She is brave and perfect! #Caturday

don't follow them don't reply to them don't repost them don't dunk on them don't talk about them especially do not make threats about them or at them and their soft power vanishes

god damn lmao

"What NPS anthropologists provide...is the ability to recognize the crossroads and overlaps between what the Park Service hopes to accomplish and the traditions and lifeways of communities who will be affected by their actions." Good piece @sapiens.org by Ellyn Demuynck #anthropology #nationalpark

Hellooo new Bluesky users! If you like science, science stories, context, and journalism with accountability, you may want to follow the people in this starter pack. Enjoy! go.bsky.app/2gr4VJ5

"Our" yard rabbits fueling for the coming colder weather. #rabbits #wildlife #nature

The judge's comments quoted here re a slippery slope for animal protection-- bacteria? he hates snakes?--- are disappointing. Chimpanzees, other animals should not endure captivity esp. at "family" zoos like this one. Thank you @nonhumanrights.bsky.social. #chimpanzees #animalrights #anthropology

My copy of @melaniedgkaplan.bsky.social 's LAB DOG is here! Beautiful non-fiction about her adopted former laboratory beagle Hammy. She writes her way through an exploration of dogs in biomedical science to visions of a better kinder future. #dogs #science #animalfreescience #Booksky #animalrights