Answers to questions no one asked: What was the worst part, when do you forget her, does grief have a half-life. -- This week my #SundaySentence is by Aja Gabel @ajagabel.bsky.social in her novel Lightbreakers. #Booksky

+1 Jessica Grose: 'As a woman, I cannot imagine taking expert health advice from Attia seriously at this point, given the gross and dehumanizing way he talked about the female anatomy in his emails with Epstein,' + necessary broader skepticism. #PeterAttia #Epsteinfiles #longevity #health #sexism

#Siskins #fighting over their now clean #sunflower #heart feeder. #siskin #bird #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlife #flight #DartmoorNationalPark

Intriguing research about Kanzi Bonobo, regarding pretend play in a shared context. I don't understand why numerous other examples (wild and captive) are so readily dismissed. Aren't we yet able to recognize the value of qualitative-research cases? #apes #primates #animalcognition #anthropology

📢 ACTION NEEDED TODAY! Please submit comments to [email protected] with the subject line "For public comment." Ask OHSU’s Board to approve the resolution & permit negotiations with NIH for the proposed phase-out and sanctuary plan. #AnimalRights #AnimalWelfare

Good morning from the tuxedo. This is Marie, who is sweet and spicy. #cats

Layoffs happening to Wash. Post journalists who are let go--- hundreds of them--- are just terrible. As a book critic, my heart breaks for this news about the book coverage going away. I'm so sorry for everyone's pain through this. #Booksky #books #bookreview #WashingtonPost #journalism

Calling all penguin fans! I love the detail here. #penguins #birds #SciArt

"During and after these extreme rain events, white-backed swallows remained in their burrows even during the daytime. And they entered deep and long bouts of torpor – far exceeding what passerine birds were thought capable of." By Alice Barratt & Christopher Turbill. #birds #ornithology #climate 🧪

Very cool work that highlights individuals' lives and not just "mummies": Dr. Summer Decker's team "analyzed the various anatomical structures and used 3-D printers to create life-size reproductions of their spines, skulls and hips." #radiology #archaeology #anthropology #health 🏺

This field course is an amazing opportunity- Dr. Liv Baker is a colleague, a force for animals, and a wonderful educator and human. Please share! #elephants #Asianelephants #animalbehavior #conservation #fieldcourse

Finally a decent capture of the yellow-bellied sapsucker who comes to our oak tree. #birds #birding #nature #naturephotography

My #sundaysentence this week is a black basket-weaver, a sharecropper's daughter, observing Confederate reenactors in South Carolina in the late 1990s: "They can remember that war all they want," she said, "so long's they remember they lost."

Wake up, wake up, the world is hard and it rushes on regardless of your heart, and people never take the shape you want them to, people are stubborn about that, about being themselves, even when they're trying to be someone else. #SundaySentence, Donal Ryan, Strange Flowers. Gorgeous novel.

The arrival of a new catnip banana! It's the little things. Here are Caroline and Marie, both over age 12. #Caturday #cats

I love @levistahl.bsky.social's sensibility here about Chicago's great lake. My own neighbor (in southeastern Virginia) is a river, also a great presence, abundant with life. #nature #lakes #rivers #winter

Simon Van Booy's novel Sipsworth is a wonderful tale of a lonely older woman and a mouse who befriend each other- with some surprises along the way regarding how women in their 80s may be stereotyped--and of course, mice too. #books #Booksky #mouse #rodents #animalhuman #animalstudies #multispecies

Not a surprise, but, awareness is key: "Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis.... the technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested." #Minneapolis #facialrecognition #ICE

Excited to have my copy of The Big M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause. Thank you @lidiamiles.bsky.social for this beautiful vision of a book. #Booksky #books #nonfiction #menopause #writing #writingcommunity

Look, whether I find an agent or not, I have at least a dozen professional and friendly connections who know Bill Nye that I'm about to pester And I'm going to try like hell to make my dream of Dr. Jey the Science They a reality We need engaging, fun, education science media more than ever

Streets of Minneapolis- new song by Bruce Springsteen released today. Listen, share if you can, it's truth. He mentions not only Alex Pretti and Renee Good, but all the most vulnerable, those names we do not know. @brucespringsteen.net #Minneapolis #BruceSpringsteen #music #AlexPretti #ReneeGood

Good morning birders! How many of us have cold-puffed birds to observe today? Brown thrasher here. #birds #birding #nature #winter

Cats x Ursula K. LeGuin x book? Yes please. #UrsulaKLeGuin #cats #Booksky

Diving in to read! #paleoanthropology #anthropology #archaeology

What she said. I would add my thanks to all who feed the littles.

Just seeing this! "A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows .. a claw-like motif which indicates an early leap in symbolic imagination." #art #archaeology #anthropology #evolution

Starting the week with a big THANK YOU to people helping animals through the extreme cold, snow, and ice. Your kindness matters. Photos from our yard in Virginia with ice and snow. #birds #animals #animalrescue #winterstorm #icestorm #kindness

The sort of grief you could say something about because you instinctively understood that it could not continue, rigid inside your breathing apparatus like a metal stem.-- by Helen Oyeyemi in the spooky novel White is for Witching. #SundaySentence ##Booksky

A strong, brave statement from @nationalnurses.bsky.social about the murder of Alex Pretti, and also about the violent harms being done to many, many other people. #AlexPretti #nurses #nursing #justice

His name was Alex Pretti. He was an ICU nurse. "In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within 5 seconds, according to the video. Footage shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." #AlexPretti #Minneapolis

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Good morning from the tuxedo- everyone in the path of the winter storm here in the US, stay warm and safe! #cats #Caturday

If you're anywhere near Williamsburg, VA, check out Spineless Reads bookstore. Author and bookseller @lcmarino.bsky.social is the best! Great horror section, broad overall selection, warm and welcoming place. #books #Booksky #indiebookstore #horror #horrorwriters #WilliamsburgVA

Chimpanzees know. "Cooperation was strongest when the highest-ranking chimpanzee showed restraint, emphasising the importance of tolerant leadership." (Yes I'm here in the US implying what you think I'm implying geopolitically.) #chimpanzees #primates #animals #anthropology #leadership #cooperation

Big day for me- my manuscript on cats' lives and wellbeing is (after revising and revising to make it the best book I can make it) going out for peer review! Here's the dedication. I'll post more news of the book as it happens. #cats #Booksky #writing #freelance #writingcommunity

It took me less than ten minutes to call my senators and representative to let them know I expect them to uphold our NATO treaty obligations. If you haven’t let your elected representatives know your thoughts on topics in the news lately, here’s your reminder that calling them is quick and easy!

Filoplumes! #birds #birding #nature #biology #evolution

My weather app from earlier this morning. The storm may still shift. But...17 inches of snow for here in southeastern Virginia would shut us down for a while! #winter #winterstorm #snow #GloucesterVA

On a cold day with significant snow predicted on the horizon, I wish I were having a hot-spring primate spa day! Photo credit AP, location Hokkaido, northern Japan. #primates #monkeys #nature #snow #naturephotography

"We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.. a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force." by @mashagessen.bsky.social. #ICEout

Pelican! #bird #birds #nature

A good day here in Blue Virginia. Congratulations Governor @abigailspanberger.com! #Virginia #BlueWave

A beautiful pair of northern cardinals in my yard. #birds #birding #nature

Congratulations to @tobykiers.bsky.social: "The awards feel like an award for the invisible, the parts of the world that are challenging to understand, and a celebration of decentralized ways of thinking and operating that fungi have mastered.” #fungi #womeninscience #nature #climate

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

This biography of George Schaller by Miriam Horn- a doorstep of a book and so far in my reading, immersive- publishes in April. I'm learning a lot. #Booksky #primatology #anthropology #conservation #wildlife #nature

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Northern Cardinals in my backyard yesterday afternoon! #birds #birding #nature

"This is the first medical evacuation of the International Space Station in its 25-year history." Best wishes to the astronaut coping with something medical- and to the whole team putting this unexpected protocol into effect. #ISS #InternationalSpaceStation #space 🧪🪐

By Oliver Kruger et al., on sea lions who nurse well past sexual maturity. "'The fact that this is happening in a species producing such costly, lipid-rich milk as sea lions makes it all the more remarkable,' said Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, retired anthropologist." #pinnipeds #anthropology #nature