I feel so lucky to have spent a bunch of time at Teton Raptor Center lately, including speaking about my book, Entwined, there on Monday night. If you're not familiar with their work—which includes raptor rehab, education, and research, do check them out at tetonraptorcenter.org

Small victory... earthjustice.org/feature/paci...

So excited to read this article explaining the discovery of the sea star wasting disease pathogen. There are still so many steps to be taken to restore the Pycnopodia population and the ecological balance it helps create, but this knowledge sure is a good start.

Ludicrous though it is, we need to tell the EPA that carbon dioxide is in fact dangerous. Please join @thirdactorg.bsky.social in filing public comments--for the historic record if nothing else thirdact.org/act/urgent-t...

I love love love this story! It's so in line with what I am trying to do through my book, Entwined - foster amazement at the natural world - and it is clearly working well enough in Argentina that people are taking a stand for science. Go Argentina! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w...

Great to see that a mainstream magazine is open to discussions about how connecting to nonhuman creatures is good for our health. Thanks to soon-to-be published "Raising Anti-Doomers" author Ariella Cook-Shonkoff for letting me guest write for her column... www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Super encouraging story about the possibility of the Canadian government co-managing MPA's with first nations communities. It's quite hard to imagine the US even contemplating such structures right now, but maybe our more progressive neighbors can light the way... www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...

Excited to be on this great book-focused show TONIGHT at 5pm to talk about my book, Entwined; the essay tradition in literature; the importance of stepping away from our rigid classification system of living things; the wonder of complexity; and other fun topics! ksqd.org/narrative-sp...

Yes, yes, yes. Our (admittedly limited) efforts to see the world through other creatures' eyes/get into their "Umwelt" are so important! I have never seen a hedgehog, and that's okay; I'm happy to try to imagine their world anyway.

The box is open! Must be go time... www.entwinedbook.com

I loved this essay. So many of our current environmental dilemmas are so complex; I think writing that embraces this complexity and investigates it from a variety of angles is powerful and necessary right now.

This is a loss in a number of ways, but I'm encouraged to see more climate justice cases being filed—especially by indigenous folks who stand to lose so much and have contributed so little to the problem—and getting media attention. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So helpful, thank you. I had been using DuckDuckGo already thinking that I'd avoided the AI demon; I appreciate the clarification/research. I think raising awareness about the impact of these searches is critical right now!

Not only was a river liberated, the free-flowing Klamath was paddled by the descendants of the people the river was taken from. Now we're getting somewhere.... www.cnn.com/travel/klama...

I wasn't at all aware of this particular version of human exploitation of our nonhuman companions for the fabrication of luxury goods. Sigh. Thanks for bringing this to our attention; hopefully exposing the process and its harms helps deter folks from supporting this and other similar industries...

Wow! This is fascinating... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/06/s...

I love this: "As we humans find inane reasons to divide ourselves again and again, fungi stay connected, to one another and the world they inhabit, sending out threads to stitch a living seam that holds everything together. They find strength in their diversity." orionmagazine.org/article/out-...

I'm a little slow to catch wind of this news but still thrilled about it. I am a huge proponent of MPAs (Marine Protected Areas) and am really pleased to see that other countries are stepping up where our is failing www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/research-...

I'm thrilled to be launching my book, "Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species," at Bookshop Santa Cruz on July 22! Josie and I will be exploring how writing, art, and science can be braided to inspire human connection with our nonhuman neighbors and advocacy on their behalf.

I really appreciate this editorial that concisely expresses the toll AI is taking on the two things I care most about: the natural environment and writing. Please consider turning off Google's AI search or (better yet) switching to a different engine to not tax the grid with your searches as well...

If there's no market for the product, they won't kill the animal. While this good news is about whales, the principle applies to most other animals our species chooses to exploit. On this Earth Day, remember: Our consumer decisions matter!! www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Another great example of the kind of "animal culture" Carl Safina really dives into in his book "Becoming Wild." We're not the only species making experience-driven decisions! Thanks for this story.

Encouraging news that highlights what we can do with some commitment to long-term restoration initiatives... www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

I'm not always proud of my alma mater, but today I am! It just takes a few strong institutions, organizations and citizens to turn the tide...

Yes, I, too, am susceptible to adorable animal photos. This one led to my learning about an important Australian species I hadn't previously been familiar with.

I appreciate this article's statement: "Current political challenges shouldn’t let us lose sight of every other issue, including the systematic brutality that we tolerate in our food industry." I'd argue that, in fact, these issues are related. Empathy for all living things can help resolve them...

Yeah Santa Cruz #handsoff

It's World Aquatic Animal Day! Here's one of my favorites, one who lives just down the street from me. Anthopleura elegantissima, the aggregating anemone. Remember: invertebrates are animals too!

I really loved this podcast. The song that emerged from it is beautiful and haunting. And, I have been left with a lot of questions about how I co-create with nonhumans in my work and how I can grant them the moral authorship they deserve...

My recent experiences at the Sandy Point NWR, where the St. Croix Turtle Project is doing terrific work, corroborate this. SO great to see a positive worldwide trend! "Humankind can reverse declines in biodiversity," NOAA says here. There's a way. We need to keep nurturing the will...

A great reminder of how little we can predict where new knowledge might take us—and thus why seeking it is so important. In my opinion, simply adding to our storehouse of wonder is reason enough to keep investigating our world! But we're going to have to do that without much federal support now...

I love this story—both because it involves sedum, one of my favorite succulents, and because it shows how we can create islands of biodiversity in all sorts of unexpected places if we're trying...

In case anyone wonders whether or not dolphins are a "who" (as Carl Safina likes to say). Of course they are aware of this happening in their home, and of course they would be curious.... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/s...

And one more on the monarchs and pollinators theme. This seems really encouraging—that huge improvements in diversity and land health could be made by farmers "sacrificing" only small parcels of land. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Keeping on the monarch theme, here's Xerces' news about the eastern population. I visited their overwintering grounds in Angangueo about five years ago and was blown away...

Hey, I've got a book cover! And a website: www.entwinedbook.com. It's not out until July, but I turned the page proofs in yesterday, so we're getting somewhere...

After doing a lot of reading about octopus intelligence recently (not to mention all the plant intelligence books cited in this article!), I'm working hard to imagine what "other minds" (to use Peter Godfrey-Smith's term) are really like. This article has some interesting food for thought.

The comment period for the federal proposal to list monarchs as "threatened" ends March 12. Please consider reading the background on their plummeting numbers and contributing your opinion. www.fws.gov/press-releas...

Meet the Passionate Advocates Trying to Save Western Monarch Butterflies @julietgrable.bsky.social @the-revelator.bsky.social therevelator.org/save-monarch...

From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide. Check out the latest from @the-revelator.bsky.social ⬇️

These deeply beautiful maps show the migration patterns of––respectively––Curlew, Kittiwake & Blackcap. From this interactive migration atlas recording migrations of 300 bird species: migrationatlas.org Birds both tether us to places & stitch the world together.

The anchovies were in at the Santa Cruz Wharf again the other day...so fun to watch CA sea lions feeding, rafting, playing, and generally doing their thing with full bellies!

The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish*: The Extinct Species of 2024 therevelator.org/extinct-2024/ *(a name that just kills me)

"Coming face to face with the lionfish in the warming waters of the central Aegean is a reminder that the present ecological catastrophe is also a catastrophe of colonialism, one ... unfolding for centuries." @jamesbridle.bsky.social‬ @emergencemagazine.bsky.social

Science may be under attack, but it's still happening. I got to go out with researchers from UCSC's MARINe (Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network) yesterday to count and measure a lot of healthy Pisasters (sea stars) and help with biodiversity surveys. Go #citizenscience! #rockyintertidal #seastar

Hilltromper is still letting me write about my escapes to pockets of the Bay Area where humans are not the predominant species. I think these little urban escapes are more important then ever right now...https://siliconvalley.hilltromper.com/article/boccardo-peak-trail-run

In our podcast, “Finding the Mother Tree,” forest ecologist Suzanne Simard steps outside of scientific precepts towards a vernacular that acknowledges connection and delves further into the web of relationships that Western systems of knowledge are only beginning to understand. buff.ly/2Ur2kGq

oceanographicmagazine.com/news/mega-cl... I have to think that the Monterey Bay's Marina Protected Area status is facilitating the health of these intact populations...

In the US, Trump re-names Denali (its Koyukon name) as Mount McKinley & asset-strips public lands. Meanwhile in Aotearoa/NZ...Mount Egmont is re-given its Maori name of Taranaki Maunga, the mountain becomes a legal person with recognised rights & the Crown apologises. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I just finished this fabulous book...fascinating profiles of endangered species, lovely illustrations, and very well worded reminders about our need to assume a humbler stance....https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/748893/vanishing-treasures-by-katherine-rundell/