How do you pay rent? With money, like a sucker? Have you thought about using eels? In medieval England, people did just that! In fact, eel-rents were very common. In 1100, English landlords collected more than 500,000 eels in rent each year. That's a lot of eels! Here's a map: 🗃️🧪

In a world imperilled by apathy, I feel fiercely that individual choices must and do matter. So that makes it extra special that Jenn Thornhill Verma picked up on this deep thread for her lovely Kings review: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

I’m here for embrace of complexity in all its forms!

I wrote a comment piece about our ability to predict how ocean productivity will respond to climate change and the need for a new generation of biological forecasting tools: rdcu.be/dqPEA

The Committee to Protect Journalists say the level of danger and casualties among journalists in Gaza is worse than anything they have every covered. cpj.org/2023/11/jour...

As Nov. 11 approaches and war pummels Europe & the ME, it's strange to look back at this Walrus piece I wrote (13 years ago gah) about the portended death of the Legion: thewalrus.ca/lest-we-forg...

Am heading to the Everglades for the first time ever (!) before the Miami Book Fair next week so am prepping with the Field Trip ep. by @washingtonpost.com and it is so excellent. Now to not step on any poisonous snakes! 🐍🐊🌴

All bakeries in the Gaza City and North Gaza governorates have stopped operating due to Israel’s systematic targeting and a lack of fuel and flour, according to Palestinian officials. Oxfam has accused Israel of using starvation ‘as a weapon of war’.

Phronima sedentaria is a type of hyperiid amphipod, or small crustacean, that preys on gelatinous plankton, such as salps. 🧪 Learn more: www.sciencefriday.com/articles/mon...

The Solutions Journalism Network is looking for a new leader for its climate initiatives. jobs.lever.co/solutionsjou...

Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Wael Dahdouh’s wife, daughter and son have been killed in an Israeli shelling attack on a house where they were sheltering. Dahdouh has been described as ‘the backbone of Al Jazeera’s coverage in Gaza.’

A Mississippi mother who spent 7 months searching for her son discovered that an off-duty officer ran him over less than an hour after he left the house. Authorities then buried him without notifying his family

In its 41-year history, ITLOS has only ever produced two advisory opinions: one on deep-sea mining and the other on high seas fisheries. So experts say it’s difficult to know how the court will approach the much broader and more complex matter of climate change. hakaimagazine.com/news/what-do...

We! fixed! acid! rain! And we can fix climate change 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Baby’s first honey mushroom. 🍄

I’m actually shocked it took this long to overturn. I mean, I’m not shocked because … patriarchy. But the evidence has been right there all along. Another example among many that bias clouds our ability to see reality. WOMEN WERE HUNTERS: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

#5amwritersclub and it seems a bit early to be trying to describe this photo #sharkweek

My thought as well. We get a sorry-ass plica semilunaris and everyone else gets a nictitating membrane. Image: Gray's anatomy

This Afterwords convo on the state of our oceans, sustainability, and the #ClimateCrisis with moi and Laura Trethewey is going to get deep. 🌊 Tickets are free, but registration required: https://buff.ly/45CMp6D

Hamas co-founder acknowledges "mistakes" were made in Oct. 7 attacks, and says group willing to release women, children and foreigners its holding hostage if Israel agrees to 24-hour pause. 
My interview with Hassan Yousef, head of Hamas in the West Bank www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Almost 25 years after the Marshall decision, why are Indigenous communities still waiting for their fishing rights to be implemented? To help answer the question, we need to understand the obstacles. hakaimagazine.com/features/the...

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Neurospicy, you heard it from @karenho.bsky.social first and I am here for the rebrand! 🌶️

Just signed out of Twitter for the last time and it feels FANTASTIC. See you on here exclusively going forward, bbs!

I'm extremely stoked to be in Fredericton on Thursday to launch Kings! (And possibly more excited to be hanging with Mr. Seguin for the first time in ages.) Come hang with us! Wilsers, 5pm: www.karenpinchin.com/events/2023/...

When Kings first published, I commissioned a petty knife (great for bass, mackerel and trout!) with a bluefin-patterned handle and red trim to suggest the fish's flesh. (See page 237 for gory details if you wanna.) She finally arrived!! 🐟🔪

This started as a story for Catapult. I signed a contract to write about No Meat Required and the process of creating a first book. I’d done an hour-long interview with Alicia Kennedy. Then the magazine folded. It freed me to write as I like. https://www.chefdeborahreid.com/today/today1986873