Did you know that cheetahs live in the grasslands of Africa…and in Iran? The Asiatic cheetah is the rarest big cat in the world, with fewer than 30 left in the wild. And this senseless war is taking a toll on cheetah conservation. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/war-...

A porcupette!

China is currently building a set of 5 large dams in Tibet, in the world's longest and deepest canyon. The area is earthquake prone and is habitat for snow leopards, Bengal tigers, and Tibetan brown bears. Read more here: e360.yale.edu/digest/yarlu...

Think about those who can't shield themselves from exposure to this toxic air: All of the wildlife: the birds, squirrels, wolves, foxes, frogs, snakes, and the list goes on. People who: work outdoors, don't own a car and still have to get to work, can't afford an air purifier, are homeless.

China is currently building a set of 5 large dams in Tibet, in the world's longest and deepest canyon. The area is earthquake prone and is habitat for snow leopards, Bengal tigers, and Tibetan brown bears. Read more here: e360.yale.edu/digest/yarlu...

Current air quality in Minneapolis.

I feel like a broken record when I say that the future is now, climate-wise. The best time to act was decades ago, the second best time is today. If only those with power cared about the rest of us. www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfir...

The state is accepting public comments on the proposed Tamarack nickel mine until Sept. 14. The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe opposes the project. Written by Andrew Hazzard

Link ftom a source I trust to a Go Fund Me for the family of the man murdered by ICE in Biddeford: #mepolitics www.gofundme.com/f/justice-an...

This is a picture of my great-grandparents, taken in NYC in the late 1800s. On the back of the photo is some writing. Anyone read Yiddish and can help translate?

My mom just showed me this kid’s newspaper that she saved from summer 1961. JFK was president and his daughter got a puppy as a gift from the Russian government. The puppy’s mom was a Russian space dog who was “shot into space by rocket and returned to Earth”. Times sure have changed!

I hate tests, and so do many students. But for the first time, I’m going to give a midterm and final in my statistics class. If students are using AI for their assignments, in-class exams seem like the only way forward, learning-wise. And ultimately, our job as professors is to facilitate learning.

Absolutely 💯 🎯—for anyone who’s not paying attention, universities across the US are alerting all faculty about how research practices will have to change if this policy stands. 👇

These people deserve a special place in hell that includes an eternity of their eyes being pecked out by a critically endangered bird. “Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

The Army Corps is currently studying what to do with two large, aging dams on the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities. Removing the dams would restore the stretch of the river to a more natural state, and would be the largest urban dam removal ever. Gift link: www.startribune.com/mississippi-...

“University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.”

What a beautiful woman. Yvonne was friends with the painting’s artist Max Linger, and both were members of the French Resistance during WWII. Yvonne was arrested, tortured, and died in Auschwitz in 1943.

One cool thing is that I know Donald Trump is never going to root for a Minnesota team. Gives me a bit of hope for some championships in the near future.

I’m a geography lover, but somehow I only learned today that the DRC reaches the Atlantic Ocean AND that Angola has an exclave in between the DRC and Republic of Congo.

If you haven't stopped using Airbnb, today is a good day to do so.

This all feels so on brand right now.

🇧🇷Pica-pau-louro 🌎Celeus lugubris Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O pica-pau-louro (Celeus lugubris) é uma ave pertencente a ordem dos Piciformes, da família Picidae. 📷 Frodoaldo Budke

I planted one tiny squash seedling and it is currently taking over my entire backyard. Somehow from planting season to planting season I always forget that squashes do this. Next spring, someone please remind me to stick with plants that stay in the garden bed!

This is a cool bird.

I love squirrels and just found the hat of my dreams in Grand Marais.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

I love this so very much, especially as a 4th generation New York Jew. The tides are changing.

“French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said that 40 people died by drowning since last Thursday and the victims were mainly young people… Hundreds of schools were closed Monday as temperature hit 111°F.” weather.com/2026/06/23/n...

In Europe, the cars keep getting smaller and more electric. In the US, they keep getting bigger, just as gas guzzling, and more deadly.

“Humanizers rewrite A.I.-produced text to make it sound less robotic, formulaic and trite. Autotypers slowly drip words and sentences into documents, making it appear as if papers were typed at a human pace…They even fabricate typos, deletions and revisions.” 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Mona Khalil, ‘guardian of the turtles’ of Mansouri, succumbs to injuries after Israeli strike on her home The founder of the Orange House Project had refused to leave despite the war. today.lorientlejour.com/article/1538...

Sociologist/demographer friends! Wisconsin is hiring an assistant professor in population studies and health: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

We have several big dams on the Mississippi River in the Twin Cities that no longer serve a purpose. Local org @friendsmissriv.bsky.social will study the possibility of removing the dams and restoring the river to a more natural state. So excited to see what they find! fmr.org/updates/land...

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

Curious about the recent claims that the iPhone led to huge declines in births? @drjenndowd.bsky.social breaks down the analyses and brings some much needed skepticism.

She was a CATpulet. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/a...

An absolute masterpiece. I lived inside its covers for days.

This book gutted me. The slaughters of European Jews through decades and centuries. The indifference, at best, of much of the world. The wit and tenacity of Bundist men and women, who never strayed from their ideals of socialist solidarity. The echoes of this story today in Palestine and ICE raids.

a lil enrichment garden for Bubica

This adorable bee is going on 8 days in her new home. I have never been more invested in a thread before 🌸🐝🌼

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

A mid-May Ebola outbreak in the DRC puts critically endangered gorillas at high risk due to their social nature. While no ape infections are reported yet, conflict and cuts to U.S. public health funding under the Trump administration hamper outbreak responses. @ayleighk.bsky.social reports.

If you are interested in understanding why panic over population growth and/or decline is more mythology than reality, please read this excellent essay by @soumayamajdoub.bsky.social. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/too-many-too...

On Sunday Switzerland votes on capping its population at 10 million. Called, without irony, the Sustainability Initiative. My essay in the Green European Journal's summer edition traces this (il)logic it: Too Many, Too Few: Malthusianisation and the Politics of Population Anxiety. Link in comments

The current Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than any past outbreak at a time the world is least willing and equipped to contain it. This is what happens with you put USAID through the wood chipper. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I adore this woman

The death spiral of reading is one of my biggest concerns these days in education. Students don't do the reading, so we gradually assign less and less in hopes that they actually do it. Smartphones have destroyed attention spans (myself included), and with AI, all bets are off.

I've been meaning to subscribe to the @startribune.com for a while now, and this is the article that finally got me to do it. Gotta support the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, and also the weird Twin Cities news 🐶🎭 Gift link: www.startribune.com/curious-minn...

NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...