Day 2 of #BlackBirdersWeek is all about Migration 🌎 Migration is one of my favorite times of the year. Birds endure storms, exhaustion, predators, light pollution, habitat loss, and thousands of miles… yet they arrive and they sing. 🎶🥹🪶 #BlackInNature #BirdJoy #Birding #WiscoBirder

The reason I’m leery of AI is the people promoting it

22 carcasses have been found so far this spring....they are grim evidence of what researchers say is a population and fertility collapse among gray whales that has been worsening for seven years and is driven by climate change in the rapidly warming Arctic. 🌎🌿

The more we learn about data centers, the less we find to love: www.techradar.com/pro/arizona-...

Hey, if you're represented by Henry Cuellar (TX) Don Davis (NC) Cleo Fields (LA) Laura Gillen (NY) Vicente Gonzalez (TX) Marcy Kaptur (OH) Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA) Eugene Vindman (VA) Give 'em a jingle and ask why they're voting with Republicans to support HR 2616, the national book ban bill?

In the Philippines, environmental defenders and Indigenous and peasant communities are being red-tagged, disappeared, detained and killed in the name of counterinsurgency. And billions in U.S. security assistance help make that militarization possible. @alessandrabergamin.bsky.social reports

One of these days we’ll stop staying “this is not normal” but in the meantime let’s reduce carbon emissions. We have all the technology we need and it’s just the fossil fuel corporations standing in our way.

Good piece by Jefferson Pooley on how LLM-powered “research” tools like Google’s “Deep Research” and Elsevier’s “AI Discovery” likely strengthen the “Matthew effect”: highly-cited authors are amplified while undercited (often female) authors are increasingly ignored: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Okay so we're in between net checks and hanging out in the truck because the weather is shit, and a bird lands on the side mirror. My student Noelle looks and starts making incomprehensible noises, because it's a freaking HAWFINCH

PLoS One paper from my MS days leads to conservation win! people.com/worlds-oldes...

Field biologists working in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have helped Hawaiian monk seals entangled in derelict fishing gear and other plastics. After they started cleaning up the marine debris in the water, entanglements dropped—by as much as 70 percent on some islands.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

"Many ideas that enjoy enormous popularity among billionaires—cryogenic immortality, disregard for punctuation, the Antichrist—have scandalously been excluded from our labs and classrooms."

Congrats first author Caroline Brighton; our new paper is out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Interface. All about bird collisions with anthropogenic objects. You can read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

Slightly increase a band, raptor edition. 🪶

Slightly increase a band Counting Ravens

In Feb, Trump officials waived >24 environmental laws to clear the way for a 150-mile-long border barrier through West TX, including Big Bend National Park. After bipartisan backlash, the border wall within the park has now been canceled. Not yet clear if the withdrawal also includes...

We won't police ourselves into some respectable perfection that's somehow gonna bring down fascism. That's a fantasy.

You didn't strike a chord, bae. You struck a nerve. A big, raw nerve for this audience in particular.

Sometimes I wish people could just be normal about AI but then I remember it’s basically the worst people in society aggressively playing with dynamite in front of us all and there’s no way to be normal about that.

I was carrying a gigantic Medusa head down the street and someone said “happy mother’s day” to me and I was like “oh yeah you too!” And is it because I am a woman in my thirties and she was throwing out happy Mother’s Days to all women or did the gigantic Medusa head give mom energy to her?

More terrible news. As a reminder, the decimation of all of the agencies was spelled out in Project 2025. fElon and his adolescent DOGE bros came in and fired people at random and stole money. And now SCOTUS has cleared the way for our votes to be stolen.

The first time I heard the lek display of the closely related White-collared Manakin in southern Belize, I thought someone must be arc welding in a workshop just beyond the trees. The buzzy rattles and clicks are created by the male rapidly slapping his wings together over his back. 🪶

🇧🇷Rendeira 🌎Manacus manacus Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A rendeira é uma ave passeriforme da família dos Pipridae 📷 Gabriel Mello

10 permanent jobs per *billion dollars* spent building data centers. $100 million per job! Someone's gotta make sure the cooling tower fans don't break down, I guess.

The Trump Administration is raising your costs and celebrating it on live TV.

Major manu news!! On Monday, 40 tiny native pōpokotea (whiteheads) travelled from the predator-protected safety of the open sanctuary at Shakespear Regional Park to a restored coastal landscape at Mataia on the Kaipara. Full story here: ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2026/05...

NEW: DHS subpoenaed Google for a Canadian man's location and account activity after he criticized ICE. The man hasn't been in the US in 10+ years, and DHS used an import law from the 1930s to try to get his data. ACLU is fighting it. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...

Not a great sign that President Trump’s judicial nominees seem incapable of stating that President Trump is ineligible to run for a third term.

Dr. David Morens - who is 78 years old and served his country for nearly 50 years - used Gmail, which he shouldn't have done. However, "[he] was stripped and handcuffed [by] a half-dozen federal agents carrying guns and wearing tactical gear [..] and jailed". www.science.org/content/arti...

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will - Increase Microsoft's emissions 160% - Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc... - Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined stand.earth/press-releas...

The best time to get an infection might be after a meal, suggest experiments that found that immune cells seem to get a boost from food go.nature.com/4vV91Od

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

Aztecs: “The hummingbird god must be fed an endless stream of human hearts of captives taken in war” Anyone who’s encountered a hummingbird: “yeah checks out”

Double subsidies! Once through tax breaks, once through peanut-buttering the grid interconnection costs over all ratepayers. Wild subsidies to companies developing computer warehouses for tech oligopolies owned by some of the richest people in the world.

New work from Pew highlights how to scale up distributed resources to meet the demand growth and affordability needs of today's grid. 🔌💡 www.pew.org/en/research-...

HARDER: What are the health harms of this repeal? ZELDIN: It could be 0 HARDER: You think doubling the amount of mercury pollution is going to result in 0 health harms?

Temu Chickadee. 🪶

Using natural warning colors/patterns to prevent bird collisions with wind turbines? Brilliant! 🪶

Video summary here: youtube.com/shorts/Rg41t...

Not specifying the duck species/breed, penguin species, and Canada Goose subspecies on which these SGU conversion units are based is shockingly sloppy work for space nerds. I would also be interested in seeing those meter-tall ducks.🪶

“This exciting finding shows the potential of novel house designs to improve children’s health and survival on a wide scale.” Learn more: https://scim.ag/4cEDhDT

Just signed the AI Pledge for Humanity. The next time someone says AI will require UBI without doing anything about it, send them this. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th... thanks to @scottsantens.com

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves — this week.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social ICYMI, a piece that reminded me of Twilight Of The Elites, for obvious reasons. "a world with universal basic income is more meritocratic than a world without one" www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

Wildfires can convert naturally occurring chromium-3 into the carcinogen chromium-6, which can contaminate groundwater for years, writes @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social www.hcn.org/issues/58-4/...

The regime's greedy assault on our public lands is non-stop, & it sucks that a bill from other parties is abt to give them legal cover for more of their destruction. "The Fix Our Forests Act...was drafted for a Forest Service that does not exist" Learn more & 📣 your MoCs abt it, esp Dem senators.

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."