NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures. 🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v... #Thanksgiving

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Whose definition of “forest” will we use? Who gets to decide where the forest will go? Thinking of #politicalecology work by Nancy Peluso and Peter Vandergeest.

New commission finished!! This neglected set of bagpipes belongs to the wonderfully lovely Rachael Tonge. I don’t know what he’s called, but I’ve named him Art Carbuncle.

🌳💧📊 #PhDAlert! MSc in #ForestEcology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Excellent analytical and statistical skills in time-series analysis and experience with #treering methods🪵? We offer a #PhD position in #Dendroecology: apply.refline.ch/273855/1795/... #dendrosciences #ecology #ScienceJobs

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This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.

For #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we’re highlighting some of our Indigenous partners who fiercely defend their rights and protect wild lands and imperiled wildlife. Each of the three comments below includes a highlight 🧵 The video footage we chose is of Oak Flat in #Arizona.

your third moment of calm... you know you need it...

Peltigera canina, our Dog Pelt Lichen, yesterday at Deer Creek Canyon 🌿

I was writing, I swear I was, but then she did this and…my hands are tied, she needs attention.

If you're looking for an alternative to pie! #FoodSky

Today marks the official opening of the 20th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES #CITEScop20 and CMS is on the ground in Samarkand! In the days ahead, governments are expected to discuss stronger trade regulations and better enforcement against illegal trade. Learn more: cites.org/eng

Some might think them scaly, slimy, or just plain strange, but more maligned species still play a critical role in ecosystems. At #CITESCOP20, we must spare a thought for these less charismatic animals, says WCS's Susan Lieberman. 🌎 www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/...

#CITESCoP20 opens today in Samarkand, a key moment for ensuring wildlife use is sustainable, legal and safe. Progress here is essential for achieving Target 5 of the #KMGBF and protecting species and communities that depend on them.

100 years ago, WCS scientist Marie Fish (left) confirmed for the first time that American eels begin their lives in the Sargasso Sea. At #CITESCOP20, writes WCS’s Jake LaBelle, it’s up to all of us to ensure their journey continues. 🌎 www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/...

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When most online content comes from AI, human writing might become more valuable, not less. A researcher who studies #AI explores what gets lost when writers rely too heavily on language models to do their thinking. buff.ly/dACqbK3

A scientific milestone once considered impossible. Huge gratitude to all of our partners from 2023 to today: #CMPASC, #MotusWTS, @birdscanada.bsky.social, @xercessociety.bsky.social and the incredible community of researchers who made this dream real. We've only just begun! 🦋 (Article @nytimes.com)

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Xanthomendoza fallax, our Hooded Sunburst lichen, seen Sunday on Gambel Oak bark 🌿

Sweater season is here

Cladonia fimbriata, our Trumpet Lichen, seen Sunday at Deer Creek Canyon 🌿

#Nudivember day 24: Mexichromis macropus, the forbidden grape jelly (with orange sprinkles) #nudibranch #seaslug #purple #art

Listening to the latest Gastropodcast episode made me wonder: If we can make food from air, how will we value real plants?

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In honor of reaching 100,000 followers on Bluesky, I want to celebrate! I’ll offer you, the people, a chance to win a signed copy of my book why sharks matter, and will offer guest spots on upcoming shark research expeditions! Stay tuned!

The first episode of the new Ken Burns American Revolution documentary gives a quick passing mention to the Pine Tree Riots. If you're curious about how New England white pines figured into the run up to the war, I wrote about it last year over at JSTOR Daily: daily.jstor.org/tree-of-peac...

Lunch counter stool from Greensboro, North Carolina sit-ins https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.226.1

Not a great photo but an interesting sight. This was the first really large flock of Red-breasted Mergansers on the lakefront that I have seen this fall. Several hundred in a stretched out flock about half a mile out into the lake being harassed by thieving gulls. #birds

Frustrating that implementing this fix eliminates inbox sorting.

Today's #Nudivember, still wet, the watercolor equivalent to hot off the press

This is the kind of reporting I crave. 🍫

All set up at Big Apple Comic Con! Come spend your rainy day with me here at the New Yorker Hotel.

She's gonna produce beautiful seeds! #The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience 🌱

In times of crisis, their gaze is a summon from nature to take action.

This Red-bellied Woodpecker was posing (posting?) nicely for me. #birds #birding #woodpecker #BirdOfTheDay

Afternoon light in the mid-boreal upland ecozone 😊 🌿

Utah's Antelope Island is home to one of the most spectacular gatherings of western orb weaver spiders you're likely to see. But as the lake dries up, the abundant spoods are left in a sticky situation. Words and photo by me in @sierramagazine.bsky.social.

Starting my day out with a SPLOOSH

Can states make up for federal failures on environmental health? Discover how local policies are saving lives right now in A HEALTHY UNION, available wherever books are sold! islandpress.org/union

They’re so much easier to refer to! Otherwise at best I need a second bookmark and I rarely actually do that.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #round birds. There were a lot of borbs last time it snowed in Portland. Three of these are #sparrows, too. 📷🌿🪶

Weeellll by my calculations (and please understand that this is not an exact science) it’s probably about time for you to look at a heron

Despite abdication on the federal level, local climate work continues in the U.S. One of the most overlooked accomplishments worth cheering: the removal of harmful and obsolete dams. New from UNDAMMED author Tara Lohan⬇️

Cities are the best human habitat. Cities are what most of us are drawn to. Not Mars or bunkers in the desert or some AI-fever dream, but cities, in all their creative concentrated exuberance. Cities are where we can be together, learn from each other, celebrate and build our future life on earth.