Happy rabbit appreciation day to all who celebrate!

Come join the Women and Climate Member-Led Book Club for our 2026 events! 🌍 April–June: "Cancel Culture in Climate" by Jenny Morgan 🌎 July–September: "Reefs of Time" by Dr. Lisa S. Gardiner 🌏 October–December: "Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism" by Dr. Thea Riofrancos

We’re remembering the trailblazing Jane Goodall on her birthday today. Happy birthday to Jane Goodall! 🐒🌱🧪 #JaneGoodall #ClimateChange #Environment #WomenInSTEM #Science

For #FossilFriday a little pinecone still preserved in 3D after 125million years. Early Cretaceous Wessex Fm #IsleofWight

Easily the most theatrical depiction of a fossil sea urchin on record: the frontispiece to Agostino Scilla's important 1670 work on fossils, Vain Speculation Undeceived by Sense (in inglese). Scilla's fossils and sketches are in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social #FossilFriday

“Reefs of Time is a joy to read,” writes @cornubiangeologist.bsky.social in a lovely book review for @geoscientistmag.bsky.social. As the author, it’s a joy to read his review! geoscientist.online/sections/boo... @princetonupress.bsky.social #scicomm #coral #fossil #geology #geoscience #booksky

Hello, authors #booksky! If you're working on a book proposal and are looking for feedback, motivation, and an inspiring community of writers, check out this workshop facilitated by the wonderful @cragcrest.bsky.social and @betsymason.bsky.social. christieaschwanden.com/the-book-pro...

“Reefs of Time is a joy to read,” writes @cornubiangeologist.bsky.social in a lovely book review for @geoscientistmag.bsky.social. As the author, it’s a joy to read his review! geoscientist.online/sections/boo... @princetonupress.bsky.social #scicomm #coral #fossil #geology #geoscience #booksky

Electricity prices are essential to the US economy. But it’s very hard to get recent, granular data on them. We’re changing that. Today, @heatmap.news and MIT released the ELECTRICITY PRICE HUB, a new tool breaking down local power rates and bills going back to 2021. electricity.heatmap.news

When things look dire on land, it’s comforting to know that there’s a different world underwater.

We had some close ups from a happy flappy male bluehead wrasse today ☺️ #blueheadwrasse #wrasse #coralcitycamera

The humble beaver can make big changes. Beavers can turn the ecosystems surrounding streams into “persistent” sinks of carbon that can sequester an order of magnitude more than non-beaver-modified ecosystems can store www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I worked on this on the Library of Congress project for about five years, and CBS was not interested in preserving their history!

Fish may possess the ability to perceive where another being’s attention is focused. And they don’t like when it’s focused on them or on their children

In honor of Women’s History Month, here’s a thread about women who discover Caribbean reef history. (All examples are in my book, Reefs of Time, published by @princetonupress.bsky.social) #WomensHistoryMonth #marinelife #coralreef #ocean #ecology #geoscience #scicomm #paleo #booksky

Creating stories for people who are hungry is what it's all about

In honor of Women’s History Month, here’s a thread about women who discover Caribbean reef history. (All examples are in my book, Reefs of Time, published by @princetonupress.bsky.social) #WomensHistoryMonth #marinelife #coralreef #ocean #ecology #geoscience #scicomm #paleo #booksky

If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday

Reading about Darwin’s study of atolls and coral reefs, in @lisasgardiner.bsky.social ‘s Reefs Of Time. Great science writing that blends scientific history with current study of the fascinating life of the reefs. And I’m only on chapter two! #science

"Sarah Sullivant, another former EPA staffer, also lost her job after signing the letter. “It felt so disproportionate to be terminated for exercising free speech,” she says." www.biographic.com/the-fight-fo...

And yet another long standing weather and climate dataset to be terminated. While other reanalyses provide higher resolution data, none are available in as close to real-time (lag ~36 hours) as R1. #weather #climate @wxmanms1.bsky.social

This is your occasional reminder that several aquariums have live jellyfish cams that are Good and soothing if for some reason you are feeling rage and have already done all you can do today www.youtube.com/live/NUnJc82...

Especially if you live in Alaska or Maine, call Murkowski & Collins, because they're acting like "no" is possible. Tell them to stop dithering and Just Say No on Casey Means. Murkowski: (202)-224-6665 Collins: (202) 224-2523 www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

There’s nothing like being a small person in big snow. Enjoy it, children of the northeast US!

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

hey yo i wrote a reported culture essay for @motherjones.com about solarpunk it was incredibly fun talking to a bunch of solarpunk thinkers and artists! the magazine commissioned some lovely art for it too le voila: www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Bears are still hibernating here in the Colorado Front Range. But, according to a local I just chatted up, they’ve been getting up for the hibernation equivalent of midnight snacks. How curious! How intriguing!

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Happy #WorldHippoDay! 🦛❤️ To celebrate here’s a lovely naturalistic painting of a hippo on a small flake of limestone. Painted by an Egyptian artist some 3,500 years ago! 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Hey, journalist friends: The Maine Monitor is hiring an environment reporter! The position can be remote, but you must be based in Maine.

Near Mombasa, women in Jomvu Creek are transforming livelihoods through mud crab farming. A blue economy grant supports crab fattening, ecotourism and mangrove restoration — with nearly 1 million seedlings planted to protect the shoreline and sustain fish nurseries.

It could not be any more clear that our government works for Big Oil. This will hurt people, shorten lifespans, and cause billions of dollars in health care costs. It will also cost several more billions in environmental and property damage. Big Oil gets even richer, while you pay the price.

Finding (and Saving) Where the Wild Things Thrive • @therevelator.org via @theconversation.com therevelator.org/finding-and-...

If you'd like a brief escape from the global chaos, I recommend reading REEFS OF TIME, my latest book. It will take you to tropical islands to hunt for fossils and underwater to living reefs, which are somehow both fragile and resilient (as are we). #scicomm #nonfiction #coral #fossilfriday

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

Climate win: In Naperville, IL, which gets its power in part from a coal plant that's one of the top 10 climate polluters in the country, city councilmembers just voted to stop negotiations w/ the agency keeping them hooked on coal. I first wrote about this here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Read the unconventional alt-text for each of these sheep photos and smile.

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

It's Superbowl Sunday! So here's our traditional, and predictable Superb Owl. 🏈🦉 #SuperbOwl #SuperbOwl2026

The oldest known image of an owl: More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees carnegiemnh.org/ancient-owl-...

It's time for my annual superb owl party! 🦉🎉

“I’m just a little groundhog, poking my head up to see if there will be six more weeks of troll-strewn slop storms on the internet, and instead I see all these beautiful humans.” - @marykoreilly.bsky.social My faith in humanity is temporarily restored. ❤️ maryoreilly.substack.com/p/is-2026-th...

Today I learned that it’s impossible to say “non-anonymized” aloud properly without stumbling. Or at least it’s impossible for me. Can you say it?

The latest issue of my botany & evolution newsletter, A Feast for the Curious, is out. Herein: ancient giant fungus(?), altering plants' breathing, how humans envision time, and a bit about my next book. 🌿 mailchi.mp/2254356f8112...

There may be nothing better than starting the day by peppering a scientist with questions about seabirds, tropical islands, and the high seas. I ❤️ interviews! #scicomm #writingcommunity #amwriting #oceans #conservation #nature

The dissolution of NCAR remains a very real possibility, as discussed at a town-hall meeting this week at #AMS2026. @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/01/the-...

"Coral Gardens is what’s called a patch reef—an isolated area of corals that grow in quiet water sheltered from waves—and is just one of the many reefs that make up the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second largest barrier reef in the world." 🌊🪸🤿 #CoralReefs #Belize #Conservation #Nature #Oceans

From winter storms to wildfires, NCAR is a world leader in measuring climate data to predict extreme weather events. Without these predictions, lives are put in danger. Save Lives, Save NCAR. Email your Rep. & Senators to demand the full funding of NCAR! : tr.ee/save-ncar