I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

Reading this very important article on Covid origins and the genetic tracing of wildlife and viruses at the Huanan market. And...it turns out these markets sell Himalayan marmots. These animals are the source of the most transmissible and dangerous forms of...plague. And I'm just...

long overdue but good to see Israel’s monstrous campaign of genocide is finally shattering the international pro-apartheid consensus

"Intellectual honesty is a crime in any authoritarian country." George Orwell

Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report arstechnica.com/science/2025...

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

Thrilled to share our Perspective published in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻, #𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 #𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆. It also elevates Eastern European perspectives - underrepresented in #urban #evolution narratives. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I'm so glad you're okay! 🧊 📸 Curtis Evans, USMC intelligence during Reagan. bsky.app/profile/bebo...

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

The Night Harriet Tubman Made History hyperallergic.com/1041911/the-...

NEW: The University of Mississippi has fired employee Lauren Stokes over a post she shared about Charlie Kirk that called him a white supremacist and criticized his support for forcing child and adult rape victims to carry pregnancies to term.

One thing about visiting the same place time after time, year after year, is that you get a very immediate illustration of the impacts of the Anthropocene.

Incredible conflict the U.S. government continues to fuel and enable.

Yesterday, I said out loud, "A Black man was lynched today." I'm still processing that. Please elevate Trey Reed's name.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Gaza and the Death of Conscience

Looking forward to speaking @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social in Berlin on Anthropocene Biology in Eastern Europe and Beyond. I will talk about the implications of #war on wildlife. Sadly, science meets reality when my departure to Berlin was delayed due a #drone attack in Poland.

Come join me in wonderful Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 My department is looking to fill at least two positions - any specialization and any level! The University of Copenhagen aims to be the best place for the best ideas. What’s yours? Apply by Nov 15.

Got to hand it to the British authorities. At first I was mad when they scrubbed the #Banksy, but they have unintentionally made one of the most powerful artworks of all time.

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

[COMMENTARY] You don’t need to travel to the Amazon to experience the essence of a primeval forest, a new op-ed argues: Poland’s Białowieża Forest harbors the best-preserved fragments of lowland deciduous and mixed forests in the European Lowlands. ** The views expressed are those of the author.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Pomoc humanitarna nie może być traktowana jako przestępstwo. bialystok.wyborcza.pl/bialystok/7,... #wyborcza #imigracja #Polska #Białoruś

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This post alone should trigger impeachment proceedings.

New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho... For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack! @dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y

Rebranding. Newsday.com/matt

Reminded of this as an academic told me the other day that they were off to a country in South America, then one in Africa & then one in Asia, in rapid succession I really didn’t know what to say… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It’s wild living in the Information Age and the Dark Age at the same time.

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events

Reminding me of @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and Jackie Morris’ exquisite book “The Lost Words”. “The words were becoming lost: no longer vivid in children’s voices, no longer alive in their stories.”

This is so nuts. Also "The article I was reading gave off that robot stink." is a fantastic line.

Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

It is good to see more Polish academics speaking out about how the country’s #border policies are degrading nature. In this here letter @science.org, the focus is on tree felling along the banks of the Bug #River with ramifications for species and #ecosystem services. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yellowstone’s roaming bison herds enhance nutrient cycles and boost ecosystem health at landscape scales, according to a new study. The findings suggest that restoring large-scale migrations could unlock the species’ full ecological power. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4mBlFN3

It would be great if obscene wealth inspired people to help their communities where it's hurting most. Solve the housing crisis, get kids free school lunch, end food deserts, lower the barrier to entry to gainful employment, etc. Instead, we get "everyone I don't like MUST BE WATCHED"

111 years ago today the last Passenger Pigeon on earth, which we called Martha, died in Cincinnati Zoo at around 12:30pm local time. The most abundant bird species Earth had ever seen had been driven to extinction. markavery.info/2025/09/01/p... #cincinatti #ohio #extinction #birds #martha

Very few people in southeast Alaska want to repeal the roadless rule. The vast majority of public comment has been in favor of maintaining it. But whatever, we only live here.

"nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism" Rabies increasing in the USA www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Totally agree- this new narrative of re- wetting peat bogs for defence/security presents an oversimplified win-win-win and nearly sidesteps the risks in militarising nature

For anyone who might be interested in teaching my book on Leopold's land ethic: The Philosophers for Sustainability group has put together resources to use for teaching _The Land Is Our Community _. 1/n 🌱🐋 🌎 📗

Read this interview with @anandian.bsky.social, Professor of Anthropology at @jhu.edu, on his new book about the U.S.—America's fortress mentality, paradoxes of defensive infrastructure, and the risks for India in following a similar path. frontline.thehindu.com/social-issue...

There is a new book out called ‘Goliath’s Curse’ by Luke Kemp (I’ve just got it, not read it yet) that takes the same stance as @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and encourages us to be defiant, because, in truth, what now do we have to lose? (The book is about how civilised States/empires fail.) >

The Trump administration is explicitly planning to ethnically cleanse all two million Palestinians in Gaza: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is a great time to watch this @pulitzercenter.org documentary on why “doctors and parents in Samoa blame influential vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his associates for bolstering anti-vax sentiment” pulitzercenter.org/blog/explori...

Ebony and ivory really are a perfect harmony—African forest elephants consume the tree's fruit, and in return, their fecal matter disperses and helps protect seedlings. That and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

We were taught to fear communism & socialism but Christian Nationalism wasn’t even on the radar. Genius.

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.