So honored to have my wildflower essay in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social published alongside @science-irl.bsky.social's amazing photography

Faux News tells us to buy plastic trees to make room for data centers. Here's another take: "Midwinter tree aromas connect us not only to memory but also to the language of trees." "expand the bounds of ritual and celebration to include the trees and the living Earth" www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/o...

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

One last sunbathing session before the big chill hits Green anole in Atlanta this afternoon Headed to 18 deg F tomorrow night. Time to dig

"lobbyist and public relations officer" for Facebook and "VP for Global Affairs and Communications" continues his work on behalf poor, ailing AI, an industry currently being victimized by...checks notes...artists

If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more

Dismissing AI video lies as "just" another part of the internet goes against the evidence (deepfakes can be persuasive and damaging), and weakens attempts to keep faked video out of important campaigns. Here in GA, AI video lies (not cute "memes") are being deployed in critical senate race.

Continuing their appeasement and enabling of the regime, Apple launches wax-tablet-and-stylus iPhone. Musk goes on podcast to discuss manliness of papyrus

6000 years ago, ancestors in Central Asia had the great idea of collaborating with these wild mustards. In the millennia that followed, people all over Asia, North Africa, and Europe worked with the plants to create a marvelous diversity of delicious forms. Thank you ancestors, thank you Brassica!

Poinsettias are amazing plants. Their name, though? Problematic. Joel Poinsett was an enslaver and, as Secretary of War, directed the Trail of Tears In Nahuatl language of C America and S Mexico, the plant's home, the name is Cuetlaxōchitl, pronounced kwe-tla-SHO-cheetl

According to @nytimes.com fishes and moths are "obscure species" Moths: 160,000 species Fishes: 33,000 species Mammals: not quite 6,500 species 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b...

It's day 7 of the invertebrate macro photo #ArtAdventCalendar. Here, have a jumping spider 😘

Amazing convergence of biodiversity from SE Brazil, colonial horticulture,and hummingbird desire gave us "Christmas cactus"

The desperate hands of the global south seek to take back an overheated world. Seriously, what's next? The McHamburglar trophy in gourmet cooking? The Pol Pot Human Rights medal? The Jeffrey Epstein childcare grant? The Vladimir Putin democracy fellowship? The Weinstein-Cosby feminism prize?

Is it a bad post? Very well then it is a bad post. (I am large, I contain multitudes of them.)

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

Well, that frees up some time this summer. I was looking forward to watching some World Cup here in Atlanta and online. Please join me in rejecting #FIFA and its events

Advance Reader proofs are in. How Flowers Made our World 🌼. I'm so grateful to all my readers for your support over the years. I could not be more thrilled to share these stories about flowers with you next year. Pre-orders are open, publication date is March 24th 💚 1/2...

Fund the arts

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic. It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Painted snake-coiled forest snail Ascaris tapeworm Carpenter bee Flat oyster Long-tailed skipper

So, this study shows that Europe pretty much sucked for tens of thousands of years, and then domestic cats showed up 2000 years ago from North Africa

Perspective

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Giving one of my books as a gift? I'd be absolutely thrilled to send you a (free) signed and customized bookplate. Here's how to get one: dghaskell.com/custom-bookp... 💚

Giving one of my books as a gift? I'd be absolutely thrilled to send you a (free) signed and customized bookplate. Here's how to get one: dghaskell.com/custom-bookp... 💚

Bird list from dreams, continued: Northern shoveler that I first mistook for a smew. Disappointed that smew wasn't for real, but enjoyed seeing that spoony beak. Pied-billed grebe with glowing red eyes, swam right past me in weirdly clear-watered canal.

Reminders (while raking) of the amazing creatures in the leaf litter. Restoring functional and locally-appropriate leaf leaf layer so important! DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar

Celebrations of genocide and lynching are, according to the regime, merely politically divisive.

We are deep into word-by-word censorship. Not only are universities purging/rewriting their websites based on centralized edicts, they are sending lists of forbidden words to guest speakers...

Meanwhile, in the US, we're steeped in neonics and barreling towards deeper deregulation

The absolute misogynistic delusion of claiming women don't succeed in academia because they aren't that smart is bad enough, but Larry Summers was also asking Epstein for advice on harassing a woman under the guise of mentorship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🦜eBird life list for dreams? Can we report the creatures that wing through our consciousness when we're in slumberland? Last night's tally: five brown noddies, one wagtail, four bald eagles, and 16 immature turkey vultures. No pear tree, sadly, but some interesting branched cacti of unknown species

Sickening, as is the fact that Epstein was invited to editorial meetings for Scientific American.

To be published in January 2026. @berondam.bsky.social's new book is absolutely wonderful and you should do yourself a favor and pre-order now!

Northern lights in Atlanta!!! Happening right now (Tuesday evening). Never thought I'd see them, let alone in ATL If your skies are clear in N hemisphere, head outside!

For anyone too young to remember what it was like before ACA… IT WAS A FUCKING NIGHTMARE.

This is one of those books that changed how I see and understand culture and history. I learned a huge amount from @juliaioffe.bsky.social's telling of these stories, and I greatly appreciated her writing voice which is both rigorous and imbued with distinctive and compelling energy.

"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite? It’s a storied gambit of the right at its most grimly predictable" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Insane mast year Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Media coverage of James Watson's death rightly notes his white supremacy (and misogyny, notably his refusal to credit Dr. Rosalind Franklin with her role in the elucidation of the structure of DNA). His were not an isolated set of beliefs, though. thread...

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

Eastern Forest playing cards are back in stock! Each card a different species, each suit a different sense. Art by Ellen Litwiller, micropoems on natural history by me. All my proceeds to enviro ed and conservation. Celebrating human play and forest biodiversity 💚 www.artofplay.com/products/eas...

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Today I am mostly thinking about the popular inter-war literary genre 'animal stories written by fascists'. Join me.

This had me on "ribbit."

Big night #birdcast

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize