Appalling focus in this article on the "threats" to US corporate profiteering from cancer. How about the benefits to, you know, human beings with cancer? A reminder that patients are commodities in US. "China’s Rise in Drug Development Looms Over U.S." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/b...

Can we condemn the regime without making derogatory comments about the culture of rural America? The tsunami of comments/"jokes" about "white trash" and trailer parks feels like "deplorables 2.0". The problem is Trump, not that some folks, usually not urbane pundits, like to watch wrestling.

Nicotinotia, Magnolia, Robinia, Begonia ... so many plant names from 16-17th century French aristocrats, royal gardeners, diplomats, often people with little to no relationship with the actual living plants. My video over in Zuckerlandia: www.instagram.com/reel/DYzZIuG...

Just finished reading @dghaskell.bsky.social new book "How Flowers Made Our World." It's the best kind of book, a work of beauty that transforms perception. I now understand flowers as life-shaping beings filled with evolutionary wisdom, which humans respond to out of our own evolutionary wisdom.

Lovely morning in West Marin at Commonweal hearing @dghaskell.bsky.social speaking about not just the biology of flowers but how we understand ourselves through flowers. And got to catch a few minutes chat with @ssparks.bsky.social while I distracted him from doing his business!

Chelsea Flower Show -- the elephant in the room = toxic chemicals and biodiversity collapse www.instagram.com/reel/DYhZciA...

🏵️Bay Area friends🍃: UC Botanical GardenBerkeley with Alexis Madrigal. May 20, 5:30pm Tama One, Olema. May 21. 4pm, Incense - To Burn, Forest, Fire by Katie Paterson, then Flowers 5pm reading and chat. Commonweal New School with Susan Grelock Yusem. Bolinas. May 22nd, 11am Links in comments

🎙️Combining scientific study with lived experience, @dghaskell.bsky.social's latest book, How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries, tells the story of the adaptability and cooperative nature of flowering plants. Listen here: www.wortfm.org/you-can-lear...

Friends near Bolinas, CA, please join us May 22. Also on zoom for all. tns.commonweal.org/events/

Loving this book -- highly recommended. It begins w a deep dive into magnolias, one of my favorite flowering trees.

Inside that spiky seed pod, elaiosomes attached to seeds. Ant snacks. The seed gets deposited in a nice underground ant compost heap. A great wildflower nursery. Working with ants in this way is called myrmecochory. A meadow of vocab. Glad to see one of my fav flowers leaping into the next gen

Bay Area friends: I'll be in conversation with Alexis Madrigal at University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley on May 20th. botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/event/how-fl...

Congratulations to the Pulitzer finalists and winners! I served on this year’s jury for the General Nonfiction category, alongside Luis Alberto Urrea (chair), Marcia Chatelain, Andrea Elliott, and David Greenberg. Three brilliant and important works stood out to all of us on the jury. Thread...

Flowers literally reinvented botanical motherhood, so this seems appropriate. Delighted to see How Flowers Made our World listed in NYT. Guess which kind of mother they thought would most like the book... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...

Moving out to the 11th century step by step. Only 800 unelected cronies and two dozen bishops to go.

Thank you, @chrisirmscher.bsky.social, for this review of How Flowers Made our World, in @wsj.com

A joy to join Alan Alda to chat about flowers, scicomm, and why "weeds" give me confidence (com-fidere = trusting together). Also: Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek meets Richard Dawkins' Selfish Gene in an impressionable teenage mind clear-vivid-with-alan-alda.simplecast.com/episodes/dav...

Floral revolutionaries on the road: Seattle and Miami Beach friends, I'd love to see you at my upcoming events. Register here: Seattle: www.elliottbaybook.com/events/50119 Miami Beach: shop.booksandbooks.com/event/2026-0...

Excited to do a bit of intellectual photosynthesis with new botanical books by a couple of the best writers in our field, @robertmoor.com and @dghaskell.bsky.social. 🌲 🌼 🌱

Thank you, @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social, for these generous words. Working on this book upended my experience of the world, and transformed how I think/feel about life's narratives. I'm so glad that some of this comes through in the book's pages. Revolutionaries for real.

What a pleasure to be in conversation about flowers and their many meanings with Daphne Chouliaraki Milner in @atmosmag.bsky.social, with marvelous art by Max Attila Bartsch atmos.earth/art-and-cult...

Blood red nectar. Attracts their pollinators, geckos, who love red dots on a purple background. Birds are also attracted and steal nectar. Sanguineous allegories here we go An endangered species from Mauritius, here at the amazing Missouri Botanical Garden Nesocodon mauritianus (Campanulaceae)

“If our descendants are still around in 100 million years, I predict that they will be flower people. They will have figured out how to work in deep cooperation with flowering plants so that they and the rest of the ecosystem can thrive.”

David Haskell's new book, How Flowers Made Our World, is a great read anytime of year, but especially for spring. Highly recommended if you're into gardening, plants, Earth history and/or the weirdness of life 🌎 🧪

I had a great conversation with @jenniferweeks83.bsky.social about floral creativity, now published in edited version at @yalee360.bsky.social e360.yale.edu/features/dav...

Snorklewort (best name!), columbines, daffodils, and spring beauty in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social "Cells at the tip of the sleeping embryo keep up hormonal conversations among themselves ... Eventually the chemical whispers jolt ... wake up, let’s go!" emergencemagazine.org/essay/wildfl...

Join me for an upcoming talk! New locations added, including Seattle and the online Tricycle conference. Registration and details -- dghaskell.com/speaking/%F0...

Wild Fungarium is a must-visit in Edinburgh, Scotland. They have a wonderfully curated collection of wildlife and nature books, as well as toys, gifts, seeds. I highly recommend a long stop at this new independent bookshop. Thank you for your welcome, James!

"He is a lively writer with an appealingly light touch, but his message about ‘the astonishing creativity and productivity of flowers’ is a serious one." Delighted to read this review of How Flowers Made our World by Constance Craig Smith in @dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

Nearly full, but some seats remain. Join me for tales of floral revolution 🌼 Reception celebrating Vitis and yeast following

Congrats to all the winners of @sejorg.bsky.social 2026 Environmental Journalism Awards. Check out their good work here... www.sej2026.org/awards#carmo...

A great pleasure to join Ira Flatow on @scifri.bsky.social to discuss the world-changing powers of flowers, plus the trickster nature of orchids www.sciencefriday.com/segments/flo...

What a delight and honor to join Anne Strainchamps in conversation about flowers on Wonder Cabinet, her new project with Steve Paulson. We talk about why flowers are revolutionaries, with a good dose of aromatic joy along the way. wondercabinetproductions.com/david-george...

Sen. @warnock.senate.gov at the No Kings rally in Atlanta, GA: "A wannabe king who is busy building himself and his billionaires a ballroom, who intends to use ICE as his own private army. He is not a king. This is our land, this belongs to We The People."

From March 15 through March 26 there have been... More than 100 monthly records & more than 700 daily records broken or tied. Since March 1 there have been more than 1,100 daily records broken or tied across the nation. Some record heat will remain through the weekend for areas of the Southwest.

What a delight to join Mina Kim on @kqedforum.bsky.social today. You can listen to the show here: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Stunned and delighted that The New York Times has given How Flowers Made our World a wonderfully enthusiastic and generous review, penned by Adam Nicolson. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

What is your favorite floral aroma? So many to chose from. Mine: magnolia, rose, baneberry. I'm delighted that Orion Magazine has published an excerpt from How Flowers Made our World. The mysteries and delights of floral aromas! orionmagazine.org/article/an-a...

Please join us tonight! 5pm US Pacific time, 8pm US Eastern Time. Registration is free

Can confirm it does! Reading David's new book has been a joy 🥹 Thank you for giving us this window into the world of flowers, it is truly magical!

Flowers belong at the center of our creation story. Writing this book transformed how I experience, think about, and feel the world. I hope it will do the same for you. Publishers Weekly: "deep research and lyrical prose…astonishing" www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775876...

Returning to Paris after growing up there in the 1970s is shocking. The air tastes different. The city feels oriented around human bodies.

Currently on France TV, the new mayor of Paris Grégoire celebrating his victory by biking around on a bike share. He’s now taking an interview while riding.

Elf orpine... growing in solution pits on blazing hot rock. They're a winter annual, waiting out summer as seeds When conditions get tough, flowering plants respond with extraordinary blooms Arabia Mountain, GA

Each chapter of How Flowers Made our World opens with artwork by the amazing @lucytsmith.bsky.social. The image featured here is from the Rose chapter, one of the "Roses de Mai" whose delicious aromas grace so many perfumes. More on her work here: www.lucytsmith.com Flowers book here: dghaskell.com

"A complex and gorgeous tapestry." Thank you, Michael Ray Taylor, for this thoughtful review of How Flowers Made our World in Chapter 16 chapter16.org/a-complex-an...

Thank you, @nytimes.com for featuring How Flowers Made our World Pre-orders are open if you want to get yours hot off the press. Huge thank you, too, to the great team @vikingbooks.bsky.social whose work causes the book to germinate and bloom.

Please join me for this free online event. Book launch! March 24th, 5pm PT/8pm ET Register for the event with the marvelous @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social. While you're on their site, you can order a copy of my book or others from their amazing collection. ptreyesbooks.com/event/2026-0...

I enjoyed my conversation with Viviane Callier, an edited version of which is now in @nautil.us. Why we're "grass apes", the role of beauty in education, and the creativity of flowers... Interview: nautil.us/how-flowers-...

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...