For the accused in the case of the missing eye shades, the evidence could not be more damning.

The latest #LandEthic in Action story is all about community. First, we share how a group of Wisconsinites came together to protect a threatened watershed; then we ask Paula Whyman more about her growing relationship to the land. Check out the story here ➡️ https://ow.ly/Jpe950X5PHO#LandEthic

Tonight @ndbookshop.bsky.social!

The latest Bad Naturalist newsletter has late bloomers, annoying vines, quick caterpillars, and a petulant poodle. 🌿 badnaturalistnewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/september-...

Senator Murphy also lays out a clear set of codified demands that Dems can stand for. Among them: *no more using budget to punish enemies *no more using FCC to censor critics *restrictions on ICE lawlessness in interior *clear ban on troops in cities 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2013...

This Saturday (10/4) at 7 PM in the shop, Henry and Priscilla Ireys will be discussing their new book, The Keep: Living with the Tame and the Wild on a Mountain Farm, with Paula Whyman! Gretchen Legler called The Keep "a delightful chronicle of a moment in time on a parcel in Appalachia."

“Maryland led all states with a 49% reduction in per capita CO2 emissions from energy consumption between 2005 and 2023, as the state’s total CO2 emissions fell 43% and population grew 11%.”

Inspired by Nature: 10 Powerful New Memoirs and Biographies These new books showcase moments where embracing nature led to personal discoveries or scientific breakthroughs. @therevelator.org therevelator.org/nature-memoi...

From the Great @E. Jean Carroll! We need an identifier! NOT those insane red Maga Hats. But what about colorful PAPERCLIPS! simple, sneaky, and lethal. Get thee to her substack and send her your photo with a paperclip on your lapel or in your hair! ejeancarroll.substack.com

I'm old enough to remember what the smog in places like Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Baltimore looked and smelled like when I was a kid. No one should want to go back to that. It's literally deadly.

TONIGHT! Join us for a conversation with @paulawhyman.bsky.social about the ups and downs of restoring a native landscape! Thurs. 9/11 @ 7pm CDT on Zoom: events.zoom.us/ev/AtMcU8TLZ... Registration also grants you access to the replay! #Stewardship #Restoration #Conservation #FreeEvent

Sockman reports over 20 years of monitoring in remote Colorado mountain meadows. He found that flying insects declined over a cumulative 72%. Decline was associated with each previous year's heat and a 0.8 degree C (daily low) temperature rise per decade. 🧪 🌍 🐝 Open access: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

ICYMI, Scoundrel Time litmag folded last year, but the static site has stayed up temporarily. Just a heads-up that the site will be permanently removed soon, likely in the next few weeks, in case you still need to retrieve your work. #writers @karenebender.bsky.social @daisyfried.bsky.social

Cartoon: One spotted lanternfly says to another, "Mind if I circle back?" (This is a very niche joke that may only work if you've spent all week swatting hundreds of spotted lanternflies that are marching across your patio to climb up the side of your house and lay eggs.) 🌿

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

Join us next week on #LandEthicLive for an inspiring talk with Paula about stewardship, restoration, and self-discovery! 💚 The program is free, virtual, and recorded for later access. #Stewardship #BadNaturalist #Conservation #FreeEvent

Next week, I'll be talking with the Aldo Leopold Foundation's Jennifer Sterling as part of the Land Ethic Live series. This is such a great organization, advancing Leopold's foundational conservation ideals. I hope you'll check it out! 🌿

The new edition of the Bad Naturalist newsletter is here, and it has a visit to the Missouri Botanical Gardens and their nature reserve's seed collection program, a burgeoning grassland, monarchs and spiders, and a native orchid sighting. 🌿

My new slogan: "Carrying a purse and wearing a watch in DC since 1977" DC is a beautiful small cultured diverse fascinating city. Only place it's dangerous to carry a wallet these days is inside the White House.

Today 14 scientific societies in #ecology #evolution and #marineScience are publishing the results of a survey that finds negative impacts of federal policies on food security, flood mitigation, infectious disease preparedness, and wildlife conservation: 🧪👩‍🔬 www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...

The panel not taken They took the other, just as fair? Did it have the better frame? Because it was fresh and wanted wear Though as for that the topic there Was really just about the same. #awp #writers

Not exactly the eensy weensy spider. (I think it's a rabid wolf spider) 🌿

"One weed to rule them all" Pulling goose grass and found one that had grand ambitions 🌿

Sphinx moth on the patio 🌿

This is how my dog looks when she's happy. In this photo, she's at the vet waiting for her shots, and she just had blood drawn. Have you ever seen a dog this happy to be at the vet?

Exciting development! A little hard to see in the photo, but the black widow is preying on a spotted lanternfly. I've been watching these spiders for a few weeks, and when the SLFs got caught in their webs they were being ignored. Not this time. 🌿

"Outdoor cat" (Bobcat walking up the driveway.) 🌿

Oh, look what's on sale for $3.99 right now from our corporate overlords! (If you're interested in the ebook edition, this is a bargain.) #booksky

Can anyone help ID this beetle? In Virginia, northern Blue Ridge, Piedmont region. 🌿 #invert

These barrels are full of seeds collected from native plants on the 2400-acre Shaw Nature Reserve in St. Louis. They collect 285 species, over 1100 lbs of seed, and sow them in the meadows as part of a massive ongoing ecological restoration. 🌿

Prairie blazing star, Shaw Nature Reserve, St Louis 🌿

So much fun speaking at Missouri Botanical Gardens this week--and look at the cool art they made out of the Bad Naturalist book cover! Plus I got to see the beautiful gardens and the incredible ecological restoration work they're doing at Shaw Nature Reserve (pics coming soon). Highly recommend! 🌿

They're heeeeere 🌿

Next week I'm speaking at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis about Bad Naturalist and my work on the mountain restoring native meadows. If you're in the area, please come out! 🌿

The newest Bad Naturalist newsletter is here, and it has beetlemania, meadows in bloom, new native plants, and (of course) the poodle. 🌿

I heard from a TV show who is looking for a scientist in the DC area to come on to talk about severe weather. If that's you, send me email ([email protected]).

Spotted lanternfly nymphs massing on a small witch hazel that we recently planted. I will kill them with my bare hands 🌿

This eastern velvet ant did not want to pause for a photo. Also, this is not an ant but a parasitoid wasp. The female has no wings but apparently its *half-inch* stinger delivers a painful sting. Its nickname is "cow killer." 🌿

Less than half of the spotted knapweed we pulled and bagged this week--45-lb bags. We made a dent but there is at least as much that we didn't get to. 🌿

I just realized that the heartwarming video where a man helps a baby sloth across a street and then puts it back into a tree with its parent is totally fake, or at best it's two different videos combined. Two different people holding sloths and two different sloths. I feel had.

Spotted St John's wort--a new native plant discovered in the meadow 🌿

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

A sulphur on my window makes me happy 🌿

It's a well established fact that invasive species (including cats) are one of the top drivers of biodiversity loss globally. "Invasive alien species are considered to be the second cause of global biodiversity loss after direct habitat destruction" (IUCN) www.fao.org/4/y5968e/y59...

Media scholar Clare Wardle and colleagues developed a helpful typology: Disinformation = false or misleading information spread deliberately to deceive or manipulate.

Misinformation = false or misleading information spread by people who believe it’s true. Malinformation = true information used in misleading or harmful ways.

The new federal budget wants to eliminate bird banding funding, the one thing that allows scientists to track the health and population of birds across the country. Birders, rise up! By @rheisman.bsky.social therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

It's not going to "vanish," it's going to be eliminated by the current administration. 🌿🌎

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I was pulling invasive spotted knapweed and found this little native plant, Venus' looking glasses, growing defiantly amid a dense patch of the weeds. Seems like a metaphor. 🌿