some photos from the launch of Tigers Between Empires earlier this week at The Explorers Club in New York!

Just so we are clear: ICE went into a day care center—a private business—without a judicial warrant, and unlawfully kidnapped a worker in front of parents and children.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

review of my tiger book by @adamweymouth.bsky.social in New Scientist! "Slaght...is a wonderful guide, his descriptions of this unique landscape bristling with detail & feeling. As I read, I ached to be there, where cliffs forested with Korean pine and oak meet the ocean." shorturl.at/uY3Yk

this is tomorrow! If you will be in the Twin Cities would love to see you there. tmora.org/event/an-eve... #minneapolis #booksky #tiger

and to tide you over between the two episodes, enjoy @jonathanslaght.com's "Owls of the Eastern Ice," written by another strigiformologist and a former student of Rocky! I read a passage from his book in this episode 🦉

TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES by @jonathanslaght.com is the thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it. bit.ly/3JEAMal

"You sense the silences and threats of the deep forest. You taste the pungently Siberian flavor of the desperately remote towns." Nice review of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES from The Times (of London). Owls of the Eastern Ice won Times Nature Book of the Year in 2021. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

I'm thrilled to see a new book by @jonathanslaght.com! I loved Owls of the Eastern Ice and today we see the release of Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China. amzn.to/4i1qA8N or bookshop.org/a/97643/9780...

"You sense the silences and threats of the deep forest. You taste the pungently Siberian flavor of the desperately remote towns." Nice review of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES from The Times (of London). Owls of the Eastern Ice won Times Nature Book of the Year in 2021. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

my book launch tonight for TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES at @theexplorersclub.bsky.social in New York City is sold out! Hope to see some of you there! The book is in stores tomorrow!!

@jonathanslaght.com I thought you'd like to see this from today's 'The Observer' ( UK Paper) have a great day

Russian tigers! From one of the few people alive who really knows them.

With apologies to our beloved housecats, street cats, cafe and bookstore cats, this #Caturday we feature a book about the Siberian Tiger Project's efforts to rescue this Great Cat: Tigers Between Empires, by @jonathanslaght.com Details in alt-text Buy now: theliteratelizard.com/book/9780374...

This also works. :-)

my interview with @theobserveruk.bsky.social is up! Will be in the print edition on Sunday! Bit of an odd article title but was a fun conversation with journalist Andrew Anthony about my new book TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES observer.co.uk/culture/book...

consistently my favorite house in the neighborhood 🎃

Our kids traditionally trick or treat with friends in another neighborhood, so we are not home and leave out a bowl. Less scrupulous children tend to take fistfuls, or all of it in one go. Hoping this year my threat of a curse will work 💀💀💀

just signed 96 copies of Tigers Between Empires at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis! If you're looking for a signed copy online, this is the place to preorder. Link may not yet say these are signed but trust me: they are, because I was just there www.moonpalacebooks.com/item/f10yIDk...

Review of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES from Minnesota @startribune.com: "there’s Olga, Natasha, Katya and Kristina, [tigers] whose individual personalities and circumstances are at the heart of the best chapters, many of which read like thrillers" www.startribune.com/jonathan-sla... #booksky 🌍

just signed 96 copies of Tigers Between Empires at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis! If you're looking for a signed copy online, this is the place to preorder. Link may not yet say these are signed but trust me: they are, because I was just there www.moonpalacebooks.com/item/f10yIDk...

First review is in: WCS’s @jonathanslaght.com shines a “scientific-yet-soulful spotlight on one of the world’s most amazing creatures” in his new book, Tigers Between Empires. The book, out Tuesday, Nov. 4, details WCS’s tiger conservation work. 🌏 🐅 www.startribune.com/jonathan-sla...

Review of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES from Minnesota @startribune.com: "there’s Olga, Natasha, Katya and Kristina, [tigers] whose individual personalities and circumstances are at the heart of the best chapters, many of which read like thrillers" www.startribune.com/jonathan-sla... #booksky 🌍

If you have friends who need persuading to vote for @dewayneforminneapolis.com & @jazzformayor.bsky.social & NOT rank Frey, 2021 mayoral candidate Clint Conner has posted EXTENSIVE Frey receipts. (It’s essential to rank Fateh; but this might get normies off Frey at least) leaflet.pub/aabc93a9-c11...

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

my book Owls of the Eastern Ice was recently translated into Polish, which apparently prompted National Geographic Magazine Poland to run an interview-style excerpt: shorturl.at/LyC2h 🌍🦉

this must be so infuriating for the beaver

Such an excellent book by @jonathanslaght.com. I read an ARC earlier this year and am now delighted to have it in hardcover. You can buy one of your own on Election Day (November 4)!

the official trailer for Tigers Between Empires, written by me & published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social, in bookstores one week from today (Nov 4, 2025)! #booksky 🌍🧪 youtu.be/D-iOU4GCv9s

I can't read this article as I do not subscribe to WaPo anymore, but this is my sister in law in the photo (Robbin Garber-Slaght) and it's about using fungus as insulation in Alaska, so it's probably a great read: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu... 🌍🧪

the official trailer for Tigers Between Empires, written by me & published by @fsgbooks.bsky.social, in bookstores one week from today (Nov 4, 2025)! #booksky 🌍🧪 youtu.be/D-iOU4GCv9s

new stamp @fsgbooks.bsky.social

hair & hoodoos: me circa 2003

11th November - Join us for a special evening with renowned wildlife biologist and author Jonathan C. Slaght @jonathanslaght.com as he introduces his new book, Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction. Tickets here www.stanfords.co.uk/event-tigers...

This week's #bookreview: Jonathan C. Slaght's Owls of the Eastern Ice—The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl. Slaght researches fish owls in Primorye, southeastern Russia, to help protect them. Vividly written. #naturebooks @jonathanslaght.com talking-about-books.com/2025/10/25/o...

"something died in the walls and I have a dinner party tonight" is something I wish I didn't have to Google

pretty excited for this Big Time screening at @trylon.org in November! www.trylon.org/film/big-tim...

Going through my old artwork and found this fish owl drawing after reading @jonathanslaght.com ‘s Owls of the Eastern Ice. Love the book, looking forward to his new book Tigers Between Empires

Hey @davidsankey.bsky.social & @wildlifewire.bsky.social these are yours! David since you expressed clear preference for the UK edition I'll send you that one. Both of you please DM me your mailing addresses and I will post ASAP

will pick two winners today, 12:30pm Eastern time #booksky

stoked that the audiobook version of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES is the #1 new release in the highly-competitive "General Russia Travel Guides" category 😐

It's #InternationalSnowLeopardDay. Last month, WCS teams and partners from across High Asia gathered in Mongolia, one of the snow leopard’s strongholds, to shape a shared vision for the next decade of conservation. Today, we honor this effort to protect the snow leopard across this landscape. 🌏

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

book teaser! this 23-second video gets the adrenaline going for TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, out November 4, 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. #booksky 🌍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4cE...

“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, the Trump Organization, and his family.”

ok who did this? ☹️

book teaser! this 23-second video gets the adrenaline going for TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES, out November 4, 2025 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. #booksky 🌍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4cE...

if you are thinking about attending the launch of Tigers Between Empires at The Explorers Club in NYC on November 3rd but have not yet bought tickets - don't wait. With 100+ tickets sold the room is nearing capacity; fewer than 20 seats remain. www.explorers.org/calendar-of-...

Psychedelic mushrooms evolved their magic twice, in two distantly related groups of species. What's more, those mushrooms take radically different biochemical routes to producing psilocybin. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...