We need some more tree-posting on this app. This is the oldest known living Douglas-fir in Oregon (and maybe in North America?) I cored it to near the pith in 2006 and was able to re-visit it recently with some other forest scientists. It is at least 1015 years old, but probably ~1050.

We have to remind ourselves that this is not a normal occurrence in a healthy society. We cannot let that baseline shift such that it becomes so - it already feels like it is for so many my age and younger.

We should not use gen AI to “hone” or “clarify” our writing. That’s part of the valuable struggle! Sitting with and fighting ideas to make them clearer is part of the gift of science. It helps us become better communicators because we’ve been in the trenches with our ideas

Folks on Washington state community Facebook groups are arguing about whether images of local flood damage are real or not. Generative AI is making it so much harder for people to get the reliable information they need to make decisions during disasters.

It’s really demoralizing how many colleagues are using AI. Your job is literally to use your brain- your extremely unique, highly trained brain 😭

Photos from the snowy winter wonderland here in North Carolina

#MSH45 | Watercolors One of the most powerful “before and afters” of Mount St. Helens isn’t a photo at all, it’s this watercolor. Legendary PNW mountaineer Dee Molenaar painted the graceful pre-1980 cone and Spirit Lake basin alongside the torn-open crater and devastated landscape that followed.

This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions. Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...

if courts have no authority to block Trump from firing anyone, that means Trump can fire anybody for literally any reason, including y'know, race, sex, religion, etc. and I'm just like...are we not gonna talk about Trump basically saying he has the constitutional power to resegregate government?

Haven't been east of the Rockies in two years. Enjoying some WNC nature and family for a few days!

Just depressing. #parkchat www.kqed.org/news/1206592...

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

On the lookout for intruders who might want to steal the last of his pokeberries. Eastern Bluebird #BlueSkyMonday #ArtAdventCalendar #birds #birding #nature #photography #NativePlants

Rabbit rabbit! December 1st came early, thanks insomnia! Here's a White-spotted Salamander (Plethodon cylindraecus) from central North Carolina this fall. #herps #salamanders #NaturePhotography 🌿

Spent yesterday morning at my local wildlife refuge

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Really good thread. Recent articles have felt very dismissive of what fed workers experienced this year (and are still experiencing) and this is a helpful reflection exercise of "oh yeah, this was really fucked up wasn't it?"

National parks have SO MANY people from other countries (since they get real vacations!) And they spend a lot of money on hotels, food, souvenirs, etc. This is unbelievably dumb, it will destroy entire tourist towns

asking the doge guy to send me 5 bullet points on what he accomplished this week

Morning walk in the drizzly foggy mossy forest.

Federal science 1. is better when its work force is diverse and 2. is worth saving.

Tiny Golden-crowned Kinglet showing us all the field signs (for one nanosecond) #birds 🌿

Dude it's almost 9pm and it definitely sounds like someone is leafblowing outside. We might truly be cooked as a society.

Welp, no chance of seeing the aurora in my overcast corner of the PNW, so here's some photos of the one I got to see in May of 2024 instead

Significant cave nomination form. cc: @democrats.senate.gov

An assortment of waterfalls

Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis)! At first I thought I found a big, fuzzy gall. But it was a wonderful little snoozing bat! (May 2021)

In case you didn't think these a-holes could stoop any lower.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Listen to Mamdani last night. "We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about." Fuck yes. That is the democratic socialism I believe in.

There are more of us than there are of them.

"He presents [NYC] as a fundamentally good place...He makes it sound as if people are a part of something, and as if they have the ability to make that thing better. If anyone's searching for a winning way to talk about democracy, they could try to do the same." www.indignity.net/politics-is-local/

Fall in western Oregon is unmatched 🍂🍁🍄 with bigleaf maple doing the heavy lifting.

The policy being weaponized to inflict pain on the marginalized is intended to keep retailers from charging SNAP customers more than they charge non-SNAP customers.

Once again, THANK YOU JUDGE ILLSTON!! Judge indefinitely halts shutdown layoffs of federal employees www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

My lovely PNW rain, it's so good to see you again. This is not sarcasm, I genuinely appreciate our rainy foggy winters.

Under the stormy skies this morning.

In Corvallis, Rev. Jennifer Butler created a microshelter program at her church despite neighborhood complaints. Butler is one of a handful of Corvallis residents working toward service and shelter options in Oregon's most rent-burdened city.

Too funny.... I think I'll shoot my own posters, though. Today's view, beautiful hike/walk at Goat Marsh...on the last of the sunny days for a while here in the Pacific Northwet.

If you are a federal scientist in the US and have a been served a RIF notice during the shutdown, experts say this is illegal. you can contact Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) confidentially via the Science Committee Democrats’ Whistleblower form democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whis... 🧪.

New federal policy on historic preservation: better to ask forgiveness than permission?

The turn of the season is seen in the death of the fireweed and the vine maple's changing colors, but the rhododendron doesn't seem to mind. Nice work day in the woods.

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained. These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House” this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎 www.opb.org/article/2025...

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

Office For The Day ❤️. I recommend all Feds to get out in the woods, even if burned over (there’s pine seedlings though!) and even if you are not in land management.

Today is #scape day as well as #ForestFriday. I think this image fits both themes. Made deep in the woods of North Florida over a river sink. #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #reflections #longexposure #springs

Federal judge blocks Trump from carrying out thousands of layoffs during shutdown w/ @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social www.newsfromthestates.com/article/brea...

A judge Wednesday extended her two temporary restraining orders that barred President Donald Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard members - or any National Guard members - to Portland for another two weeks.