Nice to see some higher-profile coverage of what entomologists have been saying for years: if you're keeping honeybees, esp without sufficient plantings, you're outcompeting native bees, who are the pollinators that really need saving. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Just another normal day here with Jane Fonda talking about Sharon in the Hollywood Reporter. "I mean, starting at the very beginning, the extent to which methane is leaking absolutely rocked me. I had no idea. There’s this activist named Sharon Wilson who has a camera...."

Not now, ancient Martian water!

Near Glastonbury in a land of religious importance in pre-Christian times, & near an Iron Age hill-fort, lives a 1,700 year old yew The tree, as a likely site of pagan worship & like many ancient yews, has a 14th century church deliberately built next to it Hallowed ground

💔Trump is one of the most destructive humans ever to exist as he attacks the last pristine places of nature on Earth Indigenous concerns surface as Trump calls for seabed mining in more than 113 million acres of waters off Alaska waters grist.org/indigenous/i...

The fact remains that Yellowstone was mostly a barren landscape until the reintroduction of wolves and now nature is thriving in every sense Those putting doubt on that are simply trying to create confusion and only support anti wolf agenda www.livescience.com/animals/land...

My postdoc at @durham.ac.uk is now open for applications! Three years research, open field. Happy to answer any questions/chat/give feedback on applications. NB: You *must* be nominated by a department - check with the department for the internal procedure/deadline. www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Sleep and the meaning of life – the great Portuguese poet and philosopher Fernando Pessoa on the existential dimension of the horizontal hours www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/04/f...

It can be done. Sanity.

To the writers coming up with these stupid pre-fab responses for use by officials who are testifying: Repent.

Seriously, go read Crooked Cross, a 1934 novel by Sally Carson - a young British author who had spent a lot of time in southern Germany and wrote about watching the rise of the right in Germany from inside one ordinary family. persephonebooks.co.uk/products/cro...

Nothing like visiting the home page of your hometown to make you homesick

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

The West Marin Sunset Club was in Dillon Beach tonight for this one.

Laughs needed; laughs delivered. Thanks, Tom Cox and your dad and your mum.

"When they bite your leg"?! WHEN??? Not if?!

While the change might appear small, ballots mailed near the March 17 deadline might not be postmarked by Election Day and therefore deemed invalid, Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon warned.

It's hard to feel like anything but punching Nazis matters right now, so we @drilledmedia.bsky.social have been busy connecting the dots between climate and everything we're seeing around the world. Today: repression of protest w/ @berglundoscar.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkbF...

Had a great chat to one of the best climate journalists in the world, @amywestervelt.bsky.social, about criminalisation & repression of climate & environmental protest around the world the other day. Here’s the result.

For more from Oscar on repression tactics across the board (and how several of them trace their roots to repression of climate protest), you can find that episode here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

I understand the frustration people have with a wide range of folks in media, but want to encourage us all to move away from casually criticizing "the media" as a monolith. Criticize specific behaviors and, please, praise and amplify the good stuff. Democracy needs public interest journalism!

Just casually spending an entire annual National Endowment for the Humanities budget every month to turn warehouses into concentration camps

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

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BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

I feel like we're Jennifer Connelly seeing the deluded conspiracy boards in her husband's office, except all the connections are real.

And it's never gonna happen if folks don't interrogate why they are so okay with "crime" from their kind of people.

What's different about the Epstein case from your average mass rape/trafficking stuff is the 'elite' involved, the trading of girls for influence, politics, 'intellectuals', protection, etc But make no mistake, the worst stuff is going on & people are happy to look away. www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...

This is practical help for Minneapolis. I'm doing it.

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

So are we not doing Greenland anymore?

"You tell me that Hitler is a mighty bad man. I guess he took lessons from the Ku Klux Klan. You tell me Mussolini's got an evil heart. Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont that he had his start-- Cause everything that Hitler and Mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you." --Langston Hughes

You'd think this would be a moment that unites the political spectrum, every single voter who's not a complete asshole (or ultra-wealthy, or royalty)

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

Two very scruffy guys sharing a 6-pack watched me pacing on a corner at dusk, San Francisco early 80s. My ride hadn’t shown. I was stone cold broke, no phone money, freaking out. I didn’t know how to get home. They rustled up $1 they had begged, waited to make sure I got picked up. Thank you, guys.

I would like to hear about a time someone, a stranger even, was very kind to you without any prompting, ulterior motive, or strings attached.

really fed up with people blaming sci-fi authors for 'inventing' these concepts the fictional iterations were inspired by, and reactions to, political ideology they encountered in real life they were predicting the horrors of liberal modernism they didn't create them

"For the right, a white woman worth protecting is a white woman whose gender role supports white male dominance."

While it may explain some of the context, this framing also hides that women scientists didn't cozy up to epstein the way men did. They also need funding, no? This is also about being part of a powerful boys club where one can act in despicable ways with impunity. Misogyny is a huge driving factor.

Reposting with ALT text because it's worth it. A Dorothea Lange photograph of a hand painted sign next to what looks like an air hose for car tires: AIR This is your country don't let the big men take it away from you.

Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!

What's a universally beloved sweet treat that you think is just mid? Any sour sweet candy. All of it. If I want to ruin the top layer of my tongue, I'll get a scraper and do it properly.

It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.

Data protection, as a concept, grew out of post-war legal scholarship in Germany which reflected on the use of data about people by the Nazi Govt, and formulated a set of limits on data use which recognised that to collect and use data about people was to impact the people’s lives.

many people are going to be tempted to say this proves the weakness of peaceful protest. this is incorrect because it assumes this happening is a failure of peaceful protest rather than the mechanism by which it succeeds

"There is a global wave of governments being captured by big money, whether that’s big crypto money or big tech money." Great to talk to @oliverbullough.bsky.social about how money laundering has gone global - and it's capturing our politics democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dirty-mone...

Not sure anyone has fully reckoned with the extent to which Trump's handlers are dismantling federal expertise and institutional knowledge. Whenever we send them packing, we'll need an army of dedicated experts ready to rebuild and expand the government's capacities to serve its citizens.

These were the people who held the careers of female scholars in their hands . This is who was shaping or epistemological world