As a farm kid, public radio was a game-changer for me. Every morning I learned about the world on @npr.org while getting ready for school. Other cultures, languages, musics, realities -- all of it was piped into my young mind, opening and changing me. #protectpublicmedia @mtpublicradio.bsky.social

I'm doing a thing where I write letters to my fellow Earthlings in different times. It's part of how I'm contending with the extremely distressing present moment. It helps me, somehow. Not because it provides any answers, but maybe because it gives me a different perspective on the questions.

Such an honor to interview Joyce Poole of ElephantVoices & Daniela Hedwig of the Elephant Listening Project! Listen to these trailblazers on the latest episode of Threshold. @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social @joycepoole.bsky.social @elephantvoices.bsky.social @bioacoustics.bsky.social

I would like for wealthy people excited for tax cuts to sign a piece of paper acknowledging that every dollar they get in tax breaks is going to be paid for by someone else…either someone not getting healthcare or SNAP or some future person paying higher taxes to pay the interest on our new debt.

This is un-freaking-believable. Except it's all too believable now. Authoritarians know the power of story—that's why they lock up storytellers. Thank you for continuing to tell yours, @alistairkitchen.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

A swan, a cuckoo, and a redwing met at lake... open.substack.com/pub/letterst...

Need some elephant rumbles in your ears today? (Who doesn't?) Latest episode of Threshold features the #elephants of @reteti.bsky.social — and some of their amazing keepers. www.thresholdpodcast.org/season05/har...

Think you know your soundscapes? Guess where I recorded this one and you could win some free @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social merch. Current guesses include Indonesia, Costa Rica, and maybe a mix of multiple places... letterstoearthlings.substack.com/p/we-call-th...

Digging this. Don't going effing with the meteorologists, people! #SaveAmericasForecasts

Comment today before midnight EDT on the proposed change to the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Disrupting habitat *will* cause harm to threatened and endangered species, and to other species too, including our own. letterstoearthlings.substack.com/p/urgent-end...

The Trump administration is trying to convince you that destroying habitat won't "harm" a species. This will gut the #EndangeredSpeciesAct. Comment by midnight on Monday EDT to make your voice heard. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FW...

I also had a Close Encounters with Swedish Cranes recently! The best. Love this image @gdippe.bsky.social.

One of the most moving conversations I had while making the latest season of @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social was with Darius McCain, a young man from Richmond, CA. We talked about a lot of things. Including birds. Hear his story in the latest episode. www.thresholdpodcast.org/season05/har...

Happy Friday!

Before, during, and after this administration, we still have to figure out how to face and take action on climate. If you're feeling a little lost about how to do that, check out this event with @katharinehayhoe.com, hosted by @climatena.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.com/e/dont-say-c...

Rumeysa Ozturk is sitting in a cell *because of her writing.* Thank you to these three Massachusetts leaders for visiting her and for calling it like it is: "This is authoritarianism.....When a government begins to imprison writers for their words...alarm bells must ring. Loudly."

Toxic masculinity isn’t a concern here, and we don’t view empathy as toxic. For centuries, adult males have huddled together, protecting the colony’s most vulnerable, giving their future a chance amidst the raging storms that threaten them.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

On #EarthDay, and kind of all the time right now, I'm asking: how can I make myself useful in all of this madness? I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with ecological thinking. I'd love to get your take on what that means. letterstoearthlings.substack.com/p/what-is-ec...

The Eastern Shoshone this month voted to classify buffalo as wildlife instead of livestock. The vote indicates a growing interest to both restore buffalo on the landscape and challenge the relationship between animal and product. The latest from @siisiiko.bsky.social. grist.org/indigenous/w...

Ezra Klein's essay at the top of this episode is essential listening. "This is how dictatorships work. Trump has always been clear about who he is and the kind of power he wants. Now he is using that power." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Yes, I need to stay up on the news. But I also need to watch and listen to the annual return of the Whooper Swans to northern #Sweden. A different sort of news delivery, telling a different sort of story. Like the return of a species from near-extinction, and the return of the Sun to the north.

Cooperation = survival. Working on a new episode of @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social & was reminded of this (again!) in this piece from @sarahemilywild.bsky.social. "...what we see from Neanderthals and H. sapiens is that the groups that cooperated better were the ones that got through." 🤔

Happening this week, scientist friends: an opportunity to process what's happening to you and to #science in the U.S. in a supportive environment. The @climatena.bsky.social does not peddle in woo-woo b.s., they are the real deal. Check it out and share.

All the good people (and critters) of the world could use a little of this right now. Hang in there folks.

Everything's bonkers and messed up and scary and wrong. And #turtles keep turtling on, as they have since the time of the dinosaurs. Love them. 🐢

I've been doing a lot listening to critters (and plants!) for my podcast, Threshold. Over and over, we assume our planet-mates are mute, only to discover that actually we just haven't been listening well. I mull this over in my latest post on Substack:

Goddess.

Turtles! They're not just adorable, resilient, and generally badass -- they also talk! Find out more in the latest season of @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @gabrieljcohen.bsky.social for taking me with him on his turtle-listening adventures! #turtle #tortuga #bioacoustics

So many reasons to howl #HandsOff today. Here's one of the cutest.

Friday night vibes.

Aurora Freaking Borealis, Baby. #northernlights #aurora #hellyeah

I'm still a BlueSky newbie, so...is it cool to repost nice things people say about you, like the very generous note below? Or is that considered sort of gauche here? (I'm cautiously optimistic that this platform doesn't suck, and I don't want to harsh the vibes.)

Delighted to share my first piece in @theguardian.com! Huge thanks to all of the scientists, tree hoppers, naked mole-rats, and fish who contributed, and to the fabulous team at @thresholdpodcast.bsky.social helping me make the full audio series behind this article happen.

Hi! This is me, doing what I like to do: wandering around outside. Interested in connecting with other ecological thinkers here, but there's a partial solar eclipse on, so...off I go!