Just gonna leave this here 🐈

I've waited 3 years to make this post

It's just one nest, but if you follow vultures for long, you learn to take any win you can get. An Egyptian Vulture nest has been observed successfully raising three chicks, something very rare in this endangered species. #vultures #birds #RaptorResearch rapt.kglmeridian.com/meridian/rap...

A harrier, a red-shouldered hawk and a rainbow to boot. When in doubt, go on the walk. #oregon

Good night 2025. See y'all next year.

In 2026, I'm going to speak and work against LLMs in any way I can, against their use and spread and acceptance. I almost wish I could say I would use them less myself, but I will use them the exact same amount of times I did in 2025: Zero.

I'm happy to see Cape Vultures as one of five 2025 "road to recovery" stories at @mongabay.com today. As always, the story is complicated, but things are looking up, and their reporting on vulture conservation throughout the year has been great: #vultures #birds news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

I published more and made more of my income with journalism than ever before. I grew more garlic than I've ever grown, and had my first real crop of potatoes. I looked at a lot of birds.

People posting about rural US who don’t know anything about living in rural US should probably be more quiet (as with literally anything)

Remember when there was all that ~pivoting to video~

I love this bearded vulture embroidery on Reddit. The artist nails the beard, the fabulosity of the collar, and the general vibe of the magnificent lammergeier. (Bonus points for the background looking quite a bit like PDX carpet.) #vultures www.reddit.com/r/Embroidery...

Gonzo voice: My tiny garlics, who did NOT die. (despite record floods, a near miss by a landslide and almost getting stepped on by elk) #oregon #gardening

Imagine what this Eagles team could do if we played offense for more than two quarters a game. Still, great win in the toughest road game there is. Best defense in football and it's not close. #GoBirds

I’m just going to say this (not diving back into an argument or attacking anyone): The idea that journalists cannot accurately or fully report on topics they have strong feelings about is silly.

Fellow Oregonians: Let's hope for a cloudless sky on March 3, 2026. (Never tell me the odds.)

It’s astounding to me how quickly these nitwits pivoted on a tile from “AGI will outperform all human intellect within a few years” …to… “…but if you think about it, software doesn’t actually have to work, does it?”

Sincerely, all I want for Christmas is not to lose power in this storm. Good luck out there.

Stop trying to skip the fun parts. Research is a treasure hunt. It can be tedious at times, but when you find the surprise buried in some obscure archive, it's just so much fun. I'd never rob myself of that.

the book isn't going to write itself. I guess I knew, but I didn't, like, KNOW.

A couple of golden-crowned kinglets got close and stayed visible much longer than they usually do on my morning walk. Gorgeous little birbs. #oregon #birds

4 extra seconds of daylight let's goooooo

This is the ballgame for CBS News. Every journalist there now knows that their editorial mission is compromised. They are no longer a press free to report the truth.

Keep your abstract human calendars. Today is the actual New Year's Day. We're at the bottom of the well, the deepest point of the dark, and now we can start to climb out.

Calm day at the coast today, after all the chaos this week. With some routes still cut off, it may be an even quieter winter than usual. Here's how it looked and sounded at Newport. #oregon #pnw

Now that we're at the end of the year, it's time to rave about my favorite science and nature writing of 2025. If you're looking for holiday reading material, here are 12 stories I loved from around the web, all free to read: #SciComm #ScienceWriting #Bestof2025 ianrosewrites.com/2025/my-favo...

Just to be clear. It’s the John F Kennedy center legally. Just like it’s still the department of defense

Only the biggest losers imaginable name things after themselves. To add your name to something already named for someone else is a level of loser energy previously unknown to science. It is a true innovation in the field.

Some NW rivers are set to crest tonight noticeably higher than early in the week, and some of those were records. If you're in a floodplain that just drained from the earlier flood, check your heights before it gets too late tonight. Better to leave now than have to in the middle of the night.

Tired. Of. The. Dark. Come on solstice.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Guess I'll post this again

If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

I got power back at about 8 this morning. Something actually happening when I flick a light switch is a small comfort I won't take for granted again for a while. Back to work.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 18, my California Condor from Birdtober this year! I got to see condors during my Monterey trip about 2 weeks after I drew this. Definitely one of my favorite lifers of the trip! #BirdArt #SciArt #Copic #AnimalArt #ArtYear 1/2

As the sun starts to set, a lot of people in Oregon and Washington are still without power, myself included. I have another warm place to stay. A lot of folks don't. Not to mention the thousands who didn't have a home to start with. The Northwest is not a safe haven from climate change. Nowhere is.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Oregon has a rare program that helps people get jobs when they leave prison. It's made a big difference. But budget cuts are threatening to end the program, & lawmakers are failing to act to fix it. NEW, check it out: boltsmag.org/oregon-priso...

Here are 15 seconds of peace if you need them, courtesy of Jackson-Frazier Wetland in Corvallis, OR. Turn your sound way up for the first bit, and you might hear the resident red-shouldered hawk, my favorite bird in this bird-rich place. #oregon #pnw

NatureScot seeks an experienced ornithologist for seabird conservation in Scotland. The role involves seabird restoration, resilience in colonies and Marine Protected Areas, advisory work, and developing research and guidance. Apply by 21 December 2025:

The wind and rain last night sounded like an ocean, and gave me ocean dreams. Blue skies this morning, pretty for everyone to look out at as we don't get work done because the power is out.

I wish more editors shared readership numbers with writers. These stories are a lot of work, and I want them to be read. Thrilled to report that my story on Arctic orcas, edited by @lkbotts.bsky.social, was @sierramagazine.bsky.social's most read story of 2025: www.sierraclub.org/sierra/top-t...

#BREAKING: New drone video from Pacific, WA, on Tuesday morning following a levee failure on the White River at Pacific City Park. Whole neighborhoods are underwater as water continues flowing out of the failed levee. #wawx #flood #drone

I hope this week has cured a few people of the notion that the Pacific Northwest is safe from climate change. By all means, come here. I'm not one of these pull-up-the-ladder-behind-me Oregonians. But be aware: there is no safe haven from a global crisis. www.opb.org/article/2025...

Earlier this year all conservatives agreed that mocking somebody's murder should cost you your job, so one of them should go fire the president.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Rob Reiner had one of the most wide-ranging audiences of any American filmmaker. People rewatch his films with nostalgia and joy. They quote them with parents and pass them down to children. Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.

Incredible that the same person directed both Misery and Princess Bride. Two perfect movies that could not be more different. That would be a career on its own and it barely scratches the surface.

Inconceivable

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.