The rich were never going to save us.

Happy National Plover Appreciation Day! 💕

The Trump family got a $2 billion deposit into their crypto company, the United Arab Emirates got a huge amount of restricted AI chips despite security concerns. Our story about how how business is being done, and influence gained, in the second Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

I wrote about the Reiser brothers and their hilarious, disgusting Listers documentary for Slate: slate.com/culture/2025...

Gotta cut my hobbies from my ICE application now help.usajobs.gov/faq/applicat...

This country feels cooked

this is genuinely nuts

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

Also top-notch wintering habitat for imperiled #grassland birds like Sparague's Pipit and Baird's Sparrow. #ornithology

Thanks @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social and @thatsmohrlikeit.bsky.social for the interest and great write-up!!! ##ornithology

"In this book, avian ecologist and former PBS Birdwatch host Richard Hutto challenges conventional wisdom by revealing the hidden beauty and ecological importance of severely burned forests." 🌏https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-03180-8

Tiny tech, tiny birds, long migrations! My latest for @highcountrynews.org: www.hcn.org/articles/the...

When someone says "I don't make propaganda" every 3rd sentence...thats how you know its propaganda.

This is wrong and I'm so tired

Anyone know about this organization? They write in AI/corporate/buzzword slop language and appear to pay exploitatively low wages - www.wildlifeandparks.org

Land of California Thrashers, breakfast burritos and despair.

Recreational killing and lead poisoning. There is no justification cowboystatedaily.com/2025/08/16/t...

For journalists: 1) The executive branch has no oversight role for SI. 2) The temporary Trump impeachment reference was removed for 2 weeks and replaced with a permanent one. Please journalist better.

Can we leave the Whiskered Auklets out of this?

So can we jail the Christian Scientists for medical neglect now?

Gfy.

The Republicans’ domestic policy legislation will most likely raise after-tax incomes of the richest Americans while its cuts to social spending will leave the poorest at a substantial disadvantage, according to an analysis released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

Notably, 770,000 acres of this figure are federal public lands, 50,000 belonging to the state of Wyoming. Pet peeve but I dont like it when megacorporations imply they own what's ours.

Yeh and I pledged to lose 10 lbs and do all my reviews on time, pledges aren't news www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

These people will seek sexual and social gratification from a big tech product but want their medical care straight from the bronze age.

Nobody hired Colin Wright because he was an insufferable prick doing bad science. No need to dive deeper than that. The heterodox grift fits him like a glove, though.

In what world do protected areas only serve species-specific #conservation? I get it, protected areas are out of fashion but this is just nonsense.

#conservation #ecology #JOB Supervisory Research Ecologist GS-15 at Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, VA. ~$165k/yr. www.usajobs.gov/job/841546500

As chancellor of the Smithsonian, Chief Justice John Roberts has been known to preside over meetings with a strict focus on rules and procedures, and avoid partisan debates. The institution being in President Trump's crosshairs could make that more difficult.

This will be devastating to many friends and the Missoula, MT community in general

A senior State Department official who was fired as a White House speechwriter during the first Trump administration for attending a gathering of white supremacists has been appointed acting president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, according to the State Department.

The former CEO of My Faith Votes, a prominent conservative Christian activist, has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. My Faith Votes was founded in 2015 to mobilize millions of conservative Christians to vote in elections.

this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Ivy schools have always been a 🚩🚩 for me honestly, between all flash no pan graduates and consistent reproducibility issues w/science but my god has this administration confirmed those priors.

Breaking News: President Trump was told by Pam Bondi this spring that his name appeared in the Epstein files, said people who know of the exchange.

"When Justice Department officials reviewed what Pam Bondi called a 'truckload' of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump’s name appeared multiple times, according to senior administration officials" Free link www.wsj.com/politics/jus...

For nearly 15 years, Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein socialized in New York and Florida before a falling out that preceded Epstein’s first arrest. What seemed to draw them together, according to those who knew them at the time, was a common interest in hitting on — and competing for — young women.

We eradicated prairie dogs from 98% of the Great Plains I'm sure yall will figure it out

Anyone got a video of a hare having the shit scared out of it by a curlew — ah, don’t worry, got one anyway!

The Big Beautiful Bill can be a wake-up call for Democrats on food and ag policy. I wrote in @nytimes.com that now is the moment for them to stop supporting ludicrous and destructive welfare programs for rich Republican farmers who hate them. Time for a new approach! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/o...

There is no one more pathetic than Bill Ackman. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

I'll get conservation canceled for this but you could pass a bill selling small tracts within 3mi of city limits directly to cities in a bipartisan way and it would be a good thing.

NEW: Sec. Noem has now admits "last mile" disaster communications weren't up to par in the Texas catastrophe. But while bodies were still being recovered on Tuesday DHS canceled a $3 million grant focused on improving precisely those kinds of "last mile" comms. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...

Quick ask for the ##ornithology #motus community. Anyone have a CTT 'sidekick' tag locator you can spare for a few weeks ASAP?? Grad student looking to test it out this summer, but CTT back ordered.

Guess we're gonna find outbid you can make payments on your ranch in liberal tears alone

Today,...really?

So, would you call this a 'Great Leap Forward'?

Everything it does is mediocre by definition