Break Up Edwin Holgate n.d.

The rare March -40 club

Fairbanks airport December through February 2025-26 average temperature was -14.6F (-25.9C), which is 10.5F (5.8C) below the 1991-2020 normal. This is the eighth coldest winter in the past century and the first "top ten" coldest since 1970-71. #akwx #Climate #Winter2026 @leahwrenn.bsky.social

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

We've had quite the winter in Fairbanks, for sure! alaskapublic.org/news/2026-02...

2023 "Kaugya'aq, the Fox" oil on panel by Linda Infante-Lyons. See more of her work here: lindainfantelyons.com #alaskahistory #alaska

2014 "‘Wat’sa with a Pearl Earring" print by Alison Bremner references Vermeer's "Girl with Pearl Earring." Per artist, it "examines the exclusion of Northwest Coast art from the canon of 'great art' in mainstream art history." #alaskahistory #alaska

Commonly seen winter birds in eastern Interior Alaska with their rightful Tanacross Dene names. Bird sketches courtesy @audubon.org #Dene #Language #Alaska #Birds

"Killer Whale Crushing" acrylic on birch panel by Sheldon Skillie. Via Steinbrueck Native Gallery. He wrote an accompanying poem: on a sound in a sound a song carries the vitality of longing

4 days left to get your free download of Disability & the Gothic.

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Thursday. Colder than normal across the region. Near record cold for late February in Interior & western Alaska. Anchorage had the lowest daily max temp so late in the season since 1992. Fairbanks the lowest max temp so late in 70 years. #akwx #weather

The Dec-Feb period in Fairbanks will be the coldest in 55 years. Congrats! 🥳 @alaskawx.bsky.social

Imperiled northern red-legged frogs need to cross a 4-lane highway in Oregon to lay their eggs. Every winter, volunteers carry them across.

Plugging this here to help my daughter- if you want Girl Scout Cookies I have a link- message me! Ships anywhere in the US 🍪

Another myth busted! Say it isn't so!!

Pet peeve: different languages might be “easier" or “harder" to learn for you or me as adults, but no language is intrinsically “hard” to learn: every language ever spoken in the past 25,000 years was functionally mastered by 10 year olds. #Language

"Rain, once rare in Antarctica, is becoming a force capable of reshaping life on the peninsula. Limiting warming to below 1.5°C won’t prevent these changes entirely. But it could slow how quickly rainfall transforms the frozen continent." —@iceybethan.bsky.social theconversation.com/rain-is-comi...

devastating update to the historical record

I will never tire of photographing Canada jays, especially when the lighting is just so lovely - taken at Wapusk Adventures near Churchill, Manitoba on a perfect winter day. #birds

Through Tuesday, Fairbanks February snowfall up to 38.5 inches (97.8cm). This moves the month into eighth place for highest monthly snowfall (since 1915). The 37.3 inches (94.7cm) Feb 11-24 is the seventh highest two-week total snowfall on record. #akwx #Climate #Snow @jenniferschell16.bsky.social

Is it really his name, though? Maybe, yes; maybe, no. Who knows? Not me! 🐋

Above Moraine Lake Lawren Harris 1926

I'm in the middle of this book right now and, friends, it is SO GOOD. The writing is exquisite in the best need-to-read-passages-aloud-to-my-partner-because-I'm-bursting-to-share-it kind of way.

I'm so glad doggies other than mine get to have fun in the snow! ❄️🐕❄️

Update on the late February 2026 status of Arctic snowpack and sea ice in the latest from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. #Arctic #SeaIce #Snow #Winter2026 alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/february-2...

February 2026 is now the 10th snowiest month on record for Fairbanks. @alaskawx.bsky.social

UAF ALERT: All classes in the Fairbanks and North Pole area are canceled on Tuesday, Feb. 24. The Troth Yeddha’ Campus and UAF Community and Technical College remain open, but may have reduced staffing. More information at https://uafalert.alaska.edu/

Hey skystorians and Native studies 👋 American Philosophical Society has an a fantastic grant funding program through the Phillips Fund for Native American research. This fund has supported me several times for Alaska oral history research I’m helping to get the word out to apply by March 2! 🗃️

Important piece by Carlos Santana @aeon.co, and the subtitle is on point: "Ecology is pervaded by a nativist dogma against invasive species that distorts the science and undermines wildness." Don't miss the part about Burmese pythons in Florida. #conservation #invasivespecies #ecology #environment 🧪

Amazing video! Blue whales and krill! 🐋

Amazing video! Blue whales and krill! 🐋

This might tickle your whiskers.

Best fossil find ever!!!!

James by Percival Everett! A fantastic book! #BQT #BookQuestionTime

It's #BQT #BookQuestionTime again: What's your favorite book, in any genre, whose title is only one syllable long? (Bonus points if you don't try to pretend that (in)definite articles in the title aren't part of the title.) As always, please feel free to include cover images!

This post is from last year, but it’s just as relevant for those who would like to start getting into some Black Native authors during Black History Month. Are there any Black and Indigenous books you’ve read or think should be highlighted? verastarbard.com/2025/01/31/b...

fuckin grim

I really appreciated the connection this film makes between what is happening in the Arctic and what is happening elsewhere on the continent. Plus, beautiful snowy owls! Worth watching!🦉🦉🦉🦉 #Arctic #climatechange #owls youtu.be/H3xKx0DAxQw?...

So, can we go back to calling it the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program? Or is it still gonna be the AN Science and Engineering Program?

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The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots

New #EnvHum publication: "The Inhuman Condition: Rethinking Anthropocentrism." Is humanity really to blame for the ecological crisis? Or are both humans and nonhumans victims of system that is bot inhuman and inhumane? I suggest the latter, and that an ecological anthropocentrism is needed.

Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @igagoths.bsky.social

Check out Georgia Irby's review of Asha De Vos's "Whale: The Illustrated Biography," published in 2025 by @princetonupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #animalhist #oceanhist #naturewriting🐋 www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

while the rest of the country celebrates presidents’ day, in alaska we are celebrating ELIZABETH PERATROVICH DAY 🎉… complete with parades, re-enactments, and banquets elizabeth, a native american woman, was essential in alaska passing the united states’ first anti-discrimination legislation in 1945

Baby boom continues for critically endangered whales! 🐋 Another North Atlantic right whale mom, “Ghost,” & calf pair has been spotted — bringing this season’s total to 22 calves. Congrats Ghost! 💙 Meet all the mom & calf pairs: https://oceana.ly/4blsTlM

Bowhead Whales are the ‘Songbirds of the Arctic Sea’ #SciComm by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #Whales🐋 #BowheadWhales #WhaleSong🎶 #ArcticWildlife grrlscientist.medium.com/bowhead-whal...

Happy Elizabeth Peratrovich Day! www.lynnlovegreen.com/post/alaska-... #AlaskaSky

In Alaska, we recognize Elizabeth Peratrovich Day. Her words really resonate today. “Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights that all people deserve.”