David G Haskell

Enjoy! I'm delighted to see my book in such great company

The Guardian US is hiring a senior science investigative reporter: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/795/

Death, impermanence, and cake
The afterlife of trees

Impermanenence This is "Impermanenence" by Triptych Journey on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

A new short video from our Beneath the Bodhi Tree production. This clip explores impermanence and features excerpts from our interview with @dghaskell.bsky.social, @joanhalifax.bsky.social, and Anam Thubten. It also includes archive footage from our Precious Guru production. vimeo.com/1084457498

Yup

Giving these companies direct portals into education seems like an appalling idea. It is possible just to say NO. AI infestation of classrooms is not inevitable. Students' minds and learning would benefit from a clear no.

Thank you, Tom!

Flowers are great illusionists. Here's one example. Others are more extreme, like orchids that mimic female wasps, conning males into trysts that are fruitless for the insect but very helpful for the flower.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.

thank you!!

Utility companies keeping the coal- and gas-fired electricity plants open to power AI. So, from all of us who live downwind (read: all of life on Earth), no thanks. Google is not your friend...

Little update on Facebook's decision to shut my account.

EPA to propose rolling back climate rule for power plants Wednesday It marks an escalation in President Donald Trump's effort to purge climate initiatives from the federal government.

Today's the day when the US government officially throws in the towel on the climate fight. Which means the rest of us have to pick up the slack
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Absolutely appalling. Your voice there was one of the few sources of light, nuance, and reasoned analysis on that benighted site. I'll be following here, and posting to my Facebook followers to find you here.

Gnarled trunk of old chestnut tree. Supported by leaning timbers. Fence in background.

The secret to long life? Sink roots into a volcano. So says a 3000+ yr-old chestnut on Mt Etna. The soil here is the dark color of cinders blasted from the hot underskin of the Earth. A recent wound. A recent gift. Mineral rich. Too well drained for nasty diseases. Encircled by hazels and vineyards.

Thank you, Mike. I'm a big fan of Gods, Wasps, Stranglers and have recommended and gifted the book to many people. Thank you for your generous words about The Forest Unseen.

Thank you!

My neighbors told me about it. Glad to see sounds getting some good attention and love the story-telling approach used. A few spots could use nuance, but that's what books are for.

Heads up! Proposed subject heading changes at LC. Deadline for public comments is TODAY. #libraries

Shame on you. Run the ad. Democracy dies in cowardice

Carolina wren belting out its rolling song an hour before dawn, booms of receding thunderstorm audible in distance
#atlanta

Delighted to send the manuscript for my next book to my editor. How flowers made our world...

thank you! i am delighted that you found some worth in the book's pages

What a shocking federal overreach. Glad to know that Elon is gutting these overzealous bureaucrats and making the word safe for pathogens and predators of all kinds

Both are crimes against humanity

Why don't you call this what it is? Headline: Trump advocates ethnic cleansing of war zone, in violation of international law

Great to see you here!

Ouch. Next step, AI as peer reviewers...

These are the 20 most-studied bacteria — the majority have been ignored Model microbes such as Escherichia coli hog scientists’ attention, leaving most known bacteria with few publications devoted to them.

Science has a nasty E coli infection, apparently. Time to boost the microbiome of the peer-reviewed literature...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great idea. Also, friendly otters. Maybe in claymation

?? 11 million people in GA. 9.6 in LA Co. But point taken.