Brandy! You graciously assigned that snarky takedown of Abundance; it would be fun to write an ode to something…
I second this motion! Disclosure: I am a credited science advisor to this film, though my contributions were pretty minimal, so I’m not an unbiased reviewer. But if someone wants to run a full-throated endorsement of the most ecologically intelligent animated movie since WALL-E, I’m your guy. 🦫 🫡
how did i miss that
The Fourth Fin!
A Court of Thornyheads and Roses
Credit where it's due: I think I basically just described Marah Hardt's SEX IN THE SEA.
Given lit trends, I'm rebranding my book as smut. It's about the romance of salmon, who navigate oceans & rivers to fuck & perish. It's about the sensuous slithering of lamprey; the orgiastic joy of herring; the bondage of male anglerfish. Cover art depicts a bull shark in a bodice. Ichthyoerotica.
Attn beaver believers: the Good Rodent gets plenty of well-deserved love in GRIZZLED, alongside a veritable menagerie of phenomenal critters, all told in Jason’s inimitably good-humored and wonder-struck style. Nab your copy today! 🦫 🦫 🦫
Omnishambles is the new polycrisis.
Great quotes in military history.
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I'll have more to say about this by Tuesday, but...yeah. No Miracle March in the cards for Western snowpack this year--quite the opposite, in fact. I'll take a closer look and have a livestream and blog post soon to discuss.
Enjoyed this little meditation on the unsung ecosystem engineering of kangaroo rats. Keystone species everywhere!
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It’s ya boy with his first (and presumably last) Pixar credit. Huge thanks to the HOPPERS team for consulting me on a film that combines beavers and #roadecology, and glad they learned from the best in @emilyfairfax.bsky.social. Can’t wait to see this 🦫 cinematic masterpiece in a theater!
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to widen the shipping channel leading into Port Everglades, blasting through a coral reef and dredging up sediment that could smother acres of coral, federal scientists say. https://wapo.st/4r7kRAU
Sheesh Jennifer spoiler alert!
NEW: Mamdani's City Hall is discussing charging fees for currently free on-street parking — a policy change that would not only create a new revenue stream but also seize a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve the streetscape. buff.ly/9C0Iq34
anyone happen to have a PDF of this paper, on the aquatic "vibroscape"? ben.a.goldfarb at gmail dot com
thanks!
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can't think of a better guy to give that talk!
you need to drop some crystals into a tank full of bluegill and publish their reaction
If you need a nugget of (mostly) good news this morning, I recommend this @mongabay.com story about a training and compensation program that incentivizes Indian fishermen to release whale sharks. Lotta good conservation lessons here.
news.mongabay.com/2026/02/whal...
Honored to have an excerpt from my book, "In Trees" (out 4/7) in the pages of this week's
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This piece is about the summer I spent in a treehouse to blockade an oil pipeline, and why some protest movements change history, while others fade quietly into obscurity.
Dawg if I was a cookie-cutter shark and found out that my species could have been known as the "demon whale-biter" instead I'd be fuckin' *pissed*. Absolute nomenclatural humiliation.
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In 8 days, my picture book, WHEN BEAVERS MOVE IN, hits store shelves. It tells the story of what happens after beavers are relocated and was partially inspired by EAGER by @bengoldfarb.bsky.social. Check out Ben's overview of the Tulalip Beaver Project, also highlighted in my forthcoming book.
Thought this was a bleakly brilliant rendering of our near-term future and the forces (i.e. run-amok military AI and the Derangement of climate change) that might get us there. It’s also about the overwhelm of the digital age, the narrow obsessions of writers and scholars, and so much else. Five ⭐️s.
The sensory pores on a paddlefish’s rostrum are sufficiently sensitive to detect the electric currents generated by zooplankton. The frilled shark has a gestation period exceeding three years. Arapaima nurse their offspring with milky fluid from glands in their heads. I accept the nomination.
BEHOLD the largest freshwater fish species in the world: the Beluga Sturgeon!
FINALLY got to see one in person at the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth along with the @garlab.bsky.social Team at the @mnafs.bsky.social @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social meeting!
What an incredible fish!
New York-ass staff never been to the damn desert
This is one of the things I am constantly (including in our book, Life After Cars) trying to get people to care about! This is killing us, folks
I stopped by @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in Minneapolis today to sign anti-ICE copies of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES. Get them Saturday, Feb 28 during "Authors for Minnesota Day" in support of local Minnesota bookstores and raising funds for the protection of civil rights. More: shorturl.at/o32PZ
