Sarah Boon

It's not just about wildfire, but about wildlife as well. See @bengoldfarb.bsky.social 's CROSSINGS.

Great. Another winner.

Welcome to the Anthropocene. 🫠

How Canada Squandered Its Drone Lead | The Walrus We slipped from pioneer to bystander, but the war in Ukraine is forcing a reboot

How Canada can modernize its military by capitalizing on drone technology developed right here at home. thewalrus.ca/how-canada-s...

Autumn musings from WS Merwin

This needs to get more air time. Not that there aren't a million things rn that need air time.

UVic-led Ocean Networks Canada shares data from first all-Canadian Antarctic expedition Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is making research data from the first all-Canadian-led scientific expedition to the Antarctic publicly available.

Learn how ONC is playing a key role in managing and processing the oceanographic data from the Canadian Antarctic Research Expedition, soon to be available on our open access, data management portal Oceans 3.0 🧊 bit.ly/4h1bfEC

🧪 🌊 #KnowTheOcean #CDNsci #SciComm #DataScience #BigData

"In rapid fire, I was hit seven times on my arms, face and torso with exploding pellets that contained some kind of chemical agent."

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

There is no ‘debate’, there is only sophistry at this stage. The International Court of Justice described Gaza as a ‘plausible genocide’ last year. On the 18th of September 2025 an expert UN Independent International Commission of Enquiry found the actions of the Israeli state as genocide:

Go Canadian #womeninSTEM

The Wall Hanging The sound of the sewing machine was soothing, like that of waves on a beach. I cut and sewed, sewed and cut. Slowly the wall hanging began to take shape in my hands.

My latest essay, for The Manifest Station www.themanifeststation.net/2025/09/15/w... @manifeststation.bsky.social

This only happens to you once

Really?

Hope getting outside helped!

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

For those who were directly targeted by Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric, bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech signal the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in an essay for The New York Times Magazine.

A Mother’s Specter | Los Angeles Review of Books Ade Khan reviews Arundhati Roy’s memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me.”

Adelia Khan on Arundhati Roy's new memoir. lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo... in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Constitution to Give Trump Terrifying New Powers The conservative supermajority's lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.

"(This) is the kind of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse." slate.com/news-and-pol...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

All of this. It makes zero sense to expect public goods to generate profit.

Trump Is Setting the National Parks Up to Fail Workers say the real crisis is happening behind the scenes.

“We are really pulling out all the stops to make sure that the impacts are being hidden.” National Park Service workers say a crisis is building behind the scenes, Kylie Mohr reports.

The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent The public has less than a week remaining to comment on the administration's plans.

Using an emergency declaration, Trump’s timber production executive order would ease environmental protections so as to greatly expand logging in the national forests.

A report from our friends at @highcountrynews.org:

Take this course if you can - packed full of useful information for writers.

Merriam Webster NEW 12th Edition Collegiate Dictionary

We have some words for you.

Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

The NEW Twelfth Edition.

Made of paper.

11.18.2025

www.merriam-webster.com/collegiate-d...

Grassy dunes, the ocean, and jagged mountains in Iceland

Do you work in conservation science, particularly outside the U.S.? Did you lose your job or funding for your job because of cuts to U.S. federal agencies? Do you want to talk about it? DM me please. (This is for a @biographic.bsky.social story)

[Iceland photo for attention only]

Ha.

Winners of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards The winning and honored images from this year’s contest, designed to “promote the very best landscape photography by digital and film photographers who value realism and authenticity in their work,” s...

Timeline Cleanse --> Otherworldly landscapes, right here on Earth
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Mario Guevara

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

This is how Trump ends democracy The past week has revealed Trump’s road map to one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

Must read: “We are where Hungarians were in 2010, where Russians were in 2000, & where Germans were in 1933. Those places’ futures were not inevitable; had elites & even ordinary people made different choices, catastrophes could have been avoided. Ours still can be too.”
www.vox.com/politics/462...

Opinion | These editor’s notes are poison. I learned from every drop. Working with Starling Lawrence, who died last month, was a bracing course in a vanishing art.

Great article about the relationship between a writer and his editor. What a fascinating piece. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Nice to see innovative approaches to aquatic pollution.