@docleslie.bsky.social
Biologist and science/environment/adventure travel writer for Canadian Geographic and others, tracking the intersecting climate and biodiversity crises; my books stray into fields like herpetology, invasive species and... skiing (weird, eh?).
I mean, he literally sounds like a jihadist!
Hey 👋 Can we help Cuba out?
Jail this oh-so-conflicted grifter!
Alberta is completely brainwashed.
The moral rot in the Republican Party seems immeasurable at this point.
We need a video game where you can kill ICE agents and, if you waste enough of them, get a shot at Trump.
I’ll bet it would be a mega-seller.
Like they haven’t gotten the message already.
Dude. Seriously?
As in… apparently not at all.
This might be one of the most heartening things I have ever seen.
I honestly teared up which tells me I’m not quite as jaded by the current state of the world as I think I am.
Bob Murphy was my doctoral supervisor when I was at the U. of Toronto/Royal Ontario Museum, so always loved this tale (and there are many more with Dr. Bob in my book “Snakebit”).
There are a hundred reasons why this is cool. I just don’t have time to explain them. 🤓 #herpetology
Also, he was a christofascist POS, so the signaling here is awful.
Excellent piece.
Well. Here we go again.
Four SETS of chromosomes. i.e., 4n versus 2n.
Probably a midterm thing. Must be a liver surplus in some red states.
Dear Humans,
Stop blaming me for all your bullshit. I don’t even exist. Grow up.
Our friend the Huila Stubfoot Toad lives in Columbia but has seen a huge decline in the wild. They were once believed to be extinct, but in 2006 a population was found in a remote area! (photo by Mark B. Robbins)
The inhumanity of the criminal Trump regime is staggering — and sickening.
But on brand…
Since there is zero pushback in his circles the verbal abuse just keeps getting worse.
The nest of this snapping turtle hatchling (2001) had been raided by what I imagine was a hungry racoon. I moved this little one to the shoreline for a better chance of survival.
#AlgonquinHighlands
#SnappingTurtle
Excellent opening salvo.
This cut Republicans off at the knees.
Controversial opinion but I'd rather have clean air and clean water and biodiversity even if it means having fewer data centers, which I know. Wild stuff here.
In Thailand, a coral cryobank tries to buy time for dying reefs news.mongabay.com/2026/02/in-t... 🦑 🧪 🌍️
Herpetology is cool
Turtles are cool.
Snake-necked turtles are very, very cool.
… and punish the rest of the world, who have done nothing to deserve it.
Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."
Skiing just got wild in Whistler.
I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself now that there isn’t any speed-skating to go home and watch. 🤷