Oh give me a bay With a turtle and ray And a shopping cart where corals grow Where disease isn't seen And the algae that's green Doesn't kill but instead gives a glow (Loved editing this gem by @cgeib.bsky.social about @coralcitycamera.bsky.social and Miami's urban corals!)

The Corals That Shouldn’t Exist - bioGraphic

Beneath Miami’s skyscrapers, a colony of corals defies expectations—and offers insight into other undersea urban ecosystems.

biographic.com

"More than 60 percent of Google searches in the United States now end without the user clicking on a link. ... What used to be a meandering journey through the internet [is now] an immediate arrival at your destination." Fascinating stuff here, by a neuroscientist and former Google employee

Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask

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huge thanks to @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social for allowing me to inaugurate this new column! I'm excited to read more Field Notes; if there's anything I've learned from science reporting it's that there are miles of strange journey before most newsworthy destinations

are you interested in toad calls, cemeteries, walking around at night, and/or what the wood frog has in common with Jesus Christ? you can learn about all these things and more in my new essay for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/listening-fo...

Listening for Life Among the Dead - bioGraphic

A local chapter of a national frog survey convenes at a storied Massachusetts cemetery.

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This sounds exactly like the kind of project I've thought about doing but never actually followed through on. Ever since I was a baby newspaper reporter, I've thought there was so much story potential in the unsung lives of regular folks' obituaries: www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...

Breathing new life into the obituary.

A new podcast uses one of journalism’s oldest forms to explore universal truths.

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If you're familiar with John McPhee's 1973 classic "Travels in Georgia," you'll be tickled to know that the young naturalist who spent her time “collecting skulls and pelts, eating rattlesnakes, preserving natural areas, and charting the ranges of river frogs” is still doing much the same

"We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting...we also have reason to believe that the sale was motivated by fear within Springer Nature that our attempts to doggedly report on the crisis facing science in America today would lead to repercussions from the Trump administration."

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · last mo.

Statement by @sciamunion.bsky.social on Springer Nature's sale of Scientific American and massive editorial layoffs right before a successful union vote is counted. www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

📣 BIG NEWS! 📣 We're re-launching bioGraphic as a completely independent nonprofit! As we make this transition, we're taking a publishing (and social media) break in July and August. Then we'll be back with more inspiring, paywall-free journalism about the natural world. More details below 👇

"On a dripping-hot morning in July, the kind of day that makes you wonder why anyone moves to Florida, I exited the interstate and headed toward a ragged field sandwiched between Hollywood Boulevard and a Walmart Supercenter." One of the best openers I've had the pleasure of editing this year

bioGraphic@biographic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Florida's construction boom is encroaching on the habitat of a reclusive reptile known as the gopher tortoise--and creating a lucrative, tortoise-shuffling cottage industry that raises questions about the efficacy of animal translocations.

Good morning. May the day bring you a modicum of the joy felt by this bear after he swam a kilometer across frigid water Glacier Bay, Alaska, and came upon a scrawny tree. Video by my friend Whitney while I floated next to her in a kayak audibly gasping

Hi pals! I've got something I'm REALLY excited about in the works... I'll be editing a nonfiction anthology about the Yukon River. Timelines are tight so I'm mostly seeking out existing work (in your publication archive, sitting on your hard drive...) Please submit / share! forms.gle/Q622LYHExe7x...

It’s telling that even @jfleck.bsky.social is burning out in Colorado River Basin dysfunction & is turning his “attention to the local level, which is where the problem solving responsibility seems to rest right now.” Gulp. 🚰🚱🥃🔫🌊

Coyote Gulch@coyotegulch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#ColoradoRiver Basin – new report from my colleagues on the implications of running on empty -- John Fleck (InkStain.net) #COriver #aridification coyotegulch.blog/2026/06/09/c...

"'Why do we do astrophysics?' Hogg offered an answer. It wasn’t to solve the cosmos but to grapple with it: a journey, not a destination." THIS, from @joshuasokol.bsky.social, gets at the heart of why I despise genAI: it assumes that writing is a product rather than an experience

Amid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their field

Researchers see enormous power in new tools—but also the potential end of astrophysics as a human endeavor

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Listen, I wear as much Patagucci as the next outdoorsy middle-class white woman, but i found this super thought-provoking. “It’s outrageous that a corporation that exploits a name as part of its marketing sues others for doing the same.”

Emily Atkin@emorwee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Re: Patagonia v. Pattie Gonia I spoke with a trademark attorney and two scholars of Indigenous Patagonian history to understand both the legal and ethical question everyone is asking. The answers are way more complex than social media is making them out to be.

We've got a big feature out today (with gorgeous photographs) about the Ukrainian conservationists working to save a herd of bison from the ongoing Russian invasion. It's about the hope that conservation can offer in times of war, and the ways that animals' lives are entangled human geopolitics.

Saving Bison as Bombs Fall - bioGraphic

Amid the destruction of war, Ukrainian conservationists remain determined to help a European bison herd persevere.

biographic.com

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

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A quite lovely photo of a worm inside this tunicate! Is it eating? or... ? #wormwednesday #tunicatetuesday via @biographic.bsky.social www.biographic.com/friends-or-f...

Friends or Foes? - bioGraphic

A flatworm and a sea squirt mingle in the tropical waters of West Papua, offering a glimpse into the complexity of interspecies relationships.

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Last week the @biographic.bsky.social team learned that, owing to an ongoing deficit, the California Academy of Sciences will no longer provide us with financial support. We're reaching out to foundations that support environmental journalism. We've got plans, we just need some help!

Cannot believe that those of us from Hakai are going through this again. This industry is brutal, man.

bioGraphic@biographic.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week the bioGraphic team learned that, owing to an ongoing financial deficit, the California Academy of Sciences—where we’ve made our home for the past decade—will no longer be able to provide us with financial support, including support we were expecting this year.

Stolen from FB....

"And what might a bumblebee dream of? The moments of their life, perhaps: the flowers they have visited, their taste and smell. The paths they followed to get there. Other bees they have known." This @brandonkeim.bsky.social essay, originally published in @nautil.us, is an absolute beauty

Planting Seeds for Bumblebee Dreams - bioGraphic

Sowing flowers in spring may have a surprising effect on the inner lives of bees.

biographic.com

Oof, and another one from @highcountrynews.org: March’s record-smashing heat on the tail of a warm, dry winter echoes the 2021 heat dome, just as scientists are beginning to grasp the long-term ecological consequences of that event.

The ramifications of record-shattering heat on the West’s ecosystems - High Country News

Understanding the ecological consequences of the March 2026 heat wave across the West will take years, but research on a 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave offers some insights.

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“When March looked like June, what are June and July going to look like?” An incredibly sobering but well-reported @highcountrynews.org article on what happens when drought and heat come for the already overtaxed Colorado River system.

Emergency plans for the Colorado River buy time, not solutions - High Country News

The federal government ordered Flaming Gorge water released and cuts to Lake Powell releases, to prevent collapse.

hcn.org

"Many beloved ecosystems were maintained by people—through burning, weeding, hunting, harvesting, grazing, & cultivation. Landscapes with low-intensity use are often more biodiverse than places with no use. The idea of keeping people out of nature to preserve it is making less and less sense."

Tending to Paradise

A rare prairie ecosystem shaped by humans in Washington State exemplifies a shift in how conservationists envision our relationship with the natural world.

biographic.com

I really wanted to make this headline "Puff Puff Pass" but sadly got voted down

bioGraphic@biographic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

After BBC Earth filmed juvenile male bottlenose dolphins playing catch with an inflated pufferfish, some observers speculated that the animals were intentionally getting high on tiny doses of the pufferfish's toxin. Might sea lions do the same? www.biographic.com/pass-the-puf...

“It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn't that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.” —Madeline Lucas, Thirst for Salt

Aztec, NM ! We Love Jack's Plastic Welding !!

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 4mo ago

So proud of our New Mexico companies, scientists, researchers, and institutions that lent a hand in the Artemis II mission. Including Jack’s Plastic Welding that built the recovery rafts right here in NM! 🌊🔭🚀

Can anyone here answer some questions about sea squirts for me? @echinoblog.bsky.social do you know anyone who specializes in tunicates?

Best sticker ever

It's always a delight to work with @katarinazimmer.bsky.social, and this story checks all the boxes for me as an editor: ✅ Weird invertebrate with fascinating biology ✅ Traditional ecological knowledge that matters in the modern world ✅ Pacific Islands culture ✅ Myths and symbolism

The Moon of the Palolo Worm

In the Pacific Islands, communities count on the annual spawning of a species of sea worm to fill bellies, spark celebration, and shape peoples’ sense of time.

biographic.com