ICYMI Trump repealed an executive order meant to to protect and restore Chesapeake Bay

Senator Tim Kaine@kaine.senate.gov · 19h ago

This is a massive mistake. The Chesapeake Bay plays a critical role in Virginia's economy and seafood industries, and we must take steps to protect the waters and shores of the region. I'm going to do everything I can to fight this. www.wboc.com/news/trump-a...

My latest for @snexplores.bsky.social explores how scientists follow red-footed boobies soaring over the open ocean with loggers/cameras and discovered that the birds have a novel way of catching fish without getting wet! #scicomm #ecology #birdoftheday #birds www.snexplores.org/article/tagg...

Spying on the secret lives of boobies

New high-tech tools let scientists “tag” along with these red-footed seabirds to solve the mystery of how boobies spend their days at sea.

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Just started Reefs of Time (nonfiction) by @lisasgardiner.bsky.social, which I did indeed learn about from here

My latest for @eos.org, about scientists who figured out how much SoCal harmful algal blooms are amplified by wastewater (and how much of a difference cleaner wastewater could make for sea lions, seabirds, and shellfisheries). Thanks to all who spoke with me for this story! #marinelife #scicomm

Eos@eos.org · last wk.

Scientists at @uclaioes.bsky.social @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social learned just how much wastewater nutrients transform harmful algal blooms in SoCal. 🧪 eos.org/articles/was...

Scientists at @uclaioes.bsky.social @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsantacruz.bsky.social learned just how much wastewater nutrients transform harmful algal blooms in SoCal. 🧪 eos.org/articles/was...

Wastewater Can Take Harmful Algal Blooms from Bad to Worse - Eos

By modeling toxic diatoms and coastal processes, scientists have discovered the degree to which nutrients from Southern California’s densely populated coast affect these blooms.

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There aren’t just two types of El Niño (super and not so super). I’m happy to say that El Niño is a spectrum! Read all about it in this super El Niño explainer I wrote for @ucarscied.bsky.social #climate #weather #superelnino #elnino scied.ucar.edu/learning-zon...

Should be the biggest story today by some distance. Truly mad that it isn’t. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535094...

UN: World now all but certain to 'overshoot' critical 1.5C global warming threshold

UNEP sets out 'best-case' scenario of 1.8C for global average temperature rise, but maintains world can still limit, adapt to, and eventually reduce warming to or below 1.5C threshold in future

businessgreen.com

A GREEN veggie market - my news to me good news for Aug 28 #EarthOptimism www.euronews.com/2026/08/28/p...

London unveils biggest ever solar project on major veg market

A sprawling London fresh produce market is producing its own power thanks to record-breaking rooftop solar.

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Beluga whales "sing in breeding grounds, chatter in groups during birth, and echo-locate to help each other find food." Research described here is by Valeria Vergara. Thank you to @raincoast.org for your work! #whales #cetaceans #animalcommunication #ocean #conservation

How decoding beluga whales’ chitchat may save them – and teach us more about ourselves

From humpbacks learning the latest songs to sperm whales’ ‘clan codas’, drones and AI learning are helping reveal another dimension to the concept of culture

theguardian.com

A 2,000 foot chunk of glacier snapped off and dropped 4,000 feet in Nepal. The flash flood killed 98 people. 391 tourists are missing. 47 Americans unaccounted for. 19 bridges gone. This isn't a natural disaster. This is climate breakdown.

Speaking of echinoderms, here’s some hand-colored illustrations of echinoderm species showing off their unique, pentamerous radial symmetry. Plate from ‘Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle’ by French botanist Charles d'Orbigny, published in 1849. #invertefest Coin for scale. 🦑

bookswain.bsky.social@bookswain.bsky.social · 3w ago

Some cephalopods for #invertefest in a plate from an oversized folio of cephalopod & echinoderm illustrations in my personal library from ‘Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature’ published in Paris in 1791.

Do you want to write a story about volcanoes that changed history? the editor asked. Why yes. Yes, I do. My piece in @knowablemag.bsky.social on the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days that can transpire after an eruption: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪🌋

Volcanoes that made history

Long after the lava stopped flowing, enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe

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After the hottest month on record

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last mo.

House Republicans have advanced a bill prohibiting requirements for employers to provide access to rest, shade, and water in extreme heat.

Reefs of Time is a Colorado Book Award finalist! 📚💙🪸🐠Hooray! I'm so honored! @princetonupress.bsky.social coloradohumanities.org/programs/col... #marinelife #corals #scicomm #booksky

COLORADO BOOK AWARDS - Colorado Humanities

Celebrating the accomplishments of outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers in Colorado.

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We've "placed undue emphasis on competition in the natural world & underplayed the roles of cooperation & collaboration ... Togetherness is not an attempt to make evolution cuddlier & more palatable ... it is a corrective deeply informed by what we have learned since Darwin about how nature works."

Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature

This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again

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Folks who have had their work reviewed in right wing outlets: how should I prepare? My book is being reviewed in two of them and I'm unsure what I should batten down.

Buying rare books so that you can feed them to a machine and then destroy them sounds like the plot of a cartoon bad guy in the 1980s. But it’s real now. These people are just total jerks. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Pop into the Women & Climate Book Club on Tuesday to chat about Reefs of Time. The link to sign up is in Maria’s post below. (P.S. It’s okay with me if you haven’t read the book yet!)

Maria Tooker@mariatooker.bsky.social · last mo.

Women and Climate Member-Led #BookClub meets 8/11/26 at 8pm EDT. Dr. @lisasgardiner.bsky.social will be joining us for a full-book discussion of "Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival." Sign up here: luma.com/1juw2h63 New members always welcome! We hope you can make it!

We wouldn't be here without poop: defector.com/we-wouldnt-b...

We Wouldn't Be Here Without Poop | Defector

Julien Kimmig’s career began with a surprising abundance of feces. As a PhD student working at a Cambrian site in northern Canada, Kimmig realized that roughly half the fossils in that outcrop were…

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Gnawed not sawed. There’s got to be a beaver around here.

My latest read. The author explains the origin of birds with evolution & paleontology without getting too technical & in an engaging style. He also mentions fellow researchers by name & generously credits them for their work. Thanks Queens Public Library. @qplnyc.bsky.social #booksky #QPL #science

Parrotfish poo! Learn more about how these fish shape coral reefs at: www.snexplores.org/article/parr...

Parrotfish shape the future of coral reefs, one bite at a time

Could these colorful fish aid struggling coral? Yes, but not always. Parrotfish play a complex role in reefs — and sometimes may cause harm.

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Coral City Camera@coralcitycamera.bsky.social · last mo.

Rainbow parrotfish beach sand delivery system 🫣🌈🦜🐟💩🏝️ #rainbowparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #howbeachsandismade #coralcitycamera

Mangrove forests were long viewed as expendable, and turned into rice paddies, oil palm plantations, fish farms and even rubbish tips. But since 2010, they have expanded globally by more than 2,000 km2. That's *great* news for wildlife, climate and people. theconversation.com/the-worlds-m...

The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back. That’s good news for our coasts and climate

A new study suggests the world’s mangrove forests are expanding.

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“[Reefs of Time] conveys a sense of humanity, portraying scientists not as distant figures but as creative, diverse, and interdisciplinary problem-solvers working together toward a solution to combat reef mortality” - @paleosoc.bsky.social book review at www.paleosoc.org/index.php?op... #booksky 💙📚

"An extraordinary collection of Darwin manuscripts has been transcribed, edited and added to Darwin Online from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library." darwin-online.org.uk/whatsnew.html #history #evosky

What's new on Darwin Online

Darwin Online is the largest Darwin publication/resource in the world— and probably the most comprehensive scholarly website on any historical person. As an active research project, countless new…

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Excited to share Lost in Curiosity with the Curious Reading Club! Book club founder Bobbie Johnson writes that while most science books focus on big results, Lost in Curiosity "does precisely the opposite, in a fascinating and exciting way."

Curious Reading Club@readcurious.xyz · 2mo ago

Our book of the month for August is @robertakwok.bsky.social’s brand new “Lost in Curiosity”—a collection of surprising, sharp portraits of researchers at work. It’s pop science that avoids the typical pop science narrative. Sign up to get your copy now! newsletter.readcurious.xyz/p/cur028-ann...

Happy #OwlAwarenessDay to all WHOOOOO celebrate. Enjoy this cyanotype of a screech #owl I met in my neighborhood.

🦉 It's #OwlAwarenessDay! These #owls are from Atlante Ornitologico (1902). Contributed to BHL by the Research Library of @amnh.org: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7879732... 📖

I'm so glad the reviewer saw this in the book. It was one of my main motivations for writing it. I'm so grateful for the diversity of scientists from a multitude of fields who are working to help coral reefs have a future. You all inspire me. #coral #marinelife

Lisa S Gardiner@lisasgardiner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“[Reefs of Time] conveys a sense of humanity, portraying scientists not as distant figures but as creative, diverse, and interdisciplinary problem-solvers working together toward a solution to combat reef mortality” - @paleosoc.bsky.social book review at www.paleosoc.org/index.php?op... #booksky 💙📚

“[Reefs of Time] conveys a sense of humanity, portraying scientists not as distant figures but as creative, diverse, and interdisciplinary problem-solvers working together toward a solution to combat reef mortality” - @paleosoc.bsky.social book review at www.paleosoc.org/index.php?op... #booksky 💙📚