Easily one of the most spectacular natural events I’ve ever seen: an endless river of Sooty Shearwaters along the Washington coast. These ocean-dwelling birds migrate 40,000 miles each year, foraging in massive flocks. This went nonstop for at least an hour. Best estimate is 100,000 birds.

If you haven’t read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” now would be a good time…

Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴

Outside the two federal races, the Freedom Caucus far-right wing is going down in flames in Wyoming tonight. There's been a big backlash against them since they took the state house majority last cycle. Tried to defund the university, got caught taking checks literally on the floor during session.

Eric Barlow, a rancher and state lawmaker, beat a Trump-backed candidate to win the GOP governor’s primary in Wyoming.

Eric Barlow Wins Wyoming’s Republican Governor Primary Over Trump-Backed Candidate

Eric Barlow’s defeat of Megan Degenfelder, the state superintendent of education, again showed the limits of the president’s favor.

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I know I'm the only sicko on here watching the Wyoming results, but for what it's worth, Trump's endorsee for governor is cruising to a double-digit defeat.

Reindeer not only eat plants, they also change what's happening in the soil. Reindeer induce lateral, vertical & functional shifts in root traits, alongside a more extreme soil microclimate, disproportionately affecting ericoids. doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #Reindeer #RootTraits #Microclimate #Ecology

I worked on this story for ten years… and… he just… he tweeted it out.

Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode)@probgobl.in · 2w ago

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

Reviewing manuscripts is a service, not a power trip.

So many caribou walked by one of our trail cameras on the Hudson Bay coast it is almost impossible to count them all. It is interesting how the groups include calves of the year, cows, young males, and even big mature bulls as well.

This century-old tradition dates back to the 1850s when a bishop's daughter first trained the birds to pull a hanging rope for lunch. IG: @maddy.lee.98 Bishop's Palace in Wells, Somerset, England

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

This research wouldn't have been possible without NASA Exobiology, which funded us to study the role ferns played in the recovery of life after Earth's most recent mass extinction. Under OMB's proposed rules, we wouldn't have been able to use grant funds to publish this paper (which is open access).

Great news!

Center for Large Landscape Conservation@largelandscapes.org · last mo.

A recent study of eight new rope bridges in Brazil recorded thousands of successful crossings by arboreal animals and no roadkill. Canopy bridges are the official recommended standard for highways in Brazil to reduce roadkill and reconnect habitat. news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero...

America’s retreat from wildlife protection will be felt far beyond its borders

America’s retreat from wildlife protection will be felt far beyond its borders

For more than half a century, the United States treated the protection of habitat as part of protecting endangered wildlife. The Endangered Species Act prohibited killing protected wildlife, and the…

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📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below

data visualization is my passion.

Oh my god, shut up with this stupid talking point. There is a Democrat on the ballot in Maine. He's the guy who won the Democratic primary over Chuck Schumer's handpicked candidate.

We just published a short comminication in Wildlife Biology. Link: doi.org/10.1002/wlb3... Using GPS telemetry data from 54 moose we show how using continuous information on forage abundance instead of categorical habitat covariates can improve inference on habitat selection.

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

What a strange migratory divide. Do the populations even mix? 🪶 Many red-necked phalaropes breed on small ponds in West Greenland. Had no idea that they probably go to the western side of Central America. #Ornithology 🌍 www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

Kyiv tonight 🇺🇲🇺🇦

Harris: mountain goats are not all right, especially native populations. We often don't know why, yet few resources are devoted to their conservation. They tolerate very little harvest, and I suspect they are very vulnerable to climate change. 🧪 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Our survey of states and provinces revealed that 13% of native mountain goat populations increased during the past 10 years, whereas 38% declined. For introduced populations, increases were roughly e...

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Mamdani is trying to prevent New York’s power grid from failing, you idiot. 78° by choice is a lot better than 100° without electricity.

The best part about this story is I have no idea if it happened but it sounds like something I did 100%

Blibleschmibble@mirna05.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RIP Tim Onion, a true hero. I remember meeting him at a bar once outside Barcelona and he looked at me and said "transgender communism" and you know what? He was right. I'll miss him.

Mel Sunquist -influential tiger biologist -has died. @rhettayersbutler.bsky.social beautifully describes Mel's legacy for @mongabay.com: "careful observation, sound science, and thoughtful mentorship were as important to conservation as the discoveries themselves." news.mongabay.com/2026/06/mel-...

Mel Sunquist, field biologist and mentor to generations of conservationists

In the 1970s, studying wild tigers still involved more nerve than equipment. A biologist could not rely on camera traps, GPS collars, or satellite-linked data. To understand where a tiger went, what i...

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You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“

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Best Twitter riposte of the day.

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month! Mindful that biology has been weaponized against the LGBTQ community by people who don’t know much about biology, I’m making daily, queer, biologically themed posts for #PrideMonth2026 6/29: Male ruffs come in 3 types: macho, transvestite, or in between. They’re born that way.