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Jonathan C Slaght

@jonathanslaght.com

Author: Tigers Between Empires (2025). Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020, Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PEN America winner, Nat Book Award longlist). Work: Regional Director Temperate Asia @wcs.org. Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght

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Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 2h ago

I'm excited about this but also a little worried. Experiences in Russia show success when several tigers are released at once - males & females - rather than one at a time (so that they can concurrently establish territories). 1/2

The Times of Central Asia@timesca.com · 2d ago

Latest from our Stephen M. Bland Kazakhstan has released a tiger into the wild for the first time in more than 70 years, marking a major step toward restoring the species in the Ili River delta https://ow.ly/3ETK50ZvKjS #WildlifeConservation #TigerRestoration #Kazakhstan #EndangeredSpecies #Tigers

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 5d ago

Nature did a short piece on our preprint about how LLMs will affect the practice of science; my more detailed thread is below.

Scientists using LLMs will ‘do more, less well’, modelling study predicts

Research suggests that the combination of incentives to publish and the use of large language models will lead to more papers, but they will be less refined.

nature.com

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 4d ago

some nice feedback on Tigers Between Empires from a reader today: "Just finished Tigers and I’m in that space I can’t quite define that I enter after reading a very, very good book"

Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 5d ago

this is key to the findings: "the team [added] Spanish-language papers, papers from smaller journals[,] and samples from a museum in central Mexico" to English sources, doubling their dataset. So much info out there if people are willing to investigate non-English records!

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 5d ago

Did you know North and South America used to have a sea between them? South America was the Australia of the early Miocene, marsupials and all. Then, they joined at the Isthmus of Panama. And mammals from the north flooded south. Uh oh... www.sciencenews.org/article/mamm...

Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 5d ago

look, Panthera is great. But if you're reading a book about past and ongoing efforts by Wildlife Conservation Society to conserve Amur tigers, written by someone who works for WCS, and you want to donate money? Maybe Panthera (who does not work with Amurs at all) should not be your first thought

Social media post that says "Today is international tiger day. I’m currently reading Tigers Between Empires, a non-fiction book about the Siberian tiger project. It has some amazing details about what it takes just to get a somewhat accurate sense of how many tigers are out there and what we can best do to help them survive. A good charity if you are looking specifically to support big cats is https://panthera.org."
Jonathan C Slaght@jonathanslaght.com · 7d ago

it's International Tiger Day! How about you pick up my book charting the remarkable recovery of Amur (Siberian) tigers in northeast Asia? It's got stinky biologists, harrowing adventure in the snow, & lots of tigers! @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social has signed copies: moonpalacebooks.com/item/f10yIDk...

Tigers Between Empires by Jonathan C Slaght | Moon Palace Books

A Best Book of the Year: Scientific American, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, CounterPunch, The Telegraph, BookPageA Chicago Tribune Most-Anticipated Book of the Season“Epic .

moonpalacebooks.com

Wildlife Conservation Society@wcs.org · 2w ago

Check out this vertical. Our camera trap recently caught a jaguar’s near miss at an artificial watering hole in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala. You may recall, as droughts intensify, the water has been placed to provide relief. Wildlife videos are a lucky byproduct.

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don’t get why so many of you think our president is in mental decline, all he’s doing is imposing new taxes on you, because he thinks he’s punishing Canada, for being on fire

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Under the change, responsibility for investigating cases involving federal immigration officers would likely fall to Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE, effectively leaving the agency to investigate itself, according to guidance circulated among F.B.I. and ICE agents."

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

nytimes.com