applying for an important job. wish me luck

thanks Chris!!

What's New in Animals & Plants | Cara Giaimo | Substack non-specious species happenings. Click to read What's New in Animals & Plants, by Cara Giaimo, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids

Once-Adventurous Salmon Can’t Believe She Ended Up Moving Back To Birthplace, Having A Bunch Of Kids theonion.com/once-adventurous-salmon-...

i think somerville might have more of these per capita than anywhere on earth

Keep Honking, I’m Listening to You Honking Keep Honking Bumper Sticker Turn honking into a social experiment with the Keep Honking, I’m Listening to You Honking Sticker! This keep honking bumper sticker is waterproof and durable.

ok someone else thought of this www.frogmustardstickers.com/products/kee...

i think the second one is better

notice i'm not giving an option for "neither." this is my page

which version of this hypothetical bumper sticker is more amusing:

Keep honking! I'm listening to it!

or

Keep honking! I'm listening to you honk!

judge corn not, lest ye be judged

tell us the order Tim! the people need to know

do i know anyone at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory?

Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

"The MA Department of Correction... formally partners with ICE to transfer people who have finished their sentences: Since 2007 the state prison system... regularly sends people exiting Massachusetts prisons directly into ICE custody" @burness.bsky.social/@boltsmag.org

boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals

wrote about something very important www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...

Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals

I shared a few thoughts with the excellent @cjgiaimo.bsky.social for her New York Times piece on chimps and crystals.

Captive chimpanzees were keen on these glittery objects; only time will tell tell if (as the study authors suggest for hominins) they can alter the evolution of perception 🧪🔮

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Mark Up | Granta For an online series, Mark Up, we invited writers to tell us their thoughts on...

really enjoying this series granta.com/mark-up/

any primatologists hanging out around here who might want to provide comment on an embargoed paper that i'm writing up today? let me know! #primatology #primates

this starts in about 1 hour! come to bird school

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood - The Boston Birding Festival SUNDAY MARCH 1, 3:00 PM ET A conversation with writer Adam Nicolson live from Sussex via Zoom and local science writer Cara Giaimo

Hey birdbrains (complimentary),

Next Sunday at 3 PM, I’ll be speaking on Zoom with Adam Nicolson about his book “Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood.”
It's a lyrical and unusual book that really wraps you up in birds. join us, signup link here: www.bostonbirdingfestival.org/posts/bird-s...

i've been freelancing for about seven years and have never been able to solve this problem. if anyone else has figured it out please let me know.

freelancing means that at any given time, media and tech companies collectively owe me between $10,000 and $20,000 in overdue payments. this often means i'm sweating to pay my own bills/taxes. at the moment one of these companies is publicly bragging about how much money they have

what a godawful day for journalism, following a great many other godawful days for journalism

my hater should come forward and face me rather than hiding behind these dinky stars

it was worth a shot! loved your paper

i tried you guys

Endangered Toad Wins Legal Victory Against Highway Construction in Ecuador - Inside Climate News The court invoked Ecuador’s rights of nature laws in halting a highway project to protect the Jambato harlequin toad, requiring the government to prove construction won’t drive the species to extincti...

An Ecuadorian court has blocked construction of a highway after ruling it poses an imminent and irreversible threat to the rights of a critically endangered toad, a decision that underscores the country’s unique constitutional protections for nature.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...

Environmental reporting is under pressure — just as biodiversity loss and climate impacts accelerate.

Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship supports early-career journalists from tropical countries with paid mentorship & publishing support.

Apply Dec. 15–Feb. 1: buff.ly/oARaICG.