This entire series is fantastic. I put off reading it for a while because it just seemed too painful, but in addition to its useful summary of the history of the American conservation movement and where we are now, the series also looks ahead to where we can--and must--go from here.
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Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the billions from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea.
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Poor pink salmon, people cannot get enough chances to hate on em
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What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.
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Bold lemurs, curious wolves, and flying mudskippers all await you in this year's BigPicture Photography Competition gallery on @biographic.bsky.social. Words by me and the incomparable @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social.
Check out some of the best nature photos in the world 👇
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Thanks to Krista for finding this fascinating study that offers a glimpse at how plants are changing to tolerate an increasingly urban—aka hotter, drier, dustier, and often bee-less—world.
It was a pleasure to learn more about how different plants do the deed. 🌱
“If you’re starting to get not hopeful,” Romero (@climatedaddykqed.bsky.social) continued, “leave your house.”
Solid advice—not just for journalists covering environmental crises in the current age, but for anyone who finds that tuning in leaves them burning out.
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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
Restoring gray wolves to their historic range has been challenging enough. Not to mention dire wolves were megafauna hunters. There is so much wrong here at every level and I feel so bad for these dogs.
Cover of TIME magazine showing a genetically-modified wolf, said to be a dire wolf but is not, with the headline “extinct” with a strikethrough, above the text “this is Remus. He’s a dire wolf. The first to exist in over 10,000 years. Endangered species could be changed forever” by Jeffrey Kluger
Of course mainstream media keeps rolling over for Colossal, providing uncritical hype and coverage in exchange for exclusivity and “wow.” What Colossal is doing is wrong and they can’t even deliver what they promise. How many times do we have to go over this?
I'm not pro-bigot, but whales have their own lives to live.
I need this level of investigation into KitKats ! pls help 🙏
When wildlife biologists use genetic sex tests, like SRY, they overlook animals that defy the binary.
Carla Crossman @dalhousie.bsky.social had a hunch that the result for one whale wasn't right.
Digging deeper, she discovered XXY chromosomes. And she thinks others should follow her lead 🧬🔬
🐋🐋🐋 whales swimming around with no concern for human definitions of sex.
Read 🧵 about about the discovery of the world's first known intersex Southern right whale 👀 🏳️🌈 🧪 🐙
Across the world and across species, scientists “have seen over, and over, and over, and over, that sex is clearly not binary,” says historian Beans Velocci.
Scientists have previously found intersex dogs, cows, fish, whales, dolphins, moose, many different types of invertebrates, and more.
Today is my last day with @hakaimagazine.com. They gave me one of my first breaks as a freelancer nearly a decade ago, and I've had a relationship with them ever since. It's bittersweet to say goodbye, but I'm excited for the next chapter.
Here's a 🧵 of some stories I've worked on over the years
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
Guess what?! And remember, the team @hakaimagazine.com is shuffling over to join biographic.com -- find us there in January!
Oh my goodness! My heart is full. Much thanks to Dr. Laura Guertin and her students. Wow: journeysofdrg.org/2024/12/15/s...
Two words for you: "coral" "sex"
Also, the pictures are really pretty 🪸
