Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

ICE arresting firefighters fighting a wildfire in WA state:
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Thanks for the interesting assignment!

A Home Made of Microplastics - bioGraphic Caddisfly cases from museum collections reveal that microplastics infiltrated “pristine” freshwater environments far earlier than suspected.

I do love scientific research in natural history collections that answers questions we thought were lost to time. Great piece by @chrisasolomon.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/a-home-made-...

A Home Made of Microplastics - bioGraphic Caddisfly cases from museum collections reveal that microplastics infiltrated “pristine” freshwater environments far earlier than suspected.

An unsettling story if you love fishing, or water, or little wild things: www.biographic.com/a-home-made-...

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

OK I sent to you again...

OK I will try again! look for: solochris@ gmail.com . Sending again right now.... Thank you!

Florian - I have been trying to reach you; I'm a reporter in the USA who wants to write about the caddis study. Can you look for my emails I sent to your work and gmail account, and reply? Thank you! I need to speak to you this week....

Recommended Reading Sunday, April 27, 2024

Grateful to have my essay on life, death--and chickens--appear on "The Best of Journalism" CONOR FRIEDERSDORF's Best of Journalism this week: thebestofjournalism.substack.com/p/recommende...

Faith Kipyegon plans to be the first woman to break four minutes in the mile The legendary runner Faith Kipyegon is aiming to do something that sports scientists once considered impossible. We went inside her Kenyan training camp to understand how she’s pushing the limits of h...

BREAKING: Faith Kipyegon, the best middle-distance runner in history, will attempt to break th 4-minute-mile in June in Paris--the first woman to do so. I wrote about it, and her: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Wanted to re-up this for those in the back: The best killing-a-chicken story you'll read this week. (Pictured: author with one of his critics.) In @orion_magazine
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

Thank you, Monica!

@newmillwritings.bsky.social hi - I tried to use submittable to apply for the awards... and the payment page has an error -- it charges one submission as two submissions. Possible to fix? Thank you!

Thank you, Krista!

The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine Or, death of a chicken

"And pain deserves to be marked, even when it wears the confetti of farce, and though the only thing we have left to offer afterward is words, useless as they are." @chrisasolomon.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social

orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

Thanks, Ken!

The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine Or, death of a chicken

I've always found gorgeous writing to be a salve — and today, needing a salve (don't we all?), this story dropped into my inbox.

Trust me, this is worth your time. A Chris Solomon story always is.
@chrisasolomon.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social @longreads.com #longform

thanks for reading it, Brent!

I was on here but not well.
I will try to do better.

The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine Or, death of a chicken

Fantastic piece from Chris Solomon.
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine Or, death of a chicken

@margaretrenkl.bsky.social I'm a sometime contributor to the op-ed pages of the Times who enjoys your nature writing, and wanted to share this:
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

The Price of Eggs - Orion Magazine Or, death of a chicken

I wrote about life, death--and chickens-- for @orionmagazine.bsky.social .

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll crave a farm-fresh egg, over easy:
orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

Winthrop hockey rink fosters warm relationships | Op-Ed The simple joys of a community ice rink in Winthrop, where everyone knows one another and the politics don't matter.

I wrote about finding a new love at an (ahem) later age, for @seattletimes.com . #hockey
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-...

SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

The Unnatural History of Bird Flu H5N1 is a human creation

A fascinating, must-read story by Brandon Keim about bird flu -- and how we humans have made it happen: nautil.us/the-unnatura...