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Cover of I Told You So!
"In his new book, I Told You So!, Matt Kaplan—a longtime science correspondent for The Economist—traces a lineage of internal resistance to paradigm-changing scientific ideas from the Victorian era to today."
Read the #ScienceBooks Review: https://scim.ag/4c70qjX
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Can’t wait to this read this article!
Before you yell at me I'm speaking in a NYC context only if it's not clear from context clues and I'm half joking.
God I loved the Blizzard of 96.
I got off THREE days from school and by the third day the roads and trains were good enough and my mom took us to see Les Mis.
In progress: "Crow", pencil crayon/graphite on watercolour paper, 9x12" #art #wip #birds
Come work with us at UW-Green Bay! We're hiring a tenure-track ecologist with a focus on global change biology. 🧪🌎🪶
wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Com...
a printed zine, the cover features a watercolor nudibranch which is purple and pink with yellow spots and the title says 2025 Nudivember: 30 days of nudibranchs
Guess who finally solved the printer issues??
I FINALLY have 2025 Nudivember zines in my shop!
This is one of two zines I now produce entirely at home, 100% homemade by my own two hands.
Buy here: saimihanma.com/product/art-...
Just had this conversation with myself. My oven runs hot so I checked at 5m before the lower end and then every 5m to the upper end.
Amazing event!
Dorothy Roberts' parents, a white anthropologist and a Black woman from Jamaica, spent years interviewing interracial couples in Chicago. Her memoir draws from their records. n.pr/3ZxKSy6
The Unstoppable Alysa Liu
"Liu’s performance embodied everything conservatives are trying to kill. They don’t want women to excel—especially by their own rules."
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Sunday’s blizzard may sock NYC with 13 to 17 inches of snow — or more!
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With apologies to the Canadian rapper legend who gave us “Informer,” but that amount is SNOW JOKE!
A new Saturday snow collab with @katiehonan.bsky.social in @thecity.nyc www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/21/b...
Corinne Bailey Rae has an excellent discography, but also, this song in particular has aged like fine wine as cultural politics have finally caught up with it.
Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who's competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports. n.pr/3MDlR1u
New podcast episode!
In this week's episode, Science Communicator Peri Sasnett joins host Nate Swick to discuss Clark's Nutcracker, that brilliant and hardy icon of high-elevation habitats in the West.
Listen here: www.aba.org/10-07-the-na...
NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE
then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results"
and i was like.
oh!
The new mayor pledged to dedicate 1% of the city budget to parks and 0.5% to libraries. His preliminary spending plan delivers less.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/m...
🌍 We’re hiring at Mongabay!
We’re recruiting for two full-time, remote roles:
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If you have strong journalism experience and want to strengthen independent environmental reporting, apply now!
Ahhhhh! Thank you thank you to all the readers buying The Company of Owls @milkweededitions.bsky.social and all the booksellers selling it to bring it to no. 4 in the indie press bestsellers list!
Red cactus fruits on cactus pads
Nopal (Prickly Pear) fruit (Opuntia ficus-indica) today at UC Botanical Garden 🌿
Just FYI
Baby boom continues for critically endangered whales! 🐋
Another North Atlantic right whale mom, “Ghost,” & calf pair has been spotted — bringing this season’s total to 22 calves. Congrats Ghost! 💙
Meet all the mom & calf pairs: https://oceana.ly/4blsTlM
Little red ant-like jumping spider, big eyes peering over his big boxing glove-like sub-adult palps. His face is 99% eye pair
Top view of the little man on a palmetto frond, waving his 1st leg pair like antennae. He's very long and looks like an ant
Little an't man, being a long derpy creature this afternoon ❤️
(Synemosyna formica, ant mimic jumping spider, of course)
#EmotionalSupportSpood
The hoot(h) is out there.
(Somewhere in our boulevard elm tree out front.)
The Urban Wildlife Working Group is excited to announce a FREE workshop on Trapping Wildlife in Uniquely Urban Spaces taking place on Zoom on March 23rd from 1-3 pm Eastern Time. See you there! 🦺 #UrbanEcology #FieldWork
Register here: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Just saw The Escapes of David George @gogogomalley.bsky.social at local indie book shop. On my tbr list.
Rachel Carson's "Fable for Tomorrow" worked brilliantly — but only once. How can we create conservation fables for today?
conservationworks.substack.com/p/how-to-bui...
two event flyers overlaid a weather screenshot
Events in my favorite NYC park! 💚 On February 14, 2026, join us for birding (9:30 am) 🐦⬛ and winter tree ID (11 am). 🌳
Had to break out the hip boots to get to work today 😹
