American biologist and writer; author of The Forest Unseen (2012), a Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Songs of Trees (2017) and Sounds Wild and Broken (2022).
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Building new US Forest Service roads is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.
USFS already has a $6.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog for roads and bridges. They cannot keep up with the roads we already have. Building new ones is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.
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In the US, patients are commodities.
A reminder that patients are commodities in US.
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From one piece Thread on opening National Forest roadless areas to roads and logging 2 beliefs · bsky.app
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Roads degrade water, land, native wildlife, and provide conduits for non-native species.
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USFS already has a $6.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog for roads and bridges. They cannot keep up with the roads we already have. Building new ones is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.
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A reminder that patients are commodities in US.
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Pretending that Watson was an outlier does not help. Let's recognize that he stood firmly within an established racist tradition, then chose a different direction for the future.
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All science is embedded in and shaped by cultural context.
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Biology education should face up to the field's troubled roots.
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One reason The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is so important is that the injustices and violence that she describes are still underway.
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Chuang Tzu’s Inner Chapters present a refreshingly ecological philosophy.
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USFS already has a $6.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog for roads and bridges. They cannot keep up with the roads we already have. Building new ones is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.
Thread on opening National Forest roadless areas to roads and logging Said 17 Sept 2026
Roads degrade water, land, native wildlife, and provide conduits for non-native species.
Thread on opening National Forest roadless areas to roads and logging Said 17 Sept 2026
A reminder that patients are commodities in US.
Post on coverage of China's rise in drug development Said 30 May 2026
The problem is Trump, not that some folks, usually not urbane pundits, like to watch wrestling.
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Biology education should face up to the field's troubled roots.
Thread on James Watson's death and racism in biology Said 7 Nov 2025
All science is embedded in and shaped by cultural context.
Thread on James Watson's death and racism in biology Said 7 Nov 2025
Pretending that Watson was an outlier does not help. Let's recognize that he stood firmly within an established racist tradition, then chose a different direction for the future.
Thread on James Watson's death and racism in biology Said 7 Nov 2025
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Findings, and her later books of essays, are suffused with wit and insight, conveyed in prose so clear, subtly balanced, and powerful that I often put down the book, temporarily stunned.
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Chuang Tzu’s Inner Chapters present a refreshingly ecological philosophy.
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As you mention, The New Sylva is a response and homage — an attempt to underscore this truth for the present day.
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One reason The Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is so important is that the injustices and violence that she describes are still underway.
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