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Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him

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Ferris's beautiful book BECOMING EARTH is out tomorrow (25 Jun). I loved it. It's a glorious paean to our living world, and the many ways in which life has shaped the planet itself. bookshop.org/p/books/beco...

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Barn swallow 🪶 📷Hayward Regional.

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There was a single narrow track. The chick was in a creek to the side. The parent was on the path between us and the exit/car. We needed to leave, and there was no alternative path. Parent lured us away (in the direction we were actually walking) and then circled back for the chick.

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Wilson's warbler, having a good shake. 🪶 📷Claremont Canyon

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near the interactive center

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... its chick! 🪶 📷Hayward Regional

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This American avocet is doing a broken-wing display, feigning an injury to distract us away from... 🪶

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And a wide shot to show what they’re doing.

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Black skimmer 🪶 📷 Hayward Regional My fav pic of the year so far. Skimmers have a big underbite, and drag the lower mandible through the water as they fly. If it hits something, the beak snaps shut. Amazing birds, and I was ecstatic when this one skimmed straight at us. This photo is uncropped.

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Western screech-owl 🪶 📷Mill Creek Rd I first found this owl a few weeks ago, and tried to show it to a passer-by; the owl then ducked into its hole before I could get a pic. Which was a shame because at that time, the fuckin' leaf and stick in this photo were NOT THERE.

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Anna's hummingbird, pooping 🪶 📷Lake Elizabeth. You can see little droplets to the right of the bird.

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Hooded oriole, gently levitating 🪶 📷Lake Elizabeth

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Summer tanager 🪶 📷Burckhalter Park, Oakland. This stunning bird showed up in a random small park that hardly ever gets birded. A dozen people got to see it before it left overnight. One of my fav things about birding is the realization that there's rare stuff *everywhere*.

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⚠️ Israel spent millions on a secret social media campaign posing as Americans and targeting U.S. political leaders with pro-Israel messaging to garner support for its campaign in Gaza.

The campaign included digital blackface accounts.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/t...

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Tree swallow 🪶 📷 Coyote Hills

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"...it’s also a battle over the soul of our society, over the question of whether we can remain human, in the face of fear, in the face of trauma, whether we can make sure that we choose life over death, or we choose solidarity over hatred and starvation.”

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In July, I'll be publishing a project that I've spent 10 years thinking about, and 5+ years pitching. It's a documentary podcast about sports, bodies, and what is fair. And now you can sign up for the newsletter to get updates, behind the scenes stuff, additional essays, etc. buttondown.email/tested

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I’ve heard so much about this project throughout the years and I guarantee you it’ll be great. Sign up now 👇🏼

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Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

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Four! More! Years!

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Today is the day Donald Trump became precedent

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Well now, they often call me Greedo 🇺🇲🇺🇦🏛️🦉🦉's avatar Well now, they often call me Greedo 🇺🇲🇺🇦🏛️🦉🦉 @natteringnaybob.bsky.social
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oh! oh! jail for Donald! jail for Donald for One Thousand Years!!!!

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Prothonotary warbler 🪶 📷Congaree National Park Truly amazing how hard it can be to spot this bright yellow bird with an extremely loud voice amid the swampy undergrowth. (Also a great example of a bird I was really excited to find because I knew it from Wingspan. 8 points!)

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Hello Berkeley! I'll be talking to the astounding @edyong209.bsky.social on 6/18 at the Hillside Club, about my new book, "Stories Are Weapons," a history of psyops and culture war in the USA. Expect dunking on junk science, geeking out about archives, and more. www.booksmith.com/event/storie...

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Western tanager, I promise 🪶 📷 Del Valle

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"What explains this growing student movement? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you. The students want an end to a war that has been executed with breathtaking violence and killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, most of them women & children." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/t...

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UNOCHA spokesman: “The two main arteries for getting aid into Gaza are currently choked off"...The Israeli military “is ignoring all warnings about what this could mean for civilians” Aid workers in Gaza report that “panic and despair has taken hold”, he said. “People are terrified.” menasky

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Speaking as college faculty...no. Rather, it is precisely **because** college students are forming strong bonds of community, interaction, and care that all of this is even possible. It's much of the rest of the US that's forgotten how to do that, and so looks on in terror.

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You can't divorce the social context of a disease outbreak from the disease outbreak response, #WHO's chief scientist Jeremy Farrar told me yesterday in an interview about the #H5N1 #birdflu in cows situation. The social context of this outbreak sure is challenging. www.statnews.com/2024/05/07/b...

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Lark sparrow, taking off. 🪶 📷 Mission Peak

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One of the best books I've recently read, Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo, also won a Pulitzer Prize yesterday. It's about self-emancipation & the even longer journey to true safety and mental & emotional liberation.

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A Day In The Life of Abed Salama, a book about a schoolbus crash in the west bank (and much more), won the pulitzer for general nonfiction yesterday. It is a really incredible book and if you haven’t read it, you should.

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My spouse, @sirosenbaum.bsky.social, wrote an amazing story for The Atlantic about transness, surgery, and the recently deceased Schappell twins

It's a landmark for The Atlantic, in that it's pro-trans

Please read and share so the magazine sees that there are clicks in this

Gift link:

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one thing i have noticed in my IRL conversations about the war is that it really has not penetrated broader american consciousness that the main obstacle to an end to the fighting is netanyahu

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UN experts "horrified at details emerging from mass graves unearthed in the Gaza Strip. Over 390 bodies have been discovered at Nasser & Al Shifa hospitals, including of women & children, w/ many reportedly showing signs of torture & summary executions, & potential instances of people buried alive.”

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This passage in the Isaac Chotiner interview with Elliott Abrams is fucking hilarious

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