Fellow writers: Seeking inspired, thought-provoking, gorgeous nonfiction on snakes. Love Padgett Powell on Indigos, @Emma_Marris on grass snakes, @craigtimes on Ross Allen, @nijhuism on the rattler that drew her to #SciComm. Who else? Pls RT & share favorites. Thankssssssssss.
Hiya #twitterstorians and #foodhistorians! I am looking for some recommendations for histories of grocery stores in the American South—can you help a gal out? In an ideal world @Publix would let me peruse their archives...I'd love any advice or leads!
Millions of people want to read journalism and thousands of journalists want to create it and the industry is only fucked up to the extent that middlemen get between those two groups.
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The CEO of Insider is just tweeting away about goggles while his employees are on strike waiting for a contract. Do your job bozo!!
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Chemical fertilizers feed the world–but their production & use harm #water & life. Read
#PriceOfPlenty@WUFTNews, a special report
@UFJSchool & @MUJSchool supported
@PulitzerCenter. We start in the Bone Valley, a part of #Florida most never see. Dig in: https://t.co/g5WyN4EfeF
Over 6,000 people showed up in Immokalee to protest DeSantis’ anti-immigrant law and thousands more attended rallies across Florida. More events are being planned for the next few weeks.
Have you ever seen Spanish moss flowers? They're in bloom right now, and I'd love it if I could get a lot of folks to put their faces up to it and take a closer look (don't worry, Spanish moss in trees doesn't have chiggers).
On climate change, we often assume people are either believers or deniers.
I don't like either label, because climate change is not a religion.
Instead, I prefer the 6 categories identified by @YaleClimateComm for the US. https://t.co/mxGR45pA65
Don't engage w/ climate deniers--it increases their twitter ranking in the current algorithm. Blocking them, on the other hand, lowers their twitter ranking. In fact, muting and then blocking is a very effective double whammy.
Readers and friends: Here's my weekly posting of a story from "the vault" of my three decades at The Palm Beach Post. #ekvault. Today: The legacy of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. From May 1998.
Stop treating climate like *our* little pet project, as a curiosity where *our* feelings get hurt when it breaks. It concerns all life on earth. Including yours and those of everyone you love. Please take your essential work seriously, because *all* our lives depend on it.
Red tide continues to intensify on the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Ian & resulting nutrient pollution. It's a health threat to both fish & people. @Capt4CleanWater's newsletter this week points out we're seeing similar conditions that preceded 2018's severe red tide.