Ben Goldfarb
@bengoldfarb.bsky.social
Independent conservation journalist writing a book about fish. Author of CROSSINGS, on #roadecology, and EAGER, on beaver belief.
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Ben Goldfarb
@bengoldfarb.bsky.social
· Nov 15
To new Bluesky peeps: I'm currently working on another book, on the organisms nearest my heart. It's fundamentally about fish as engineers—both of ecosystems & human affairs—and how we revitalize their roles in our waterscapes & lives. If this aligns with your interests & expertise, cast me a line!
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Sorry, but a lack of support for autonomous vehicles is not among Sec Pete's biggest missed opportunities at USDOT.
For instance:
🔹 Failure to stop Tesla from lying about Autopilot, FSD, etc
🔹 Failure to curb car bloat
🔹 Continuing to spend fed $$ on highway expansions that won't fix congestion
For instance:
🔹 Failure to stop Tesla from lying about Autopilot, FSD, etc
🔹 Failure to curb car bloat
🔹 Continuing to spend fed $$ on highway expansions that won't fix congestion
Pete Buttigieg Admits Biden Administration Should've Done More To Grow Autonomous Vehicles — Says DOGE-Like Department 'Makes Tons Of Sense'
Biden-era Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says that the Biden administration could've done more to drive growth in the adoption of autonomous vehicles in the U.S. Autonomous Driving Tech Is Sa...
finance.yahoo.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sorry, but a lack of support for autonomous vehicles is not among Sec Pete's biggest missed opportunities at USDOT.
For instance:
🔹 Failure to stop Tesla from lying about Autopilot, FSD, etc
🔹 Failure to curb car bloat
🔹 Continuing to spend fed $$ on highway expansions that won't fix congestion
For instance:
🔹 Failure to stop Tesla from lying about Autopilot, FSD, etc
🔹 Failure to curb car bloat
🔹 Continuing to spend fed $$ on highway expansions that won't fix congestion
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Great administration we’ve got here
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Great administration we’ve got here
Will add that, though the study below deals specifically with megafauna’s role in regulating earth’s systems, biologists have told much the same story about the loss of diadromous fish, critical transporters of nutrients whose movements and populations modernity has thrown terribly out of whack.
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Will add that, though the study below deals specifically with megafauna’s role in regulating earth’s systems, biologists have told much the same story about the loss of diadromous fish, critical transporters of nutrients whose movements and populations modernity has thrown terribly out of whack.
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this WHOLE thread - if you take three minutes to read anything this afternoon, please make it this thread
Former site of the JC Boyle reservoir, submerged and algae-clotted for decades, now flowing free and unfettered — and aswirl with new piscine life in the foreground, finding its jubilant way.
November 5, 2025 at 11:37 PM
this WHOLE thread - if you take three minutes to read anything this afternoon, please make it this thread
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The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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Meet the Apalachicola redhorse, a newly described fish species.
Meet the Apalachicola Redhorse, a Newly Recognized Fish Species
For more than 50 years, the Apalachicola redhorse was a fish with no name. Learn more about this newly recognized species of sucker.
blog.nature.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Meet the Apalachicola redhorse, a newly described fish species.
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We were right to throw batteries at this guy back at Shea.
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
We were right to throw batteries at this guy back at Shea.
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Perfect. 60 Minutes edited out an important part of its Trump interview in which he boasts about extracting millions from its parent company on an utterly meritless claim . . . that 60 Minutes selectively edited its Kamala Harris interview.
I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.
November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Perfect. 60 Minutes edited out an important part of its Trump interview in which he boasts about extracting millions from its parent company on an utterly meritless claim . . . that 60 Minutes selectively edited its Kamala Harris interview.
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Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary) news.mongabay.com/2025/10/beli... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary)
Belize sells itself as a small-country answer to a big problem: how to keep the sea alive and the people who depend on it working. The pitch is strong. A debt-for-nature “blue bond” shaved public…
news.mongabay.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary) news.mongabay.com/2025/10/beli... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
Well everything about that was absolutely excruciating but you do have to hand it to Yamamoto — greatest World Series pitching performance since Bob Gibson or some shit.
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Well everything about that was absolutely excruciating but you do have to hand it to Yamamoto — greatest World Series pitching performance since Bob Gibson or some shit.
thank god the mets aren’t involved in this fuckery
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
thank god the mets aren’t involved in this fuckery
Weird how much Game Six discourse is about the dead ball play. That’s a textbook rule that any baseball fan has seen enforced. Also, it didn’t matter! Would’ve been a double anyway; maybe runner on first scores, but then Dodgers still win 3-2. I’m rooting for Jays, but that play isn’t why they lost.
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Weird how much Game Six discourse is about the dead ball play. That’s a textbook rule that any baseball fan has seen enforced. Also, it didn’t matter! Would’ve been a double anyway; maybe runner on first scores, but then Dodgers still win 3-2. I’m rooting for Jays, but that play isn’t why they lost.
Happy Halloween from this aspen cemetery. 🎃 🦫
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Happy Halloween from this aspen cemetery. 🎃 🦫
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A major shift in where L.A. gets water: The city will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water, producing enough for 500,000 people. The recycled water will allow L.A. to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residents
Los Angeles is set to double the size of a planned facility that will transform wastewater into purified drinking water, recycling enough water to meet the needs of 500,000 people.
www.latimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A major shift in where L.A. gets water: The city will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water, producing enough for 500,000 people. The recycled water will allow L.A. to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Who among ye Blueskyists studies Caribbean reef fish — their movements and migrations, their spawning aggregations, their interactions with corals, their capture in fisheries, their conservation status, etcetera? Thanks in advance for your leads!
a painting of a blue fish sitting on a rock in the water
ALT: a painting of a blue fish sitting on a rock in the water
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October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Who among ye Blueskyists studies Caribbean reef fish — their movements and migrations, their spawning aggregations, their interactions with corals, their capture in fisheries, their conservation status, etcetera? Thanks in advance for your leads!
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🐻GRIZZLED🐻: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals
Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪
❤️🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️🔥
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...
Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪
❤️🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️🔥
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...
Grizzled by Jason Bittel: 9781426223358 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Funny, fascinating, and scientifically grounded, this charming book reveals unknown details about 50 well-known animals. Effortlessly readable, Grizzled reintroduces nature lovers to species they th...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🐻GRIZZLED🐻: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals
Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪
❤️🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️🔥
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...
Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪
❤️🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️🔥
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...
Beavers doing the darnedest things: Fun to stumble upon this colony at 10,000 ft, in a windswept alpine valley disconnected from other streams and well above the aspen line, transforming a few scrubby willows & a couple CFS of flow into a picturesque terrace of infinity pools. Resourceful critters!
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Beavers doing the darnedest things: Fun to stumble upon this colony at 10,000 ft, in a windswept alpine valley disconnected from other streams and well above the aspen line, transforming a few scrubby willows & a couple CFS of flow into a picturesque terrace of infinity pools. Resourceful critters!
Cascades on either side of I-90 are reconnected via wildlife crossings at Snoqualmie Pass (albeit much work still to be done). East-west connectivity across the densely populated I-5 corridor is the next frontier for the PNW.
Just hit a deer on I-5 on my way home from a meeting on the importance of connected, resilient landscapes for wildlife and people. I'm lucky to be ok, the deer was not.
A visceral reminder of why wildlife crossings (of all kinds) are so vital - they save lives while helping wildlife safely roam.
A visceral reminder of why wildlife crossings (of all kinds) are so vital - they save lives while helping wildlife safely roam.
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Cascades on either side of I-90 are reconnected via wildlife crossings at Snoqualmie Pass (albeit much work still to be done). East-west connectivity across the densely populated I-5 corridor is the next frontier for the PNW.
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After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing
‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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@bengoldfarb.bsky.social's piece on Abundance is really good: defector.com/an-abundance...
An Abundance Of Concrete | Defector
Reliable sources tell me that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover. Until you actually read the thing, though, it’s the only data you have to go on. So here’s what I first noticed about Ab...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
@bengoldfarb.bsky.social's piece on Abundance is really good: defector.com/an-abundance...
I do think it bodes well for Bluesky’s future that it now occasionally hosts after-dark normie sports talk.
(Also go Jays, but also also, pitch to Ohtani, you cowards.)
(Also go Jays, but also also, pitch to Ohtani, you cowards.)
Love to see Baseball Bluesky coming out tonight. I pay no attention for most of the season but holy goddamn I love October baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I do think it bodes well for Bluesky’s future that it now occasionally hosts after-dark normie sports talk.
(Also go Jays, but also also, pitch to Ohtani, you cowards.)
(Also go Jays, but also also, pitch to Ohtani, you cowards.)