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🐠 Bioneers 2026 will reignite our shared energy, creativity, and commitment to change.
Join us March 26–28 in Berkeley, CA! 🎟 Explore speakers & get your ticket:
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🐮 Read an excerpt from “Cowpuppy,” in which Gregory Berns weaves together personal storytelling, careful observation, and accessible neuroscience to reveal a surprisingly rich inner world behind cows’ familiar brown eyes: buff.ly/GnXGQPN
February 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM
🐠 … and many more visionary thinkers

🪸 You belong at #Bioneers2026! 🪸 March 26–28, 2026, in Berkeley, CA, join us in this critical moment to defend the web of life and build a more just world.

🎟️ Get your ticket: conference.bioneers.org?utm_medium=o...
Bioneers 2026 Conference - Bioneers Conference
Register for the 37th annual event featuring visionary and practical solutions.
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February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🐠 @rajpatel.org — Award-Winning Food Justice Activist and Journalist, Co-Director of “The Ants & The Grasshopper,” Author of “Stuffed and Starved,” Member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🐠 Samantha Skenandore (Member, Ho-Chunk Nation) — Leading Indigenous Rights Advocate, Former Tribal Attorney for the Ho-Chunk Nation’s Department of Justice and Clerk for the US DOJ, Indian Resources Section
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🐠 Cory Doctorow — Award-Winning Science-Fiction Author, Tech Policy Journalist and Activist, Author of “Enshittification,” Special Advisor for Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org)
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🐠 Cristina Jiménez Moreta — Leading Immigrant Justice Activist, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and Times 100 Honoree, Co-Founder of @unitedwedream.org, Bestselling Author of “Dreaming of Home”
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🐠 Julian Brave NoiseCat (Member, Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen; Descendant, Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie) — Acclaimed Journalist, 2025 Academy Award–Nominated Co-Director of “Sugarcane,” Bestselling Author of “We Survived the Night”
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🐠 Michele Bratcher Goodwin — Acclaimed Bioethicist, Architect of the Field of Health Law, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, Author of “Policing the Womb”
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
✊🏾Defending immigrants’ rights. Standing up to big tech. Radical lessons from food workers.

These extraordinary keynote speakers will take the Bioneers stage with all of their courage, creativity and wisdom to illuminate our shared path forward. At #Bioneers2026, we’ll hear from:
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
🦮 Gregory Berns’ work is driven by a deceptively simple aim: to better understand the interior worlds of other mammals, without harming them, and with animals treated as partners rather than passive subjects. Read our conversation: buff.ly/anOuqwq
February 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Explore Raj Patel’s projects:

📽️ “The Ants & The Grasshopper” documentary: buff.ly/heee0RV and short film series on PBS buff.ly/8x77nN8

✊ Care and Resistance: buff.ly/heCDTtH

🌎 The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (@ipes-food.org): buff.ly/frZg8XH
The Ants and The Grasshopper
www.antsandgrasshopper.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
We’re honored to welcome Acclaimed scholar, filmmaker, and food justice advocate @rajpatel.org to the Bioneers stage this March. 🌍 ✊🏽

He’ll share how solidarity, mutual aid & imagination have helped communities survive authoritarianism. Learn more & get tickets to #Bioneers2026: buff.ly/qE1D3np
February 6, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Sy Montgomery has spent decades writing & exploring what it means to truly pay attention to other species — octopuses, turtles, dogs, pigs & more.

🐙 Read our conversation, reflecting on why re-learning how to notice may be one of the most important practices of our time: buff.ly/oIQrnLb
February 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
🔗👉🏼In this conversation, Krystle Hickman shares how we can all learn to pay attention to native bees — in turn protecting entire ecosystems: bioneers.org/making-the-i...

📸: All photos credited to Krystle Hickman
Making the Invisible Visible: Photographing Native Bees with Krystle Hickman - Bioneers
Through photography, observation, and community science, Krystle Hickman is documenting the lives of native bees that most people never notice. In this conversation, she shares her observations and in...
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January 28, 2026 at 3:29 PM
🐝 Can you spot the difference between a honeybee and a native bee? Do you know the distinct roles they play in your food system and landscape?
January 28, 2026 at 3:29 PM
👏We’re thrilled to welcome Cory Doctorow to the Bioneers stage this March in Berkeley!

💩 Register for Bioneers 2026 with the code DESHITTIFY and receive a FREE copy of Cory’s new book, “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It” 👉🏼 buff.ly/koHnnF2
January 27, 2026 at 4:33 PM
🍄 “Some beautiful experiments have shown that when plants interact with mycorrhizal fungi, they make bigger, sweeter flowers, which attract more pollinators,” Kiers shared with @NYTimes.com. Keep reading: buff.ly/G3AyMQD
Toby Kiers, World Champion of Fungus
This year’s recipient of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement talks about “punk science,” microbial economics and thinking like a mycorrhizal fungus.
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January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🎉 Huge congrats to Bioneers alum @tobykiers.bsky.social (@spun.earth) on receiving the @tylerprize.bsky.social!
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January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
🐠 Bioneers 2026 will reignite our shared energy, creativity, and commitment to change.
Join us March 26–28 in Berkeley, CA! 🎟 Explore speakers & get your ticket:
conference.bioneers.org?utm_medium=o...
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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The Great Enshittening: How the Internet Got So Bad — and How We Can Fix It - Bioneers
Author Cory Doctorow names the disease hollowing out our digital world and offers a plan to build something better.
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January 23, 2026 at 3:04 PM
💩 Cory Doctorow (Bioneers 2026 Keynote Speaker) coined the term enshittification “to describe the sudden-onset platform collapse going on all around us.”

Yet in his new book, Doctorow makes a point not just to diagnose the degenerating technological landscape — he also proposes a cure.
January 23, 2026 at 3:04 PM