Sarah Boon
@snowhydro.bsky.social
Writer and editor. "Meltdown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist" now available-see http://melt-down.ca Bylines in LARB, Science, Nature, Orion, Longreads, Terrain.org, and others. snowhydro1 (at) gmail (dot) com https://linktr.ee/snowhydro
Yes.
There is absolutely nothing that makes someone impervious to mental illness and suicide as a result. No matter how grand, glamorous, or well put together you think someone’s life is, there are always cracks in the foundation. All of us can fall victim.
January 2, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Yes.
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Many people have not been invited at all. I’ve talked to a substantial number of Black speakers who have seen bookings plummet, who have been virtually frozen out from engaging in public talks on college campuses.
I'm trying to get a sense of how many (other) people were invited and then disinvited from US campuses last year. If you have a story to share, please dm. I will keep it confidential – just trying to figure out the scale of this.
January 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Many people have not been invited at all. I’ve talked to a substantial number of Black speakers who have seen bookings plummet, who have been virtually frozen out from engaging in public talks on college campuses.
Happy New Year everyone! Here's to a writing and outside-filled year of good health and contentedness.
January 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Happy New Year everyone! Here's to a writing and outside-filled year of good health and contentedness.
This week's blog post is about gratitude and the ways in which is shapes our lives. Looking forward to more gratitude in 2026. watershednotes.ca/2025/12/31/o...
On Gratitude
Hope you all had a good Christmas holiday and are ready for 2026!
Since we’ve talked about g-words recently (grace and grief), I thought I’d write about
watershednotes.ca
January 1, 2026 at 6:20 PM
This week's blog post is about gratitude and the ways in which is shapes our lives. Looking forward to more gratitude in 2026. watershednotes.ca/2025/12/31/o...
Today's blog post is about gratitude - both in 2025 and looking forward to 2026. watershednotes.ca/2025/12/31/o...
On Gratitude
Hope you all had a good Christmas holiday and are ready for 2026!
Since we’ve talked about g-words recently (grace and grief), I thought I’d write about
watershednotes.ca
December 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Today's blog post is about gratitude - both in 2025 and looking forward to 2026. watershednotes.ca/2025/12/31/o...
Happy New Year's Eve everyone! Not sure I'll make it until midnight - going to watch a movie then call it a night. Hope for our dog's sake that the fireworks aren't too bad.
December 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Happy New Year's Eve everyone! Not sure I'll make it until midnight - going to watch a movie then call it a night. Hope for our dog's sake that the fireworks aren't too bad.
New review of my book in Alpinist Magazine. Scroll to the bottom. Guess not everyone likes glaciology! alpinist.com/features/off...
Off the Shelf 2025: Alpinist’s Year in Reading
Alpinist editors and contributors share reading recommendations from the past year to inspire, humor and fascinate you.
alpinist.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"Sometimes survival is the summit." --Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team
December 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Sometimes survival is the summit." --Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team
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You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️
From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers
The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.
theconversation.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️
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Studies have found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada not only keep deer populations in check, but they also alter deer behavior in ways that help prevent car crashes and save human lives. wapo.st/4peEOoI (gift). Lots of pictures and videos in article; a few include dead deer. 🌎
Wolves, long feared and reviled, may actually be lifesavers
A new line of research has revealed a surprising finding about how the presence of wolves helps keep people safe.
wapo.st
December 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Studies have found that wolves in the Midwest and Canada not only keep deer populations in check, but they also alter deer behavior in ways that help prevent car crashes and save human lives. wapo.st/4peEOoI (gift). Lots of pictures and videos in article; a few include dead deer. 🌎
New review of my book in Alpinist Magazine. Scroll to the bottom. Guess not everyone likes glaciology! alpinist.com/features/off...
Off the Shelf 2025: Alpinist’s Year in Reading
Alpinist editors and contributors share reading recommendations from the past year to inspire, humor and fascinate you.
alpinist.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
New review of my book in Alpinist Magazine. Scroll to the bottom. Guess not everyone likes glaciology! alpinist.com/features/off...
"Honest precision is more compelling than shock value." --Elizabeth Zaleski
December 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"Honest precision is more compelling than shock value." --Elizabeth Zaleski
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Because, if you are, you should read
bsky.app
December 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Because, if you are, you should read
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US stability in the years leading up to WWII seeded nearly every academic& medical field w the free ‘gift’ of brilliant minds migrating here
The US govt tended this garden w fed research grant $$ for 3 generations
Once destroyed,rebuilding will be decades& expensive;it may never come back the same
The US govt tended this garden w fed research grant $$ for 3 generations
Once destroyed,rebuilding will be decades& expensive;it may never come back the same
"Experts say the cuts to the federal workforce and climate science funding could cause decades of loss in human knowledge and discovery." via @washingtonpost.com at www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
How Trump’s attacks on ‘climate alarmism’ have already transformed U.S. science
Experts say the cuts to the federal workforce and climate science funding could cause decades of loss in human knowledge and discovery.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
US stability in the years leading up to WWII seeded nearly every academic& medical field w the free ‘gift’ of brilliant minds migrating here
The US govt tended this garden w fed research grant $$ for 3 generations
Once destroyed,rebuilding will be decades& expensive;it may never come back the same
The US govt tended this garden w fed research grant $$ for 3 generations
Once destroyed,rebuilding will be decades& expensive;it may never come back the same
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Every single one for bribery
The New York Times investigated 346 people who donated at least $250,000 to Trump and found that more than half of them (197) have received pardons, jobs, government contracts, special treatment, or favors.
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Every single one for bribery
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You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
December 26, 2025 at 12:40 AM
You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.
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“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“ The daughter of a well known conservative operative , whose paper did not answer the topic at hand and had a carefully planned media campaign , had a trans instructor fired for grading a paper according to the agreed upon rubric”
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President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
December 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
President Trump’s spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump’s psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. trib.al/LUCScTR
Christmas Eve blog post about hibernation and the season. watershednotes.ca/2025/12/24/h...
Happy Holidays!
Happy Christmas everyone! Hope you’re celebrating in whatever way works best for you, from ignoring it altogether to having a big family get together and dinn
watershednotes.ca
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Christmas Eve blog post about hibernation and the season. watershednotes.ca/2025/12/24/h...
My review of @bridgetcrocker.bsky.social ' The River's Daughter just dropped today at @hippocampusmag.bsky.social www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/revi...
REVIEW: The River’s Daughter by Bridget Crocker | Hippocampus Magazine
"When Bridget discovers rafting, it stirs something deep within her. " -- from our review of The River's Daughter: A Memoir by Bridget Crocker.
www.hippocampusmagazine.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
My review of @bridgetcrocker.bsky.social ' The River's Daughter just dropped today at @hippocampusmag.bsky.social www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/12/revi...
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The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
And here we go...
It begins.
The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's first term has been banned from entering the United States, because the 🇺🇸 tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws.
What will be the 🇪🇺President's response?
The EU lawmaker who was in charge of digital affairs during 🇪🇺President von der Leyen's first term has been banned from entering the United States, because the 🇺🇸 tech giants and government don't like the EU's tech laws.
What will be the 🇪🇺President's response?
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
And here we go...
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NEW: In another assault on reproductive rights by the Trump administration, the US Department of Veterans Affairs sent out a memo on Monday announcing that it will no longer provide abortion or abortion counseling.
Trump administration bans abortion care for veterans
The policy will even apply in states that protect abortion rights.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
NEW: In another assault on reproductive rights by the Trump administration, the US Department of Veterans Affairs sent out a memo on Monday announcing that it will no longer provide abortion or abortion counseling.
Now this is the kind of weird story that catches my interest...
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
December 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Now this is the kind of weird story that catches my interest...
Still a few shopping days until Christmas! Check out my list of women's science memoirs at Shepherd shepherd.com/best-books/s...
The best science memoirs written by women
Sarah Boon shares the 5 best books on science memoirs written by women. Have you read Unrooted?
shepherd.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Still a few shopping days until Christmas! Check out my list of women's science memoirs at Shepherd shepherd.com/best-books/s...