Adrienne Mason
@toughcitywriter.bsky.social
Freelance writer & editor, book author, biologist, occasional collage artist, sometime flower and veg grower. Past managing editor of Hakai Magazine.
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Happy birthday to self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. She is surrounded by blue #jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life stages based on her diagrams. 👩🏼🔬🧪🐡 #histsci #artAdventCalendar 🧵
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Happy birthday to self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. She is surrounded by blue #jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life stages based on her diagrams. 👩🏼🔬🧪🐡 #histsci #artAdventCalendar 🧵
Thanks for boosting this! I loved working on these pieces.
@hakaimagazine.com did a series on what life is like for these guys (features a Mystacocarid - not in the preview pic! There are 4 articles, check them all out)
Here's how to keep the Hakai team going www.biographic.com/hakai-magazi...
#Crustmas 🧪
Here's how to keep the Hakai team going www.biographic.com/hakai-magazi...
#Crustmas 🧪
December 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thanks for boosting this! I loved working on these pieces.
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For months @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social has been pouring over documents trying to find out how many animals are killed on train tracks in B.C. Companies are supposed to report rail kills but records she obtained found reporting is inconsistent and incomplete projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...
The hidden cost of wildlife collisions on Canada’s railways | The Narwhal
Trains regularly hit and kill wildlife on the tracks but poor reporting means governments aren’t sure exactly how many animals are lost
projects.thenarwhal.ca
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
For months @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social has been pouring over documents trying to find out how many animals are killed on train tracks in B.C. Companies are supposed to report rail kills but records she obtained found reporting is inconsistent and incomplete projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...
"For an advocacy group to exploit a crisis to push a political agenda is not just opportunistic; it is deeply inappropriate. It is as if the lobby has been waiting and preparing for such an unfortunate situation." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
The Bella Coola tragedy demands solutions, not the false security of a hunt
Wisely, we are waiting for accurate information that will hopefully surface during the investigation of the Bella Coola grizzly bear tragedy, rather than jumping to exaggerated and reflexive responses...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"For an advocacy group to exploit a crisis to push a political agenda is not just opportunistic; it is deeply inappropriate. It is as if the lobby has been waiting and preparing for such an unfortunate situation." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Bringing some reality to the discussion in the aftermath of the grizzly attacks in BC. It's infuriating how the BC Wildlife Federation jumped on it as a reason to open the grizzly bear hunt and some media gave them a megaphone even before there were any details. theconversation.com/calls-for-gr...
Calls for grizzly hunts to return to Western Canada oversimplify a complex ecological issue
Hunting advocacy organizations and politicians are inciting a moral panic about grizzly bears, oversimplifying an inherently complex ecological problem.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Bringing some reality to the discussion in the aftermath of the grizzly attacks in BC. It's infuriating how the BC Wildlife Federation jumped on it as a reason to open the grizzly bear hunt and some media gave them a megaphone even before there were any details. theconversation.com/calls-for-gr...
"That 'smile' hides immense suffering." news.mongabay.com/2025/11/slot...
Sloth selfies are feeding a booming wildlife trafficking trade
It’s not easy to find a sloth in the middle of the forest. They spend most of their time in the tree canopy and are masters of camouflage, thanks to their slow movements and the algae attached to thei...
news.mongabay.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"That 'smile' hides immense suffering." news.mongabay.com/2025/11/slot...
Delighted and honoured to be selected a Messenger of Biodiversity by the Sitka Foundation and Science Media Centre of Canada. It’s heartening to see the support for science journalism and for helping writers dig in to a story. Congratulations to the other awardees!
November 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Delighted and honoured to be selected a Messenger of Biodiversity by the Sitka Foundation and Science Media Centre of Canada. It’s heartening to see the support for science journalism and for helping writers dig in to a story. Congratulations to the other awardees!
Seems like a good day to repost this: hakaimagazine.com/features/que... National Magazine Award winner by @amorinakingdon.bsky.social
The Questionable Science of Vancouver’s Port Expansion | Hakai Magazine
A flawed environmental impact assessment may have consequences for the western sandpiper.
hakaimagazine.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Seems like a good day to repost this: hakaimagazine.com/features/que... National Magazine Award winner by @amorinakingdon.bsky.social
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📣 Job alert! 📣
The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!
thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!
thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
📣 Job alert! 📣
The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!
thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!
thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
The ocean's carbon poop pump is malfunctioning: grist.org/climate/the-...
The ocean is a carbon toilet. Marine heat waves are clogging it.
Tiny poops are supposed to sink to the seafloor, locking away carbon. But scientists have found that heat waves are disrupting that flushing.
grist.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The ocean's carbon poop pump is malfunctioning: grist.org/climate/the-...
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I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
September 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited
Thanks for sharing your work with me, Dustin!
🌺 In-depth @biographic.bsky.social article by @toughcitywriter.bsky.social on #pollen banking for plant #conservation; fun, thoughtful, with voices of 3 pollen bankers worldwide.
🌴 Pollen banking is a critical tool for conserving plant diversity.
www.biographic.com/banking-on-p...
🌴 Pollen banking is a critical tool for conserving plant diversity.
www.biographic.com/banking-on-p...
Banking on Pollen
When seed saving doesn’t work, pollen may be the answer to preserving botanical heritage.
www.biographic.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thanks for sharing your work with me, Dustin!
Consistently one of the best conferences I’ve attended!
The Society for Conservation Biology - Marine Global Program is excited to announce that #IMCC8 will take place in #Edinburgh, Scotland from November 13-17, 2026!
Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter!
#marinescience #conservation #conference
Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter!
#marinescience #conservation #conference
September 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Consistently one of the best conferences I’ve attended!
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It's the last day of our fundraising campaign, and we're still shy of our goal of adding 100 new recurring members.
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At bioGraphic, we publish stories that inspire a deep appreciation for life on Earth—and hope for its future. 🌿
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You choose the amount, and every little bit helps:
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You choose the amount, and every little bit helps:
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September 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's the last day of our fundraising campaign, and we're still shy of our goal of adding 100 new recurring members.
Any amount is the right amount! Come hang out and become a bioGraphic Insider
Any amount is the right amount! Come hang out and become a bioGraphic Insider
Pleased to see this story in @biographic.bsky.social go live. Thanks to @dustinwolkis.bsky.social and @jonletman.bsky.social for taking time with me and for welcoming journalism fellows to the @ntbgarden.bsky.social Thanks to @judeisabella.bsky.social & @shannabaker.bsky.social for the wise edits.
September 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pleased to see this story in @biographic.bsky.social go live. Thanks to @dustinwolkis.bsky.social and @jonletman.bsky.social for taking time with me and for welcoming journalism fellows to the @ntbgarden.bsky.social Thanks to @judeisabella.bsky.social & @shannabaker.bsky.social for the wise edits.
Yes to this — unsweetened chocolate on top is the best way to temper the sweetness! And since I was born in Nanaimo I should get an extra vote, right? (I’m also a Bird’s Custard girl.)
The perfect Nanaimo bar discussion begins. Number one her chocolate is way too thick and needs to be unsweetened chocolate. unsweetened chocolate counteracts the sickly sweet buttercream and when mixed in the mouth is the perfect balance.
September 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Yes to this — unsweetened chocolate on top is the best way to temper the sweetness! And since I was born in Nanaimo I should get an extra vote, right? (I’m also a Bird’s Custard girl.)
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For the eleventy billionth time:
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Some are embracing the fantasy that the cuts to #NIH funding will only have an impact here in the USA. As Nature reports, the NIH is the largest global funder by far and dwarfs the rest of the world’s funders of biomedical research.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.
www.nature.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
For the eleventy billionth time:
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Attacks on science funding and science jobs in the United States don’t mean that science will just move elsewhere.
It means a lot less science for everyone.
There aren’t enough jobs or funding everywhere else )combined) for US scientists to just move.
Great thread about these beloved Canadian pencil crayons. I still have nubs around with my name written in the white label space.
Throughout this week, I am taking a nostalgic look at school supplies in Canada.
Today, it is Laurentien coloured pencils/pencil crayons/leads.
This brand existed for decades, but disappeared when an American company bought the brand.
This is the story.
🧵1/7
Today, it is Laurentien coloured pencils/pencil crayons/leads.
This brand existed for decades, but disappeared when an American company bought the brand.
This is the story.
🧵1/7
August 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Great thread about these beloved Canadian pencil crayons. I still have nubs around with my name written in the white label space.
Great—although somewhat concerning regarding its pandemic brewing potential—story from recreational epidemiologist @judeisabella.bsky.social And who knew there was such an animal as a genet? What a beauty. www.biographic.com/aardvark-bur...
Aardvark Burrows Could be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic - bioGraphic
Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.
www.biographic.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Great—although somewhat concerning regarding its pandemic brewing potential—story from recreational epidemiologist @judeisabella.bsky.social And who knew there was such an animal as a genet? What a beauty. www.biographic.com/aardvark-bur...
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Aardvark Burrows Could be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic
Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.
by @judeisabella.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/aardvark-bur...
Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.
by @judeisabella.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/aardvark-bur...
Aardvark Burrows Could be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic - bioGraphic
Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.
www.biographic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Aardvark Burrows Could be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic
Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.
by @judeisabella.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/aardvark-bur...
Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.
by @judeisabella.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/aardvark-bur...
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With several wildfires burning in coastal British Columbia, time to re-up this 2024 Hakai feature about what happens when a hotter climate collides with temperate rainforests--and how to help such forests endure. hakaimagazine.com/features/not...
Not Too Wet To Burn | Hakai Magazine
Amid an uptick in wildfires, scientists search for lessons on how to save old-growth rainforests from a fiery future.
hakaimagazine.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
With several wildfires burning in coastal British Columbia, time to re-up this 2024 Hakai feature about what happens when a hotter climate collides with temperate rainforests--and how to help such forests endure. hakaimagazine.com/features/not...
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Last month marks 20 years since I started the Mongabay news service.
Our growth has been shaped by countless people: brave reporters risking their safety to tell urgent stories, editors refining every detail, partners who believed in our vision, & readers who care deeply.
mongabay.cc/gvDbLS
Our growth has been shaped by countless people: brave reporters risking their safety to tell urgent stories, editors refining every detail, partners who believed in our vision, & readers who care deeply.
mongabay.cc/gvDbLS
Reflections on 20 years of Mongabay News (commentary)
Founder’s Commentary: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis and perspectives. This month marks 20 years since I started the Mongabay news service. At the time,...
news.mongabay.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Last month marks 20 years since I started the Mongabay news service.
Our growth has been shaped by countless people: brave reporters risking their safety to tell urgent stories, editors refining every detail, partners who believed in our vision, & readers who care deeply.
mongabay.cc/gvDbLS
Our growth has been shaped by countless people: brave reporters risking their safety to tell urgent stories, editors refining every detail, partners who believed in our vision, & readers who care deeply.
mongabay.cc/gvDbLS
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Writers, bring your 1-minute pitches for live feedback from editors on November 9 @1:30pm in Chicago at Pitch Slam. @sciencewriters.org #NASW #SciWri25
🔗View the program 👇
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🖥️ Registration opens September 4.
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🔗View the program 👇
sciencewriters2025.org
🖥️ Registration opens September 4.
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August 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Writers, bring your 1-minute pitches for live feedback from editors on November 9 @1:30pm in Chicago at Pitch Slam. @sciencewriters.org #NASW #SciWri25
🔗View the program 👇
sciencewriters2025.org
🖥️ Registration opens September 4.
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🔗View the program 👇
sciencewriters2025.org
🖥️ Registration opens September 4.
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Words matter!
Terms like “human-wildlife conflict,” “crop-raiding” & “pest” are detrimental to the understanding of animals & their conservation
I just published this interesting new @mongabay.com op-ed by @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social, a primatologist w/ some updates to #conservation language to suggest:
I just published this interesting new @mongabay.com op-ed by @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social, a primatologist w/ some updates to #conservation language to suggest:
It’s time to update the language of human-wildlife interactions (commentary)
Language shapes the way we view our world. In the field of wildlife conservation, even very subtle word choices drive peoples’ perceptions around individual species or situations. These word choices c...
news.mongabay.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Words matter!
I was just talking about this with friends last night! Thinking about all those old (well, “old”) letters, ledgers, and diaries written in cursive I’ve used in my work. No doubt there is, or will be, some work around—but it helps knowing how to write cursive to decipher it.
August 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I was just talking about this with friends last night! Thinking about all those old (well, “old”) letters, ledgers, and diaries written in cursive I’ve used in my work. No doubt there is, or will be, some work around—but it helps knowing how to write cursive to decipher it.