Vanessa Minke-Martin (she/her)
@vmart.bsky.social
Audience engagement at bioGraphic, formerly staff at Hakai Magazine. Here for environment and ocean news 🌊🌱🐦⬛
Salmon person, but friendly to other fishes.
Salmon person, but friendly to other fishes.
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📣 What do we want? A free, independent press that covers the natural world!
📣 Why do we want it? Because good journalism costs money, and nature deserves good journalism!
📣 When do we want it? By Friday!
(we @biographic.bsky.social would be v grateful if you could kick us a few dollars)
📣 Why do we want it? Because good journalism costs money, and nature deserves good journalism!
📣 When do we want it? By Friday!
(we @biographic.bsky.social would be v grateful if you could kick us a few dollars)
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September 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
📣 What do we want? A free, independent press that covers the natural world!
📣 Why do we want it? Because good journalism costs money, and nature deserves good journalism!
📣 When do we want it? By Friday!
(we @biographic.bsky.social would be v grateful if you could kick us a few dollars)
📣 Why do we want it? Because good journalism costs money, and nature deserves good journalism!
📣 When do we want it? By Friday!
(we @biographic.bsky.social would be v grateful if you could kick us a few dollars)
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Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the billions from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea.
Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.
Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.
Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer
After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?
www.biographic.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the billions from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea.
Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.
Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.
Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
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Scientists have identified the sea star killer in the Pacific Ocean. In this behind-the-scenes story, @craigwelch.bsky.social takes readers on a journey that began over 10 years ago when sea star wasting disease first surfaced. www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer
After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?
www.biographic.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Scientists have identified the sea star killer in the Pacific Ocean. In this behind-the-scenes story, @craigwelch.bsky.social takes readers on a journey that began over 10 years ago when sea star wasting disease first surfaced. www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
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July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Bold lemurs, curious wolves, and flying mudskippers all await you in this year's BigPicture Photography Competition gallery on @biographic.bsky.social. Words by me and the incomparable @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social.
Check out some of the best nature photos in the world 👇
Check out some of the best nature photos in the world 👇
The Big Picture 2025 - bioGraphic
From the beautiful to the bizarre, this annual photographic showcase shines a light on some of our planet’s most breathtaking species and places.
www.biographic.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bold lemurs, curious wolves, and flying mudskippers all await you in this year's BigPicture Photography Competition gallery on @biographic.bsky.social. Words by me and the incomparable @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social.
Check out some of the best nature photos in the world 👇
Check out some of the best nature photos in the world 👇
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This team puts so much thought and effort into each story they put out. In this day and age, it's so important to support deeply researched thoroughly reported journalism.
At bioGraphic, we publish stories that inspire a deep appreciation for life on Earth—and hope for its future. 🌿 If you love our work, please consider supporting us.
Any recurring donation makes you a bioGraphic Insider. You choose the amount, and every little bit helps.
Join us: bit.ly/430NTrR
Any recurring donation makes you a bioGraphic Insider. You choose the amount, and every little bit helps.
Join us: bit.ly/430NTrR
May 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This team puts so much thought and effort into each story they put out. In this day and age, it's so important to support deeply researched thoroughly reported journalism.
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Biographic is one of the best outlets on biodiversity and conservation in the world, and they're looking for recurring donors for their new Insiders program. Contributions help them deliver continuing free, high-quality stories.
📣 Today, we’re launching the Insiders program for recurring donors.
Your support helps us continue publishing in-depth journalism free from ads, paywalls, and AI-generated content.
You choose the amount, and every little bit helps.
Join us: bit.ly/430NTrR
Your support helps us continue publishing in-depth journalism free from ads, paywalls, and AI-generated content.
You choose the amount, and every little bit helps.
Join us: bit.ly/430NTrR
May 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Biographic is one of the best outlets on biodiversity and conservation in the world, and they're looking for recurring donors for their new Insiders program. Contributions help them deliver continuing free, high-quality stories.
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BioGraphic is an excellent publication that pays contributors well and is free to read, with no paywalls. If you're interested in the natural world, you'll be getting a lot of bang for your buck.
📣 Today, we’re launching the Insiders program for recurring donors.
Your support helps us continue publishing in-depth journalism free from ads, paywalls, and AI-generated content.
You choose the amount, and every little bit helps.
Join us: bit.ly/430NTrR
Your support helps us continue publishing in-depth journalism free from ads, paywalls, and AI-generated content.
You choose the amount, and every little bit helps.
Join us: bit.ly/430NTrR
May 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
BioGraphic is an excellent publication that pays contributors well and is free to read, with no paywalls. If you're interested in the natural world, you'll be getting a lot of bang for your buck.
Thanks to Krista for finding this fascinating study that offers a glimpse at how plants are changing to tolerate an increasingly urban—aka hotter, drier, dustier, and often bee-less—world.
It was a pleasure to learn more about how different plants do the deed. 🌱
It was a pleasure to learn more about how different plants do the deed. 🌱
I may be called an "editor" but really, I'm a story producer. A quick 🧵 on how this fascinating story by @vmart.bsky.social in @biographic.bsky.social came to be...
www.biographic.com/plant-sex-in...
www.biographic.com/plant-sex-in...
Plant Sex and the City - bioGraphic
Plants around the world are adapting their reproductive strategies to survive on an increasingly urban planet.
www.biographic.com
May 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Thanks to Krista for finding this fascinating study that offers a glimpse at how plants are changing to tolerate an increasingly urban—aka hotter, drier, dustier, and often bee-less—world.
It was a pleasure to learn more about how different plants do the deed. 🌱
It was a pleasure to learn more about how different plants do the deed. 🌱
“If you’re starting to get not hopeful,” Romero (@climatedaddykqed.bsky.social) continued, “leave your house.”
Solid advice—not just for journalists covering environmental crises in the current age, but for anyone who finds that tuning in leaves them burning out.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-co...
Solid advice—not just for journalists covering environmental crises in the current age, but for anyone who finds that tuning in leaves them burning out.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-co...
A conference of twin crises
At the Society of Environmental Journalists’ annual conference, one question reigned: How do you cover an existential threat when your industry is facing an existential threat of its own?
www.niemanlab.org
May 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“If you’re starting to get not hopeful,” Romero (@climatedaddykqed.bsky.social) continued, “leave your house.”
Solid advice—not just for journalists covering environmental crises in the current age, but for anyone who finds that tuning in leaves them burning out.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-co...
Solid advice—not just for journalists covering environmental crises in the current age, but for anyone who finds that tuning in leaves them burning out.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/a-co...
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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
Notice of Changes
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April 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
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Restoring gray wolves to their historic range has been challenging enough. Not to mention dire wolves were megafauna hunters. There is so much wrong here at every level and I feel so bad for these dogs.
April 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Restoring gray wolves to their historic range has been challenging enough. Not to mention dire wolves were megafauna hunters. There is so much wrong here at every level and I feel so bad for these dogs.
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Of course mainstream media keeps rolling over for Colossal, providing uncritical hype and coverage in exchange for exclusivity and “wow.” What Colossal is doing is wrong and they can’t even deliver what they promise. How many times do we have to go over this?
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Of course mainstream media keeps rolling over for Colossal, providing uncritical hype and coverage in exchange for exclusivity and “wow.” What Colossal is doing is wrong and they can’t even deliver what they promise. How many times do we have to go over this?
When wildlife biologists use genetic sex tests, like SRY, they overlook animals that defy the binary.
Carla Crossman @dalhousie.bsky.social had a hunch that the result for one whale wasn't right.
Digging deeper, she discovered XXY chromosomes. And she thinks others should follow her lead 🧬🔬
Carla Crossman @dalhousie.bsky.social had a hunch that the result for one whale wasn't right.
Digging deeper, she discovered XXY chromosomes. And she thinks others should follow her lead 🧬🔬
To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
by @vmart.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/to-discover-...
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
by @vmart.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/to-discover-...
To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm - bioGraphic
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
www.biographic.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
When wildlife biologists use genetic sex tests, like SRY, they overlook animals that defy the binary.
Carla Crossman @dalhousie.bsky.social had a hunch that the result for one whale wasn't right.
Digging deeper, she discovered XXY chromosomes. And she thinks others should follow her lead 🧬🔬
Carla Crossman @dalhousie.bsky.social had a hunch that the result for one whale wasn't right.
Digging deeper, she discovered XXY chromosomes. And she thinks others should follow her lead 🧬🔬
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Read 🧵 about about the discovery of the world's first known intersex Southern right whale 👀 🏳️🌈 🧪 🐙
To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
by @vmart.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/to-discover-...
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
by @vmart.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/to-discover-...
To Discover the World’s First Intersex Southern Right Whale, the Third Test Was the Charm - bioGraphic
What you think you know about the world depends on how you’re looking.
www.biographic.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Read 🧵 about about the discovery of the world's first known intersex Southern right whale 👀 🏳️🌈 🧪 🐙
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Across the world and across species, scientists “have seen over, and over, and over, and over, that sex is clearly not binary,” says historian Beans Velocci.
Scientists have previously found intersex dogs, cows, fish, whales, dolphins, moose, many different types of invertebrates, and more.
Scientists have previously found intersex dogs, cows, fish, whales, dolphins, moose, many different types of invertebrates, and more.
March 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Across the world and across species, scientists “have seen over, and over, and over, and over, that sex is clearly not binary,” says historian Beans Velocci.
Scientists have previously found intersex dogs, cows, fish, whales, dolphins, moose, many different types of invertebrates, and more.
Scientists have previously found intersex dogs, cows, fish, whales, dolphins, moose, many different types of invertebrates, and more.
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Today is my last day with @hakaimagazine.com. They gave me one of my first breaks as a freelancer nearly a decade ago, and I've had a relationship with them ever since. It's bittersweet to say goodbye, but I'm excited for the next chapter.
Here's a 🧵 of some stories I've worked on over the years
Here's a 🧵 of some stories I've worked on over the years
December 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Today is my last day with @hakaimagazine.com. They gave me one of my first breaks as a freelancer nearly a decade ago, and I've had a relationship with them ever since. It's bittersweet to say goodbye, but I'm excited for the next chapter.
Here's a 🧵 of some stories I've worked on over the years
Here's a 🧵 of some stories I've worked on over the years
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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Guess what?! And remember, the team @hakaimagazine.com is shuffling over to join biographic.com -- find us there in January!
December 13, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Guess what?! And remember, the team @hakaimagazine.com is shuffling over to join biographic.com -- find us there in January!
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Oh my goodness! My heart is full. Much thanks to Dr. Laura Guertin and her students. Wow: journeysofdrg.org/2024/12/15/s...
SciQuilt – Thank you, Hakai Magazine
I have been using Hakai Magazine articles with students in all of my courses, especially my coastal issues and oceanography courses. I am a huge fan of supporting independent journalism, especially…
journeysofdrg.org
December 16, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Oh my goodness! My heart is full. Much thanks to Dr. Laura Guertin and her students. Wow: journeysofdrg.org/2024/12/15/s...
Two words for you: "coral" "sex"
Also, the pictures are really pretty 🪸
Also, the pictures are really pretty 🪸
Looking for a holiday weekend #longread / distraction? Why not take a deep dive with me into the icy fjords of Chilean Patagonia to explore the secret sex lives of cold-water corals? 🪸🏔️ #naturewriting
The Secret Sex Lives of Deep, Dark Corals | Hakai Magazine
A unique fjord in Chilean Patagonia gives scientists a chance to unlock the reproductive secrets of cold-water corals that typically live thousands of meters below the ocean’s surface.
hakaimagazine.com
November 27, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Two words for you: "coral" "sex"
Also, the pictures are really pretty 🪸
Also, the pictures are really pretty 🪸
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today in performative reconciliation: after flooding Treaty 8 territory for the Site C dam, BC Hydro will give the dam and reservoir "Indigenous names." by @sarahkcox.bsky.social for @thenarwhal.ca: thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-g...
Site C dam to get Indigenous name after flooding Treaty 8 territory| The Narwhal
BC Hydro plans to give the Site C dam an Indigenous name but chief of an affected First Nation says it’s inappropriate
thenarwhal.ca
November 21, 2024 at 8:53 PM
today in performative reconciliation: after flooding Treaty 8 territory for the Site C dam, BC Hydro will give the dam and reservoir "Indigenous names." by @sarahkcox.bsky.social for @thenarwhal.ca: thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-g...
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ICYMI: Hakai Magazine will be joining forces with bioGraphic. Together, we’ll continue to deliver the very best environmental journalism, but to do so, we need your help!
Help us raise $150,000 by December 3.
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Help us raise $150,000 by December 3.
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November 18, 2024 at 11:18 PM
ICYMI: Hakai Magazine will be joining forces with bioGraphic. Together, we’ll continue to deliver the very best environmental journalism, but to do so, we need your help!
Help us raise $150,000 by December 3.
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Help us raise $150,000 by December 3.
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Here it is! A (very) incomplete Bluesky starter pack for @hakaimagazine.com alumni and frequent contributors. If you want me to add you, just ping me!
go.bsky.app/LwdshPR
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November 13, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Here it is! A (very) incomplete Bluesky starter pack for @hakaimagazine.com alumni and frequent contributors. If you want me to add you, just ping me!
go.bsky.app/LwdshPR
go.bsky.app/LwdshPR