ICE arresting firefighters fighting a wildfire in WA state:
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I do love scientific research in natural history collections that answers questions we thought were lost to time. Great piece by @chrisasolomon.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/a-home-made-...

An unsettling story if you love fishing, or water, or little wild things: www.biographic.com/a-home-made-...

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Grateful to have my essay on life, death--and chickens--appear on "The Best of Journalism" CONOR FRIEDERSDORF's Best of Journalism this week: thebestofjournalism.substack.com/p/recommende...

BREAKING: Faith Kipyegon, the best middle-distance runner in history, will attempt to break th 4-minute-mile in June in Paris--the first woman to do so. I wrote about it, and her: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Wanted to re-up this for those in the back: The best killing-a-chicken story you'll read this week. (Pictured: author with one of his critics.) In @orion_magazine
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Want to read something gorgeous about rural life? Not politics! Beautiful writing! By @chrisasolomon.bsky.social for @orionmagazine.bsky.social #SundayLR

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@newmillwritings.bsky.social hi - I tried to use submittable to apply for the awards... and the payment page has an error -- it charges one submission as two submissions. Possible to fix? Thank you!

"And pain deserves to be marked, even when it wears the confetti of farce, and though the only thing we have left to offer afterward is words, useless as they are." @chrisasolomon.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social

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I've always found gorgeous writing to be a salve — and today, needing a salve (don't we all?), this story dropped into my inbox.

Trust me, this is worth your time. A Chris Solomon story always is.
@chrisasolomon.bsky.social @orionmagazine.bsky.social @longreads.com #longform

Fantastic piece from Chris Solomon.
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@margaretrenkl.bsky.social I'm a sometime contributor to the op-ed pages of the Times who enjoys your nature writing, and wanted to share this:
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I wrote about life, death--and chickens-- for @orionmagazine.bsky.social .

You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll crave a farm-fresh egg, over easy:
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I wrote about finding a new love at an (ahem) later age, for @seattletimes.com . #hockey
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SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."

A fascinating, must-read story by Brandon Keim about bird flu -- and how we humans have made it happen: nautil.us/the-unnatura...