David G Haskell
@dghaskell.bsky.social
Writer, biologist
🌻How Flowers Made our World = new book in March 2026
Sounds Wild and Broken
13 Ways to Smell a Tree
The Songs of Trees
The Forest Unseen
🌻How Flowers Made our World = new book in March 2026
Sounds Wild and Broken
13 Ways to Smell a Tree
The Songs of Trees
The Forest Unseen
Insane mast year
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Insane mast year
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever
Eastern Forest playing cards are back in stock! Each card a different species, each suit a different sense. Art by Ellen Litwiller, micropoems on natural history by me. All my proceeds to enviro ed and conservation. Celebrating human play and forest biodiversity 💚
www.artofplay.com/products/eas...
www.artofplay.com/products/eas...
October 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Eastern Forest playing cards are back in stock! Each card a different species, each suit a different sense. Art by Ellen Litwiller, micropoems on natural history by me. All my proceeds to enviro ed and conservation. Celebrating human play and forest biodiversity 💚
www.artofplay.com/products/eas...
www.artofplay.com/products/eas...
Join me and Nick Dangerfield, founder of Oda oda.co Saturday morning.
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds
September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Join me and Nick Dangerfield, founder of Oda oda.co Saturday morning.
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds
Let's be like the dragonflies and try to get the rhythms of the living world into our bones and transmitted across the generations.
September 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Let's be like the dragonflies and try to get the rhythms of the living world into our bones and transmitted across the generations.
Somehow, somehow the knowledge of where to go and when to leave is encoded in the genes of the green darner dragonfly.
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...
September 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Somehow, somehow the knowledge of where to go and when to leave is encoded in the genes of the green darner dragonfly.
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...
End-of-summer fruitfulness in the SE US...muscadines.
A more complex flavor than table grapes, more tannic, with layers of cardamom and warm hay. Aroma stronger than taste. Thicker skins to give a good bite, with stout seeds.
What's the gastronomic signal of seasonal transition where you are?
A more complex flavor than table grapes, more tannic, with layers of cardamom and warm hay. Aroma stronger than taste. Thicker skins to give a good bite, with stout seeds.
What's the gastronomic signal of seasonal transition where you are?
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
End-of-summer fruitfulness in the SE US...muscadines.
A more complex flavor than table grapes, more tannic, with layers of cardamom and warm hay. Aroma stronger than taste. Thicker skins to give a good bite, with stout seeds.
What's the gastronomic signal of seasonal transition where you are?
A more complex flavor than table grapes, more tannic, with layers of cardamom and warm hay. Aroma stronger than taste. Thicker skins to give a good bite, with stout seeds.
What's the gastronomic signal of seasonal transition where you are?
Coming in March 2026: Flowers! When flowers appeared, nothing was ever the same. They are the world’s great collaborators and creators. Writing this book transformed how I see life’s history and future. Cooperation, beauty, and illusion transform the world. Can't wait to share these stories
August 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Coming in March 2026: Flowers! When flowers appeared, nothing was ever the same. They are the world’s great collaborators and creators. Writing this book transformed how I see life’s history and future. Cooperation, beauty, and illusion transform the world. Can't wait to share these stories
Flowers are great illusionists. Here's one example. Others are more extreme, like orchids that mimic female wasps, conning males into trysts that are fruitless for the insect but very helpful for the flower.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.
July 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Flowers are great illusionists. Here's one example. Others are more extreme, like orchids that mimic female wasps, conning males into trysts that are fruitless for the insect but very helpful for the flower.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.
Delighted to send the manuscript for my next book to my editor. How flowers made our world...
February 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Delighted to send the manuscript for my next book to my editor. How flowers made our world...
Meanwhile over on Meta
January 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Meanwhile over on Meta
Obstinate denial is a good winter strategy, sometimes. Rosemary, Salvia rosmarinus, putting out the blooms like it is springtime.
The humblebees that would normally be paying their respects at the floral altars are fast asleep in their underground burrows in the leaf litter.
The humblebees that would normally be paying their respects at the floral altars are fast asleep in their underground burrows in the leaf litter.
December 28, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Obstinate denial is a good winter strategy, sometimes. Rosemary, Salvia rosmarinus, putting out the blooms like it is springtime.
The humblebees that would normally be paying their respects at the floral altars are fast asleep in their underground burrows in the leaf litter.
The humblebees that would normally be paying their respects at the floral altars are fast asleep in their underground burrows in the leaf litter.
Happy solstice
(Sundown, bus window light)
(Sundown, bus window light)
December 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Happy solstice
(Sundown, bus window light)
(Sundown, bus window light)
A contrarian plant. When all else goes dormant, the cranefly orchid pops up.
The plant's name refers to the twisted flower which looks like a wounded cranefly. The flowers are pollinated by moths who get rewarded for visiting the flower by having a pollen sack glued to one of their eyes. Nice.
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The plant's name refers to the twisted flower which looks like a wounded cranefly. The flowers are pollinated by moths who get rewarded for visiting the flower by having a pollen sack glued to one of their eyes. Nice.
1/2
December 9, 2024 at 8:40 PM
A contrarian plant. When all else goes dormant, the cranefly orchid pops up.
The plant's name refers to the twisted flower which looks like a wounded cranefly. The flowers are pollinated by moths who get rewarded for visiting the flower by having a pollen sack glued to one of their eyes. Nice.
1/2
The plant's name refers to the twisted flower which looks like a wounded cranefly. The flowers are pollinated by moths who get rewarded for visiting the flower by having a pollen sack glued to one of their eyes. Nice.
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A very very old tradition. Gingko leaf fall day. They all come down together in the space of a few hours. Ginkgoes have been doing this for about 240 million autumns now. I feel lucky to experience a few of them.
December 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM
A very very old tradition. Gingko leaf fall day. They all come down together in the space of a few hours. Ginkgoes have been doing this for about 240 million autumns now. I feel lucky to experience a few of them.
It's book giving season! I'll mail you a customized bookplate to include with gifts.
Now out in paperback:
🦜🎵🐸🎻Sounds Wild and Broken
🌴🌳🌲🍁The Songs of Trees
💚🔎🍄🦌The Forest Unseen
👃🌿 Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree. Published in UK; Blackwell’s ships free to US.
dghaskell.com/custom-bookp...
Now out in paperback:
🦜🎵🐸🎻Sounds Wild and Broken
🌴🌳🌲🍁The Songs of Trees
💚🔎🍄🦌The Forest Unseen
👃🌿 Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree. Published in UK; Blackwell’s ships free to US.
dghaskell.com/custom-bookp...
November 30, 2024 at 9:10 PM
It's book giving season! I'll mail you a customized bookplate to include with gifts.
Now out in paperback:
🦜🎵🐸🎻Sounds Wild and Broken
🌴🌳🌲🍁The Songs of Trees
💚🔎🍄🦌The Forest Unseen
👃🌿 Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree. Published in UK; Blackwell’s ships free to US.
dghaskell.com/custom-bookp...
Now out in paperback:
🦜🎵🐸🎻Sounds Wild and Broken
🌴🌳🌲🍁The Songs of Trees
💚🔎🍄🦌The Forest Unseen
👃🌿 Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree. Published in UK; Blackwell’s ships free to US.
dghaskell.com/custom-bookp...
Cannas are deliciously unconventional. They even faked out Linnaeus, who failed to realize that a bunch of male stamens had transformed themselves into petal-like banners. Pollen comes from the edge of a single stamen.The stigma is like a blade.
One last day of bloom before the frost gets them
One last day of bloom before the frost gets them
November 27, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Cannas are deliciously unconventional. They even faked out Linnaeus, who failed to realize that a bunch of male stamens had transformed themselves into petal-like banners. Pollen comes from the edge of a single stamen.The stigma is like a blade.
One last day of bloom before the frost gets them
One last day of bloom before the frost gets them
Some poblanos from the same veg patch...?!
November 27, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Some poblanos from the same veg patch...?!
Hard frost coming, so it's time for the last pepper harvest
November 26, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Hard frost coming, so it's time for the last pepper harvest
Take your ears and imagination on a journey with me into the sonic riches and brokenness of our world. Music, nature, listening. A Pulitzer and PEN finalist. Now out in paperback.
🦜💚🎵🐸🎻🏙️⚖️
🦜💚🎵🐸🎻🏙️⚖️
November 16, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Take your ears and imagination on a journey with me into the sonic riches and brokenness of our world. Music, nature, listening. A Pulitzer and PEN finalist. Now out in paperback.
🦜💚🎵🐸🎻🏙️⚖️
🦜💚🎵🐸🎻🏙️⚖️
New album out on all streaming services. Field recordings celebrating the inner and outer sounds of trees 🍃 linktr.ee/dghaskell
February 20, 2024 at 9:12 PM
New album out on all streaming services. Field recordings celebrating the inner and outer sounds of trees 🍃 linktr.ee/dghaskell
Animal Dignity, edited by Melanie Challenger is now out.
In my essay, I argue that traditional education often excludes from biology the very people we most need: those with a disposition to honor other species as dignified beings.
Less pithing, killing, and cutting. More respectful curiosity.
In my essay, I argue that traditional education often excludes from biology the very people we most need: those with a disposition to honor other species as dignified beings.
Less pithing, killing, and cutting. More respectful curiosity.
December 1, 2023 at 2:21 PM
Animal Dignity, edited by Melanie Challenger is now out.
In my essay, I argue that traditional education often excludes from biology the very people we most need: those with a disposition to honor other species as dignified beings.
Less pithing, killing, and cutting. More respectful curiosity.
In my essay, I argue that traditional education often excludes from biology the very people we most need: those with a disposition to honor other species as dignified beings.
Less pithing, killing, and cutting. More respectful curiosity.
Huge bird migration nights in the US right now. Lights out to prevent nocturnal window strike deaths. Via BirdCast
October 7, 2023 at 4:03 PM
Huge bird migration nights in the US right now. Lights out to prevent nocturnal window strike deaths. Via BirdCast
Georgia aster. A threatened species, but given half a chance it goes nuts. Deep well of nectar, too, from dawn to dusk. Bumblebees love it.
October 4, 2023 at 7:55 PM
Georgia aster. A threatened species, but given half a chance it goes nuts. Deep well of nectar, too, from dawn to dusk. Bumblebees love it.