People really need to work on their titles. This one really scared me for a minute.

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Every time I see Casey Affleck in a movie I think “there’s something sinister about this guy.” And I don’t just mean the characters he’s playing. These are my thoughts after watching Interstellar.

I love survival movies! One of my top favorites is The Martian and tonight I’m watching another favorite, The Mountain Between Us. What’s your favorite survival movie?

The vermilion flycatcher, one of my favorite birds!

Sabbatical reading has commenced.

I’m watching The Undoing for the first time, halfway through episode 5, and Grace is so annoying and terrible. I get that the show is about her buying into his BS since the title of the book is called “She Should Have Known” but it is still so sad to see her willing to blame the dead woman’s husband

Did Musk tank a spending bill because it would have harmed his business in China?
From @theprospect.bsky.social
prospect.org/politics/202...

My two year old has been asking “what’s that” many times throughout the day these last few days and I love it. I always answer as fully as possible. I absolutely want to encourage her curiosity and learning. I feel like our society constantly shuts down our inquisitiveness.

I got my first bad rate my professor review this week and what really had me shaking my head is how a student, probably an English student too given what classes I taught this semester, assumed there would be nothing political in an English class. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Getting some birding in this Thanksgiving break!

It’s been a good week: I presented at PAMLA, saw a new bird, and celebrated my birthday with my family.