Louis Pagillo
@lpag.bsky.social
Outreach Manager and Host of the Safina Center Podcast | Writer | Editor | Cat Mom | Himejoshi
She/Her 🏳️⚧️
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Carl Safina discusses #animal emotions on the Oprah Podcast:
"When we love someone, we feel that we want to be close to them... in our house, our dogs are never given any kind of a treat or fed upstairs in the bedroom. But at night, they come upstairs. Why? Because they want to be near us."
"When we love someone, we feel that we want to be close to them... in our house, our dogs are never given any kind of a treat or fed upstairs in the bedroom. But at night, they come upstairs. Why? Because they want to be near us."
Do Dogs Really Love Us? with Oprah and Dr. Carl Safina
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September 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Carl Safina discusses #animal emotions on the Oprah Podcast:
"When we love someone, we feel that we want to be close to them... in our house, our dogs are never given any kind of a treat or fed upstairs in the bedroom. But at night, they come upstairs. Why? Because they want to be near us."
"When we love someone, we feel that we want to be close to them... in our house, our dogs are never given any kind of a treat or fed upstairs in the bedroom. But at night, they come upstairs. Why? Because they want to be near us."
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Today marks 10 years since Cecil the #lion was killed by a trophy hunter.
Today on our blog, Safina Center Fellow @mstarling.bsky.social speaks with Dr. Andy Loveridge, the director of Panthera’s lion program and one of the biologists tracking Cecil with GPS tags before his untimely death.
Today on our blog, Safina Center Fellow @mstarling.bsky.social speaks with Dr. Andy Loveridge, the director of Panthera’s lion program and one of the biologists tracking Cecil with GPS tags before his untimely death.
A Conversation With Biologist Dr. Andy Loveridge 10 Years After Cecil the Lion Was Killed — The Safina Center
By Safina Center Environmental Journalism Fellow Marlowe Starling
www.safinacenter.org
July 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Today marks 10 years since Cecil the #lion was killed by a trophy hunter.
Today on our blog, Safina Center Fellow @mstarling.bsky.social speaks with Dr. Andy Loveridge, the director of Panthera’s lion program and one of the biologists tracking Cecil with GPS tags before his untimely death.
Today on our blog, Safina Center Fellow @mstarling.bsky.social speaks with Dr. Andy Loveridge, the director of Panthera’s lion program and one of the biologists tracking Cecil with GPS tags before his untimely death.
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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
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This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”
June 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This framing exists because the decision is instantly obvious as one of the legal atrocities of US history, like Dred Scot, the 1870s Civil Rights Cases, Korematsu. The Times doesn’t want to say “The Supreme Court stripped rights out of law” so instead it says “Here’s why they did it to themselves”
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Thank you to @safinacenter.bsky.social for believing in my work in the intersections of climate, media, and research. Check out what I've been up to with my digital web series, Teaching Climate Together Season 2
How I Fell In Love With Environmental Education — The Safina Center
By Safina Center Conservation Videography Fellow Isaias Hernandez For me, environmental education didn’t begin in a classroom. It began at home with my mother. As a first-generation low-income Mexi...
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May 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thank you to @safinacenter.bsky.social for believing in my work in the intersections of climate, media, and research. Check out what I've been up to with my digital web series, Teaching Climate Together Season 2
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"You don’t have to be on the Serengeti or the bottom of the ocean to know what birds are at the feeder today and what phase the moon is in and whether a warm front is coming to deliver a lightning show tonight." - @4fishgreenberg.bsky.social and @csafina.bsky.social
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025
Feel the Earth on Earth Day
It’s not so hard to put down your phone and connect with your planet
4fishgreenberg.medium.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"You don’t have to be on the Serengeti or the bottom of the ocean to know what birds are at the feeder today and what phase the moon is in and whether a warm front is coming to deliver a lightning show tonight." - @4fishgreenberg.bsky.social and @csafina.bsky.social
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025
#EarthDay #EarthDay2025
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A Prattling of Puffins
Collagraph print made using a mountboard base, sellotape, textured wallpaper and masking tape.
Sometimes keeping it simple works? Anyone else go silly over puffins?
#collagraph #printmaking #seabirds #puffins
Collagraph print made using a mountboard base, sellotape, textured wallpaper and masking tape.
Sometimes keeping it simple works? Anyone else go silly over puffins?
#collagraph #printmaking #seabirds #puffins
March 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A Prattling of Puffins
Collagraph print made using a mountboard base, sellotape, textured wallpaper and masking tape.
Sometimes keeping it simple works? Anyone else go silly over puffins?
#collagraph #printmaking #seabirds #puffins
Collagraph print made using a mountboard base, sellotape, textured wallpaper and masking tape.
Sometimes keeping it simple works? Anyone else go silly over puffins?
#collagraph #printmaking #seabirds #puffins
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Osedax worms don’t wait for change—they dissolve obstacles. These bone-eating worms secrete acid to break down whale bones, unlocking nutrients for entire ecosystems. When the world falls, someone’s gotta turn it into something useful. 🌊🪱 #WormWednesday #DeepSea Image from @mbarinews.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Osedax worms don’t wait for change—they dissolve obstacles. These bone-eating worms secrete acid to break down whale bones, unlocking nutrients for entire ecosystems. When the world falls, someone’s gotta turn it into something useful. 🌊🪱 #WormWednesday #DeepSea Image from @mbarinews.bsky.social
Thank you, Samus Aran 🫡
February 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thank you, Samus Aran 🫡
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Interested in our work? Check out our Safina Center Network #StarterPack and follow our fellows, affiliates, staff, and friends!
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February 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Interested in our work? Check out our Safina Center Network #StarterPack and follow our fellows, affiliates, staff, and friends!
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
This was a painfully relatable read. Being a journalist gave me the power to amplify people's voices, but the structures that traditional outlets were built upon did everything to drown them out.
Especially the voices of people like me.
Especially the voices of people like me.
January 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This was a painfully relatable read. Being a journalist gave me the power to amplify people's voices, but the structures that traditional outlets were built upon did everything to drown them out.
Especially the voices of people like me.
Especially the voices of people like me.
I'm sorry, October was my WHAT????
December 4, 2024 at 2:39 PM
I'm sorry, October was my WHAT????
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A new episode of the Safina Center podcast is out now!
Hear from Hob Osterlund, our Conservationist-in-Residence, about her decades of experience working with the Laysan #albatross of #Kauai, #Hawaii.
Out now on Spotify, Apple podcasts, and our website!
#conservation
Hear from Hob Osterlund, our Conservationist-in-Residence, about her decades of experience working with the Laysan #albatross of #Kauai, #Hawaii.
Out now on Spotify, Apple podcasts, and our website!
#conservation
November 22, 2024 at 7:15 PM
A new episode of the Safina Center podcast is out now!
Hear from Hob Osterlund, our Conservationist-in-Residence, about her decades of experience working with the Laysan #albatross of #Kauai, #Hawaii.
Out now on Spotify, Apple podcasts, and our website!
#conservation
Hear from Hob Osterlund, our Conservationist-in-Residence, about her decades of experience working with the Laysan #albatross of #Kauai, #Hawaii.
Out now on Spotify, Apple podcasts, and our website!
#conservation
I'm certainly biased given that Carl is my boss, but I'm being completely sincere when I say that this is perhaps the most meaningful book I've ever read.
I cannot recommend it enough.
I cannot recommend it enough.
Carl Safina's "Alfie & Me" is now available in paperback!
Read the moving account of raising and freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship illuminates humanity’s relationship with the world.
Featuring eight pages of colored photos and a new epilogue!
Read the moving account of raising and freeing, an orphaned screech owl, whose lasting friendship illuminates humanity’s relationship with the world.
Featuring eight pages of colored photos and a new epilogue!
November 12, 2024 at 4:55 PM
I'm certainly biased given that Carl is my boss, but I'm being completely sincere when I say that this is perhaps the most meaningful book I've ever read.
I cannot recommend it enough.
I cannot recommend it enough.
Last night, I was heading home from my partner's apartment and ended up on a train full of people leaving Trump's MSG rally. I have never seen more fashion crimes in one place.
I also overheard a lot of awful conversations. It was like I was in a train car full of hate.
I also overheard a lot of awful conversations. It was like I was in a train car full of hate.
October 28, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Last night, I was heading home from my partner's apartment and ended up on a train full of people leaving Trump's MSG rally. I have never seen more fashion crimes in one place.
I also overheard a lot of awful conversations. It was like I was in a train car full of hate.
I also overheard a lot of awful conversations. It was like I was in a train car full of hate.
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"During the last two weeks we became small and vulnerable while sailing the imposing offshore Arctic #Ocean."
Safina Center Fellow Belén Garcia Ovide encounters northern bottlenose #whales, storms, and camaraderie along her trip through the #Arctic:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/sailing...
Safina Center Fellow Belén Garcia Ovide encounters northern bottlenose #whales, storms, and camaraderie along her trip through the #Arctic:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/sailing...
October 28, 2024 at 3:37 PM
"During the last two weeks we became small and vulnerable while sailing the imposing offshore Arctic #Ocean."
Safina Center Fellow Belén Garcia Ovide encounters northern bottlenose #whales, storms, and camaraderie along her trip through the #Arctic:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/sailing...
Safina Center Fellow Belén Garcia Ovide encounters northern bottlenose #whales, storms, and camaraderie along her trip through the #Arctic:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/sailing...
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"Our #coastlines are not built to withstand the type of rainfall and flooding scientists predict as record-high ocean temperatures fuel larger, more rapidly intensifying storms."
Safina Center Fellow @mstarling.bsky.social reflects on #Hurricane #Milton:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/eye-to-...
Safina Center Fellow @mstarling.bsky.social reflects on #Hurricane #Milton:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/eye-to-...
October 21, 2024 at 3:10 PM
"Our #coastlines are not built to withstand the type of rainfall and flooding scientists predict as record-high ocean temperatures fuel larger, more rapidly intensifying storms."
Safina Center Fellow @mstarling.bsky.social reflects on #Hurricane #Milton:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/eye-to-...
Safina Center Fellow @mstarling.bsky.social reflects on #Hurricane #Milton:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/eye-to-...
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"Ecosystems and more-than-human beings are practically and discursively transformed from living beings with rights to peace and happiness, into products to be consumed by humans"
Safina Center Fellow Priya Parrotta on luxury tourism:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/of-hote...
🌏 #conservation #environment
Safina Center Fellow Priya Parrotta on luxury tourism:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/of-hote...
🌏 #conservation #environment
Of Hotels and History: Luxury Beach Tourism in the New Gilded Age — The Safina Center
By Safina Center Fellow Priya Parrotta
www.safinacenter.org
October 9, 2024 at 5:05 PM
"Ecosystems and more-than-human beings are practically and discursively transformed from living beings with rights to peace and happiness, into products to be consumed by humans"
Safina Center Fellow Priya Parrotta on luxury tourism:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/of-hote...
🌏 #conservation #environment
Safina Center Fellow Priya Parrotta on luxury tourism:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/of-hote...
🌏 #conservation #environment
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As they reach maturity, the last of the Laysan albatross' downy baby feathers are usually relegated to their head. This leads to some very funky hairdos!
Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence Hob Osterlund shares some of her favorites on our blog:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/origina...
Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence Hob Osterlund shares some of her favorites on our blog:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/origina...
October 4, 2024 at 5:48 PM
As they reach maturity, the last of the Laysan albatross' downy baby feathers are usually relegated to their head. This leads to some very funky hairdos!
Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence Hob Osterlund shares some of her favorites on our blog:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/origina...
Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence Hob Osterlund shares some of her favorites on our blog:
www.safinacenter.org/blog/origina...
My partner's dog loves to cuddle. This is what I woke up to yesterday.
September 23, 2024 at 11:53 PM
My partner's dog loves to cuddle. This is what I woke up to yesterday.
I've been making a greater effort to bring my work outside recently. Not because I enjoy doing working on my laptop outdoors—but because I need to squeeze in as much vitamin D as I can before I spend all of my free time playing Elden Ring 🫠
August 30, 2024 at 5:51 PM
I've been making a greater effort to bring my work outside recently. Not because I enjoy doing working on my laptop outdoors—but because I need to squeeze in as much vitamin D as I can before I spend all of my free time playing Elden Ring 🫠