It’s #FatBearWeek again at Katmai National Park and Preserve. Thinking about the excellently chunky bears and the federal workers at national parks who have struggled amid cuts, freezes, layoffs, etc this year. Glad this celebration is still on. www.instagram.com/katmainpp?ig...

On a personal note, last night I picked some lettuce from my backyard and made a salad--and then a spider climbed out of my dish in the middle of dinner and said hello. It was a bit startling, but also kinda restorative and brought me back to Earth.

The trouble with AI summaries in online searches: not unbiased (obviously), incomplete, prone to hallucinations. But many folks searching the internet won’t always delve much deeper than the summary. This is from DuckDuckGo by the way, which is supposed to be the alternative Google.

#Seattle peeps, Come out this Friday and Saturday and see Centrifuge--in which five science writers team up with five playwrights to create a whole evening of short plays. My collaboration is about WHALES, and how whale pee is not gross but ecological magic. Tix here: infinitybox.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

Happy to be among colleagues at #SEJ2025. Key lesson from today's workshop on climate investigations: journalists need to get better at collaborating and supporting each other. If you are here and want to talk more about this, join us also at our Saturday afternoon workshop.

So many things are a sad, crazy mess right now. Even so, one can get daffodils at the Sunday farmers market.

Wow, this is some stunning and far-out fiction from the president about California's water. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

I got myself a super-efficient heat pump for Christmas.

4/ From the bill text.

From a joint statement from the Council on Foundations, Independent Sector, National Council of Nonprofits, and United Philanthropy Forum.

If you have trouble with casting a ballot today in the US, these resources are from the nonpartisan Common Cause.