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For Whom The Bell Tinkles

Printing Colliers Magazine or running a diner.

One meeting with the ESA Board, presenting and moderating one special session, presenting one Inspire, two panels, two hours of mock interviewing, one research talk. Ecological Society of America 2026 Annual Meeting at Salt Lake Series is over, and I'm tired and ready to go home. #esa26

US is so on-brand.

Looks like a great week ahead in Salt Lake City at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting.

Note that one of the newsboys in the picture is a girl. Girls were part of this exploitative business, and were part of the Newsies Strike.

Note that one of the newsboys in the picture is a girl. Girls were part of this exploitative business, and were part of the Newsies Strike.

Alligator Gars serving as indicators of Mississippi River floodplain health and restoration! Floodplains are vital to aquatic ecosystem function, and also mitigate floods in places we don’t want them (like residential areas). www.nfwf.org/media-center...

A new paper on the history of the Ecology Society of America's Education Committee. ESA is the world's largest professional association of ecologists. I am proud to currently be chair of the committee, and coauthor on this paper. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Best outcome: Team USA doesn't play Balogun and wins. Next best outcome: Team USA doesn't play Balogun and Belgium wins. Next next best outcome: Team USA plays Balogun and Belgium wins. Worst outcome: Team USA plays Balogun and wins. #FIFA #WorldCup

Forget it, Jake, it's FIFA.

I've spent time on the Clearwater. Good on the Captain and crew to continue to stand for something and make good trouble. That's the best spirit of the 4th!

They look like fash cub scouts.

Beavis and Butthead are all grown up.

Pope Leo XIII in his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum and Pope Pius XI in his 1931 encyclical Quadragesimo Anno both criticized capitalism (along with state socialism). Francis is by no means the first.

I say it often but once again: By granting them borrowing privileges and protecting their privacy, public libraries afford children a form of civic standing and respect that has few parallels in our “free” society, which mostly treats children as chattel. Vociferously defend public libraries. 📚

the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Another exhausting day teaching a course in Kenya.

Cool, quiet evening in the Nairobi suburb of Karen, listening to the weird vocalizations of lesser bushbabies and tree hyraxes, and the chirps of bats. The noises of urban traffic are in the distance. The Kenya Guinness tastes nice.

We were fine - we avoided it by turning onto an entrance road into the park. Buy we were vey close to it.