Fantastic reporting and photos in this story about one of the most beautiful things happening in Iowa today www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/c...

Hidden in Midwestern Cornfields, Tiny Edens Bloom

Farmers in the heartland are restoring swaths of the prairie with government help. The aim is to reduce nutrient runoff from cropland, and help birds and bees.

We are very happy to share the line-up for our ROTO lecture series in this upcoming winter semester. We are very much looking forward to the exciting talks! They all take place on zoom. You can register via this link👇 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture..#HPbio#HistSci#PhilSci

Just came across @djnicholson.bsky.socialphilpapers.org/archive/NICE...

Just when I thought DeSantis and Rufo had done enough to break Florida’s universities

JWjasonaw.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 4:02pm

New from me: New College of Florida is hosting writer Steve Sailer--for years branded a "white supremacist"--at a college branded event. In 2023 Ron DeSantis appointed Chris Rufo to its board of trustees www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Florida university to host extremist after DeSantis-led lurch to right

Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’

From the current WJO issue: Sunning behavior of five Accipitridae species in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. #ornithologyhttps://meridian.allenpress.com/wjo/article/136/3/370/501609/Sunning-behavior-of-five-Accipitridae-species-in

Pub date May 13, 2025.

www.jta.org/2024/09/23/o...

Fania Brantsovsky, last living Vilna ghetto partisan resistance fighter, dies at 102 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Remaining in Lithuania after the war, she became a keeper of the flame of the city's once illustrious Yiddish culture.

Indoor experimental units made (from recycled scrap wood). New birds introduced.

New article by ROTO fellow @afabregastejeda.bsky.social#HPBio

AFafabregastejeda.bsky.socialSep 16, 2024 5:00pm

I'm thrilled to share my latest article at the EJPS! I assess the potential & limitations of aligning notions of 'research environments' with biological concepts of environment to try to grasp the socio-material contexts in & through which science happens 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci

The closure of Goddard college has me rattled. I almost attended but they didn’t have a zoology program. It’s sad that an inspiring place like Goddard can’t attract students in a world where education is market-gaming vocational training and transactional experiences. medium.com/@ronmillervt...

The Death of a Progressive College

What the closing of Goddard College says about our times