michaelJan 5
The (slow) thread collecting all my features published in #CurrentBiology in 2026 starts here. #ProseAndPassion #Science #ScienceWriter #ScienceJournalism #biology #ecology The old thread for 2025 is here: https://mastodon.social/@proseandpassion/113782468349225978
Show threadmichaelAug 5, 2025
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 15: #OceanAcidification exceeds #PlanetaryBoundaries - a good opportunity to revisit both issues: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/08/oceans-acidified.html
#science #ecology #environment #climateCatastrophe #coasts #conservation #marineBiology #ProseAndPassion
oceans acidified

I've covered ocean acidification many years ago, when it was beginning to emerge as a threat to corals and other calcifying sea organisms, a...

Show threadmichaelJul 22, 2025
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 14: Coastal #ecosystems get squeezed out of existence: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/07/coastal-squeeze.html #science #ecology #environment #coastalSqueeze #coasts #conservation #ProseAndPassion
coastal squeeze

Sometimes reading a new word or phrase opens a whole new perspective on problems that we may already have known about in a less focused way....

michaelMar 10, 2025

repeat for the (non-existent) followers of the bluesky bridge:

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 5: #trumpocalypse 2 - how the #disruption in the US will cost lives around the world and accelerate the #ClimateCatastrophe
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/03/moving-backwards-and-breaking-things.html

#science #ProseAndPassion #environment #publicHealth

moving backwards and breaking things

I've been trying to distil the events unfolding in the US since January 20 into a reasonable narrative that remains valid during the 2.5 wee...

Show threadmichaelMar 10, 2025

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 5: #trumpocalypse 2 - how the #disruption in the US will cost lives around the world and accelerate the #ClimateCatastrophe
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/03/moving-backwards-and-breaking-things.html

#science #ProseAndPassion #environment #publicHealth

moving backwards and breaking things

I've been trying to distil the events unfolding in the US since January 20 into a reasonable narrative that remains valid during the 2.5 wee...

michaelFeb 26, 2025
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 4: #PFAS or #ForeverChemicals are a major #pollution problem
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/forever-fluorinated.html #science #ProseAndPassion #environment #publicHealth #PersistentOrganicPollutants #chemistry #PlanetaryBoundaries ((this is a repeat toot for the bluesky bridge, which doesn't appear to accept toots in threads))
forever fluorinated

Polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) aka "forever chemicals" have been in the news a lot, as they are now being found just about everywhe...

Show threadmichaelFeb 24, 2025
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 4: #PFAS or #ForeverChemicals are a major #pollution problem
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/forever-fluorinated.html #science #ProseAndPassion #environment #publicHealth #PersistentOrganicPollutants #chemistry #PlanetaryBoundaries
forever fluorinated

Polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) aka "forever chemicals" have been in the news a lot, as they are now being found just about everywhe...

Show threadmichaelFeb 3, 2025
my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 3: Humans have always migrated, it's in our genes. https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/02/homo-migrans.html
#science #genome #migration #ancientDNA #archaeology #history #RomanEmpire #MiddleAges #MigrationPeriod #ProseAndPassion
homo migrans

It is a sad irony that the current wave of (populist, racist, fascist etc) sentiment against people who migrate from one part of our planet ...

michaelJan 6, 2025

The (slow) thread collecting all my features published in #CurrentBiology in 2025 starts here. #ProseAndPassion #Science #ScienceWriter #ScienceJournalism #biology #ecology The old thread for 2024 is here:

https://mastodon.social/@proseandpassion/111722396242587397

Show threadmichaelMay 6, 2024

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 9: For the special issue on #EcosystemRestoration I wrote a feature about #rivers being restored.

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/05/rivers-restored.html

#science #environment #ScienceJournalism #ProseAndPassion #freshwater #rivers #freeflow

rivers restored

Today's issue of Current Biology is a special theme issue on ecosystem restoration with lots of articles on various kinds of ecosystems fro...