Over the years I've been proud to support Seattle's amazing PAWS pet and wildlife rescue organization. Their new rehab facility is phenomenal: https://paws.org/wildlife/

I first learned about PAWS from board member Kris Tsujikawa; crow enthusiasts may know her photography from twitter.

Anyway, if anyone wants to donate $200+ to her current PAWS campaign at https://give.paws.org/fundraiser/5383046, I'll send you a 12x12 metal print (no frame needed) of the crow below, just like the one I have on my own wall.

The loss of access to Twitter data under the new pricing plan was a dire blow to our research at the UW-CIP.

Now being forced to delete the data that dozens of people spent years collecting, curating, and studying—outrageous. It’s like burning lab notebooks, an attack on science for the sake of pure malice.

(UPDATE: it appears that the deletion mandates may not apply to us given our data use, but they are still devastating to the groups affected.)

https://inews.co.uk/news/twitter-researchers-delete-data-unless-pay-2364535

“Clouds of brown spilling from the right-of-way into a wetland, sections of the pipe itself submerged in muddy water, reddish water pouring directly into the forest.”

In today’s newsletter, @writermjs reflects on his flight through Wet’suwet’en territory. https://t.co/uIMq6kOVnA

Not a great shot, I had to denoise and crop the hell out of it, but at least you can kind of make out the tell-tale hot orange-pink feet on this Blackpoll Warbler, a first for me. But, these warblers' legs aren't the only cool thing about them. For one thing, its call is so high-pitched as to be barely audible to the human ear. For another, as tiny as it is, it migrates over 1,800 miles from northern Canada to its winter digs in South America. Not so cool is the fact that its population has declined by about 80% during the past 40 years, largely due to the fossil fuel and other extractive industries devastating its nesting habitat in the boreal north.

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