RT @meownderthal: Ugh, I hate that this October heat wave keeps @baynature's latest reporting on how animals deal with heat so timely. But….

Which is understandable, since most foundations reach a phase (as this one seems to have) of now having to raise more money from new sources to perpetuate themselves. The temptation to ditch journalism for PR is pretty tough to resist.

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As someone who has put in time in the mines of foundation-funded journalism, rare is the moneybags who does not tire of funding well-reported journalism that people actually want to read, in favor of a media product designed to flatter themselves and all of their little ideas.

HOW INTERESTING that the journalism nonprofit gets de-funded by its foundation backer a few months after said foundation launches its own public relations quarterly.

RT @astradisastra: And bashing outsiders is, of course, a way to hinder internationalism—to stymie attempts to unify people and workers of….

RT @astradisastra: Historically, solidarity has been sabotaged through separation & segregation; by setting people apart from each other, d….

RT @astradisastra: A 🧵about the “outside agitator" trope, inspired by our book SOLIDARITY, which looks at why “outsiders” are so threatenin….

RT @brittneymac15: Reporters on the ground with community connections provide the most meaningful and useful journalism. That's true on col….

RT @meownderthal: Very jazzed—@baynature is hiring a Community Affairs Reporter! It's a paid yearlong fellowship for early-career journos w….

RT @dieworkwear: clothing tip: to prevent clothes moths, fill your wardrobe with thousands of tiny little spiders, the moth's natural preda….

RT @meownderthal: tfw hiring someone for a quick hit story and they give you a shiny diamond you just want to hold up in the light and cont….

When the Xerces blue vanished in the 1940s, it was the first documented extinction of an insect in North America due to human activity. Now it's back. But it's complicated. Many thanks to @BayNature and @meownderthal for this adventure.

I wrote about grassroots efforts to ban/lower the use of anticoagulant rodenticides years ago, when political activism was my beat. Still fascinating to me how difficult it is to ban any product on at a local level.

RT @MaddieOBender: New newsletter dropped @Sequencermag with thoughts on the (surreal! stupendous!) response to our launch, courtesy of @go….

@meownderthal @BayNature Do not miss the gorgeous map of the murdered riparian forests of the Central Valley, created and fact-checked by @meownderthal working waaaay beyond the confines of her job description, from data that was first collected by @ChicoState's geography department.

@meownderthal I have been informed that this is @BayNature's first lede that involves child lookouts and hiding from the watchful eye of park rangers.