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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · 14d

100%. Meat can also be a hard pivot for climate folks who (for good reason) deemphasize individual behavior and instead demand systemic change. But in the context of meat and dairy, consumers’ personal decisions really *can* make a big difference. Jennifer Jacquet:

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · 17d

This is one of those you know is coming, but still hurts when it happens.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

www.nytimes.com

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · 18d

Finally, a monumental squirrel statue. In Jeffrey Gibson’s Sculptures, Child’s Play and Indigenous Truths www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/a...

In Jeffrey Gibson’s Sculptures, Child’s Play and Indigenous Truths

www.nytimes.com

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 20d

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 17

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours.

www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

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David Raatz Ⓥ @raatz.bsky.social · Sep 8

#AnimalLaw

California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · Sep 7

Natalie Jacewicz offers a range of possible agency approaches to incorporate individual animals’ inherent worth into wildlife management.

californialawreview.org/print/new-conservationism

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Robert Francis @birdhistory.bsky.social · Sep 1

The last passenger pigeon died 111 years ago today and not a day goes by that I don't think about how their flocks numbered in the *billions*, that their roosts covered 100+ square miles, that they collapsed trees with their nests. America is incomplete without them

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Aug 30

After years in development, my article Crafting a New Conservationism is out in California Law Review! It's about how U.S. agencies manage conflicts between conservation goals and individual wild animals' intrinsic value. Thanks to the many people who provided feedback and Cal.'s editors!

Crafting a New Conservationism — California Law Review

Environmental law has an animal problem. It lacks an account of whether and how animals’ interests matter. Case in point: The agencies tasked with protecting wild animals cannot stop killing them. The...

www.californialawreview.org

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Raffael Fasel @raffaelfasel.bsky.social · Aug 22

I am delighted that my book 'More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals' is featured in Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com and has been made an essential read in their Philosophy section. Many thanks to Marc Bekoff for interviewing me! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...

Granting Rights to Animals Doesn't Undermine Human Rights

In proposing the Species Membership Approach, Raffael Fasel argues against the misplaced fears that granting legal rights and personhood to nonhumans would weaken human rights.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Aug 6

To learn more about what works and doesn’t in litigating predator management, check out @alexerwin.bsky.social’s paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Litigating Predator Management

Despite significant gains over the last half century, predators such as mountain lions, wolves, and bears are in the crosshairs once again. Scientific man

papers.ssrn.com

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Aug 6

Fed MT court says Fish & Wildlife Service must reconsider delisting gray wolves in light of aggressive killing by Idaho, Montana, & other western states. It’s a PSA to states not to “overdo it” once a population is delisted. Try to eradicate them and…back on the list they go!

wildernesswatch.org

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Aug 4

Tfw someone starts Zoom call with “I’m inside this delightful coffee shop” and proceeds to have loud, full-on business meeting on Zoom that entire coffee shop can follow.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 1

I can’t begin to enumerate the ways the Corporation for Public Broadcasting made my life better, literally from my earliest memories until today. This is gut wrenching.

Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · Aug 1

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down

cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissio...

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · Jul 29

Trump's EPA chose today to release its finding that GHG pollution does not endanger public health.

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Over 50 million Americans under heat advisory amid sweltering temperatures across South and Midwest.. For people without effective cooling, especially heat-sensitive groups, this level of heat can be deadly.. #ClimateChange.. a driving factor"
#ClimateSky
#MedSky
www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/ext...

Over 50 million Americans under heat advisory amid sweltering temperatures across South and Midwest: 'This level of heat can be deadly'

Nearly a third of the United States is under heat alerts as temperatures skyrocket, prompting an experimental tool to help assess health threats from extreme heat.

www.thecooldown.com

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Jul 25

Hmm. Don’t love this.

Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social · Jul 25

Global analysis of GRACE data since 2002 shows continents (all land excluding Greenland & Antarctica) have undergone unprecedented rates of drying & the areas experiencing drying are increasing by about 2x the size of California per year.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions to sea level rise

Drying continents, extreme drought, and groundwater depletion are shrinking water availability and increasing sea level rise.

www.science.org

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy #sharkweek! Here’s a reminder that sharks tried to save us from all this. slate.com/technology/2...

The Global Internet Is Being Attacked by Sharks, Google Confirms

The Internet is a series of tubes ... that are sometimes attacked by sharks.

slate.com

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🌊Markus Knigge🐟 @oceanknigge.bsky.social · Jul 23

#ICJ: States liable for issuing oil & gas exploration licenses, incl in 🌊. #ClimateJustice
@oceansteinmann.bsky.social @oceanthyrza.bsky.social

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Jul 23

Going to be cool to see how EPA makes this “scientific” finding with *checks notes* all the scientists it fired.

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

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Alex Erwin @alexerwin.bsky.social · Jul 21

For junior environmental law folks, we’re hosting our 2nd Annual Early Environmental Law Scholars (EELS) Conference at @uflaw.bsky.social this Nov 6-8. We’ve got it all: paper talks, teaching workshops, a field trip into nature, and more!

Register here:
www.law.ufl.edu/events-feed/...

Early Environmental Law Scholars Conference - Levin College of Law

www.law.ufl.edu

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Jul 22

We’re three days into #shark #week, and I get that there’s a lot going on in the world, but frankly my feed hasn’t been showing me nearly enough sharks. So I’m being the change I want to see in the world and sharing these excellent pics. Prego.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Jul 22

Award-winning shark photographer dives underwater with mission to inspire

“I love seeing sharks so if I can bring sharks to people who can’t go see them, maybe go inspire an elementary school kid who wants to be a shark researcher in the future, if I can do that, that’s an…

www.wdbj7.com

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Jul 21

Ha! Yes, the article acknowledges that people may have different preferences about the abundance of different kinds of wild animals. And a few types of wildlife (see jellyfish) have increased in recent years. But mostly, we’re in a world with less wildlife, even the boring, stalker kind.

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Jul 21

I argue diminishing abundance threatens goals set out by various environmental laws and suggest ways to better protect common wildlife. Thanks to all who gave feedback on this piece! (And there's still time for more feedback, if you feel so inclined.)

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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Jul 21

Sharing my draft article, Protecting Wild Animal Abundance, forthcoming in Utah Law Review, @sjquinney.bsky.social. It highlights loss of relatively common wild #animals as distinct from the #biodiversity crisis, and discusses why US #environmental #law failed to stop such losses.

PROTECTING WILD ANIMAL ABUNDANCE

<p><i><span>Americans today encounter billions fewer wild animals than their grandparents did. These ongoing losses affect an enormous array of interests, inclu

papers.ssrn.com

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · Jul 20

You know, geology is great and meteorology is great, but when the two combine it can become a transcendent experience. This was our view in upper Pine Creek Canyon near our Honeymoon Lake camp on Wednesday. Rainbows and high elevation glacially-sculpted granites on #publiclands for the win!

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