Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“The happiest place on the internet” as per @cgeib.bsky.social’s story for @biographic.bsky.social 031
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Every desert river rat knows that tamarisk is sucks up our most precious resource. But what if the science we've been basing that on is wrong? An eye-opening piece on one of the Southwest's most reviled trees, and how saving our rivers is a lot more complex than simply getting rid of tamarisk:biographic.comThe Trouble with Tamarisk | bioGraphicTwenty-five years ago, land managers unleashed a beetle to control an invasive tree sucking rivers dry. But water levels haven’t risen—and the real villains are still causing trouble. 0143
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"The sheer volume of writing now infused with AI... has left many of us in a state of permanent suspicion of everyone and everything." Yep. And not just editors, but the general public too. AI is undermining what little trust in journalism remained.cjr.orgFake Caroline.Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine. What now? 020
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It's been a really sad week on the personal front, but watching this thermometer heat up and knowing that so many people support nonprofit environmental journalism is giving me so much hope. People still read. People still value quality, human-made journalism. People still care about nature. 040
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Best headline ever, courtesy of @annieroth.bsky.socialbiographic.comWhen it Comes to Frog Sex, Teamwork Makes the Dream Work | bioGraphicNew science on gray foam-nest tree frogs hints at the evolutionary benefits of multiple sexual partners. 0136
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 24/09/2026sorry i cant meet this deadline i just saw a new bird 161
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Dam removal is often described as rewilding rivers, but it also liberates the human imagination. ... If eco-social anomie describes a societal forgetting, dam removal achieves the opposite—a “collective remembering,” as McClenachan put it, that cures our amnesia and unshifts our baselines. 060
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“It’s a challenge to talk to people about these fish, because they don’t have any cultural memory,” Furey said. Fish depletion, alas, is often a self-reinforcing cycle. The fewer fish there are, the less the public cares about them, a feedback loop dubbed eco-social anomie. ... 180
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026... It was a funny moment that hinted at a genuine problem. Whereas many West Coast salmon runs collapsed within the span of human memory, New England’s rivers have been plugged for so long that few residents know that they once ran silver with bluebacks, alewives, and shad. ... 140
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A woman in a lawn chair, cigarette dangling from fingers, asked us what we were doing, and Furey mentioned herring. “I had one out my bedroom window all winter,” she rasped. “I love seeing how still and graceful they are.” Herring, heron—same difference.... 140
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Do you love rivers? Do you love New England? If so, you'll love this @bengoldfarb.bsky.social story about the tiny, historic dams choking the region's rivers, and the people who are freeing them. Read the thread below for some absolute gems from the story.biographic.comDeath by a Thousand Dams | bioGraphicTens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing ... 1156
Reposted by Krista LangloisEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journeyheated.worldThe open houses at the edge of disasterWhat are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out. 421281408
Reposted by Krista LangloisbioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If you like your science news free of advertisements, written and reported by real humans without use of AI, and vetted by experienced editors, check out the first news story published on our shiny new website, below. And stay tuned for more! 145
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Thinking of how doing environmental journalism for 15+ years has given me a front-row seat to the evolution of major issues like plastic pollution. It feels like, not that long ago, I was writing stories like, WoW tHerE aRe ThEsE tHinGs CaLLeD MiCroPlaStiCs! And now we're here. 031
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A wild stat from this news story I edited: The maximum amount of plastic recorded in a chick was 67.4 grams, made up of 644 individual plastic fragments. That’s the equivalent of an average American human man walking around with 9.86 kilograms *** or 21.7 pounds*** of plastic in his stomach (!) 11615
Reposted by Krista LangloisbioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We're back from our hiatus with a new logo, newsletter, website, and even a new color palette! AND a fresh story by fearless editor @judeisabella.bsky.social! We hope you'll check us out, share with your friends, and consider supporting independent journalism about biodiversity & conservation 🧪biographic.comHome | bioGraphicOur newsletter Subscribe to bioGraphic’s weekly newsletter and never miss a story! From the archives Special series 22814
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Anyway I think those two should have dinner and let me join them and record their conversation 000
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It just occurred to me that Noah Kahah and Ocean Vuong write about the same New England, and it’s a side of New England that few other artists ever portray, its grit and gorgeousness all rolled up together 110
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I’ve always thought that working in a Jim Henson production would have been the best job ever 041
Reposted by Krista LangloisJason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”. 38107483740
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 09/07/2026My next career: the Weird Al of the sci-comm world 020
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Oh give me a bay With a turtle and ray And a shopping cart where corals grow Where disease isn't seen And the algae that's green Doesn't kill but instead gives a glow (Loved editing this gem by @cgeib.bsky.social about @coralcitycamera.bsky.social and Miami's urban corals!)biographic.comThe Corals That Shouldn’t Exist - bioGraphicBeneath Miami’s skyscrapers, a colony of corals defies expectations—and offers insight into other undersea urban ecosystems. 1146
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"More than 60 percent of Google searches in the United States now end without the user clicking on a link. ... What used to be a meandering journey through the internet [is now] an immediate arrival at your destination." Fascinating stuff here, by a neuroscientist and former Google employeenytimes.comOpinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask 010
Reposted by Krista Langloiscara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026huge thanks to @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social for allowing me to inaugurate this new column! I'm excited to read more Field Notes; if there's anything I've learned from science reporting it's that there are miles of strange journey before most newsworthy destinations 171
Reposted by Krista Langloiscara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026are you interested in toad calls, cemeteries, walking around at night, and/or what the wood frog has in common with Jesus Christ? you can learn about all these things and more in my new essay for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/listening-fo...biographic.comListening for Life Among the Dead - bioGraphicA local chapter of a national frog survey convenes at a storied Massachusetts cemetery. 13011
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This sounds exactly like the kind of project I've thought about doing but never actually followed through on. Ever since I was a baby newspaper reporter, I've thought there was so much story potential in the unsung lives of regular folks' obituaries: www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...cjr.orgBreathing new life into the obituary.A new podcast uses one of journalism’s oldest forms to explore universal truths. 020
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 24/06/2026And here's the update. This brings me great joy; it's the perfect overlap of my longform journalism nerdery and my nature-loving hermit dreamsbbc.comThe snake-wrangling 84-year-old who lives on a remote barrier islandOnce called the "wildest woman in America", this fearless knife-wielding naturalist has lived off the land for 53 years, fighting to preserve Cumberland Island for future travellers. 0104
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 24/06/2026It's worth re-reading McPhee's piece (below) and then catching up with Carol via the new BBC article in the next post.newyorker.comTravels in Georgia 130
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Her name is Carol Ruckdeschel and she's spent five decades living alone in a driftwood cabin on a remote barrier island, fighting development and documenting the natural world, aka living her very best life. I adore her. 131
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 24/06/2026If you're familiar with John McPhee's 1973 classic "Travels in Georgia," you'll be tickled to know that the young naturalist who spent her time “collecting skulls and pelts, eating rattlesnakes, preserving natural areas, and charting the ranges of river frogs” is still doing much the same 132
Reposted by Krista Langloisjane c. hu @janehu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026"We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting...we also have reason to believe that the sale was motivated by fear within Springer Nature that our attempts to doggedly report on the crisis facing science in America today would lead to repercussions from the Trump administration." 05126
Reposted by Krista LangloisbioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 22/06/2026📣 BIG NEWS! 📣 We're re-launching bioGraphic as a completely independent nonprofit! As we make this transition, we're taking a publishing (and social media) break in July and August. Then we'll be back with more inspiring, paywall-free journalism about the natural world. More details below 👇45450221.hs-sites.comThe email you’ve been waiting for—what’s next for bioGraphic 316541
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"On a dripping-hot morning in July, the kind of day that makes you wonder why anyone moves to Florida, I exited the interstate and headed toward a ragged field sandwiched between Hollywood Boulevard and a Walmart Supercenter." One of the best openers I've had the pleasure of editing this year 0196
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Good morning. May the day bring you a modicum of the joy felt by this bear after he swam a kilometer across frigid water Glacier Bay, Alaska, and came upon a scrawny tree. Video by my friend Whitney while I floated next to her in a kayak audibly gasping 25211
Reposted by Krista LangloisEva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Hi pals! I've got something I'm REALLY excited about in the works... I'll be editing a nonfiction anthology about the Yukon River. Timelines are tight so I'm mostly seeking out existing work (in your publication archive, sitting on your hard drive...) Please submit / share! forms.gle/Q622LYHExe7x... 23114
Reposted by Krista LangloisMorgan Sjogren @morgansjogren.bsky.social · 09/06/2026It’s telling that even @jfleck.bsky.social is burning out in Colorado River Basin dysfunction & is turning his “attention to the local level, which is where the problem solving responsibility seems to rest right now.” Gulp. 🚰🚱🥃🔫🌊 094
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 05/06/2026"'Why do we do astrophysics?' Hogg offered an answer. It wasn’t to solve the cosmos but to grapple with it: a journey, not a destination." THIS, from @joshuasokol.bsky.social, gets at the heart of why I despise genAI: it assumes that writing is a product rather than an experiencescience.orgAmid a flood of AI advances, astrophysicists are questioning the soul of their fieldResearchers see enormous power in new tools—but also the potential end of astrophysics as a human endeavor 3249
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Listen, I wear as much Patagucci as the next outdoorsy middle-class white woman, but i found this super thought-provoking. “It’s outrageous that a corporation that exploits a name as part of its marketing sues others for doing the same.” 1113
Reposted by Krista LangloisbioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 02/06/2026We've got a big feature out today (with gorgeous photographs) about the Ukrainian conservationists working to save a herd of bison from the ongoing Russian invasion. It's about the hope that conservation can offer in times of war, and the ways that animals' lives are entangled human geopolitics.biographic.comSaving Bison as Bombs Fall - bioGraphicAmid the destruction of war, Ukrainian conservationists remain determined to help a European bison herd persevere. 118562
Reposted by Krista LangloisThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2026The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate.nyti.msTrump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring SystemThe $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research. 59264209
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I feel the need to alert @janehu.bsky.social to this event 110
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I think the same is true for people. So many ppl are like, "I love the mountains!" And sure, we have a genuine love for mountains, but in many cases what we really mean is that we love wild, undeveloped places, and mountains are one of the few ecosystems left where we can find such places 050
Reposted by Krista LangloisChris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2026A quite lovely photo of a worm inside this tunicate! Is it eating? or... ? #wormwednesday #tunicatetuesday via @biographic.bsky.social www.biographic.com/friends-or-f...biographic.comFriends or Foes? - bioGraphicA flatworm and a sea squirt mingle in the tropical waters of West Papua, offering a glimpse into the complexity of interspecies relationships. 0248
Reposted by Krista LangloisJude Isabella @judeisabella.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Last week the @biographic.bsky.social team learned that, owing to an ongoing deficit, the California Academy of Sciences will no longer provide us with financial support. We're reaching out to foundations that support environmental journalism. We've got plans, we just need some help! 23030
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Cannot believe that those of us from Hakai are going through this again. This industry is brutal, man. 4202
Reposted by Krista LangloisSarah Whorley, Ph.D. 🦬⚔️ @dralgaegirl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Stolen from FB.... 0136
Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 28/04/2026"And what might a bumblebee dream of? The moments of their life, perhaps: the flowers they have visited, their taste and smell. The paths they followed to get there. Other bees they have known." This @brandonkeim.bsky.social essay, originally published in @nautil.us, is an absolute beautybiographic.comPlanting Seeds for Bumblebee Dreams - bioGraphicSowing flowers in spring may have a surprising effect on the inner lives of bees. 0122