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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“One day, the youngest child—let’s call her Cassandra, because she is doomed to be right—noticed something troubling. “The house is on fire,” she said.” open.substack.com/pub/devonthe...

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Cassandra and the Burning House

Once upon a time, there was a house.

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Remember, reading about nature, climate, environmental justice, and traditional ecological knowledge is a meaningful form of 🌈climate action✨, especially when you share what you’ve learned with others

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Something I really *love* is friends and family telling me that I should keep up the work because it’s important, or that I should consider a degree in environmental law because I’m “smart and could make a difference”, and yet they voted for Trump… It makes me want to vomit

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

New on The Wild Life and in my efforts to write more creatively to process all the absurdity taking place | The Great Wanting and The Last Tree. The reviews are in: “this is a bad story. Why aren’t there pictures?” - My 8 year old. thewildlife.blog/2025/02/27/t...

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The Last Tree

There once was a forest, and in it, the world was whole. The trees stretched tall, as trees do, and their roots tangled deep, as roots must. The wind, which has been around much longer than anyone,…

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New blog post “This is the story of how the Earth learned to breathe, and like all the best stories, it is full of magic.” thewildlife.blog/2025/02/20/t...

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The Living World

This is the story of how the Earth learned to breathe, and like all the best stories, it is full of magic.

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

To every SciCommer, educator, and scientist striving to spread hope, raise awareness, inspire action, and change minds—even if you can’t change the minds of those closest to you—I see you. Your work matters. You are making a difference.

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Do I believe there is hope for us? Absolutely. Not a passive hope that waits for rescue, but an active, living hope—a hope you build with your hands, your voice, your choices. As long as you care, as long as you act, as long as you refuse to let despair win, hope is alive.

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Looking to connect with people who love science, nature, wildlife, sustainability, humankind, finding solutions and common ground, & all kinds of geekery And also people who are skeptical about climate change (let’s chat!) or have even the most causal interest in animals of all kinds Just people 😊

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I don’t just want people to learn about nature; I want them to feel it in their bones, to look at the world with fresh eyes, and to care enough to protect it, for its own sake, and the sake of future generations.

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

If I can get the outlandish threshold of 3.75 million views on this video, I’ll be able to afford all my big dream school supplies for teaching this year AND keep The Wild Life going for another year! www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNu8DQM9/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

Calling all climate scientists, conservationists, and biologists! I need your help launching my new project—Us, a podcast about navigating climate change. I’m looking for experts willing to contribute the following:

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

PLEASE help my student win a trip to the MN Zoo for our class! They made this website: sc012315.wixsite.com/showusyourmu... Check it out and then vote for Apollo here: mnzoo.org/mussels-chal... SHARE SHARE SHARE! You can vote once per day!

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Mussels Challenge - Minnesota Zoo

Welcome to The Show Us Your Mussels Challenge voting page! Minnesota middle and high school students created original digital media campaigns educating the public about Read More

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Let’s rethink the metamorphosis metaphor www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8X1vR3c/

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

How to make chlorophyll glow red www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8ADLyhH/

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

This episode originally aired on 3/24/18 & takes us all the way from Copenhagen to the rainforest of South America, from the belly of the beast to its excrement, as we explore nature’s Vampires with Dr Marie Lisandra Zepeda-Mendoza player.captivate.fm/episode/a13d...

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Revisited: Nature's Vampires with Dr Marie Lisandra Zepeda-Mendoza

<p>This episode, which originally aired on March 24 2018, takes us all the way from Copenhagen to the rainforest of South America, from the belly of the beast to its excrement, as we explore...

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

Sharks are in the water. But is the ocean shark-infested, or shark-depleted? I sat down to talk with Dr Alexandra McInturf to find out in my first interview since Jeff Corwin in February of 2022 🙂 player.captivate.fm/episode/aa34...

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Shark Conservation with Dr Alexandra McInturf

<p>Sharks are in the water. But is the ocean shark-infested, or shark-depleted? I sat down to talk with Dr Alexandra McInturf to find out.</p><p><a...

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Here for but a minuscule moment in time, and trying my best to make the most of it

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

If a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no on there to hear it, is it more likely to use expletives?

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

Sometimes I see insects that I’ve never seen before, and I feel like a kid again 😊 Podisus placidus, a young one at least. It’s a species of predatory stink bug in the family Pentatomidae.

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

Hard question to ask (harder to answer), but I’m curious on peoples thoughts: In the midst of mass biodiversity decline, climate change, loss of habitats, and many populations being the lowest they’ve been on record, how can we truly define “sustainable take”? Obv huge caveats

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

I just want to be able to type my binomials in italics on socials 🥺

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

Spotted this Striped Fishing Spider (Dolomedes scriptus) out of the corner of my eye while wading in the Cascade River just south of Grand Marias, MN. 3 inches wide! The tend to sit with their back legs in lane, using their front to grab insects and small fish.

Dolomedes scriptus, striped fishing spider on the surface of water

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Devon Bowker @devonthenatureguy.bsky.social · 02/07/2023

5-minute Pacific Cownose Ray on this fine Saturday 😊🌲

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 22/06/2023

I am being neither productive nor unproductive but a secret third thing

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