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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're feeling so loved! Thank you all for your support so far -- we've already exceeded our original fundraising goal of $20,000 and are now aiming to reach $30,000. Can you help with the final push? biographic.com/support-us/

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you root for the under-loved and lesser-known animals, plants, and fungi of the world, have we got news for you. After a decade of operating under the umbrella of the California Academy of Sciences, bioGraphic has officially incorporated as our own fully independent nonprofit! 🌿 🪸🦇🐢 🐟🍄 (1/2)

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Our team has been working hard over the past six weeks to secure the magazine’s future. Read about what’s next for bioGraphic: 45450221.hs-sites.com/the-email-yo...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Last week the bioGraphic team learned that, owing to an ongoing financial deficit, the California Academy of Sciences—where we’ve made our home for the past decade—will no longer be able to provide us with financial support, including support we were expecting this year.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Cheers to 10 years! On the occasion of bioGraphic's 10-year publishing anniversary, we put together a Q&A with our co-founders and a roundup of 10 stories, chosen by current and former editors. You can find it all via the link below. www.biographic.com/its-our-10-y...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Are you a regular bioGraphic reader? 🙋 We're looking to get to know you better. Please take five minutes to tell us what you think of our work: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7X68X86

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

📣 We're conducting a survey to get to know our readers better and understand what bioGraphic means to you. Please take five minutes to share your feedback: www.surveymonkey.com/r/7X68X86

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

We are SO CLOSE to reaching our $75,000 fundraising goal! If you support independent, nonprofit journalism about biodiversity and conservation, your donation could help us get to the finish line! 🫶 give.calacademy.org/campaign/746...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Nonprofit journalism is facing stormy waters. Can you give us a flipper -- er, a hand -- so that we can continue reporting stories about biodiversity and conservation in 2026 and beyond? Click the link below to donate (and get some cool stickers!) give.calacademy.org/campaign/746...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Remember last year, when bioGraphic and Hakai Magazine were both facing uncertain futures? Your donations saved the day--we raised $140,000 and lived to publish another day! Now we need help balancing our 2026 budget. Please donate via the link below, and snag some cool stickers to boot!

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

That's where "phytomining" enters the picture. This nascent industry is using special metal-accumulating plants to develop a less destructive way to mine--or should we say farm?--metals.

Camelina sativa, a plant in the mustard family, is already grown for a number of purposes, including for food and as animal feed. More recently, the plant has been grown for biofuel production. And soon, perhaps, as a way to collect nickel.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

But what if there was another way? What if there was a way to obtain the metals we want--nickel, cobalt, cadmium, zinc--without the need for destructive strip mining or deep sea adventures?

A nickel mine in Indonesia, showing the extent of the environmental destruction involved in the technique.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Why we think readers like you can change the world link.calacademy.org/nl3/DEWRxP2w...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

At bioGraphic, we publish stories that inspire a deep appreciation for life on Earth—and hope for its future. 🌿 📣 To support our work, become a monthly donor and help us reach 100 new Insiders by September 19 You choose the amount, and every little bit helps: give.calacademy.org/campaign/719...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The Java mouse-deer is neither a mouse nor a deer, though it resembles both. About the size of a hare, the mouse-deer carries its big ears, pointed snout, and relatively rotund body atop pencil-thin legs.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The only way to reverse the devastation is to rescue and restore wild populations of sunflower and other sea stars. But “we can’t save them if we don’t know why they’re dying,” says disease ecologist Alyssa Gehman.

Alyssa Gehman, a disease ecologist with the University of British Columbia and the B.C.-based Hakai Institute, worked for years to identify the pathogen killing sunflower sea stars.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

In 2013, sea stars began dying along North America’s West Coast, victims of a plague known as sea star wasting disease. The condition first surfaced in the Pacific Northwest, where scientists and scuba divers noticed sea stars sporting grisly lesions, white and splotchy.

A sea star suffers from sea star wasting disease.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The computer system pings a remote expert on standby who double-checks the machine’s work. Within a minute, the expert forwards the alert back to the ship, catching the captain’s attention with enough time for the crew to change course and, hopefully, avoid the whale becoming maritime roadkill.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Now, advances in transmitter and battery technology are extending the use of miniaturized tags to the aquatic environments, offering scientists a new view of the small species whose unexamined lives are propping up entire ecosystems.

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a new miniature acoustic transmitter and tagging procedure that is designed to enable valuable in-water monitoring and data collection for highly sensitive species and juvenile fish. Photo by Andrea Starr/PNNL

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

These cotton balls on toothpicks nest on the ground, and have long been the victims of predation by the island's red foxes. But in 2015, an outbreak of sarcoptic mange tore through Fire Island's foxes.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

So far this year, reader donations have funded 20 bioGraphic stories that might have otherwise gone untold. (That's two months’ worth of stories!) Our campaign ends at midnight tonight. ⌛ If you haven’t donated yet, will you help us across the finish line? bit.ly/430NTrR

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Whales have big eyes, so they should have good eyesight. But as it turns out, humpbacks have relatively few retinal ganglion cells--the photoreceptors on the back of the eye that capture light. The result is that, from a distance, a net is hard to pick out, and harder to avoid.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

bioGraphic Insiders are investing in slow journalism: the detailed, nuanced, and essential analysis of environmental issues that takes time and money to produce. We need your help to keep doing this important work. Become an Insider by making a recurring donation today: bit.ly/430NTrR

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

At bioGraphic, we publish stories that inspire a deep appreciation for life on Earth—and hope for its future. 🌿 If you love our work, please consider supporting us. Any recurring donation makes you a bioGraphic Insider. You choose the amount, and every little bit helps. Join us: bit.ly/430NTrR

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

📣 Today, we’re launching the Insiders program for recurring donors. Your support helps us continue publishing in-depth journalism free from ads, paywalls, and AI-generated content. You choose the amount, and every little bit helps. Join us: bit.ly/430NTrR

A friendly parrot invites readers to join bioGraphic magazine's new Insiders program and support the publication's science journalism.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It’s Time for Nature’s Fire Brigade When it comes to restoring land and preventing wildfires, some animals—like pangolins—have a lot to offer. Can helping them help us? by @annieroth.bsky.social www.biographic.com/its-time-for...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

In 2019, in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the city embarked on a project to add green roofs to 316 bus stops. They planted sedum, a hearty succulent, to attract pollinators. But as new research shows, the project had an unexpected benefit for a different group of species: mychorrizal fungi

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The focus of today's story tackles the latter. WhaleSpotter, a new AI-powered but, crucially, human-verified detection system uses heat-sensing cameras to track whales in real time, giving captains up-to-the-minute alerts if a whale crosses their path.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Thousands of deep-sea genetic sequences have already been patented. Of those, the majority have gone to just three multinational companies: BASF, DuPont, and International Flavors & Fragrances

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Want a weekly roundup of some of the best environmental journalism on the internet, hand picked by our perpetually-online editors? Sign up for our newsletter (link in bio) to get it delivered to your inbox once a week, along with links to our own original, paywall-free content

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

A big, huge, gigantic THANK YOU to everyone who helped us surpass our fundraising goal!!

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Today is #GivingTuesday, a chance to support the causes that matter the most to you! We’re so close to raising US $120,000! Will you donate to help independent environmental journalism? www.biographic.com/hakai-magazi...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

ICYMI, Hakai Magazine will be joining forces with bioGraphic. But we need your help to hit the ground running! Please help us raise $150K by Giving Tuesday on Dec 3. We’re a little over a third of the way there, and no amount is too small. 🐳💙 www.biographic.com/hakai-magazi...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

In July, we told you that Hakai Magazine will close at the end of December. Since sharing that devastating news, we’ve worked very hard to find a way to keep publishing the ocean and coastal journalism that you love. We’re happy to finally announce that our team has a new home!

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

We’re down to just ONE(!) pack of these gorgeous greeting cards. It could be yours! Become a member by donating at least CAN $15 (US $12) per month to Hakai Magazine and we’ll ship you a set of three cards. hakaimagazine.com/support/

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 03/04/2024

We blew past our initial membership goal in just one week! Now we’re raising the bar: help us reach 500 inaugural members by April 15. You can become a member for as little as $1 per month: hakaimagazine.com/support/

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

As Utah's inland sea shrinks, a critical fishery threatens to collapse—bringing with it migratory birds, ancient reefs, and a thriving economy. 🦐 By Paul Greenberg. hakaimagazine.com/features/sav...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

We’re launching a membership program! Support our award-winning journalism with a monthly or yearly donation to Hakai Magazine—no amount is too small. Help us reach 300 new members by April 15: hakaimagazine.com/support/

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 10/03/2024

We love meeting our readers! If you're in the Victoria area, please join us for an open house at our office on 1002 Wharf St. on Wednesday March 13. The event will showcase work from across the Tula Foundation, including the Hakai Institute, the OceanConnect app, as well as Hakai Magazine.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

One Great Shot: On a bay famous for kangaroos, a threatened Australian shorebird appears from the mist. By Jake Wilton. hakaimagazine.com/videos-visua...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

For any octopuses out there looking to stick it to a pesky fish, here’s a guide on how to deliver the primo punch. A comic: hakaimagazine.com/videos-visua...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Last week our beloved senior editor, Adrienne Mason, retired from Hakai. While her wisdom and perspicuity will be sorely missed, we’re excited for her to have some well-deserved recreation time.

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