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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What if the ground beneath your feet remembers? Bogs aren’t wastelands. They're time capsules; beautiful living systems that preserve food, rituals, travel, climate, and human stories for thousands of years. Today, I wrote about the muck that keeps our history. The New York Times, October 5, 2026

Image of a New York Times article called "The Muck that keeps our History".

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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'Bogs are messy and wild, places the human mind has difficulty understanding. Can we comprehend a place suspended between life and death? Do we want to?' ICMYI: read this fascinating extract from @queenofpeat.bsky.social's #Boglands via @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social. 🔗: tinyurl.com/yc5smtbn

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Welcome to Fabulous Fen in the high country of Colorado. Rich fens like this are named after their incredibly rich biodiversity. Please help spread awareness that these wetlands are far from wastelands, but complex and beautiful.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Y’all. I am spending the day in an alpine fen above 10,000 feet elevation. You can guess how happy I am.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Un-optimized. Moss-covered. Decaying but deeply alive. Reject efficiency, embrace the peat. #BogLife

Image of a sundew plant in Sphagnnum moss.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love this! Would be a great bumper sticker, hint hint.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Un-optimized. Moss-covered. Decaying but deeply alive. Reject efficiency, embrace the peat. #BogLife

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NYT Op-ed: "Each has its own voice. A peat swamp in Brunei, on the island of Borneo, hums with insects, birds and frogs, the sound crescendoing to a peak every few minutes like a wild orchestra." We should all listen to the boglands. From www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you. I didn't know this! I love how bogs can shape characters or even become one, which is a big theme of the book. Creators - can we do more of this please?!!

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I love this idea! A big bog book collection.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Smile. There are some epic field adventures in the book. I hope you get a kick out of them!

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you so much Melissa. Sharing the boreal love we both have!

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks Cheryl! My dream is to create a global community of bog champions, and you are definitely part of the team. Who else would like to join us?

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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Neither fully land nor fully water, neither fully alive nor fully dead, boglands' ambiguity made them powerful in the human imagination"- beautiful essay on boglands and their role today in climate and ecology by @queenofpeat.bsky.social. #nature #naturewriting #bogs #climate #climatescience

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Opinion | Boglands Are Museums That Help Protect Us From Climate Change (Gift Article)

Bogs store carbon, and preserve histories too.

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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'Turetsky transports readers deep into the mysterious terrain of the bog' @queenofpeat.bsky.social's #Boglands is one of the @nytimes.com's New Books to Read in October! 🌿 Don't miss out on the bog fun – get your copy today: tinyurl.com/BoglandsMerr...

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26 Books Coming in October (Gift Article)

Novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Imbolo Mbue and Stephen Graham Jones; biographies of Larry David and Frank Capra; spooky season horror; and more.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great to have someone fighting the corner for wet feet or knees. #peatlands

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Curious @curiouscompany.ooo · 30/09/2026

This post zooms way out and close in on dense life in wet earth. Step into Dr. Turetsky’s storyscape.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/

Image of a scientist - me! - waist deep in peat.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So the next time you feel stuck, remember: bogs do it best, and they are saving the world because of it. Did you know bogs were this powerful? Drop me a 💚 if you’re ready to defend our wetlands! /fin

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They force you to slow down: In life, we hate the feeling of being "bogged down" or stuck. But nature uses these spaces to slow things down, store energy, and protect the planet. Sometimes, hitting pause and sinking into the mess is exactly where the magic happens. 4/

Image of my daughter and her dog in a bog.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They are ancient time capsules: Because of their unique, oxygen-free chemistry, bogs preserve history. They hold onto everything from ancient Iron Age tools and treasures to thousands of years of ecological data, perfectly preserved in time. 3/

Image of sphagnum moss that acidifies its environment.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here is why getting "bogged down" is actually a superpower: They are climate heroes: Peatlands cover only 3% of the earth's land but store more carbon than all the world's forest biomass combined. Keeping them intact is one of our best defenses against climate change. 2/

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a scientist, I wish everyone knew that getting ‘bogged down’ isn’t actually a bad thing. Here’s why. 🧵 1/

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Can we comprehend a place suspended between life and death? Do we want to?' Dead nor alive, safe nor dangerous, beautiful nor dreadful, bogs are thresholds that refuse categorisation, writes @queenofpeat.bsky.social, in an extract from her book 'Boglands' www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/09/bogl...

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am a mom and scientist begging everyone to look closer at the muck. We’ve been conditioned to see wetlands as wastelands. But three decades of research, I see a fiercely defiant wilderness. The boreal mire is a dynamic carbon-trapping vault that in some places has outlasted ice ages. 1/

A woman scientist - me! - standing over the boreal forest in interior Alaska.

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Walking through wet tundra in northern Alaska forces you into the present moment. This ancient ground has its own rhythms. Would you brave this squelch? Let me know. 👇

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Immunoprof (she/they) @immunoprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A very important insight into why wetlands are critical ecosystems!

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Happy Sundew Sunday! Want to learn 5 super cool facts about miniature-yet-so-complex sundew plants? Follow along to learn some unusual botany. 🧵 1/

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ooooh, claps hands excitedly. Would you please share a picture or two? Would love to see it!

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Truth! There is tremendous power in peat.

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ClimateBook @climatebook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wetlands are fantastic. Thanks for promoting them. Shall we name some of our favourites? Here are a few of mine: *Trap Grounds, near home in Oxford. Saved from developers by fierce community action and diligent historical research. *Patvinsuo, SE Finland *Iso Molosjänkkä, near Aakenustunturi, FI

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But they are fragile. If we dry, drain, or damage peat archives, we lose one of the planet's greatest natural carbon sinks. I do this research for climate security, and our children's future. To protect their planet, we have to stop looking past the muck and start fighting to defend it. 3/3

Drained peatland for palm oil plantations in Malaysia

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Look past the trees. What lies beneath our feet here is a global climate superpower. These waterlogged peatlands (bogs, fens) occupy a mere 3% of global land area, yet they pack away more carbon than all of the world's forest biomass combined. They are one of Earth's ultimate cooling mechanisms. 2/

A scientist processing a dark organic rich peat core.

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