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  #ESA2023 has been a very informative and enjoyable conference. I've met many interesting people and learned much. I certainly hope to be in Long Beach next year and do it all over again. #ecology #science #education

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  Listening to this New #Books Network #History of #Science #podcast channel interview with Prof. Michael Ruse about his book "#Darwinism as #Religion: What #Literature Tells Us about #Evolution" (Oxford) doesn't just make me want to read this book, it makes me want to read all the books he has written. #bookstodon https://newbooksnetwork.com/darwinism-as-religion

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  @Funktious@mastodon.scot I don't read much modern fiction, however, if I may, I'd like to recommend please Stig Dagerman's absolutely brilliant "German Autumn" (@uminnpress@bird.makeup). "First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of Stig Dagerman’s articles on Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich, was unlike any other reporting at the time." #bookstodon https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/bo...

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  “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:” (Matt. 25:35) I'm not a Christian, but I do know their scriptures line and verse. If you are and you think that the disappearance of these barrels is a good thing, you have clearly not been paying attention to the book that you claim contains the literal words of your god. https://www.npr.org/2023/08/12/1193621286/texas-migrants-drinking-water-barrels-disappeared

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  Helpful tip: NOAA Ocean Exploration offers free laptop / desktop monitor wallpaper downloads with superb marine life images and a handy calendar. https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/forfun/wallpaper-calendar/welcome.html

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  Joining "The Lives of Octopuses & Their Relatives" as a new addition this coming September in the @princetonupress Lives of the Natural World series is "The Lives of Sharks; A Natural History of Shark Life" by Prof. Daniel C. Abel and Dr. R. Dean Grubbs. #bookstodon #nature #fish #biology #marinebiology #ecology https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/08/the-lives-of-sharks/

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  Did you know that before becoming the most well-known architect of his day, as well as perhaps one of the best known of all time, Christopher Wren was a professor of #astronomy and an experimental natural philosopher? Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb and Prof. Adrian Tinniswood discuss the life and work of this remarkable man in this recent episode of the "Not Just the Tudors" #podcast from #History Hit. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-just-the-tudors/id1564113869?i=10006243...

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  What a delightful discovery! #astronomy #history #science https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193711244/michigan-state-students-discover-traces-of-schools-first-observatory-built-in-18

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  If you already follow @corvidresearch on Facegram or Instabook, and if you read my work then it's likely you do, I suspect Dr. Kaeli Swift needs no introduction to you. However whether you already know her work or not, this recent podcast interview she sat for with the ODFW's Beaver State #podcast is well worth your time to hear. #birds #ornithology #birding #biology #crows #ravens #corvids https://myodfw.com/beaver-state-podcast/crows-and-ravens-dr-kaeli-swift

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  This is the newly released The Raven's Dream tarot deck by M.J. Cullinane (https://crowtarotshop.com). I think I have a new favourite #tarot deck.

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  Newly noted (and particularly timely): Prof. Stephen J. Pyne's "The Pyrocene; How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next" (University of California Press). #bookstodon #ecology #wildfire https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/08/the-pyrocene/

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  The New Books Network History of Science #podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Prof. Al Coppola about his 2016 book "The Theater of Experiment; Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain." https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/08/the-theater-of-experiment/ #bookstodon #history #literature #science

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  I'm impressed! Not only does Belligerently Bookish create some lovely pinbadges, they take the biscuit for packaging them for delivery as well. Look for this superb #pinbadge on a lapel near me very soon. #reading #bookstodon #jewelry

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  In 2020, author Jennifer L. Bristol taught her readers the value of and techniques for watching birds in parking lots across Texas. Now she's back with a new guidebook to another category of often overlooked locations for productive bird watching: cemeteries. https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/08/cemetery-birding/ #birding #birdwatching #nature #Texas #travel #bookstodon

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  As you wouldn’t be reading The Well-read Naturalist if you weren’t interested in reading, it is highly likely that you have at one time or another come across the long-standing debate regarding how reading actually takes place and how it should be taught. For that reason I thought this recent interview with Prof. Adrian Johns discussing his new book 'The Science of Reading" might be of interest to you. https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/08/prof-adrian-johns-on-his-the-scien...

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  If, like me, you found yourself finding comfort, solace, and encouragement during the recently concluded plague years from Melissa Harrison’s absolutely brilliant series of podcasts titled "The Stubborn Light of Things," you were also likely, as was I, much saddened to see the series end with the release of episode twenty-eight – Outtakes – on 7 October 2020. However as I discovered this past Tuesday, that episode wasn't quite the final word. https://www.wellreadnatural...

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  Those who may have previously ventured into Portland's Forest Park likely did so with a copy of Marcy Cottrell Houle‘s "One City’s Wilderness; Portland’ Forest Park" in their knapsacks. Earlier this year, Oregon State University Press published an entirely new book by Ms. Cottrell Houle that replaces it as the definitive guidebook for the area: "Forest Park; Exploring Portland’s Natural Sanctuary." https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/09/forest-park...

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  Those who may have not have had the opportunity to read Dr. Joan Maloof's very informative as well as highly evocative 2016 book "Nature's Temples" now have another chance as it has just this past April been published in a revised and expanded edition by @princetonupress. #bookstodon #oldgrowth #forest #ecology #nature #naturalhistory https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/05/natures-temples-2/

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  The new @princetonupress #mathematics catalog is here! The new Princeton University Press mathematics catalog is here! 🤓📚 #bookstodon #readup https://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/mathematics

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  Understanding the #history of any subject requires more than just having read histories of that subject, it requires knowing how modern historical #research is undertaken, which is why Prof. Schrag’s #book “The Princeton Guide to Historical Research” (@princetonupress) is one that should be read by a far wider group of people than just professional historians. https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/01/the-princeton-guide-to-historical-research/ #bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe

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  Biologists, ecologists, and general naturalists - I bring you good tidings! @princetonupress is presently offering the hardcover edition “The Princeton Guide to #Evolution” at a 70% discount. 😲#bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691149776/the-princeton-guide-to-evolution

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  In our increasingly urbanized world, #hunting is something that is too easily misunderstood and even caricatured, particularly by those who never lived with it as part of their lives or communities; which is why I was so pleased to see that @themitpress has added a volume about it to their Essential Knowledge series. #bookstodon @bookstodon@a.gup.pe #history #wildlifemanagement https://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/01/hunting/