Today I get to cross off my journalistic bucket list … writing about groundhogs for the @nytimes!

And that means it’s time for a groundhog 🧵. For *the* groundhog 🧵.

#GroundhogDay nytimes.com/2022/02/01/sci… Meet my neighbor Juliette ...

I disagree with just about every point in this thread, but most of all this:

The idea that conservation is primarily about killing animals.

That is such a profoundly impoverished, untrue, and self-defeating vision.

(An essay-length) 🧵...

https://twitter.com/Nikolaj_Bi/status/1465983841357631494

Protecting habitat, connecting habitat, ecological restoration & rewilding, protecting keystone species, solving human-wildlife conflict, stopping poaching & the wildlife trade, finding less-harmful alternatives to current economic processes: this is conservation, too.

Yesterday morning I attended a talk on the genetic engineering of farmed animals at #AAAS2019. Some thoughts…. First of all, it’s already happening in research labs. It’s probably going to happen commercially. And, as with #GMO plants, the question of whether those animals are “natural” is a distraction.