Manoo Sirivelu, on taking the photo below:

Hey Seattle! This is tomorrow night Elliott Bay Book Co. and should be a really fun and interesting conversation about the origins of our (sometimes contradictory) modern understanding of animal welfare and what it means to protect it.

Today is publication day for OUR KINDRED CREATURES! Monica Murphy and I are up this morning in NYT Magazine with a piece about 'animal-welfare science,' and the question of what we really know about how to treat animals well. nytimes.com/2024/04/23/mag…

My book, Becoming Earth, will be out in June, but is available for preorder now. Preorders are one of the best ways you can support an author. If you liked this thread, I think you might just love the book. Thanks for reading. 🙏🌍
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623907/b…

The extent AND severity of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in 2024 is by far the worst ever recorded.

It would make you weep (again).

The hot new bar where everyone wants to be seen:

✨📚BOOKS THREAD📚✨

🧵This is going to be a really strong year for books about nature and science. So many wonderful titles already out or on the way! Here's a thread looking at a few of the books debuting between January and July that have caught my eye, in chronological order

'Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians and should be held accountable for war crimes – and genocide, according to the UN’s leading expert on the right to food.' theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…

New Interview: I talked to doctor Paul Spiegel, the co-author of a new report projecting the death toll in Gaza for the next 6 months, about the various scenarios they modeled, & why even best-case scenarios will see the humanitarian catastrophe continue. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…

I got to see Joni Mitchell's fist concert in decades last summer. It was magic—so many of her lyrics hit harder with the years.
At one point she looked up at the lights of the audience all waving their cellphone flashlights, sounding just delighted: 'How are they doing that?'

Today, The New Yorker has run an excerpt from my book, Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here (out Tuesday). This is, in part, the story of Keldy Mabel Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga, who was among the first parents separated during the Trump Admin's zero-tolerance policy. newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Best movie I've seen in ages!

Israeli tank fire killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah. Reuters spoke to government and security officials, military experts, forensic investigators, lawyers, medics and witnesses, and reviewed hours of video footage and hundreds of photos reut.rs/3GxJceA

These are really powerful. And evocative, thought-provoking, and terrible. And beautiful. nca2023.globalchange.gov/art-climate/#a…

'the morgue director, Yassir Abu Amar, says he has to cut his burial shrouds into child-size fragments to handle the influx of corpses.'
On the horrifying impact of the bombings on Gaza's children: nytimes.com/2023/11/18/wor…

I'm so proud to announce The Sick Times, a new website covering the Long Covid Crisis with my colleague betsy ladyzhets 📊!

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New Interview: I talked to Daniella Weiss, a West Bank settler and activist, about how her religious views shape her view of the conflict, why she thinks human rights should not be considered universal, and her movement’s extreme plans for the region. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…