Here’s why you’re 🫵 to blame for the climate crisis: You’re not. Gas and oil companies are responsible for 73% of emissions in the US. Let’s hold them accountable.

I'm excited to share that Governor's House Library & UF Libraries are partnering with Lincolnville Museum & Cultural Center & Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society on the production of "Color Struck" by #ZoraNealeHurston premiering in #StAugustine, #Florida, this April.

Red tide continues to intensify on the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Ian & resulting nutrient pollution. It's a health threat to both fish & people. Captains For Clean Water's newsletter this week points out we're seeing similar conditions that preceded 2018's severe red tide.

Stop treating climate like *our* little pet project, as a curiosity where *our* feelings get hurt when it breaks. It concerns all life on earth. Including yours and those of everyone you love. Please take your essential work seriously, because *all* our lives depend on it.

Yep. Let's spend money New College doesn't have on stuff its students don't want.

Readers and friends: Here's my weekly posting of a story from "the vault" of my three decades at The Palm Beach Post. #ekvault. Today: The legacy of Marjory Stoneman Douglas. From May 1998.

Shot by shot, #Florida photographer Carlton Ward Jr is doing his best to save the state's wild places. sarasotamagazine.com/arts-and-enter… via Isaac Eger

Pew! Pew! Pew! ⁣🦨 #May4thBeWithYou

Editorial: Water quality in #Florida to take a hit as lawmakers show their disdain for voters miamiherald.com/opinion/editor…

Don't engage w/ climate deniers--it increases their twitter ranking in the current algorithm. Blocking them, on the other hand, lowers their twitter ranking. In fact, muting and then blocking is a very effective double whammy.

On climate change, we often assume people are either believers or deniers. I don't like either label, because climate change is not a religion. Instead, I prefer the 6 categories identified by Yale Program on Climate Change Communication for the US. climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects…

Have you ever seen Spanish moss flowers? They're in bloom right now, and I'd love it if I could get a lot of folks to put their faces up to it and take a closer look (don't worry, Spanish moss in trees doesn't have chiggers).

Over 6,000 people showed up in Immokalee to protest DeSantis’ anti-immigrant law and thousands more attended rallies across Florida. More events are being planned for the next few weeks.

Chemical fertilizers feed the world–but their production & use harm #water & life. Read #PriceOfPlenty WUFT News, a special report UF College of Journalism and Communications & @MUJSchool supported @PulitzerCenter. We start in the Bone Valley, a part of #Florida most never see. Dig in: projects.wuft.org/priceofplenty/

Millions of people want to read journalism and thousands of journalists want to create it and the industry is only fucked up to the extent that middlemen get between those two groups. hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-utopian-…

The CEO of Insider is just tweeting away about goggles while his employees are on strike waiting for a contract. Do your job bozo!! x.com/hblodget/statu…

This is how I imagine Dante's 9 layers of hell.

Hiya #twitterstorians and #foodhistorians! I am looking for some recommendations for histories of grocery stores in the American South—can you help a gal out? In an ideal world Publix would let me peruse their archives...I'd love any advice or leads!

Fellow writers: Seeking inspired, thought-provoking, gorgeous nonfiction on snakes. Love Padgett Powell on Indigos, @Emma_Marris on grass snakes, Craig Pittman on Ross Allen, Michelle Nijhuis on the rattler that drew her to #SciComm. Who else? Pls RT & share favorites. Thankssssssssss.