1/9 Hormigas del desierto y monolitos negros Las hormigas del desierto son famosas por la forma en la que se orientan (ej. cuentan los pasos que dan). Ahora se ha descubierto que construyen estructuras para orientarse (paper) cell.com/current-biolog… por @Freirilia y Markus Knaden

on my postpartum body//weightlifting//growing up in and out of sports//birth trauma//thomas page mcbee and alison bechdel//middle aged queerness//all the transitions romper.com/life/gym-trans…

Please, why is this mole dead like this on my front lawn? Do they dig themselves above ground to die? Was it waterlogged (been raining all night) and died from exhaustion after tunneling to the surface? What is that orange patch on its chest? Why so dramatic in death, little one?

Key messages from this new paper: 1. We can monitor tropical forest canopy temperatures at a large scale & estimate the frequency of potentially lethal leaf temperatures. 2. We can avoid large-scale leaf/forest loss due to heat by reducing CO2 emissions and deforestation (1/4)

All I ever want from this hell site is good poems and good animals. Here are both:

Issue 35, the Labor Issue will reach mailboxes soon, and we’re so excited to share it with you! We’ll be promoting work from this issue—including more from artist Perla Segovia—and opening access online for two weeks at a time. Follow along to share your favorites!

Check out Geetha Iyer’s new nonfiction piece in the Labor issue! For the next two weeks “Love Songs in Other Languages” is free to read online! ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/lov…

Catch Issue #18 before our next issue comes out in July! Filled with phenomenal stories by @WriterClaytonB, Scott Ditzler, Melinda Price Wiltshire, David Kim, Nicole Haroutunian, Barbara Klein Moss, Scott Nadelson, Geetha Iyer, Mary Troy, and Sasha Wiseman. storymagazine.org/store/winter-2…

Kinda wild to know someone out there read my story three times, took notes, and did a podcast episode on it. Thanks, Ben and Matthew Doggerel Diaries, for spending so much time (apropros) with "Continental Drift," most cozily housed in Story Literary Magazine.