And if modern elephants do it, there’s a pretty good chance that mammoths did it, too! 🦣

I love this. We have examples in the paleorecord of some ecosystems persisting for as long as 20 million years! Nature is dynamic, yes, but we also don't pay enough attention to stasis, and what allows for long-term persistence. I think this is somewhat a failure of imagination.

Any studios want to work with a broadly trained environmental scientist, gamer, world-builder, science communicator, and storyteller with expertise in climate change impacts on ecosystems? I’m your huckleberry!

Check out the paper here:

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Check out this new paper hot off the presses from Yale Program on Climate Change Communication: video gamers are more likely to care about climate change, and more willing to do something about it, which means video games can be a powerful force for motivating climate action!

[Link in the next tweet.]

YES! Movement spaces so often portray joy and pleasure as counter-revolutionary or a betrayal but it is quite literally our fuel. Our glue. And what allows us to have the capacity to fight for better.

My debut novel Fire Exit has been burning for four days now! Thank you to all my readers, all the booksellers, and my community for the support. If you missed me in Cambridge, NYC, or elsewhere, more events coming! Thank you!

21st June is the annual #ShowYourStripes day when we encourage people everywhere to use the 'warming stripes' to start conversations about the risks from climate change and what we can all do in response.

Download graphics for your own location: ShowYourStripes.info

Hello! I’m Jacquelyn/Jax (she/her). I’m a paleoecologist and science communicator. I love natural history, my garden, reading, writing, video games, D&D (forever DM), being outdoors, strength training, and knitting. I’ve lived and worked on six islands and an isthmus!

Get thee behind me, Discourse!

Everything is weird and everyone is wrecked. This is maybe the biggest and least acknowledged truth of life in the United States and a lot of places beyond right now.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Had a blast chatting with ⁦Quinn Emmett 🌎⁩ about how my newsletter The Science of Fiction helped launch my journalism career, & what science fiction can teach us about building a better future. Check it out! ⁦Important, Not Important 🌎⁩ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imp…