Barbara J. King
Anthropologist; animal advocate; science writer, next book coming on cats; caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more.
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- Good morning from the tuxedo. This is Marie, who is sweet and spicy. #cats
- Layoffs happening to Wash. Post journalists who are let go--- hundreds of them--- are just terrible. As a book critic, my heart breaks for this news about the book coverage going away. I'm so sorry for everyone's pain through this. #Booksky #books #bookreview #WashingtonPost #journalism
- "During and after these extreme rain events, white-backed swallows remained in their burrows even during the daytime. And they entered deep and long bouts of torpor – far exceeding what passerine birds were thought capable of." By Alice Barratt & Christopher Turbill. #birds #ornithology #climate 🧪
- Very cool work that highlights individuals' lives and not just "mummies": Dr. Summer Decker's team "analyzed the various anatomical structures and used 3-D printers to create life-size reproductions of their spines, skulls and hips." #radiology #archaeology #anthropology #health 🏺
- This field course is an amazing opportunity- Dr. Liv Baker is a colleague, a force for animals, and a wonderful educator and human. Please share! #elephants #Asianelephants #animalbehavior #conservation #fieldcourse
- Finally a decent capture of the yellow-bellied sapsucker who comes to our oak tree. #birds #birding #nature #naturephotography
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- Wake up, wake up, the world is hard and it rushes on regardless of your heart, and people never take the shape you want them to, people are stubborn about that, about being themselves, even when they're trying to be someone else. #SundaySentence, Donal Ryan, Strange Flowers. Gorgeous novel.
- The arrival of a new catnip banana! It's the little things. Here are Caroline and Marie, both over age 12. #Caturday #cats
- I love @levistahl.bsky.social's sensibility here about Chicago's great lake. My own neighbor (in southeastern Virginia) is a river, also a great presence, abundant with life. #nature #lakes #rivers #winter
- Simon Van Booy's novel Sipsworth is a wonderful tale of a lonely older woman and a mouse who befriend each other- with some surprises along the way regarding how women in their 80s may be stereotyped--and of course, mice too. #books #Booksky #mouse #rodents #animalhuman #animalstudies #multispecies
- Not a surprise, but, awareness is key: "Facial recognition is just one technology tool that ICE has deployed in Minneapolis.... the technologies are being used not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track citizens who have protested." #Minneapolis #facialrecognition #ICE
- Excited to have my copy of The Big M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause. Thank you @lidiamiles.bsky.social for this beautiful vision of a book. #Booksky #books #nonfiction #menopause #writing #writingcommunity
- Reposted by Barbara J. KingLook, whether I find an agent or not, I have at least a dozen professional and friendly connections who know Bill Nye that I'm about to pester And I'm going to try like hell to make my dream of Dr. Jey the Science They a reality We need engaging, fun, education science media more than ever
- 🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?
- Streets of Minneapolis- new song by Bruce Springsteen released today. Listen, share if you can, it's truth. He mentions not only Alex Pretti and Renee Good, but all the most vulnerable, those names we do not know. @brucespringsteen.net #Minneapolis #BruceSpringsteen #music #AlexPretti #ReneeGood
- Good morning birders! How many of us have cold-puffed birds to observe today? Brown thrasher here. #birds #birding #nature #winter
- It was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Just seeing this! "A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows .. a claw-like motif which indicates an early leap in symbolic imagination." #art #archaeology #anthropology #evolution
- Starting the week with a big THANK YOU to people helping animals through the extreme cold, snow, and ice. Your kindness matters. Photos from our yard in Virginia with ice and snow. #birds #animals #animalrescue #winterstorm #icestorm #kindness
- The sort of grief you could say something about because you instinctively understood that it could not continue, rigid inside your breathing apparatus like a metal stem.-- by Helen Oyeyemi in the spooky novel White is for Witching. #SundaySentence ##Booksky
- A strong, brave statement from @nationalnurses.bsky.social about the murder of Alex Pretti, and also about the violent harms being done to many, many other people. #AlexPretti #nurses #nursing #justice
- His name was Alex Pretti. He was an ICU nurse. "In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within 5 seconds, according to the video. Footage shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." #AlexPretti #Minneapolis
- Reposted by Barbara J. KingI just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
- Good morning from the tuxedo- everyone in the path of the winter storm here in the US, stay warm and safe! #cats #Caturday
- If you're anywhere near Williamsburg, VA, check out Spineless Reads bookstore. Author and bookseller @lcmarino.bsky.social is the best! Great horror section, broad overall selection, warm and welcoming place. #books #Booksky #indiebookstore #horror #horrorwriters #WilliamsburgVA
- Chimpanzees know. "Cooperation was strongest when the highest-ranking chimpanzee showed restraint, emphasising the importance of tolerant leadership." (Yes I'm here in the US implying what you think I'm implying geopolitically.) #chimpanzees #primates #animals #anthropology #leadership #cooperation
- Big day for me- my manuscript on cats' lives and wellbeing is (after revising and revising to make it the best book I can make it) going out for peer review! Here's the dedication. I'll post more news of the book as it happens. #cats #Booksky #writing #freelance #writingcommunity
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- My weather app from earlier this morning. The storm may still shift. But...17 inches of snow for here in southeastern Virginia would shut us down for a while! #winter #winterstorm #snow #GloucesterVA
- On a cold day with significant snow predicted on the horizon, I wish I were having a hot-spring primate spa day! Photo credit AP, location Hokkaido, northern Japan. #primates #monkeys #nature #snow #naturephotography
- "We have become a country where people are disappeared by a paramilitary force that hunts them down in their apartments, on city streets and country roads.. a country where a person can be summarily executed in public for protesting that paramilitary force." by @mashagessen.bsky.social. #ICEout
- A good day here in Blue Virginia. Congratulations Governor @abigailspanberger.com! #Virginia #BlueWave
- Congratulations to @tobykiers.bsky.social: "The awards feel like an award for the invisible, the parts of the world that are challenging to understand, and a celebration of decentralized ways of thinking and operating that fungi have mastered.” #fungi #womeninscience #nature #climate
- Reposted by Barbara J. KingStunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
- This biography of George Schaller by Miriam Horn- a doorstep of a book and so far in my reading, immersive- publishes in April. I'm learning a lot. #Booksky #primatology #anthropology #conservation #wildlife #nature
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- "This is the first medical evacuation of the International Space Station in its 25-year history." Best wishes to the astronaut coping with something medical- and to the whole team putting this unexpected protocol into effect. #ISS #InternationalSpaceStation #space 🧪🪐
- By Oliver Kruger et al., on sea lions who nurse well past sexual maturity. "'The fact that this is happening in a species producing such costly, lipid-rich milk as sea lions makes it all the more remarkable,' said Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, retired anthropologist." #pinnipeds #anthropology #nature
- Thanks to Matt Prescott: "In extolling meat and dairy, Mr. Kennedy’s not just offering lifestyle advice, but signaling approval for some of the most climate-intensive industries on earth. Eating less meat remains one of the fastest, easiest and cheapest ways to cut emissions." #climate #plantbased
