Jude Isabella
Executive editor, bioGraphic.com. Founding editor of hakaimagazine.com (archived!) Focused on the coast, the ocean, ecology, archaeology, urban wildlife. Author of "Salmon, A Scientific Memoir," and "Bringing Back the Wolves." 🇨🇦
- Sometimes, I do a little book reviewing. What did I think of "The Science of Pets?" You can find out here: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Officially, February 2, 1887. Unofficially, 1840.
- Welcoming back the wetlands, in Kigali, Rwanda: www.biographic.com/the-rwandan-... 🌍 #conservation
- In coral news, a research has found a way to help slay the coral curse: www.biographic.com/the-curse-of... 🦑🌍 #conservation
- It took photographer Tony Wu several days and thousands of pictures to get the image he was after: www.biographic.com/the-eyes-hav... 🦑🌍
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: 1967!
- Is it possible to love elephants even more! They are their own doctors: www.biographic.com/pachyderm-ph...
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Masterpiece Theatre!
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Jason Bateman! (I'm back, baby!)
- We are here, we are here, we are here! Help us remain in the ring, producing top-notch environmental journalism. Every little bit counts. Plus....stickers! give.calacademy.org/campaign/746...
- Readers! We need your support. Help us tell the stories that matter. We produce indepth, slow journalism focused on biodiversity, from the ocean bottom to the mountain top! And I have to say, I think we do a pretty darn good job! give.calacademy.org/campaign/746...
- I love this story from a very special place on the Central Coast of British Columbia: pairing modern computational techniques with Indigenous knowledge to help protect bears in the long term www.biographic.com/charting-a-c... 🌍 🧪
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- As I've said countless times: "Large language models consume a lot of the best writing out there. Which is why they use em dashes." Do not take away our em dashes! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/dont...
- The whole pesticide issue is worthy of an Onion headline: "There is nothing we can do about known problems with pesticides." www.biographic.com/the-scourge-...
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Command and Conquer?
- As Nicholas Hune-Brown points out in the @thelocal.to, emerging writers are getting lost in the AI pitch slop: thelocal.to/investigatin...
- Wow. I had no idea that crash test dummies were all still male. There's a "staggering gap of higher injury rates for women than men in certain crash scenarios." It's 2025! www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
- I love how this story gives a nice little 101 on hydrothermal vents. I don't think I knew there were cold ones. And guess what, they've got life. Tons of life! From the news team at @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/life-finds-a...
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: The Tawny Scrawny Lion! Or Tawny Kitaen.
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: All My Children?
- Death by a thousand cuts? Why not focus on healing each cut, little by little, suture by suture. Phytomining, the time has arrived: www.biographic.com/critical-min... 🧪
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Minecraft! (For a great book with gamers as the main characters, read Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow!)
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Pittsburgh, PA!
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- Loved working on this with @inkfish.bsky.social. Thank you, Elizabeth, now more people will learn more about these gorgeous creatures, including the quirky habit of very intermittent mating when the females' vaginas open like flowers, at the same time! Read more: www.biographic.com/investigatin...
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- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: September 18, 1983!
- Bumblebees in @cangeo.bsky.social! All those greenhouses in BC's Lower Mainland are impacting pollinator biodiversity: canadiangeographic.ca/articles/pli...
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Douglas Edwards!
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Illinois!
- So delighted that one of my last pieces for Hakai Magazine, "The Owl Who Came From Away," made it in as a notable. 🙏 The Best American Science and Nature Writing editor @jaimealyse.bsky.social getting things done!
Wrote a bit about this year's edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing - and posted the Notables jaimealyse.beehiiv.com/p/basnw25
- “If we want to plug into the wonder of nature we need to start by actually spending time outside.” #hikingyukon www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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- Independent journalism is becoming a rare thing. Independent environmental journalism even rarer. @biographic.bsky.social we make our environmental journalism free for everyone to read, with no ads or paywalls. 👀 Please donate—every little bit helps! give.calacademy.org/campaign/719...
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Blur!
- Every little bit helps! bioGraphic is independent environmental journalism that delivers stories that give Nature—from mountaintops to the ocean bottom—a voice. Become a monthly donor and help us reach 100 new Insiders by September 19! #conservation #biodiversity 🧪🌍🦑 bit.ly/4pdDhAp
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Herbie Hancock!
- Some plants are super reluctant to having their seeds saved so....how about pollen banking? From the talented @toughcitywriter.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/banking-on-p... 🧪🌍 #conservation
- Some plants are super reluctant to having their seeds saved so....how about pollen banking? From the talented @toughcitywriter.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/banking-on-p... 🧪🌍 #conservation
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- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: De La Soul!
- In term of having autonomy and choice over what you read, the next best thing to print is a newsletter. Thank you for the shout out! oldgrowth.substack.com/p/print-lives
- In a notebook, I write down sentences that inspire me. This morning, from Mary Oliver's memoir, "Upstream," I wrote this down: "You must never stop being whimsical." A zine The World of Orcas" from @theorcaman.bsky.social is that, both playful and substantial. Thank you, Fred! www.theorcaman.com
- I feel in love with green sea turtles while editing this story. By @adamskolnick.bsky.social, with images by Ralph Pace. It's such a nifty story! www.biographic.com/go-north-you... #conservation 🦑
- Sonar is coming for the musky: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0b672e7... #conservation
- @samandfuzzy.com Tobin says hi too! And Dave!
- @samandfuzzy.com Hello!!!!
- My answer to the @MuckRack Daily trivia question: Almost Grown? (He also grew up in what's known as, or at least used to be known as, the Pasta Triangle in New Jersey. There's some trivia for you.)
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