Ben Goldfarb
@bengoldfarb
Independent conservation journalist writing a book about fish. Author of CROSSINGS, on #roadecology, and EAGER, on beaver belief.
Charlie Cunningham, you were a super-soldier in @thewaroncars.bsky.social. 🫡 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/s...
Why are the natural-history illustrations in Richard Scarry’s I AM A BUNNY (1963) as precise and well-drawn as those in any field guide? 😭
Self-aggrandizingly sharing this generous note from a reader of EAGER’s recent French translation for its use of the sad but clever neologism <décastorisé> — lacking beavers, or debeavered. Can a landscape also be récastorisé?
Salida may still dry up and blow away like an old corn husk but hopefully it’ll now happen in August instead of July.
Neat study on how the removal of fencing along the Trans-Mongolian Railway allowed Asiatic wild asses to recolonize their historic range. Now we need more permanent wildlife crossings to help these guys out. #fenceecology #roadecology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Almost 60 percent of the lifetime diets of taimen in Russia's Tugur River is *adult chum salmon*. Imagine what a bad-ass freshwater fish you have to be to just inhale salmon like they're mayflies. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I don't share many interests with the members of Trump's cabinet... but we'll always have this. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/b...
Excited to do a bit of intellectual photosynthesis with new botanical books by a couple of the best writers in our field, @robertmoor.com and @dghaskell.bsky.social. 🌲 🌼 🌱
<me, standing in the corner, staring at my shoes and whispering to myself> uhhhh happy international beaver day
To counter the proliferation of AI beaver slop and support people like Jake, here is a Dropbox containing a decade of photos of beavers and their landscapes. Use these as you see fit in reports, presentations, story maps, or for your personal viewing pleasure. www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ho24s...
Have walked this ditch for years and literally never seen it dry till today. Ominous.
For the last time, you’re too big to ride in the stroller now. You can walk on your own hooves.
Here’s some obvious AI garbage, purporting to depict beavers, just posted to a prominent nature news site. Alas, by devouring thousands of mislabeled nutria photos, it appears that AI has developed an incorrect perception of what a beaver actually looks like. This is straight #NutriaSlop.