Monica Prelle

Thanks for being here!

Mine is 50/50 LA and peonies

peony party

A Home Made of Microplastics - bioGraphic Caddisfly cases from museum collections reveal that microplastics infiltrated “pristine” freshwater environments far earlier than suspected.

As ubiquitous as microplastics are, "there’s almost no evidence of the history of this pollutant,” says @aukeflorian.nl. To find out when microplastics began infiltrating freshwater environments, he and his colleagues scoured hundreds of drawers at a natural history collection... 🧵🧪

Well done, Chris. Faith is such an incredible athlete, this is a great portrait of her training. I love the detail of the school girls on the community long run… I think most would agree she’s already surpassed the bannister equivalent, but exciting to see her keep pushing the boundaries.

Faith Kipyegon plans to be the first woman to break four minutes in the mile The legendary runner Faith Kipyegon is aiming to do something that sports scientists once considered impossible. We went inside her Kenyan training camp to understand how she’s pushing the limits of h...

BREAKING: Faith Kipyegon, the best middle-distance runner in history, will attempt to break th 4-minute-mile in June in Paris--the first woman to do so. I wrote about it, and her: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

I thought for sure my mom wrote this until the part about going to school for ecology

nope!

The Decline of Outside Magazine Is Also the End of a Vision of the Mountain West After its purchase by a tech entrepreneur, the publication is now a shadow of itself. A letter signed by its illustrious contributors says as much about a way of life as it does about the media indust...

A lot to take in, here
www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Want to read something gorgeous about rural life? Not politics! Beautiful writing! By @chrisasolomon.bsky.social for @orionmagazine.bsky.social #SundayLR

orionmagazine.org/article/the-...

love this, it reminds me of matcha on a red table.

I’m sorry to hear you’ve been going through this, Eva. The uncertainty is really hard. I hope you get some answers soon.