Marci Baranski

An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.

🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
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You can try searching for DCCOS concert, it should come up.

Hell yeah, brother

Promising Technologies Need a Bigger Push to Cut Manure Emissions in the US Livestock manure contributes over 1% of the United States' total GHG emissions. Promising solutions to curb the potent gas need more support and funding.

DID YOU KNOW that emissions from manure management in the U.S. are likely even higher than official EPA estimates? A thread about 💩 1/

Try this? dccos.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

Oh gosh, we're going up north in two weeks, I hope its over by then! At least my husband will get to experience TC at its finest 😅❄️

Don't make me suffer in vain, it's going to be a great performance!

I've been carrying my cello for weeks through snow, ice, wind, and rain so that YOU can hear us play on Sunday March 1st! DC, get your tickets here! dccos.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

Baby gets what she wants or else we'll take a little swim with the fishes 🐟

Although her first attempts were punching her fist into her hand, which made her look more like a baby mob boss 😅

My baby learned to clap while listening to some Dvorak with me. What can I say, she is a baby genius!

We are giving up streaming services for Lent. I admit it means I'm on my phone more in the evenings, because I get sleepy from reading.

Toddler just shone a flashlight at the cat’s butthole and told me, “It’s weird in there.”

Husband is so sick of me talking about Punch the adorable Japanese macaque. IFKYK.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Special clue in today's NYTimes crossword related to enteric fermentation! 🐄

The more I learn about Epstein the more I'm glad I never went to an Ivy League.

How Nazgul the wolfdog made his run for Winter Olympic glory in Italy Nazgul isn't talking, but his owners come clean about how he got loose, got famous, and how they feel now

NPR continues to bring you all the news you can use about Nazgul.

An orange tabby cat stands on a tiny wooden ledge on the wrong side of a safety railing, looking down at the floor 8 feet below him. A colorful quilt and two small paintings are on nearby walls

Life with Momo the cat is never boring. What should the caption be…

That one brain cell was working hard today 😅

I WAS WATCHING WHEN THIS HAPPENED! LOOK AT THIS BEST DOG!

Apparently the owner lives just round the corner from the stadium and didn't realise the dog had nipped out of the garden to become an Olympian until she saw the footage on TV. I hope that's true, for it is amusing.

I also didn't realize how much side planking is involved in learning to crawl. Leads to some truly comical moments 😂

A frequent sight:
Waving wildly at nothing in particular while either shouting or forcefully blowing raspberries.

Another:
Making baby dinosaur grunts while eating her foot.

My daughter is just learning to crawl and also really into babbling. This is her most unhinged era yet 😂😂😂

Chappell Roan dolled up in a costume that makes her look like a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother

big pop culture news: Chappell Roan has undergone the spice agony, transmuted the Water of Life, and attained Reverend Mother status

food systems are the leading cause of deforestation and biodiversity loss on land, freshwater use, and overfishing, and the number two cause of climate change after energy use

Indonesia’s steel expansion risks a surge in greenhouse gas emissions JAKARTA — Indonesia’s steel industry is becoming one of the country’s fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, even as it receives far less public attention than other carbon-intensive…

Indonesia’s steel sector — already a major emitter — could grow far more polluting as global demand rises, a nonprofit report warns.

Coal-based production drives both climate emissions and local health risks, while current policies lack binding targets and enforcement.

Yes! I organized one for friends and family. I rented a space, ordered appetizers, and printed out a poster of my book cover. My friends brought a cake decorated like my book cover too. It wasn't for self-promotion, it was to recognize a milestone in my life. It was joyous and a great memory.

I never saw a street radiator in Chicago 😅

Also, I have questions 🤔