Brandon Keim

@9brandon

Freelance journalist + writer | Nature, animals, science & environment | Bylines NYT, NatGeo, WIRED, Nautilus etc. | The Eye of the Sandpiper

Bangor, ME
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Joined July 2007
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    17 Nov 2019

    🦆🐿🐝🐌🦝🦜🐴🐢🐺🐟🕸🦊 I’m writing a book! MEET THE NEIGHBORS is about what animal personhood — knowing them as thinking, feeling beings — means for our relationships to wild animals and to nature. 🙏🏼to my publisher , agent , and illustrator

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  2. Mar 19

    "Much of the policy-making discourse in the US is intended not just to allow Americans to do what they want regardless of the needs of others," wrote , "but to relieve them of any sense of shame or guilt at doing so." Framed thusly, this makes perfect sense:

    The lack of respect, empathy and support for patients suffering is vexing and, frankly, sickening by by
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    Mar 17

    🚨I wrote a short piece about the COVID funding collapse--the latest example of the panic-neglect cycle that public health people have bemoaned for decades, and that's now spinning at frankly absurd speed *in the middle of a pandemic*. 1/

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  4. Mar 15

    Some people—like —say that free markets, not government, are responsible for the rise of cars. They're wrong. In the U.S., automobiles became popular only when massive government investments in infrastructure made it practical to use them.

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    Mar 12

    I wrote this last week, not expecting the new wave to manifest this quickly

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    Mar 9

    When people ask me what they should know about American animal ag based on my research, I usually tell them some version of this. Most people have no idea.

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    Mar 9

    “When does a practice go from normal to abnormal, from legal to illegal?” A very important article about a very important case challenging the two pillars of animal ag’s legal protection: exemptions and “commonly used” inhumane practices.

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    Mar 8

    Deborah Bird Rose’s Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril has now been published! Debbie was a leading anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar in the environmental humanities, and this book is a remarkable act of witness, storytelling, and generative philosophy.

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  9. Mar 9

    The recent wave of 🐺-killing in Scandinavia sent me to 's brilliant work on the sociology of modern hunting and the troubling radicalization of hunters for whom killing wolves is an act of political & cultural defiance. Relevant in 🇺🇸🇨🇦 too.

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    Mar 6

    Talk about avoiding the elephant in the room. If it's seen as easier to restore the ocean with artificial whale faeces than to curb the excesses of the fishing industry, then we really are in trouble.

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    Mar 6

    Ecology makes clear that domestic cows don’t mimic, much less replace, the role of wild bison on the Great Plains. A thread of studies and photos explaining some of the many reasons why:

    buffalo amid geysers, Don White
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  12. Mar 5

    Today's stress reduction squirrel

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  13. Mar 1

    According to CDC's international covid standards, the USA is at the highest risk level — "Avoid travel to these destinations" According to CDC's new domestic standards, most of the USA is low-to-medium risk. You don't even need to mask indoors. 🤔🤔🤯

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    Feb 27

    A🧵on new recommendations. Let's take a walk through their slide set. 1/

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    Feb 26

    If you're thinking the new CDC mask guidance is premature, ignores prevention, ignores long Covid, ignores the tens of millions with compromised immune systems or not eligible for vaccines, and ignores the risk of new variants... Well, sadly, you're right.

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  16. Feb 26

    "Betrayal" is a word I wouldn't use without knowing a whole lot more. But as someone who a) must be very careful to avoid giving covid to a high-risk loved one and b) doesn't want long covid for myself, I have a lot of questions and don't exactly feel like has my back.

    Map for COVID spread in the US Previous CDC mask guidelines, based on transmission, recommended masking for 94% of counties
    Map of new CDC COVID "community level" based mainly on hospitalizations New CDC mask guidelines, that de-emphasizes COVID spread, now only recommends masking for 37% of counties
    Public health betrayal in two maps. L: Previous CDC mask guidelines, based on transmission, recommended masking for 94% of counties R: New CDC mask guidelines, that de-emphasizes COVID spread, now only recommends masking for 37% of counties
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    Feb 24

    Idaho lawmakers introduce a Bill that would prevent animals, natural resources and AI from gaining “personhood status”. The Bill's sponsor says “We don’t want our children to be inferior to AI”. Doesn't seem bothered by corporate personhood though.

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  18. Feb 23

    People: Climate change will obliterate nonhuman life and threaten human civilization and is an urgent existential crisis. Same people: It's 65 degrees on a February day in the north. Isn't this wonderful???

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  19. Feb 19

    If you live in and care about the Gulf of Maine's future—i.e., proposed & existing factory 🐟 farms—follow 's Quietside Journal. A one-person Substack show running journalistic circles around the state's newspapers and TV stations.

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    Feb 12

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    Feb 12

    Per usual a very thoughtful thread untangling what bothers me most about many climate communicator faves on here. 🧵 👇🏻

    I wish climate communicators were half as concerned about consumerism as they are about doomerism. The idea that young people are going to grow up and think that climate change was exaggerated is not a concern I take seriously. a thread on science condescension:
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