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Helen MacDonald @helen8macdonald.bsky.social Historian, writer, reader, interested in nature.
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Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
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Lindsay Wilson @lindsay-wilson.bsky.social Poet & Professor in Reno, NV. Author of The Day Gives Us So Many Ways to Eat and No Elegies. Poetry editor at The Meadow
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Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social Writer
Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT, OUT NOW
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Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social Author of EAT PRAY LOVE, BIG MAGIC, THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, CITY OF GIRLS, and the newest: ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER
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Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Alix Klingenberg @alixklingenberg.bsky.social Poet and earth-centered spiritual director. Author of 3 poetry collections and a 4th to come this year. I write creative essays with writing prompts on Substack, too ✍🏻
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Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Dave Bryant 🇪🇸 @davebspain.bsky.social I try to photograph nature, mostly birds & I'm having fun with it.
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social I am a tree scientist and botanist writing about relationships between trees and humans including climate change. A Fulbright Scholar, Author of Venerable Trees and more books in progress. Read about trees here: https://ourtrees.substack.com.
Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND
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aka Kelly Brenner
@nudibranch.bsky.social
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