Anthropologist; animal advocate; science writer, next book coming on cats; caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more.
Barbara J. King
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Today I celebrate the harsh antibiotics finally leaving my body after Caroline sank her canine deep into my thumb! (A high risk bite site.) We premedicated her with Gabapentin for her annual vet check up but she distinctly had other ideas! Good thing we love them, no? #Caturday #cats #veterinary
In print today, the review by @charlesfinch.bsky.social of Megan O'Grady's 'profoundly conventional' new nonfiction book gives me my #SundaySentence for this week. 'The problem is not that O'Grady's opinions are wrong; the problem is that they are never wrong. They court no risk.'
An expanding octopus bloom--- what's notable to me here is the 'shake up of the whole ecosystem' of ocean predators and prey via warming waters. [I do not eat octopuses.] #octopus #ocean #ecology #nature #climate
I take this criticism to heart as a #nonfiction writer: Finch reminds me to build risk, to embrace the strangeness of my own voice, in my writing. #writing #writingcommunity
Record numbers linked to warming waters is mixed news for fishers, with shellfish catches down but octopus catches booming
