FIELD NOTES
From backyard birders to stargazers, citizen scientists are generating observations at an unprecedented scale. Combined with AI, this data is transforming how we understand the natural world.
The movement traces back to pioneers like Fred Urquhart, a Canadian zoologist who mobilized thousands of volunteers to track monarch butterflies across North America, revealing theirwintering grounds in Mexico. Today, this collective approach has become a global network, turning everyday observations into powerful scientific insight.
But as AI accelerates discovery and uncovers patterns beyond human perception, it raises a key question: what place remains for knowledge systems beyond algorithms?
WILD BEAT
Bears crashing living rooms. Neural recorders reading animal brains in the wild. Orphaned raccoons graduating from survival boot camp. Traffickers selling monkeys on Facebook. Things are getting weird in the animal world.
WILD BEAT is a weekly wildlife science series tracking those changes and what’s driving them. From new discoveries and wildlife investigations to fieldwork and the strange lives of captive animals.
Made for curious minds (18–44) who follow science, news and culture, and can’t scroll past a good animal story, WILD BEAT is smart, authentic and irreverent. Doom and gloom not included. No pontificating from the permafrost. No sermons from the savanna.
NEON REVOLUTION
A neon renaissance is sweeping the globe as a younger generation of influencers, digital designers and the public at large rediscover a true original artform, handmade by master glass benders and high voltage artisans.
Our guide into this vibrant world is the brilliant Molly Rae, the bona fide ‘neon brat’ and sassy daughter of a genuine hipster dad, Jeff Friedman, owner of one of the most iconic neon studios in North America, Let There Be Neon, located in the fashion- conscious Tribeca district of New York City.
This project has been optioned by Sound Off Films in the US.
ZOO LOGIC
Through the dramatic and intimate stories of animals taken from the wild to live in captivity, Zoo Logic tells the story of how a new generation of zookeepers are transforming a legacy of domination into one of empathy and compassion.
There has never been a more critical moment to examine our relationship with our fellow non-humans. The decisions made today will define the role of captivity in conservation for decades to come, and this time, zoos are active participants in imagining a future with fewer species in fewer zoos, as well as keeping animals in their natural habitats, where they truly belong.
Zoo Logic is not a condemnation of zoos, but a reflection on their power to shape our connection to wildlife in ways that extend past their fences.