Jer Thorp

BtB Thursdays are back! Every month I'll be hosting a free casual discussion centered around nature, noticing, art, and care. Next week I'll chat with Blacki Migliozzi about their work in Peru collecting DNA data with field veterinarians. binoculars-to-binomials.disco.co/share/o/T2Nj...

Now that’s a job opening

I have released a tool to back up all of your sketches from the p5.js editor: github.com/golanlevin/e....

One of our own! Ballon D'or WINNER!!!! Sir Harry Kane

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

TY to @craigrobertson.bsky.social for snapping this pic at Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. Craig, incidentally, is the author of The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information (among other works), which is *so* good. I assigned it to my History of the Database class and students *loved* it.

LOOK AT THIS BIRD ebird.org/species/rivl...

I say this is a dog owner: dog owners are the worst. No other group has such an unwavering conviction that the rules were written for someone else (with some other dog)

This might be my favorite piece of hidden artwork in New York City. Crab.

Ha, this reminds me in a lovely way of the beautiful viz posters @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy used to make back in the NYPL Labs days in the 2010s (these are the outlines of the largest buildings in NYC from 1854)

On November 7th I'll be leading a one-day workshop at Lafayette College. I'll lead a bird walk in the morning and then in the afternoon we'll learn about how birds become data and we'll make data portraits of local species.

Happy birthday! I made challah.

Happy birthday! (I sketched digitally on top of a pic of a painting I made)

It's my birthday. My birthday wish is that you make something today. A sketch or a poem or a little piece of code. A cake. A joke. A clever piece of joinery. That you revel, even just for a small moment, in the act of creation. It's what we've got.

Gorgeous sky over the world's best bridge.

Did you know that in addition to one-on-one writing coaching, I do workshops? I just finished a really delightful hour with a newsroom talking about and troubleshooting strategies for writing for fun when you also write for a living; and I'd love to bring that to your org, too!

I’m still in Halloween mode but the craft stores have all jumped to the winter holidays so I guess y’all can get ready for gift giving. Especially with wrapping paper like this.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Not every bird I saw this morning was a yellow rump warbler but.. most of them were

I have a kid who has extreme sensory issues around soap. Getting him to wash his hands has always been a battle. We are approaching puberty FAST and I'm trying to find solutions for face washing. Any advice from folks with similar sensory issues?

Towhee and Loon hats are back!!

This is truly great news – I've been to this corner of Arizona twice, and it's stunning. The first time I went, I stayed the night in a small cabin in a canyon and woke up surrounded by deer, skunk, hummingbirds, and other wildlife. I felt like a Disney princess.

This year I'm revisiting one of my favourite outputs from the project: wrapping paper! I've made three new pattern types for five different sets of birds in three colorways, which means that you can wrap up your gifts in 45 different types of paper! www.jerthorp.me/wrap

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Tickets are on sale for next week's Brooklyn Web Workers! pools.events/event/uJCK3C...

Two years ago I lost my beautiful friend Ian. He was a kind and compassionate man, and a world-class friend. I'll miss him always. electricautonomy.ca/special-repo...

Get a postcard from Antarctica! Sign up here: www.patreon.com/cw/arielwald... I am headed back to Antarctica to film an entirely new documentary and I could use your help to bring this project to life. Please share!

Definitely not watching the last 10 minutes of this Spurs match from behind my couch. #COYS

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

From 1992-2004, the Anchorage International Airport had a bar with animatronic, talking, and rather cursed-looking customers who randomly told each other bad jokes. What a world we live in. Learn the history of our replica Cheers bar in my latest article: www.adn.com/alaska-l...