The Seed Song

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I really, really hate to sharing this, but last week, we @biographic.bsky.social learned that the California Academy of Sciences will no longer be providing the magazine with financial support, including money we were expecting to receive this year. We're in a real bind.

When Burning Man ends, 150 people walk the playa in a forensic-style sweep. For weeks, everything they find is removed and logged. At the end, they're left with a remarkable accounting of what 70,000 people left behind: The MOOP Map. And I'm obsessed. www.not-ship.com/burning-man-...

Excited for this!

"Fifteen Maps that Changed How We See the Ocean Floor" Based on his research for The Library of Lost Maps, James Cheshire of @ucl.ac.uk pulled together these seminal works of Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen! cc @seabed2030.bsky.social 🌊 ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 libraryoflostmaps.com/2026/05/06/f...

A useful afternoon, for a change: discovered/developed a new colour ramp and a new interesting way to improve elevation maps. Example: Sheep Mountain, Wyoming. (Not Teton, but the other one, north of Greybull.)

In case you missed it, last month I released perhaps my most detailed visualization ever. It's about a strange bureaucratic ritual that plays out every 3 years in the U.S. Copyright Office: www.jerthorp.me/post/the-bur...

One of my customers, Miya Frohmeier, took a picture of me with her vintage camera. She just got the film developed.

Miss the first episode of Spaced Out? Listen here or wherever you cast pods

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Always a good history lesson on parcel map weirdness santarosahistory.com/wordpress/20...

Our project, MappingMay4.kent.edu , created for the 50th anniversary in 2020, is here. It places small stories from the oral histories on a map of Kent from 1970, showing a variety of voices and perspectives with the goal promoting discussion & reconciliation. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social

Found a drafting table on Craigslist in a split 4 foot angled 2 foot flat top. Maps, keyboard and monitors on angled side. Desktop toys, mug, plants, and notenook on right. My new sit-stand map desk at home. Building new home office space over next 3 months to receive it.

For #Stunday. This is #Sarracenia flava, the yellow pitcher plant. Sometimes they hybridize to form reddish colored tubes, which are actually modified leaves. One of my favorites to photograph. #photography #landscape #ECK #Sarracenia #PitcherPlants #bogs #Nikon #Z8

Always loved this series of maps. 👁 Also: Comics! h/t @anuncivilphd.bsky.social & @iansociologo.bsky.social

Lambiek has a really detailed biography. Some of it I knew, some I didn't. Nicole was really an altweekly cartoonist who somehow snuck into daily papers w/o the editors noticing. The only one of us who pulled that off.

Join us Tuesday May 5 for a free public talk with Prof. Dustin Mulvaney: “The Big Fire in the Big Basin: The long history and short memory of wildfire in the Santa Cruz Mountains.” More information: jrbp.stanford.edu/events/commu...

In a global assessment of global river deltas, researchers uncovered a scaling relationship between channel length and land-building extent that echoes the so-called “Hack’s law” in river networks. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4tCrHk5

What is it like setting up a GIS web map and dashboard application ? It is surprisingly like setting up a modern dashboard. Metaphor and etymology get reinforced in this before and after shot.

NEW RELEASE! Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas The Sierra Nevada Earth Science Atlas provides the most detailed geologic framework mapping of the Sierra Nevada that has ever been made. www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/sierra-n...

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

Printing a book you often run out of physical type, so you take the text already printed & sort the individual letters back to their compartments into a large drawer (job case) for reuse. When you distribute paragraphs from the galley (a tray drawer that holds composed type ready to put on press)...

Bike and train commute I appreciate in the rain that this station is under HWY 101, but the lovely trip along the marshes is the best part

It's #InverteFest, why not learn how to draw a mantis? #mantis #insect #education #SciArt #bug

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TODAY: the Supreme Court is hearing oral argument in Chatrie v. United States read up before you (yes, you) get swept up by a "geofence" warrant 👇🏾 ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chatr...

What do I think about the giant Cretaceous octopuses? - First that I'm delighted people are asking me 😁 - Second that WOW! Scientists used an amazing technique to discover HUGE fossil cephalopod beaks! 🤩 - Third that OH BOY do I have questions...🧵🧪🐙 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My nomination to replace hourglass or spinning blue wait symbol and cursor on a computer or phone

Mother, siblings, recently father, & beloved aunt last week have passed. Sought mental health support. Company managing telehealth network has 4 agreement documents. Extensive pages but overly vague clauses for sharing private information & with 3rd party LLM for AI. Mental health care vs EULA

The scourge of poaching succulents and cacti in California has been out of control. Witnessed essential habitats in my area butchered for theft.

Maybe there is some lying around? I do understand this jeaporadizes critical medical, transportation, clothing, and replacement equipment, but a lot of single use garbage too. pml.ac.uk/wp-content/u... pml.ac.uk/news/the-gre...

Release the Cretaken! #octopus #kraken

Wonderful

Atlas in the thrift shop window display. Geographic literacy is always a bargain. #mapsinthewild

A nice evening for a walk in a town with a river through it

The pomegranate is threatening us with a good time this fall

Petal deer, 2012 by Ellen Jewett, sculptor known for her often surreal depictions of animals #WomensArt

Map of spread of #smallpox in North America, 1775-1782, from page 7 of Fenn, Elizabeth A. 2002. Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82. 1. paperback ed. Hill and Wang.

Being shared around the pottery studio between the map and clay crossover nerds www.lorainerutt.com/mappingearth

Gotta show you this tardigrade cake I saw at the American Museum of Natural History.

Just did a little search on Places (where I've published most frequently for the past decade+), to see if anyone had written about Palantir in relation to urban governance, border tech, other spatial data applications, etc. Well, whaddya know? That's me, from 2016, 2018, and 2018 :)

#MapMonday On this day in 1736, French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis led the Lapland expedition to measure latitude and shape of the earth, highlighting a flattening at the poles. Read and see more here: www.maupertuis.fi/en/history/t... 👀 🗺️

Kiddo's team made a float for our town's parade, got special award.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

The cedar waxwings have come to visit. All you can hear are hundreds of seeep ssssseeeeep seeeps.

Bring a map, KQED www.kqed.org/perspectives...

If AI can run a corporation and corporations have person, how close are we to AI having voting influence and personhood like rights?

I, too, ran a physics-based simulation in 2019 on the 100th anniversary of the event.