Pollinator Conservation Specialist is the diametric opposite of Prompt Engineer

I've made more selling hats than my book advance.

I took this in the fall & it was *so good.* There was so much to it that I'm still processing a lot of the ideas & thoughts about data & such.

These courses start in two weeks. They're about cultivating a practice of noticing, understanding how observation becomes data, and giving yourself the permission to be creative with the information you make. They're also about community and environmental care. Guaranteed to change your 🧠!

The Bermuda Petrel is one of the rarest birds in the world. It was thought to be extinct for three centuries, until 36 nesting pairs were found in 1951. Now, 75 years later, we can watch one hatching live on the internet! (The chick started pipping yesterday!) 🪶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUxv...

Penguins molt - who knew - and Eric's penguins molt almost catastrophically. Like, some of them die. lastwordonnothing.com/2026/03/09/r...

I love teaching this class, and I love learning from all the fascinating people who take it. If you've been thinking it seems interesting but maybe it's not for you... It is probably for you. 🪶📊🥰

Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️

These spring sessions will likely be the last chance to take this class. So if it's something that you have been thinking about for a while coming now's the time.

I remember thinking how ridiculously short TED talk seemed when they started. Now that I am unsuccessfully navigating the new social media where 60 seconds is way too long, those seem like golden days.

putting ten babies into the grinder was bad enough, but when they wanted to take it to eleven I was like, enough is enough

So they cut out some gay stuff from ELIO so that parents wouldn’t feel discomfort having to explain it to their kids, stuff like “gay people exist”

Oh yes let's laud another one who leaves with a golden paycheck long after it was clear what kind of work was being done

I love teaching this class, and I love learning from all the fascinating people who take it. If you've been thinking it seems interesting but maybe it's not for you... It is probably for you. 🪶📊🥰

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

I still need to build the companion website, but I finished the data jacket!! The circle on the cuff is an NFC tag that will direct folks to a website that helps explain the visualizations. #DHmakes

"SHIT" "FUCK" "NO" "FUCK" "SHIT" "FUCK"

In or around Dartmouth? Join me and a lineup of much cooler people for the Data in Action Symposium this Wednesday! Let's chat indigenous data sovereignty, humanities data, data orientation, and data and democracy. sites.dartmouth.edu/dhse-symposi... (With thanks to @roopikarisam.bsky.social.)

We’ve had a couple brief showers move through tonight, followed by quickly clearing skies and it’s neat to see the birds respond to that via the BirdCast numbers. #birds #spring #migration #BirdCast

Spurs fans have to admit, Thomas Frank did position us well for finishing in the top three next year. Just... not in the EPL.

Two of the devs that I respect most in the world have written about AI + coding this week with totally different conclusions and... that's OK?

Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...

Spring cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials start in three weeks and the courses are filling up fast! Cohorts are limited to 16 people, and all three of 'em are at the half-way mark. - Bi-weekly AM cohort (9am,ET) - Bi-weekly PM cohort (7pm ET) - Monthly PM cohort (7pm ET) Let's learn together! 🪶📊🎨

ANGE BACK #COYS

Spurs are cursed. Can't imagine what kind of awful sin they committed. (Firing Ange) #coys

Monte Vista CO crane festival is this weekend! Come say hi!

Obsessed with this. It's a $10k microphone shaped like a head. www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/13...

Art

Spring cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials start in three weeks and the courses are filling up fast! Cohorts are limited to 16 people, and all three of 'em are at the half-way mark. - Bi-weekly AM cohort (9am,ET) - Bi-weekly PM cohort (7pm ET) - Monthly PM cohort (7pm ET) Let's learn together! 🪶📊🎨

You can now visualize how a color palette distributes across OKHsv, OKHsl, OKLCh and CIELab, and compare 6 distance metrics side by side. Zero dependencies, raw WebGL2. Took me 3 years to make something I wasn't too embarrassed to share 🙃 meodai.github.io/color-palett...

Did you know that Smokey Jungle Frogs have vicious attack nipples they use to fight competitors and defend against predators? #lifegoals

Instead of spraying for mosquitos this summer, try the Mosquito Murder Bucket! It's cheaper than paying a company and doesn't kill all of the beneficial insects in the area. #garden #gardening

Come with me to Raja Ampat in December! It's going to be absurdly amazing. We'll have our own boat, and our itinerary will be 100% guided by curiousity. Birds? Yes! Manta rays? Yes! Nudibranches? Yes! Giant millipedes? Definitely! Strange marsupials? Probably!

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

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- Selected Innovator will be funded up to $90K/yr for a max of 2 years - Appointment in September 2026 - most of residency may be remote - access to both publicly available and on-site Library collections. - Innovator will also provided program and research support More details in announcement

Calling all technologists, artists and other creative visionaries: The Library of Congress has opened the call for the next Innovator in Residence! Apply by 2pm ET April 10 newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Rai Rai Ken.

The Reveal One Embarrassing Ability Score Challenge! Me: Wisdom:6

I'm currently knee-deep in updating my website in preparation for a big seconds sale this Saturday. There's a LOT to add! Anyway, here's my expressive watercolour painting of a Great Spotted Woodpecker. #watercolours #birdart 🪶

🚨 Big news for the littlest New Yorkers: 2-K is coming.   Starting this year, we’re delivering 2,000 FREE child care seats for 2-year-olds across our city.   By Fall 2027, we'll be ready to serve 12,000 kids.   Grateful to our partner in this work, @governor.ny.gov, for her support.

It’s unsettling to see LLMs scaling bias, not solving it. A study of 3.4M outputs found models recommend more aggressive opioids to Black and LGBTQIA+ patients while simultaneously flagging them as high risk. Clinical guardrails are needed to ensure these tools don't worsen disparities.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

Tumbleword: uncut ➡️ hock 16 words 71 points 🎉 🌍 HIGH SCORE 🌎 🎉 1 ✂️ 0 🤜🤛 tumbleword.com?word=uncut

In December, I brought a small group of people to Western Papua, where we spent 12 days hiking through lush jungles and swimming over pristine reefs. We saw mudskippers and wallabies, wobbegongs and mantas. Nudibranchs and giant millipedes and butterflies by the dozens. 🧵

Birding is the Anti-AI. www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

I dust my house. My AI robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Extreme Long shot but, if anyone visited the Permanent Exhibition at the National Museum of Finland between 1995-2016 and has any pictures of the interpretation panels/display/presentation of the Suontaka sword then I'd be extremely grateful for copies! Many thanks!

This is an astounding photo. Took a bit of work to track down as it has been reposted so much on Facebook without credit, but this is taken by David L Batcheller.

Everyone is fighting a battle you can’t see, except me, my battle is very obviously kicking my ass