Nice to see my Every Bird series in Canadian Geographic! canadiangeographic.ca/articles/eve... Here's the bombastic visualization of birds in Point Pelee National Park that's featured in the article: www.jerthorp.me/product-page...

My son has been publishing a two-page local newspaper for the last three weeks. This morning he got a fan letter from a CNN anchor who lives in the neighborhood. "Journalists like you are the lifeblood of a healthy community." ❤️

Love getting congratulatory texts from friends about your team finishing 17th #COYS

THIS IS OKAY I AM FINE LET'S WATCH SPORTS #COYS

It's a good thing I'm too well-adjusted to be having anxiety attacks about a ⚽ game that is 17 hours away. #COYS

Giant Molter concepts for @doublefine.com’s ‘Keeper’.

Just a top notch job, guys.

Do you know I have a newsletter? I have a newsletter. If you like weird data things and weird bird things and/or me, you should subsrcibe! www.jerthorp.me/news

Have you heard of OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer? It's a great tool for visualising how all biodiversity in the world is related. And since it's #BiodiversityDay, well... Find yourself a friend whose love language is "I sponsored a slime mold for you". www.onezoom.org 🧪🌏 🦊🐦🐝 #biodiversity

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

my favorite data centers are libraries

THE CITY WE BECAME is the NYPL's first "Big Summer Book Club" pick! All summer long, UNLIMITED borrows of the ebook or audiobook for any NYPL cardholder! And for a finale, a NEW STORY in the Great Cities world will be performed at the Delacorte Theater in Aug! www.nypl.org/summer/2026/...

treasure

This is blatant corruption. It's the kind of thing the power of the people is meant to stand against. This is Trump testing the edges of his power. I don't know what happens if he feels a little give.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Is this entire graduation season just going to be watching rich dipshits get booed for trying to jack off AI in front of college kids? Because if so keep doing it, I'm having a blast.

If you're looking for a commencement speaker who won't get booed for talking about AI... that's me! Same goes if you're looking for a conference speaker or a retreat speaker or a children's birthday party speaker who won't get booed for talking about AI. www.jerthorp.me/speaking

My first-ever intaglio, made this morning in a generous residency at @bantamtools.bsky.social

If you're looking for a commencement speaker who won't get booed for talking about AI... that's me! Same goes if you're looking for a conference speaker or a retreat speaker or a children's birthday party speaker who won't get booed for talking about AI. www.jerthorp.me/speaking

Wow, today's news has been SO FUCKED, but I learned object tracking so I could PUT A TOPHAT ON A KILLDEER!!!! Full resolution: youtu.be/UkAOMVccO5k 🪶 🐣

I do not regret to inform you that I am still doing silly bird videos on YouTube youtube.com/shorts/B3nlJ...

Good morning/aft/evening wherever you are bee-skees. It's my birthday soon. So here's a present for you! There'll be more later this week. I'm up to some SciArt shenanigans. If you'd like to get me something, please made a donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians at www.map.org.uk Thanks muchly 😘

Let's GOOOOOOOOO! Spots are filling up fast for my retreats in Colombia this September. We'll spend five days immersing ourselves in nature, visiting indigenous communities and making things together. Use the code DUET for $200 off registration for two or more. www.jerthorp.me/btb-retreat-... 🪶📊

This is great, but you're still $97 million short of the funding you campaigned on (at 0.5% of the City budget), Mayor Mamdani. Please keep your promise to the people's libraries! @nycplan.org

Let's GOOOOOOOOO! Spots are filling up fast for my retreats in Colombia this September. We'll spend five days immersing ourselves in nature, visiting indigenous communities and making things together. Use the code DUET for $200 off registration for two or more. www.jerthorp.me/btb-retreat-... 🪶📊

I've extended this discount for the weekend. Give yourself something to look forward to in September. Use the code DUET at registration.

Today's the last day to get $200 off registration for my Binoculars to Binomials retreat in Santa Marta, Colombia! To get the discount you just need to register with a friend! 5 days in a jungle paradise. Slowing down, noticing, making collaborative art. Thinking about data and environmental care.

made this postcard about African Gray #Parrots for Birds to Binomials class led by @jerthorp.bsky.social used #Inkscape for the design which was slow but I'm getting handier with it.

I’ll be co-facilitating the first week of this with @jerthorp.bsky.social who invited me along! I’m beyond excited to think and imagine with this group, and receive the gifts the surroundings will offer during our time there.

Evergreen, but also of the moment: Sometimes ethical stewardship of data means not having it. Including deleting it. Even at personal cost.

What a delight to see Nathalie Miebach tonight in Hanover. She is one of my all-time favorite artists, and also a gem of a human. www.nathaliemiebach.com

If you're interested in contemporary fibre art, data representation and critical thinking on human migration and colonial violence, you should know Tau Luna's work: tauluna.com I spent time with them in Colombia last year and now am spending a week at Dartmouth picking up some of the 🧵...

For the first cohort, Sept. 4th - 9th, my co-facilitator will be Walter Kitundu, a person whose work I've admired for a decade. Walter is a phenomenal artist mixing performance and sculpture into a practice that speaks about place, nature and community. kitundu.com

For my inaugural BtB Retreat last year, I was lucky to have the writer and naturalist extraordinaire @ryanfm.bsky.social as my co-facilitator. I'm happy to say that Ryan will be back in Colombia in 2026, for our 2nd cohort, running Sept. 11 - 16th. www.jerthorp.me/btb-retreat-... ❤️🪶🐛🌿

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

In which I channel my inner Hayden White, out myself as an early @feltron.bsky.social fan, and provide actual photographic evidence that my living room is very occasionally actually clean

Some #tidepooling and #dockfouling photos from this spring. 1) A sunburst anemone (Anthopleura sola) contrasting nicely with red rust bryozoans (Watersipora subtorquata) on the left and a serpulid tube worm (Serpula columbiana) on the right. Morro Bay, CA. 🦀🦑

We've had a pile of really interesting folks apply for my Raja Ampat trip at the end of the year: www.jerthorp.me/raja2026 It's going to be an unbelievably fun trip in an absolute gem of a place. We'll split our time above and below water. Birds-of-paradise! Nudibranchs! Strange insects! Mantas!

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

I'm not leading walks today because my mom and siblings come up for Mother's Day every year so my mother would like you all to know that see spotted the first Harris's Sparrow ever reported at this festival, asked me what it is and I immediately lost it haha

A NYC pop-up just opened displaying all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files. The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is open as a public installation featuring 3.5 million pages of released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes.

We've had a pile of really interesting folks apply for my Raja Ampat trip at the end of the year: www.jerthorp.me/raja2026 It's going to be an unbelievably fun trip in an absolute gem of a place. We'll split our time above and below water. Birds-of-paradise! Nudibranchs! Strange insects! Mantas!

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

RFK Jr. showing his eugenicist beliefs. Here he is today at The City Club in Cleveland: "The average American who died from COVID had 3.8 chronic diseases. So what was really killing them? It was almost impossible for COVID to kill a healthy person. It was killing people who were already sick."

this is ofc stephen jay gould making me cry about some rocks 🥲

Yo, anyone want to be a Bird Identification Machine Learning Software Engineer for the wonderful Cornell Lab of Ornithology, home of the Merlin app?!? It’s remote! I do not have these skills but maybe you do! #jobs jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

NEW MERCH ALERT

These retreats are now about 30% full. Which is pretty great with 4 months to go! (It does mean that if you've been thinking about coming, you might want to jump in!)

This is only 30% me wanting Kane to beat Arsenal in the final but... this match really needs a Bayern goal to wake it up.