Jer Thorp

They are all birding

This needs a birds category

Gotta add birdwatching to tha

This looks so good …

Sadly I can’t make it this year but a great deal just got better!

This is a good way to announce your new career path

Digital illustration. In the background we see Sesame Street’s Big Bird with a kiffiyeh scarf around his neck running to the left of frame holding a pole from which waves a black flag with a white antifascist symbol on it. In the foreground is a furry blue muppet with a bulbous pink nose who is otherwise unidentifiable because he has a black bandana around his mouth (it’s Grover) who is preparing to throw a Molotov cocktail. In the flames flowing from the rag in the neck of the bottle can be read the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Missing child in Minneapolis.

Last seen on Saturday, wears an insulin pump.

Please share widely.

BtB Retreat 2025 | jerthorp Spend five days in the lush and bird-filled jungle of Santa Marta, Colombia with Jer Thorp and a small group of curious bird + data + art enthusiasts. We'll wander the forest with local guides, learn ...

OK, here's a deal:

If you register for the Binoculars to Binomials retreat in September in Santa Marta, I'll gift you (or a friend?) free registration in the online course this fall.

(A $675 value!)

www.jerthorp.me/btb-retreat-...

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

Even MICHAEL FUCKING BLOOMBERG has said the rich are lying when they pretend they’re going to leave NYC! They’re fucking lying! I have met rich New Yorkers! They’re not going anywhere! You think that sad sack finance fuck is gonna piss off his third trophy wife by making her shop in Texas? Grow up.

Si os interesa la programación creativa o los pájaros o la visualización de datos, os recomiendo muy fuerte este curso. Lo hice hace unos meses y me encantó.

Sporty crow likes a trendy downward feather flurffle unbothered by posh pretensions of total coiffness. No, this hip crowster of today lets it all hang out with a chic blase attitude that tells the world "I'm free and I know it." With just a dash of fir tree pine-cone pinache. Oh yeah.

Every season there's the moody crow waddling down the runway, clutching a plank of wood like a corvid lumberjack. Burly, surly, off to bed early, this crow can bench press your mother and swallow large rats whole without even a second thought. That look around the eyes--that's the knowing look of a crow that knows who they are. Oh la la, that's sexy.

Goth crow doth hideth the head and frequent Dark Star Magick on the corner of Burnside and 8th, before ambling down to Grendel's Coffee House for a Bauhaus Special Blend. This is a feathery, leathery crow whose bashful side has a dark allure. Favorite author? Crowley, of course.

Crows about town dress up in their slick, tailored tuxes, black tie, cummerbund, and tails, of course. Maybe there's a little saucy Je ne sais quoi to their penchant for mimicking chimney sweeps and playing ring around the rosy, but these two cheeky champs couldn't be more serious about their fashion sense. Swank is back, baby.

Neighborhood crows strutting their stuff. More in the alt text on their lifestyles and fashion sense.

09-10: The Power of Bird Data with Jer Thorp - American Birding Association Birders know about Big Data. We’re all familiar with eBird and the Avian Knowledge Network, but the Christmas Bird Count or the Breeding Bird Survey are giant pools of data that inform everything from...

This is a good listen if you want to get a feel for what the whole Binoculars to Binomials project is about:

www.aba.org/09-10-the-po...

This looks like so much fun!

BtB Retreat 2025 | jerthorp Spend five days in the lush and bird-filled jungle of Santa Marta, Colombia with Jer Thorp and a small group of curious bird + data + art enthusiasts. We'll wander the forest with local guides, learn ...

You'll also get to join a cozy little community of about 100 people who are also excited about birds, code, nature and art.

I host monthly events which touch on some of the weird venn overlaps of the course, and also a yearly retreat where people can get together and make things.

I've gotten very behind on my progress in this class, because life. But it is such a delight and I very much recommend it 🐦

Black and white zine about canada geese

Artist standing in front of a skein of origami cranes representing endangered birds

Postcard with data about American Robins

You'll make data visualizations in this course.

But also zines and postcards, musical scores, fun little web tools and animated explorations.

Binoculars to Binomials is very much about doing data differently.

This course really was lite changing! I now enjoy time outside looking for birds, at home & away... and I learned A LOT more on coding" #binocularstobinomials

"As a Data Scientist at Der Spiegel, I'm always looking for unique ways to tell stories through data. This course was exactly what I was looking for -a perfect mix of getting outdoors with creative data viz." #binocularstobinomials

Pretty much everyone who has taken this course– birders and coders and the generally curious –has said that Binoculars to Binomials changed the way they thought about data, and the way they look at and consider nature.

And, it gets you outside!

This course is extremely unique, it's worth every penny and you really cannot get this anywhere else. It's such an adorable course and Jer is wonderful. I'd recommend this to anyone." #binocularstobinomials

Learn how to access and use rich sources of birding data including the eBird API, XenoCanto, The Christmas Bird Count historical database, and more.

Cultivate and enrich an observational practice (birding!), and explore how to apply the techniques from this practice to other parts of your life.

Binoculars to Binomials is an online course for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive into the rich pool of data that comes out of their hobby.

Autumn cohorts start September 23rd!

www.jerthorp.me/learning

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This is the piece I've been waiting for.

Captures exactly why Son is such a lighting-in-a-bottle player.

Screenshot from iNat showing the wide variety of biodiversity in Santa Marta, Colombia

My Binoculars to Binomials retreat in September is anchored around birds, but we'll be reminding ourselves every morning to expand our field of noticing to include frogs, salamanders, insects, plants and fungus!

iNat users have ID'ed 6,666 species nearby!

Kevin Lasagna - Wikipedia

Thinking about Kevin Lasagna again.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_L...

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads: Scientists Growing Neanderthal 'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Did you know you can download the data from DOGE Track? There even is now a basic API! (more to come there)

dogetrack.info/about/downlo...

If Son does indeed go to LAFC I'll be one of a very many fans buying tickets to see him play every time I can.

While perhaps not at the scale of Messi, Son will sell rafts of tickets in every stadium LAFC plays in.

#coys

Son Heung-min

Having Son Heung-min at Spurs for the last decade has provided so many gifts.

Not the least of which is that my son has had the ideal role model for how to be a incredible competitor AND a truly good human being.

Thank you, Sonny.

#coys

BtB Retreat 2025 | jerthorp Spend five days in the lush and bird-filled jungle of Santa Marta, Colombia with Jer Thorp and a small group of curious bird + data + art enthusiasts. We'll wander the forest with local guides, learn ...

There are just three spots left for the Binoculars to Binomials retreat. There's still time to put your name on one of them. To come and notice and make with us.

www.jerthorp.me/btb-retreat-...

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