My new podcast is about birding - but it's not just for birders.
It's for anyone whose heart flutters a bit when they find a handwritten note in a used book, and everyone who loves taking long meandering walks in the forest.
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Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Adjunct professor at ITP. He/Him. Author of Living in Data (MCDxFSG).
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Really lovely podcast on birds and birding yes, and also history, collecting, and the natural world. Take a listen, friends!
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Beginning at 9:30AM Central, 10:30AM EST, directly from my lair
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Join us live as we answer your #dataviz questions with @AlbertoCairo | Saturday, September 3rd @ 9:30am Central
Join live on YouTube - guyinacu.be/live1023
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Once Upon a Checklist is now available on ALL of your favourite podcast platforms!
(If you can't find it, let us know?)
Here it is on Apple Podcasts:
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Can I ask you a favour over the weekend?
Can you take 34 minutes and give my new podcast a listen? It's a little weird thing made with a very small amount of 💰 and a very large amount of ❤️
I'd love to hear what you think.
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Another picture of the never-before-seen larval Ipnops species, Discovericthys praecox. Kona, Hawaii. #ikelite
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Can I ask you a favour over the weekend?
Can you take 34 minutes and give my new podcast a listen? It's a little weird thing made with a very small amount of 💰 and a very large amount of ❤️
I'd love to hear what you think.
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You probably wouldn't be shocked to learn that the Dictionary.com staff love to read. But have you ever wondered WHAT we read?
As we get ready to say hello to autumn, we thought we'd share a list of some of the books the Dictionary.com staff read this summer:
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If circumstances allowed, I'd do this in a heartbeat (wing flap?)
Correct link is a bit further down in the thread.
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A number of last minute cancellations have left us short-handed for the fall. Love birds, want to learn ornithological techniques and have the experience of a lifetime? Visit birdscanada.org/LPBO to learn more and fill out an application or contact us. #LongPoint awaits.
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There is a national park-caliber wildlife spectacle taking place off the coast of New York right now! Massive schools of menhaden attract countless predators like these sharks and cownose rays. This is what a healthy ocean looks like. #oceanoptimism PC:
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Baltimore Oriole at dawn, illuminated from the 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩, thanks to a well-placed reflection from Lower Manhattan. Can YOUR patch do that? #urbanbirding #brooklynbirding
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If you're the kind of person to geek out about civic data, check out this walk-through of the NYC Floodnet interface with
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A sad anniversary: Martha, the world's last Passenger Pigeon (at left), died on this date in 1914. I photographed her and another of her species several years ago at the Smithsonian's bird collection in Washington, D.C. ©Tim Gallagher
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Is there a Miami project like this? It sounds really cool and checks a lot of boxes.
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This offers two crucial things:
- The chance for people to ground truth the data that's being seen from the sensors ("Yup, there's a flood outside")
- The chance for people to flag places where the data isn't telling the real story ("Nah, that's a car parked under the sensor")
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Being aboard a research schooner in the 1930s in the Western Pacific might seem like a dream.
Then the engine breaks down, everyone gets sick, and the ship gets infested with... 🦀?
Hear the strange story in the 1st episode of
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If you're involved in a flood monitoring project, or any other kind of effort to build community capacity around environmental data we'd love to hear from you at .
We also make sensors!
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The Floodnet NYC portal is built on top of - the project is *exactly* the kind of community anchored data work we built FieldKit to support.
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Each one of these data views can host a conversation, so that people in the city - residents, engineers, hydrologists - can talk about what is happening in a specific place at a specific time:
dataviz.floodnet.nyc/viz?v=Xlc7v_oW
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Every view of data on dataviz.floodnet.nyc is bookmarkable, so it's easy to share vignettes of the data, like this comparison of flood depth during Hurricane Henri in 2021 from two nearby sensors:
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At dataviz.floodnet.nyc you can see data from all of the sensors in real time - during a flooding event first responders can use this platform to understand what's happening across the city.
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This is a big deal. A *lot* of NYC residents are impacted by regular 'nuisance' flooding. You might be surprised how many people in the city have to deal with water in the streets and in their houses on a regular basis.
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There will now be six Indigenous voting members of the U.S. Congress.
➡️ Rep. Tom Cole, Chickasaw
➡️ Rep. Markwayne Mullin, Cherokee
➡️ Rep. Sharice Davids, Ho-Chunk
➡️ Rep. Kai Kahele, Native Hawaiian
➡️ Rep. Yvette Herrell, Cherokee
➡️ Rep. Elect Mary Peltola, Yupik
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Learn how to find & identify birds with me this fall at ! Info/register for "Beginning Birding" class here: classes.bbg.org/CourseStatus.a #Brooklyn
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Willow warbler skin, dandelion seeds, nylon, mirror, in vitrine
34.3 x 30.1 x 30.2 cm
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Photograph John McKenzie
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the lede to this story belongs in a museum
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