For this wonderful Slow Technology Reader, I wrote about wondering to what extent human minds were shaped by the ocean, and about whales, floods and robotic crows..

@valizbooks.bsky.social
Edited by the wonderful #CarolynStrauss

My great-uncle Teunis as a supporting cast member in the 1966 movie The Trap.

The Merman of Westenschouwen took revenge on fishermen in an ancient myth, when they caught not only all the fish but even his wife.

The myth is (as we would now call it) a warning against overexploitation of the Scheldt river.

#CCU first quarter 2025 as an AI prompt. What emotions dominated Q1 and what entity would represent that?

Prompt: a gloomy fractured landscape with a hybernating bear-mole and the first spring flowerbulbs sprouting.

#zoop
#zoopformorelife

Visiting fellow #SpeakerfortheLiving Thijs de Zeeuw at #DeCeuvel where we checked his cameratraps. #zoopformorelife #zoop

Doing repairs on Thomas Thwaites' #HarmlessCar in Delft for a show at #38cc

These kinds of bird guides are usually made for places like national parks. Based on our #birdnetpi observations #CCU will be making a birdguide for our own part of the city of #Utrecht. The one below was made after our first bird workshop. A map of birds of the local mall.

#machinelearning

currently on show #hetnieuweinstituut in Rotterdam: #DeepSteward an AI which will observe the large pond outside through an outdoor ptz-camera and make its own classification for that world. In collaboration with @IanIngram

#machinelearning
#environmentalmachinelearning
#artscience

Collage of #bumblebees swarming around in the form of an #antimony #atom. The big one is the nucleus, with lots of smaller ones as the electrons circling around it.

#tinymining #sketch #artscience

Notes from being on the Seagull team:

Seacreatures reading the new UN ocean declaration text teams worked on during: WHOSE OCEAN? Assembly today in the Hague

Utrecht University, NIOZ, Embassy of the North Sea and Casco Art
Institute

#sketchbook #costumedesign #animalguidance

Field testing a small #diy underwaterspeaker a few years ago to explore #whale #echolocation in the marine accoustic environment at the #stormsurgebarrier in the Oosterschelde river. As part of ongoing research into the #morethanhuman #futures of the Dutch Delta region with #EmbassyoftheNorthSea

Doing a design for a friend who is a #firekeeper