I'm on Fireside Fedi right now!
https://social.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/statuses/01K5C6K5R1MCXX4AC47CCRY50E
Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
Has mostly lived in warmer places, now learning to live respectfully on Treaty 4 lands (Saskatchewan, Canada)
I'm so delighted that the horrifying bottle we found while replacing a sink in our old farmhouse is now on display. Thanks, @vagina_museum !!
Today I had 3 Zoom meetings, 1 Teams meeting, and one Google Meets. (And I yelled about Reflect Orbital in almost all of them)
As a fairly covid-cautious person, this quote from the astrobiology textbook talking about the possibilities for lithopanspermia makes me shudder with horror every time I teach this section:
“In a sense, Earth, Venus, and Mars have been ‘sneezing’ on each other for billions of years, offering the possibility of microscopic life hitchhiking between worlds on one of the meteorites.”
*Comes back inside and picks up my "light reading" book on my desk for a brain-reset*
*remembers my "light reading" book right now is actually @adambecker.bsky.social's "More Everything Forever"*
*Walks back outside into the middle of the hay field*
Too many meetings about too many stupid awful techbro satellites that benefit a few people for massive costs to everyone and everything else.
I need to go rage-scream in the hay field again.
I should add that the red colour is almost completely invisible to your eyes. But the greens were gorgeous and easy to see!! WOW.
Ooooo yes!!! they're here!!!! Also clouds, but the auroras are easily visible in between them!
https://www.aurorasaurus.org/ is still looking promising! Guess I'm going to drink some tea then bust out the fancy camera and pretend like I know what I'm doing.