Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada) […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler
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Area porcupine spots local climatologist at 0:25. 🦔
Yes brain, instead of finishing the 70 bazillion papers and articles you're supposed to be writing, let's write some text for a brand new paper instead!
I am so grateful we have a lot of grass (and compost).
Spot the 1) cat, 2) goats, 3) goats and dogs, 4) bonus: snake
The new WAY TOO BIG egg incubator is running!! Definitely still have to work out a few things (immediately after I took this triumphant photo, it started leaking because the float valve was not doing its thing...) And a second incubator to figure out, so I […]
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Funny out of context quote from a meeting earlier today: "Space law does not happen in a vacuum"
Bird report: There are currently EIGHT cedar waxwings hanging out in my hedge eating flower buds, plus grackles, robins, purple martins, and barn swallows. I saw the first eggshells from a successful barn swallow hatch in the barn this morning (as the rogue rooster who decided he likes the barn […]
Any astronomers looking for a wild new job?
I got a message from an ecologist in Belgium today, and he's looking for a postdoc with experience in photometry to work on analysis of all-sky imagery for an experiment on the impact of #LightPollution on birds.
This is not yet a job offer! He would […]
I spent a lot of time out in the green to avoid doing one million things I said I would do (whyyyy do I keep saying yes to things...) Best part: we found a new, super healthy wild strawberry patch I'll definitely be keeping an eye on!
Happy solstice! I am so excited that we don't have any chance of frost tonight (about half of the years we have lived in Saskatchewan, we have spent the summer solstice evening putting row cover on our plants...sigh.)
