Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet.

So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

LAUNCH at 0646 UTC Oct 7 of Starlink Group 10-59 from Canaveral

This Oatmeal comic on AI art is one of the better things I’ve seen in the topic.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

The technology gods have smiled down upon me: everything worked perfectly!

Now... can my computer simultaneously handle giving a Zoom presentation and showing Google Earth at the same time? Both of those programs tend not to play nicely with linux... or maybe I'm just sort of bad at linux... in any case, wish me luck while I talk about the potential debris fall in […]

I'm so pissed I CALLED the stupid ag ministers office to tell them how much I hate this plan. It's hilarious that I can be interviewed for international news regularly and not get nervous, but calling a teensy weensy inconsequential provincial minister's office makes my hands shake.

If you live […]

Good morning. I hope someone gives you a leg up this morning.

And here are some happily eating goats (and friends) for good measure.

Fall is happening so hard here. Gotta enjoy it, the colours will probably be mostly gone within a week!

@mayintoronto Yeah! Light from the sun travels out to the outer solar system and drops in brightness by 1/(distance^2). Then reflects off the planet (but only a fraction, because it's not a mirror). Then the light has to travel all the way back to us on Earth, so another 1/(distance^2).

Ten […]

I like this interview better: https://www.cjwwradio.com/2025/10/05/astronomer-asks-farmers-to-monitor-fields-for-potential-starlink-debris/

This Sask-based ag-heavy website has cows! More my speed.

Oh hey look I'm on CNN with a really wishy-washy summary of an email I wrote about Planet Y!

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/science/planet-y-solar-system-study

(Haha tooooooo many freaking interviews....)

WOW so many emails and Zoom meetings and battling my cat for the keyboard.

@mayintoronto Ah I'm sorry (also apologies for misunderstanding your heritage!)

Anywhere you find to help with teaching, you will do an amazing job :)

@mayintoronto Are there no tribal schools around Toronto? (sorry for my ignorance! I have spent very very little time there). And yeah, I can only imagine that as an Indigenous person the trauma you experience through your students would be even more personal. I hope you find something awesome […]

@mayintoronto I agree with everything you've said, having watched my partner go through credentialing in 2 provinces. Teaching is so rewarding, and so INCREDIBLY hard, and underpaid, and underappreciated, and so ridiculously burdened with obnoxious admin hoops to jump through.

You've probably […]

Talked to a bunch of kids in Moose Jaw about astronomy and being an astronomer/scientist, and answered lots of questions. Mostly was fine with duct cleaning happening at the same time as I was trying to talk on Teams, but was pretty loud a few times! Hopefully Teams has good noise cancellation […]

Getting the ducts and vents cleaned in our house (probably for the first time *ever* in this 70+yo house). The guys working are super super nice, which I very much appreciate (I find people doing work for me to be very stressful, especially fixing stuff, which is definitely a little silly...it's […]

Good morning. It's -6C and very frosty (but at least it didn't snow...I'm not quite mentally prepared for that yet)

[selfie]

Now I'm tired in a *different* way at least! Well, mostly just kind of frozen. I know it's going to get a LOT colder, but right now 5C with high humidity and constant wind feels pretty awful.

But the reward is that the goats are very happy with a […]

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I am so so tired of doing interviews. Like, actually, really, completely tired.

But I need to do more, because more incredibly stupid things are about to happen in orbit.

Just did some prep work to set up for interviews this week. Now I need to do some more outside farmy stuff (even though […]

"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

@Sempf My partner is very, very good at growing garlic!

Between all the farm chores (assorted goat chores and cleaning harvested shallots), I also managed to get out and take a really lovely woods walk. Need to absorb as much of the pretty colours now before it all turns white with winter...