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) […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvpsrcnr6kr2[vague, sad, not dealing well] A good friend from work has been in the hospital for a couple months with complications from cancer. She hasn't responded to my texts in several days. I was planning to bring some veggies today to her brother+parents who have moved in to her house to full-time […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11728673217943126117 Sep 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvpsrcnr6kr2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvoosci6dpc2[saving food] Steamed, cut off the cob, and froze 2 bins of corn picked before the frost the other day, and I turned the last of the plums into sauce (with some chokecherries just to make it as difficult as possible for myself I guess). The house is steamy and the kitchen is destroyed, but it […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11728420208620421217 Sep 2026 03:15 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvoosci6dpc2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvnvwaxui5o2Well that's cool, sometime in the last few weeks my read-counter for articles I've written/co-written for The Conversation Canada passed two million. That's a lot of science reading!16 Sep 2026 19:49 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnvwaxui5o2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvnprskrz3f2I needed a goat-apple-opera break from grant-writing and I bet you do too.16 Sep 2026 17:59 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvnprskrz3f2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvlwf5zzeky2Bonus wild shit for the day: An interview about space weapons (SHIT) and a printed letter in my campus mailbox with photos of a local-ish potential space debris fall (which may or may not actually be space debris, I have to try to figure that out...) I am going to make myself go to orchestra […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11727798065851910816 Sep 2026 00:52 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlwf5zzeky2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvlbn4ipstv2Well, I made it through the environmental education guest lecture on the environmental costs of generative AI and the billionaire space race without crying. Though I got real close at the end when a student asked about how long humans can survive with all of these unhinged-from-reality AI data […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11727651935280288915 Sep 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlbn4ipstv2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvkph52udzt2It's going to be a very long, really hard day. I made sure to feed lots of apples and corn stalks to the goats during morning chores. Please enjoy my goats looking like they are singing opera, and my cat who always jumps up on my shoulder when I come in for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]15 Sep 2026 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkph52udzt2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvjhkglmgdm2I guess these guys https://sceye.com/about-sceye/ didn't read this https://xkcd.com/3298/15 Sep 2026 01:21 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjhkglmgdm2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvj6iqvbdxm2Where the FUCK do they think this electricity is going to come from? 1.2 GW is 1/4 of the entire generating power of the province. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/bell-canada-ai-data-centre-size-expansion-investment-9.7343780?cmp=rss14 Sep 2026 22:39 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvj6iqvbdxm2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mviwpjsftio2Just had a lovely meeting with @Paulatics about the satellite inquiry she's leading in the Canadian Senate. (Well, ok it was actually kind of depressing because it was an update on how the situation in orbit just keeps getting more dangerous...) But seriously, I am so glad to know she's part of […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11727124774613062914 Sep 2026 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mviwpjsftio2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvimwfs6s5t2Currently at the stage of this stupid grant proposal where I'm trying to figure out how to politely say that I'd have MORE published papers if I didn't have to write such freaking long grant proposals. Maybe it's time to take a break...14 Sep 2026 17:25 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvimwfs6s5t2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvikfwoiupy2Do you like scary plots? This report is full of them: https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/ESA_Space_Environment_Report_2026 "ESA Space Environment Report 2026"14 Sep 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvikfwoiupy2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvgdoyepnok2Cowboy space's application for stupidly ridiculous numbers of ludicrously large and probably impossible orbital "AI data centers" was SO BAD that the FCC asked them for loads of info. Which apparently they didn't provide by the deadline. Shucks […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11726540636706362313 Sep 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvgdoyepnok2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvbmu6g4nli2This is... not a joke? https://www.isec.org/11 Sep 2026 22:35 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvbmu6g4nli2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvaqbigfpcu2RE: https://mstdn.social/@staringatclouds/117252765136015066 Why does Starlink need 42,000 (+15,000, +100,000) to provide the services that this company can provide with only 264 satellites? And why isn't anybody asking Starlink to show why they need so damn many satellites? (This is the right […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11725277535095197311 Sep 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvaqbigfpcu2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv6uh634iod2I really really want to take a nap. But I guess I have to go teach an astrophysics class instead.10 Sep 2026 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6uh634iod2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv6apidlu7c2RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117244659641655664 Still trying to ride the aurora-boost I got last night. That was lovely! I hope it carries me through a long day... https://mastodon.social/users/sundogplanets/statuses/11724465964165566410 Sep 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv6apidlu7c2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv4ykeprkk72I am angry and sad about the night sky (and the rest of the planet) getting destroyed by billionaires and I would really like some auroras to cheer me up please! (And if those spicy protons overload some satellites maybe that's ok too. Especially AST SpaceMobile satellites.)10 Sep 2026 02:21 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4ykeprkk72https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv4awvk52y62Everything is terrible, but the temperatures are finally cool enough here that the cats want to sit on my lap while I'm working at my computer! (But that cooler weather means we have the first frost coming soon, looks like probably this weekend. SIGHHHHH. I JUST started getting good tomatoes!)09 Sep 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv4awvk52y62https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv47inbkyxf2I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit. This seems... bad. And like someone in some government somewhere should maybe care about this?09 Sep 2026 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv47inbkyxf2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv2ah3gjb552Experiencing some serious cognitive dissonance while jumping back and forth between writing a first draft of my 5-year research grant plan (where I need to be confident and optimistic) and editing yet another FCC comment about how thousands of new huge bright satellites will destroy astronomy […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11723815624201787609 Sep 2026 00:04 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv2ah3gjb552https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muzk5ualbix2Just had an astronomy equipment parade across campus to set up for a photo shoot later in the week. I was at the rear of the parade to watch for things to fall off the 2 rather broken, ancient pieces of equipment in front of me (that look cool, therefore […] [Original post on mastodon.social]08 Sep 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzk5ualbix2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muz7bkirufr2The older livestock guardian dog sometimes flea-bites the baby goats in the morning. I have no idea why, but he seems happy to do it, and the goats enjoy the scritches, so I guess it's all good.08 Sep 2026 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3muz7bkirufr2https://bsky.app/profile/sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muy3qmv4u432Just sent 2 (partial, very drafty) chapters to my book editor. This is good, I guess? This is very very different than any other kind of writing I've ever done. I would enjoy it more if I could somehow stop doing everything else and just focus on book-writing, but yeah no that's just never […] https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/11723332176785025308 Sep 2026 03:35 +0000at://did:plc:wdyeo63cqec6ihbbejecjyso/app.bsky.feed.post/3muy3qmv4u432