Prof. Sam Lawler
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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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
I saw southern auroras last night!!!! Rakiura! Holy cow that was AMAZING
(View from a bit south of Arthur's Pass, New Zealand)
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
"Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers" by Sean Mowbray
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Trying to dig through my email pile from the last week of various disasters, and I'm delighted to see that there's a talk series being organized by my fellow professors critiquing the constant genAI/LLM use that the university seems to keep mindlessly pushing. Yay awesome professors!
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
RE: @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Deadlines for comments on a million SpaceX "AI data centers" and a company that wants to deliver "sunlight as a service" are coming up soon. If you have time and energy, please write a comment! Instructions below.
(I heard a rumour that Reflect Orbital is on-track to have the most comments on an FCC filing ever. Seems like a good goal to beat the record writing responses to this incredibly fucking stupid idea)
Also instructions here: https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Very Important Meeting in a few minutes. It's on Teams, please send me all your Microsoft-please-play-nice-with-linux vibes
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Partial lunar eclipse starts in 2.5 hours, total lunar eclipse starts in about 4 hours. Will I manage to stay awake? (Haha no. But I'm going to pretend I will stay awake!)
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
There are over 600 comments submitted on Reflect Orbital's filing at the FCC!! That's amazing, especially given how hard the FCC has made the submission process.
If you want to submit your own comment (on this or SpaceX's million sat filing), there's still a few more days to do that, and instructions are here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc
and here https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
The next few days are going to be extremely hard for personal reasons (on top of everything else happening).
I'm sending good commiserating vibes out to everyone else who's using all your coping strategies and still feeling like you're drowning in all the shit that's happening. I hope you get a few moments of peace today that help you power through all the shit you have to get through.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Sending peace, but staying angry and ready to channel my anger into productive actions on a moment's notice.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Kia Ora, Invercargilll!
I still owe the world a few posts about my time on Stewart Island Rakiura because that was completely incredibly amazing. But the only internet access I had was through the public library, which has a Starlink antenna on top, which made me feel pretty gross.
Say it with me again, everyone: rural and remote places need internet access that is not controlled by and enriching an American billionaire!! #ProfSamLectureTour
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
New article out about what a million satellites could do to our atmosphere. It's bad. https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Always great when videos of baby chicks are part of your research paper's supplementary material: https://phys.org/news/2026-02-bouba-kiki-effect-baby-chicks.html (I need to write more papers with baby chicks and few papers with doomy-sky-predictions)
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Wesleyan is hiring a postdoc in space ethics, which oh my goodness we need more of so incredibly badly https://wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Middletown-CT-Main-Campus/Postdoctoral-Fellow-in-Space-Ethics_R101076
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430
Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Too wound up to go to bed, so I just sent lots of emails to people hoping that they'll spread the word and get lots more people to write comments to the FCC telling them that orbital data centres and sunlight-as-a-service are incredibly stupid, dangerous ideas and should never be launched.
Instructions how to submit here: https://darksky.org/news/two-satellite-proposals-threaten-the-night-sky-the-window-to-act-is-now/
I don't think it'll actually make a big difference. But I do think it's incredibly important that the official record shows how many opposed this.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Just another shout of appreciation for public libraries! Wellington has at least one good one (I strongly suspect more than one but I'm not going to be here for long enough to double check that).
Lovely place to sit and catch up on everything before heading to the south island in a few hours. The vast majority of the rest of the #ProfSamLectureTour will be from Christchurch and I'm really looking forward to staying in one city for more than a day or two!
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"
The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc
Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
There are lots of satellites here in the southern skies too. But the stars behind the satellites are absolutely incredible! The Milky Way was absurdly bright! The Magellenic Clouds were so easy to see! WOOOOWWWWW
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf
Comments due March 6.
I am having a very hard time believing this is really happening. Fuck you, SpaceX, and fuck you, FCC. This is not regulation, this is a fucking joke, that will destroy our ability to use satellites for centuries.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
I could really use a good cat snuggle, but my cats are 1,000 km away (with a kind farm sitter, but still... I need a cat snuggle. And a goat snuggle. And a dog snuggle. And a llama snuggle...) #ProfSamLectureTour
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Reposting for those not bridged to BlueSky, and to add alt-text, because this is important!
Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social posted this morning: "The number of active satellites in orbit has now passed the 14000 mark according to my estimates"
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
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). Currently on sabbatical and based in Ōtautahi Christchurch, yelling about satellite pollution in many locations around Aotearoa New Zealand.
Frivolous poll of the evening: Does gently but firmly wrestling silly yearling goats up onto a stanchion for hoof trimming + carrying them for a weigh-in count as goat yoga?