Looking for another Pride Month recommendation? Or maybe you’re ready to do some serious thinking about language and decolonization? This was PHENOMENAL. Read it, then read it again.
Jessa Barder
@jbarder.bsky.social
food; science; fibrecraft; active outdoors; cat. tck; wellesley alum; antarctican; immigrant; indigenous.
Newbery Medal winners were a guaranteed good read growing up, why should it be different in my 40s? Finished this last night, it has some pretty essential themes for our current timeline. 10/10 would recommend.
Farewell Autumn, we are solidly in Stick Season now until Spring. #aotearoa #winter #temperateclimate
Want to kick Pride Month off in style? I just watched Bottoms and could not recommend it more highly… #pridemonth #june #lgbtqfilms
Annnnd one more from my driveway in the north end of town: sometimes you chase the aurora, sometimes it chases you! #auroraaustralis #spaceweather
Here’s to you, Major Houlihan, not to mention the mom in one of my favourite Christmas movies! #lorettaswit
Scenes from the road… Tuatapere, Southland, Aotearoa #travellinglight #photonicsruralschooltour #thatscicommlife
Feeling this today… it’s a good reminder. do not put your hand in the mouth of loneliness. its teeth are soft but it will scar you for life. - do not be seduced by the lonely ones nayyirah waheed
It’s this wee girl’s Gotcha Day!! 8 years ago, I brought her home and she has absolutely no idea how good she has it! #rescuecat #herbestlife #missionaccomplished #spoiledkitty
Hands up if you want “I will not yield to disrespectful men” on a sign for your desk at work? 🙋🏽♀️ #smashtheoldboysclub #myfavoriteseason #isthefallofthepatriarchy #malepalestale
Bend, don’t break. If schist can do it, so can you. #scenesfromcentralotago #nzgeology #schist #aotearoa #newzealand
When your Thursday is actually a Wednesday because your week is six days long… 🤦🏽♀️ #strugglebus #thatscicommlife
It’s deep enough into winter that I’ve started putting out the pekapeka bird feeder… and I know when I need to refill it because the tūī song goes from mildly pleasant to “oh my god the racket I can’t hear myself think”. #winterinaotearoa #conservationinnz
Love these autumn mornings and evenings… but the weirdly warm breeze reminds me our poor planet is on 🔥. #climatechangeisreal #fromwhereirun
Handknits and sea lion excretions - what’s not to love?!
Hanna Maria@hannatheraven.bsky.social · last yr.Wrapped up a year-long field season yesterday and already feeling nostalgic! So have decided to overdose my bsky in the coming months with a #weeklyvomit from pakake/NZ sea lions 🦭 This one features a prime example of Jack Mackerel 🐟 #marinemammals #pinniped #fieldwork
if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air. - meditation, nayyirah waheed
When your 82 year old Mama asks for her “special pancake”, you take her for her “special pancake”. #littlecheerful #rratedpancake
I was in the US about five months ago and the only cybertruck I saw was at a dealership in Bellevue, WA. Fast forward to my current two week visit and this is the fifth I’ve seen in the small city of Bellingham, WA. Wtf?
My NZ -> US coffee order hack: order the smallest size double shot Americano (usually the standard but good to double check), but with half the water. So basically an 8oz drink in a 12 oz cup. Closest I’ve come to a long black in the US. #UStranslation #NZcoffeeorders #travelhack
Our fourth ASB Polyfest and the number of kids that recognized us, remembered our experiments from past years, and were excited to try the new things we brought is 100% the reason I love my job. #thatscicommlife #scienceiseverywhere #scienceisforeveryone
TFW…your bag gets pulled aside for additional screening at the airport because you’re carrying four powerful lasers across a range of wavelengths (disconnected from power, of course) and three high temperature superconductors. 🤦🏽♀️ 🤷🏽♀️ #thatscicommlife #sciencecommunicator #sciencenengagement
How many bags of chicken chips is too many bags of chicken chips? #askingforafriend #noreally
Because sometimes you need to show policymakers what research $$ can do, we installed our interactive science showcase for Solar Tsunamis: Parawhenua Kōmaru, in NZ’s parliament last night. Very proud to be a part of the team doing this world leading research! #spaceweather #thatscicommlife