It’s Caturday and someone is delighted I’m back.

50mph wind with 70mph gusts was a not the best conditions I’ve ever camped in…

It’s great when your kids are big enough you can steal their jumpers. Bonus if the jumpers are awesome.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... "Yes this is climate change, yes it’s us, yes we have the solutions, no we’re not implementing them fast enough"

Officially a scientist!

Dutch Master painting or Super Mario vibes?

PSA: tidy up your maps as you go along kids. Don’t be like me.

Our little street now has sixteen children between the ages of one and twelve on it. It’s great, there’s a roving herd like in an 80s movie. It does however mean that I’m having my coffee on the swing because 9am mariokart is a lot

Sad news.

Living my best fieldwork gremlin life.

What’s going on with this buttercup in my garden?

Missed out on our Moffat gig? Fear not, you could come tonight at 19:30 in the Glasgow University Chapel. Come and hear lots of songs about watery places! Entry by donation.

Very chuffed to find out today that not only did I get a First Class degree, I also won the Research Based Learning Prize for Best Environmental Science Dissertation. It’s the icing on the amazing cake that’s been my time with @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social!

Enjoy this picture of me looking smug at measuring the 1000th stem this season in the sun, not knowing just how soaked I would get in the next two days 😆

Hello little friend!

You know it’s getting serious when the binoculars come out (alternatively the trees are just too big to see the leaves properly from the ground 🤫)

The one day I forget my waterproof trousers…

An Absolute Unit™️ of an oak. What a tree.

What does the environmental scientist do on her day off? Teach kids about nature of course 😅

I can never move from this position, naturally.

I didn’t get rained on! My conifer ID was only mildly challenged! Another Good Day™️

Remind me this was me today when I moan about a rainy field day tomorrow 😅

Highlight of the day: 𝐴𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑎

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

Today felt like nature’s apology for yesterday 😅

Spot the transect line… I am covered in scratches.

I just love Ribwort Plantain. It’s so unassumingly beautiful.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Beautiful weather for the first field day of the season 😅☔️🌧️

I find transphobes to be discomforting. Dear UK Government please write some code of practice distorting equalities legislation so I do not have to share a public space with Harry Potter fans.

The kids went pond dipping and caught a Great Diving Beetle - who appeared to be riddled with mites? I didn’t even know that was a thing…

The chief garden inspector is living her best life in her old age.

The native flower patch is coming on, despite the best efforts of bramble and dock.

The cats are delighted that I’ve got a concussion and am lounging about the house 😅

Anyone living in an area where Reform gained a council seat - we need you to become a menace. Bins not collected on time? Write to your councillor. Graffiti on a bus stop? Cancelled buses? Pot holes? Write to your councillor. Bury them in work they applied for and make them wish they never ran.

My first ever entry into SPUD (Stirling Potato Ultimate Derby) being inspected by the resident garden patrol.

Remember, UK, almost all of your problems are caused by rich old white guys and their greedy friends not the desperate foreigners they're trying to blame. #Vote accordingly.

As a foreigner, election days are always filled with dread. Nothing like an official count of how many fellow citizens think you’re surplus to requirements.

Arrival The Fifth Element Moon The Martian Dune (either tbh) District 9 Annihilation Return of the Jedi Wall-E Children of Men

Do you like rivers? Do you like music? Are you free next Saturday for a jaunt to Moffat? If these extremely specific things apply to you, I’ve got good news! (We’ll repeat the concert on the 13th of June in Glasgow too if Moffat is too far).

Morning!

Easy.

To celebrate handing in my dissertation AND getting my 40th Quality Mountain Day, I took up some swimming things and went for a summit-adjacent dook. It was glorious.

It’s been a year of work and the culmination of four years of learning - feels good to finally submit my dissertation!

It’s earth day!! 🌎 plant a pesticide free native 🌱 🌎 switch your energy supplier to a renewable 🌎 take transit instead of an uber 🌎 then make fun of your friends (lovingly) for taking Ubers when the train is right! there! 🌎 heckle your family members. About whatever you want! It’s earth day!!!

First time watching a big game at Murrayfield and we learned the value of supporting your team *especially* when they’re losing 84-7 😅😬

I love this!

Looking for a furnished room/flat near Kingussie, or Aviemore for 3 months (May-July). I'm starting a work placement at the Highland Wildlife Park, helping with their invertebrate reintroduction programme! Happy to discuss details. Please drop me a message if you know anything, or share this post 🙏

Delighted to have been named Undergraduate Academic Representative of the Year (what a mouthful!) @uofstirling-bes.bsky.social has been a most supportive department to do all of this work with. I can only recommend involving yourself in academic rep work if you’re just starting your degree!

Nothing says relaxing end to a holiday like a short-notice pilots’ strike, full flight cancellation and the notoriously bad connections between southern Germany and Scotland 🙃