Sarah Hird, PhD
@sarahhird
Associate Professor at University of Connecticut studying evolution & bird microbiomes. More importantly: I’m an aspiring anti-racist, raging feminist & trying to ACT NOW on the climate crisis. Please read The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg et al.
They’re speaking to me. They’re saying: “Don’t check your email. It’s Friday afternoon. Work doesn’t love you. Lego loves you. Play with the Legooooooooos.”
$5 bag of old Legos at the thrift store = best thing ever 29 hats but only 3 heads? *chef’s kiss*
ARE THEY MOCKING ME? I say I’m sad I won’t see the trees anymore and they do THIS?!?!??!?!?!?!
EPA AirNow app says AQI is 82 (Moderate). Apple Weather app says AQI is 225 (Very Unhealthy). At least one of these can’t be right…
Y’ALL. Seems like I was looking at the wrong number this whole time?? Where I would have said they got 52,320 comments (circled) - if I look not on my phone, maybe the real number is 341,699?!?!?!? Holy smokes. That’s way better. Wahoooooooo.
My almost 11 year old has impeccable taste in birthday party snacks.
Just realized when construction is done, I won’t be able to see the nearby trees and green hills anymore. Sometimes it’s the little things. I wanna go home. #smallbigthings
Act now while this nightmare fuel for the SpongeBob fan in your life is 30% off!
Typos of this nature do not instill consumer confidence in an insurance carrier, MetLife…
Look. I’ve never owned a cat but from what I’ve gathered, this would be a hard pass from literally all of them. Right?
I ❤️ Legos. I ❤️ birds. I ❤️❗️❤️❗️❤️ ❗️bird Legos. But…not quite this much…
come, colleagues & students. let us have a meeting - about science or grades or whatever - beneath The Art. i see you glancing at it. but ssshhh. don’t ask about The Art. i will not discuss it with you. I only discuss The Art with her.
The paper: Bennett et al. 2018. The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere. R. Soc. Open Sci. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Legit science or sci-fi novella prompt? Both. “Broiler chickens, now unable to survive without human intervention, have a combined mass exceeding that of all other birds on Earth; this novel morphotype symbolizes the unprecedented human reconfiguration of the Earth's biosphere.”
My dog saw a shadow move across his bed a week ago & now I think he thinks it’s haunted. I catch him staring at it like he’s watching something all. The. Time. Alternate hypothesis - it actually IS haunted & we have a dog-sees-ghosts Sixth Sense situation going on. Who can say. It is unsettling.
Me, feeling aggrieved that I, a human, might have to get my son, also a human, tested for Lyme disease: My dog has his Lyme disease vaccine! My dog has his tick medicine!
My weekend-after-finals-week inbox: 3 real emails 10 emails from Microsoft Outlook What are we doing.
On the town-wide “Tag Sale Trail” today, I saw a Lego set that spoke to my soul. I said “I must have it.” My husband said “What do you want that for?” I shook my head slowly & replied: “Might as well ask, why is a tree good? Why is the sunset good?” Then I gave the kid $15.
UConn’s Corpse Flower opens TONIGHT!! The greenhouse is open till 2am tonight so people can see this nocturnal marvel. It hasn’t bloomed since 2013! Go see it!! #nutmegsky #UConn
Learning lots at Connecticut’s state art museum (The Benton at @uconn.bsky.social ). Looking at an 1844 hand colored lithograph of Pocahontas. Did you know there is only 1 surviving image of Pocahontas made during her lifetime (a 1616 engraving by Simon van de Passe)? I wonder what she looked like
UConn spent $400,000 to hire the Segal Group to help launch “an organizational assessment of our decentralized business & administrative support, along with marketing & communications functions”. They’ve just released their first findings - “four overarching themes”: