Teaching at @icelabumu.bsky.social Camp (multidisciplinary research proposal workshop for early career researchers) last week. One night planned electrical work in the town of Granö afforded us rare dark skies. Here you see three students enjoying the light show. Amazing. #northernlights #photosky

Oh my goodness. I thought I was watching a moose resting but it was an eagle feeding on a dead moose!!

Stepping away into nature helps with the overwhelm, whether it's your job, hectic family life, the news. I'm so lucky to live in a place where stepping into nature looks like this.
Last night at a lake near Umeå.
#auroraborealis #lifeinUmeå #viltroxf16mm18z #northernlights #photography #photosky

When things are too busy and the world seems to be burning down...take a break. Seriously work is non-stop, the news is 💩 and I had no time for this ice dip and sauna session. There's never time though - so I just took the time. First time I dipped my head. I needed this.. #isvak #umeå

Just a bridge. In Umeå. In January. On a cold sunny morning.
Temperatures have been higher than normal and these crisp wintery days have been harder to come by. Drip drip drip goes the rain outside! Bring back the snow and the cold!
#photosky #lifeinUmeå

How's it going 2025?
A snapshot from today
The kids need ice skates at school.
I tear the house apart searching for them.
No skates.
My six year old informs me I don't care about him and points at me with disdain when a friend asks why he forgot his skates.
The skates are in my husband's closet.

So I was today years old when I realized why my computer seems to always be in dark mode lately.
I think it's because it is based on the amount of daylight outside.
And there is very little of that right now.
Pretty sure that also explains my slow brain...
#thelongnight #winterishere #lifeinUmeå

#Phdjobs and #postdocjobs - where do you go to find them? Where should you post your positions? Especially #computationalscience. I am planning IceLab's recruitments in 2025. FindAPhD? Academic Positions? NatureCareers? LinkedIn? Society job boards? #scisky (picture of me diving into this question!)

Yesterday's single #nacreous cloud was nice, sure, but this morning we had an explosion of them! Again, everyone in Umeå seemed to have something to say about them. We are all connected in our awe or rainbow clouds. #cloudappreciation #photography #LifeNearThePoles

Who else uses the #messagebox when teaching #scicomm? I find it a good starting point but have to admit I don't really use it myself when starting to write or sketch something out. Teaching it is a useful reminder to myself to be more conscious about my messages and how they connect...

Everyone in Umeå took a photo of this polar stratospheric cloud this morning. Here it is near my house. I've seen photos of the cloud from every angle and every neighborhood in Umeå today! I like the house and rising sun giving context to the image here.

#nacreousclouds #thisisumeå #north

Busy weekend and not on the socials, so missed my #photography share. 2017, in Hawaii. This pelagic #jellyfish would normally not be so close to the coast, we thought perhaps it was near end of life - hence it's upside-down-ness? Side note - it took me ages to remove the backscatter!

Bit frantic work mode this morning, so I'm heading out for a (freezing) run in a moment. Here is a photo to help calm the mind and switch gears. I've submitted this to a local competition (I never win, but one always hopes!) on the theme 'light in the dark'. #Umeå #photography #ljusimörkret

Happy Friday everyone. Shutting off the work brain shortly and looking forward to family time. I took this photo last week during our first cross-country ski excursion of the season. The outlook is more icy than snowy this weekend. #photography #north #sunset #Umeå #tgif

Another thing I've done in my job is find ways to bring my 📸 obsession into my work. Through my work as a content developer and research communicator at Curiosum science center I have had the privilege to take photos of the local researcher's night & then seeing them in official reports ❤️ #scicomm