Kate Petersen
@k8petersen.bsky.social
Writer. Science and climate communicator. Former Stegner fellow at Stanford. Daughter of Gallahop. Opinions are my own.
Those eyes! And the heart patch on her chest! Who do we know in Atlanta who can broadcast for this sweet senior? via @adoptapet.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Those eyes! And the heart patch on her chest! Who do we know in Atlanta who can broadcast for this sweet senior? via @adoptapet.bsky.social
So grateful for your work amidst all this and sending you wishes for rest and care. here’s a pet pic (Rosalind 🐾)
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
So grateful for your work amidst all this and sending you wishes for rest and care. here’s a pet pic (Rosalind 🐾)
thinking of Layli Long Soldier and this passage:
‘I think about being a woman in this world, in this country to be specific, and the lengths to which I have been stretched…
And I have learned that along the way—en route, when there is time—a dress can be ripped up to bandage.’
‘I think about being a woman in this world, in this country to be specific, and the lengths to which I have been stretched…
And I have learned that along the way—en route, when there is time—a dress can be ripped up to bandage.’
September 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
thinking of Layli Long Soldier and this passage:
‘I think about being a woman in this world, in this country to be specific, and the lengths to which I have been stretched…
And I have learned that along the way—en route, when there is time—a dress can be ripped up to bandage.’
‘I think about being a woman in this world, in this country to be specific, and the lengths to which I have been stretched…
And I have learned that along the way—en route, when there is time—a dress can be ripped up to bandage.’
Beginnings. This day last year, near Beinn Eighe in the Highlands
July 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Beginnings. This day last year, near Beinn Eighe in the Highlands
A little 💡 in the darkness: today, when asked for a name, I confessed that her full name was Rosalind, and the kind person said to her, ‘you do look very Shakespearean.’
July 7, 2025 at 3:40 AM
A little 💡 in the darkness: today, when asked for a name, I confessed that her full name was Rosalind, and the kind person said to her, ‘you do look very Shakespearean.’
In an age of smaller word counts, budgets, attentions, all my gratitude to @newenglandreview.bsky.social for its steadfast support of longer and complex works despite the ever-chaotic literature economy and now
May 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In an age of smaller word counts, budgets, attentions, all my gratitude to @newenglandreview.bsky.social for its steadfast support of longer and complex works despite the ever-chaotic literature economy and now
My mom sent me this of a hummingbird that made its nest on a torn-out speaker cable. Which is cool..and then I went looking for how many babies she might have and found an *entire Reddit* of hummingbirds being really metal about their nest builds. So happy Mother’s Day tmrw to all hummingbird moms 🤘
May 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My mom sent me this of a hummingbird that made its nest on a torn-out speaker cable. Which is cool..and then I went looking for how many babies she might have and found an *entire Reddit* of hummingbirds being really metal about their nest builds. So happy Mother’s Day tmrw to all hummingbird moms 🤘
Awful.
and while a small point, when do the paywalls catch up with the times?
‘Not enjoying the senseless destruction of science infrastructure? Not one of the 592 people okay with this? Subscribe via your imperiled institution to get existentially terrible news delivered directly to your inbox.’
and while a small point, when do the paywalls catch up with the times?
‘Not enjoying the senseless destruction of science infrastructure? Not one of the 592 people okay with this? Subscribe via your imperiled institution to get existentially terrible news delivered directly to your inbox.’
May 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Awful.
and while a small point, when do the paywalls catch up with the times?
‘Not enjoying the senseless destruction of science infrastructure? Not one of the 592 people okay with this? Subscribe via your imperiled institution to get existentially terrible news delivered directly to your inbox.’
and while a small point, when do the paywalls catch up with the times?
‘Not enjoying the senseless destruction of science infrastructure? Not one of the 592 people okay with this? Subscribe via your imperiled institution to get existentially terrible news delivered directly to your inbox.’
Beautiful morning here in Boulder for Arctic Science Summit Week! I’ll be posting along the way for @permafrostpathways.bsky.social #ASSW2025
March 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Beautiful morning here in Boulder for Arctic Science Summit Week! I’ll be posting along the way for @permafrostpathways.bsky.social #ASSW2025
New Lego build. 🩵🤍🩷
January 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
New Lego build. 🩵🤍🩷
unsubscribed before november but still get these delightful email reminders into the super-subtle kingmaking over there
January 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
unsubscribed before november but still get these delightful email reminders into the super-subtle kingmaking over there
‘Love it, mom. No really, thank you. I’ll wear it all the time’
January 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
‘Love it, mom. No really, thank you. I’ll wear it all the time’
thought I was pretty numb to bad US media takes by now but nope, heart broke again Sunday w this @npr.org segment. The gutpunch at 6:13.
How Detrow doesn’t even acknowledge Huo’s words. Hearing the implications of this in every voice but his.
Thank you @jh7.bsky.social for your clear-eyed report. 💔
How Detrow doesn’t even acknowledge Huo’s words. Hearing the implications of this in every voice but his.
Thank you @jh7.bsky.social for your clear-eyed report. 💔
January 15, 2025 at 4:07 AM
thought I was pretty numb to bad US media takes by now but nope, heart broke again Sunday w this @npr.org segment. The gutpunch at 6:13.
How Detrow doesn’t even acknowledge Huo’s words. Hearing the implications of this in every voice but his.
Thank you @jh7.bsky.social for your clear-eyed report. 💔
How Detrow doesn’t even acknowledge Huo’s words. Hearing the implications of this in every voice but his.
Thank you @jh7.bsky.social for your clear-eyed report. 💔
Here we go. May we have adequate stores of care and gumption to help one another across.
‘Plunging ahead / into the dark and light at the same time’
(with apologies and gratitude to Louise Glück)
‘Plunging ahead / into the dark and light at the same time’
(with apologies and gratitude to Louise Glück)
December 31, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Here we go. May we have adequate stores of care and gumption to help one another across.
‘Plunging ahead / into the dark and light at the same time’
(with apologies and gratitude to Louise Glück)
‘Plunging ahead / into the dark and light at the same time’
(with apologies and gratitude to Louise Glück)
comfort and joy
a phrase I have now overthought considerably given the ascendant brohligarchy: how to convey the wish that we may work harder for those who have not enough comfort, and work less for those who have a surfeit.
joy where you can come by it.
think I can learn from Rozzie in this way🎄
a phrase I have now overthought considerably given the ascendant brohligarchy: how to convey the wish that we may work harder for those who have not enough comfort, and work less for those who have a surfeit.
joy where you can come by it.
think I can learn from Rozzie in this way🎄
December 25, 2024 at 10:02 PM
comfort and joy
a phrase I have now overthought considerably given the ascendant brohligarchy: how to convey the wish that we may work harder for those who have not enough comfort, and work less for those who have a surfeit.
joy where you can come by it.
think I can learn from Rozzie in this way🎄
a phrase I have now overthought considerably given the ascendant brohligarchy: how to convey the wish that we may work harder for those who have not enough comfort, and work less for those who have a surfeit.
joy where you can come by it.
think I can learn from Rozzie in this way🎄
We interrupt these science updates for v. important seasonal Rozzie update #DogsofBluesky
December 12, 2024 at 2:36 AM
We interrupt these science updates for v. important seasonal Rozzie update #DogsofBluesky
Kudos and hats off to all who worked on the #NOAA #Arctic Report Card. 97 co-authors this year, but such an effort takes many more behind the scenes, and grateful to everyone incl. community members, students, cartographers, and communicators who made such collaborative science possible! #AGU24
December 11, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Self portrait, late autumn.
November 24, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Self portrait, late autumn.
🍁 Rozzie reporting for timeline cleanse duty #dogsofbluesky #skydogs
November 7, 2024 at 1:05 AM
🍁 Rozzie reporting for timeline cleanse duty #dogsofbluesky #skydogs