Air's Wild Acres

Small goats and small batch cheesemaking on a small farm, all with big laughs.

Author: Ariel Rivers

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  • Resources for the job search.

    Resources for the job search.

    Although I don’t necessarily suggest doing so because of the likelihood that career anxiety may follow, I make somewhat of a hobby of searching for jobs. Since my days as a Peer Advisor for the… Read more

  • Creative connections

    Creative connections

    I love the website Brain Pickings. This, in particular,  is pretty fantastic in thinking about identity and how we come to create knowledge: “The idea that in order for us to truly create and contribute… Read more

  • Camel spiders for the win!

    Camel spiders for the win!

    Since I’m writing and analyzing my data these days, and haven’t spent hardly any time in the field since 2013, I figured it would be a nice time to have a #flashbackfriday to a video… Read more

  • The environmental effects of war and peace

    I’ve been spending some time in the last few weeks reading “The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov” by Peter Pringle, which I have wanted to read for some time due to my mad science crush on… Read more

  • Monarchs at our Great Insect Fair!

    Monarchs at our Great Insect Fair!

    For many years, Penn State’s Department of Entomology has collaborated with community partners to deliver a very large outreach event every year, the Great Insect Fair! It’s a wonderful time to share our work with families,… Read more

  • Patterns and pastures.

    In the recent weeks, I passed my comprehensive exam, visited with a fantastic Carabidae specialist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (another #loveyourtaxonomist post is likely to follow about this trip), and camped at one… Read more

  • Ground beetles are so beautiful.

    I haven’t looked at these beetles across the years yet… This, is amazing. The activity-density of the beetles, as well as the diversity, is increasing over the years of a three year organic, reduced-tillage corn-soybean-wheat… Read more

  • Renaissance women being scientists!

    When I was living in Mexico last year, I spent most of my time working (as I should have since I was there conducting research for my dissertation). However, I was able to take a few… Read more

  • I really don’t like milk, but I love my job…

    I really hate milk. I hate it. So much. As is the case with some young parents, mine weren’t particularly versed in childhood nutrition. But, somewhere along the line, my mother decided that my sister and… Read more

  • #NowReading – 5/24/14

    In trying (and this week, not doing such a great job of it) to be more active on my blog, I have started to follow several other blogs that I really appreciate. One of my… Read more