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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 12/08/2026

Welp, this was the best total solar eclipse I saw from the Iceland Sea, but it was still very fun to talk to several hundred people about space while on a cruise ship!

A light skinned hand holding a dark chocolate sea salt bar with a graphic showing a total solar eclipse, with the railing of a ship, water, and Iceland in the background

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 19/04/2026

Yyyyyyyoink is the sound of me stealing that idea for next year! Meet Rainbow Fish, the art project one of my kids did contribute to. No matter how big you think it is - nope, it’s bigger.

A VERY LARGER paper mache rainbow fish sculpture covered with paper plate “scales” on top of a bookshelf in an eclecticly decorated room

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 26/03/2026

Omg I went down a rabbit hole trying to find the original artist after seeing this patch a while ago, and YOU KNOW HER!!!

“Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist // keep loving // keep fighting” printed in white on black fabric, DIY style

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 12/03/2026

As the kids these days say, let’s gooooooooo! @aot-baltimore.bsky.social at Guilford Hall Brewery

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 15/01/2026

If I could make an image the lock screen on my phone just for the first time I picked it up each day, it would be this

Screenshot from on instagram story of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani wearing a suit and tie leaning toward the camera smiling with caption reading “Good morning, New York”

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 21/11/2025

67° all the way down… Sorry not sorry @amnh.org

Old school Museum display showing trees in different types of forests, with temperatures labeled at various heights above the ground, focus on on a tree that is 67 degrees from top to bottom

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 15/09/2025

I SUBMITTED A FULBRIGHT!!!

Selfie of Business Emily holding an ice cream cone in front of a Salt & Straw shop

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 14/09/2025

I found a frog with some students this morning!

A light-colored hand holding a medium-sized American bullfrog with outstretched legs, with another person’s arm, a wood fence, and sunlit plants in the background

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 04/08/2025

Playing in the newest exhibit at AMNH! (Hope to cross worldlines soon - maybe AAS in Phoenix?)

A six year old climbing on a larger than life model of a Hercules beetle in a museum exhibit

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 01/08/2025

Aaaaaand Crew-11 launched! This time I got to chat with Tom Costello, Cady Coleman, and Marissa Para about the importance of the ISS and supporting NASA’s missions

Selfie of Emily with under bright lights with tv hair and makeup, cool nerd glasses, a blue blazer over space image t-shirt, with a screen of a newsroom behind her

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 01/08/2025

I don’t have a recent flower photo, but here is a kiddo enjoying a sunset

A cloudy bright orange and light purple-blue sunset viewed across a field with trees at the horizon and a kid’s arms raised above their head in the lower left

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 23/06/2025

How it started —> How it’s going @gnarayan.bsky.social & @bethwillman.bsky.social prepare us for the @vrubinobs.bsky.social First Look at #EAS2025

Gaitham (left) and Beth (right) flanking a screen showing the first sketch of the “dark matter telescope” from 2001

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 23/06/2025

Hello from EAS in Cork, my hometown-by-marriage! I’m co-hosting an @astronomyontap.bsky.social lunch session tomorrow and presenting at @aotcork.bsky.social Wednesday evening, ask me about the time I met Cillian Murphy!

Selfie of Emily (wearing a space image shirt of course) in front of University College Cork, with a banter for the EAS conference on the gate

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 11/06/2025

Today was a fun day! I got to speak at & help judge some science fair projects at the Bronx STEM Expo at Yankee Stadium, and I admit when someone asks if I am willing to be on camera I always say yes 🤩

Emily smiling widely, standing in the concourse at Yankee Stadium holding a Fox 5 microphone, wearing a sweatshirt printed with the JWST Cosmic Cliffs image (kind of Mets colors, oops) and a red ribbon reading JUDGE in gold letters pinned to her shoulder

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 24/03/2025

I have a brilliant idea to save Sesame Street: make all those parody musicals real. I would pay so much money to see Scramilton!

A kid standing in front of a large poster for Scramilton, with Oscar the Grouch in silhouette on a black star in a parody of the Hamilton musical poster, imitating the pose while holding an Elmo doll and wearing a pastel Abby hat

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 03/02/2025

TFW you: 1️⃣ buy @astrokatie.com’s book 2️⃣ from AMNH 3️⃣ to lend to a student! 🎉 (After making five phone calls to my senators and representative in Congress 😡)

A light-skinned hand holding a hardcover copy of Katie Mack’s book “the end of everything (astrophysically speaking)” in front of the 77th st entrance to the American museum of natural history, with ornamental cabbages visible in the mid-ground.

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 16/01/2025

Kenneth the Page energy

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 16/01/2025

I might be on TV? Or it might get scrubbed, either way, this is worth it!

Emily in TV make up and wavy hair in front of an NBC news sign, showing off rainbow solar spectrum earrings

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 01/01/2025

I WILL run into Cyndi Lauper at a random coffee shop in NYC and promptly embarrass myself asking for a photo

1980s full-page portrait of Cyndi Lauper from a 1990s Rolling Stone magazine

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 13/12/2024

DJ Carly Sagan has a message for you

Mirror selfie of a woman wearing an Astronomy on Tap t-shirt and a short orange wig and thick-rimmed glasses holding a phone in front of most of her face. A sign above her head in the background reads “YOU LOOK GREAT” in gold letters

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 13/12/2024

Getting ready to go on stage for @astroontapdc.bsky.social at DC9! astronomyontap.org/event/astron...

Photo of Emily on the screen of the stage at DC9!

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 22/11/2024

I don’t always wear space-themed outfits, but when I do… oh who am I kidding, I ALWAYS wear space-themed outfits! Necklace by Oh Pluto, dress features DKIST image, both available from @startorialist.bsky.social !

Smiling Emily in a head and shoulders crop wearing an sunspot-print dress under an orange v-neck sweater and a brightly-colored acrylic necklace of the Solar System planets, Moon, and Pluto

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 18/11/2024

I’d say we have a pretty good relationship overall. She picked today for a no-school day and we rope-dropped Invisible Worlds at AMNH, excellent choice.

Blurry photo of a kid in a pink onesie with the hood up running along the wall of an immersive theater with projections of a large tree and jungle background on the floor and wall. The kid is trailed by interactive illumination on the floor.

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 11/10/2024

Hello NASA/Planetary friends! Can anyone confirm what the Europa Clipper “mission identifier” features represent?

Europa Clipper mission identifier, with a small circle mostly surrounded by 5 stylized V-shapes pointing inward, and a four-pointed star in the upper right (where the 6th V would fit).

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 17/07/2024

Hello from an apt urban sculptural landmark!

Emily reflected in the Cloud Gate “bean” sculpture with white clouds and blue sky

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 09/04/2024

T+24 hours from totality. I am absolutely gutwrenched. It was still amazing, but why does Rochester have to be like this???

Selfie of Emily wearing sunglasses on front of a crystal clear blue sky, the sun over her head

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 09/04/2024

Everything is taunting me

Emily crouching in front of two exercise balls, a larger yellow one in the back and a smaller darker one in the front, with a crescent of yellow visible at the top, seen through a reflective window

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 08/04/2024

Now, NOW the sun comes out again in Rochester

Selfie of Emily frowning deeply with the sun behind her

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 08/04/2024

Half way there, can’t see a thing but definitely feeling a chill in the air…

Screenshot of 2024 Eclipse Live app showing nearly 53% eclipse

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 08/04/2024

Just had the most lovely day giving eclipse talks at my childhood local zoo, a TV interview, meeting friends, practicing solar viewing, all under the clearest blue sky, 24 hours before totality!

Sandwich board sign for “Eclipse weekend experience // how to view an eclipse safely with astrophysicist Emily Rice” at the Seneca Park Zoo

Emily standing in front of new news cameras and microphones, wearing a sunspot-print dress and a black blazer

A pre-schooler wearing a tie-due t-shirt and silver pants is holding her hands above her head to make a “crown” with her finders and cast pinhole shadows on the sidewalk

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 14/02/2024

I see your Space Dunk Oreos and I raise you… these monstrosities

Oreo Space dunk mini cupcakes in a plastic container

Oreo space dunk frosted cookies in a plastic container

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 06/01/2024

Don’t worry, it goes multiple layers deep…

Selfie of Emily wearing an N95 mask, blue & white AAA NYC t-shirt, and black starry-painted zip up hooded sweatshirt.

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 06/01/2024

On my way to AAS243! Think anyone would guess I’m an astronomer? 😳

Emily sitting in the backseat of a car, shown from the waist down wearing a purple space-print coat, nebula leggings, solar system socks, and nebula slip-on sneakers (available at STARtorialist!)

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 03/12/2023

First success: single serving food! Cupcakes >>>>> cake. I bake them in ice cream cones, which look fancy but are very simple! Ditto: dusting with powdered sugar instead of frosting.

Chocolate cupcakes baked in ice cream cones dusted with powdered sugar and decorated with half a jumbo marshmallow

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 26/10/2023

One of my friend documented said chaos!

Emily and her for year old daughter Alice standing in front of a screen showing a slide about eclipses, displayed in the window of a bar, with a counter and bar stools under the screen and plants behind Emily. Alice is blurry in motion, possibly flossing.

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 26/10/2023

Okay an @astronomyontap.bsky.social in a new NYC venue WITH KIDS might have been record adorable chaos, but I think we pulled it off! Thanks to great presenters and helpers, including Kaitlin (seen here dressed as Space Bear)

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 23/10/2023

Whirlwind tour of the Universe for very inquisitive CCNY students at CUNY’s ASRC today! Wearing my favorite @startorialist.bsky.social things of course.

Selfie of Emily wearing a JWST Galaxy cluster dress under a denim jacket in front of a futuristic-looking science research building with a bright blue sky in the very background, with a grassy lawn and gray sidewalk in the middle distance.

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 21/09/2023

Starting my 5th (!!!)* year at my “new” college, and I’m finally getting my desk set up! *I actually wrote down all the years to count them because it seemed that couldn’t possibly be right…

Close up of a laminate desk top with a red fabric panel background decorated with (left to right): a certificate with a brightly colored border, five photo strips from AMNH, two JWST mugs from STARtorialist, a circuit board M on a white matte with black frame, and a NASA WMAP beach hall.

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 19/09/2023

I am updating my laptop OS for the first time since… 2019?! What could go wrong?!?

Simpsons clip with “PRAY FOR MOJO”
typed on a display and a suffering monkey lying on a blanket in front of it.

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Emily Rice @emilylrice.me · 14/08/2023

File this one under “Things you don’t see everyday, even in NYC” 🐓

Chickens (one larger and four smaller ones) inside a makeshift pen inside a street tree spot surrounded by wrought iron on an NYC sidewalk.

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