iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 6h

I need to disconnect for a few days. All my love to folks being reminded of too many things. Be kind to yourselves, be gentle to yourselves. ♥️

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 21h

Paper draft has reached “print it out so I can figure out what’s still missing/what figures print badly” stage! All sections have text in complete sentences ✨💪

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 29/09/2026

I hope Jane Doe can, eventually, find some peace. I imagine it will take a while. This week I have been remembering an experience in college where “nothing happened”. A near miss, I was merely lucky. Even those “nothing happened” stories stick to you; the allegations made here are horrific.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 29/09/2026

You know, I wouldn’t have thought it would be so hard to find tall sweaters made from natural fibers, but here I am staring at one shop with import taxes or making my own. The internet is failing me.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 27/09/2026

It seems I’ve swept past 6k followers today in part due to a burst of new folks finding me from this starter pack: go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN Let me do a quick introduction thread to me and my books!

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 27/09/2026

It seems I’ve swept past 6k followers today in part due to a burst of new folks finding me from this starter pack: go.bsky.app/2LmKSDN Let me do a quick introduction thread to me and my books!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Some great folks on this list! 🧪

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 25/09/2026

Experimentalist colleague knew where to find the superglue so in good news my shoe is temporarily back together before class 👍

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 22/09/2026

I’ve had a weird day but I also have a new crochet hook, some yarn that’s been sitting around since JoAnns liquidated, a pattern that will take less than two years to complete, and the confidence I can figure out how to read it.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 19/09/2026

Side effects this time: sore arm (normal for me w/the flu shot), The Aches™️, and a nap. Not so bad.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. You’ve done enough this week. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 18/09/2026

COVID and flu shots achieved! +2 plague resistance

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Sophia Florence (Swolephia Arc Pt 2) @sophiaflorence.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yearly autumn reminder that activated charcoal has a good chance of rendering your meds ineffective if you ingest it, including in a cute little drink. I honestly wouldn't recommend it!

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 17/09/2026

I signed up for the FDA food safety alerts in my email because [waves generally] It’s been interesting. No sprouts for me. Today there is oleander in a supplement.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 17/09/2026

Today has been The Phone Calls I Put Off Making Day pls clap

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 17/09/2026

Oh come on just read the research paper. They’re mostly searchable pdfs if you really need to find something. What are we doing.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wow: Giant new impact crater spotted on the Moon! An asteroid the size of an apartment building hit the lunar surface in early 2024 & created 220-meter (730-foot) wide McGetchin crater. It's "the largest contemporary impact crater found in the Solar System." 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

Officially named McGetchin after pioneering lunar scientist Tom McGetchin, the crater formed on the Moon’s eastern edge sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, after a comet or asteroid the size of a three- to six-story building hit the surface.

The crash left a crater, 728 feet wide, that spans the length of two football fields. And at 141 feet deep, the crater could fit three vertically stacked yellow school buses. Scientists estimate that an impact of this magnitude happens on the Moon about once in a century or even longer.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 16/09/2026

At a physical therapy appt today and reception staff (who know me) were visibly relieved to see me. Turned out that the reception staff had been getting yelled at over the phone multiple times today and ??? don't be mean to reception???? they do not control the health care industry

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 13/09/2026

It has become apparent that lifting 30 books at one time (the box) is too much weight for me. Any #booksky folks (or others tbh) have recommendations for transport systems (collapsible cart on wheels)?

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 12/09/2026

One of the fun things about doing public outreach talks is I get to have titles like “we missed out on the exploding moon volcanoes” 🧪🔭

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Faith @faithschaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy #swordtember⚔️

Ink drawing- a woman sits in a tree with a sword on her hip. She is eating an apple from the tree. There's a face in the tree!! Woah!

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 12/09/2026

Today I booked my updated COVID and flu shots! Will get them next week. Schedule your vaccines, folks!!

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 10/09/2026

Today’s the day, UK folks! My graphic guide to the universe, its rules and its timeline is available now! 🧪🔭📚💙

Cover for The Universe: a graphic guide against a backdrop reading “OUT NOW”.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 10/09/2026

Saw a new doctor recently who tentatively asked about my experience with another doctor in my file, responded to my 😬 story with “PLEASE report this”, and handed me the docs on how to do that. One thousand blessings on new doctor’s household.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 10/09/2026

Today’s the day, UK folks! My graphic guide to the universe, its rules and its timeline is available now! 🧪🔭📚💙

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 10/09/2026

ONE more sleep until BOOK 🧪🔭📚💡💙

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 09/09/2026

The Costco website: we have a new pokemon puzzle Me: oh cool The Costco website: do you want to know how many pieces it has

Screen grab of the Ravensburger puzzle with title “Pokémon Celebration Journey
40,320-piece Puzzle”. It’s a twelve panel puzzle officially branded by Pokemon.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 09/09/2026

I think this is the first time one of my books has been described as a soothing cup of tea and I’m still enjoying it

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 05/09/2026

Contractually obligated to be so loud about this book between now and November when it’s out in the US 🧪🔭

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 05/09/2026

Contractually obligated to be so loud about this book between now and November when it’s out in the US 🧪🔭

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 04/09/2026

V cranky because of redacted medical reasons no one needs to experience [I regret to have experienced them] but in good news my book is out in six days and you should preorder my graphic novel tour of the entire* universe *some exceptions 🧪🔭💙📚💡

The front cover of The Universe: A Graphic Guide, which has a person looking up at a sky full of galaxies, standing on a winding path with trees.

Back cover of the book, which reads “This beautifully illustrated journey through space and time is a celebration of all that is wondrous about the biggest topic of all - the universe itself.
The building blocks of life are here, alongside the mysterious dark matter, how stars are classified, the creation of the moon and other concepts that illuminate our understanding of the expanding cosmos around us. Have you ever wondered why a star collapses? Or what Cosmic Noon was? Then this is the book for you.
Dr Jillian Scudder is the perfect intergalactic tour guide. Aided by Lily Fossett's illustrations throughout, she explains some of humanity's greatest ideas and discoveries in an accessible way, making this the perfect primer for anyone who has ever wondered how we fit into the universe.”

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 02/09/2026

Saturn’s haunted by geometry, apparently

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 01/09/2026

Hello happy September, my new book is out in the UK in ten days!! Would you like silly book that takes you through a timeline of when things happened and the rules those things follow? [citations included] 📚💡💙🔭🧪

A copy of The Universe: A Graphic Guide, on a wooden surface with glow in the dark stars next to it. The cover has a person looking up at a sky of galaxies, standing on a grassy path.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 31/08/2026

Tomorrow (September 1st) and Wednesday (September 2nd), we have a heat advisory for heat index temps of >100F (>~38C). September.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 28/08/2026

You know, some days, trying to figure out what happened in the news purely by the BlueSky commentary is a challenge.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 26/08/2026

First day of classes complete. Students agree, as I always ask them to, not to laugh at each other (just at me) in exchange for my Scout’s Honor promise not to laugh at their questions.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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