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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 30/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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

Writing is something I do in my weekends and spare hours, because I love it and I like to play with language while I’m learning new things. None of these books have any touch of AI to them. If you have read them, thank you!

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

Finally, and not least, is Astroquizzical: the Illustrated Edition, which is a full color, curiosity driven Q&A on the cosmos. It was a finalist for the AAAS/Subaru prize for excellence in science writing in the Young Adult category in 2023. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204672...

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Looking up at the night sky, we see not only stars twinkling in their constellations and planets caught mid-orbit but our cosmic family tree. We are here on ...

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

And before that, my most beloved, The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries: in which I tell the stories behind the factoids with 45 pages of citations and footnote jokes. 🧪🔭📚 Publishers Weekly reviewed it as an “entertaining romp”. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-milky-...

The authors hand holding a paperback copy of the Milky Way smells of rum and raspberries. The cover features a pink galaxy swirled into a martini glass.

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

Prior to Graphic Guide, there was 40 Ways to Know A Star, a small, beautifully illustrated book of 40 essays describing the ways the stars have taught us about the cosmos: bookshop.org/p/books/fort...

The authors hand holding a copy of 40 Ways to Know a Star against a blank wall

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

My newest book, The Universe: a Graphic Guide is out now in the UK and coming Nov 24 to the US! UK: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... US: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-univer...

The front cover of The Universe: a Graphic Guide on a wooden table with three glow in the dark stars next to the book. The cover has a person looking up at the night sky

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

My science communication happens in the form of public talks (professionally very silly) and books (heavily cited whimsical)! www.jillianscudder.com/books

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Books by Dr. Jillian Scudder. Popular astronomy with a touch of whimsy.

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

My research is observational studies of other galaxies; I focus on the chemical contents of the gas in nearby, star-forming galaxies 🧪🔭 www.jillianscudder.com/research

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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

🫡 thank you for your practical services

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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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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 24/09/2026

That’s an extra nerdy joke Phil 10/10

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 24/09/2026

It feels a bit like a constructed semblance of peer pressure for a thing folks want to do anyways. It’s odd to me.

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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 · 24/09/2026

I know it’s not actually *everyone* but this rhetorical everyone sure is showing up a lot.

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

They do help! I highly recommend them if you have joint hypermobility. I got mine on Etsy - shop is Evabelle Jewelry (the non adjustable ones).

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

Update: first chain stitch start was too high a tension, pulled it out three rows in, tried again (much better), I lost a stitch, and I’m much more practiced at the double crochet stitch.

A densely crocheted rectangle of fabric in variegated blues and purples.

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

Yeah, if I spend six hours making a table I don’t want the makes-things-up machine having a weird go at it tbh

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

I was subskeeting that nature article yes lol

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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 · 18/09/2026

Good shout! I follow them on here for the highest quality memes but I should probably actually subscribe

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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

Smaller boxes is absolutely on my list! Thanks 😊

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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

Boosted BEFORE Dragoncon is definitely the correct call

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

Oof. Hope you had an easy day today!

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