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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃

@noisyastronomer.com
13K followers 1.5K following 145 posts

Physics professor, astronomer, educator, science communicator in NH, US. Lover of dogs, spec-fic, weights, and good trouble. She/they. Opinions my own. RTs≠endorsements. Most older posts auto-delete. I swear a lot. bio.link/noisyastronomer

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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 05/10/2026
SO. MANY. APPLES. Not pictured: the uncounted number of apples eaten while picking that now reside in our bellies.
Three panel image showing apples of various colors, from dark red, to red mixed with green, fully green, and yellow. A note lists some of the varieties picked: honey crisp, ginger gold, zestarTwo full bags (or "pecks") of apples standing upright
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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 08/09/2026
Had a particularly fun panel on Dragoncon SciFiLit co-designing a world for this alien with fellow panelists and audience. Some of whom had co-designed the alien earlier. This is what biology by committee would produce 😂
A menacing looking alien sketched in marker on a white board with air sacs on its head, pincers (just because), retractable shell and sonar dome, pumice skin arms, a tech screen on the face showing eyes, whale teeth, and lots and lots of long skinny tentacles. It has microbes as predators nearby. Underneath says, "please do not era." My unintelligible scribble and doodling of the world is on the papers next to it
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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 18/08/2026
Old Strong Bad reference... :-D www.youtube.com/watch?v=90X5...
Strong Mad scratching DAGRON into a table with a craft knife.
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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 07/04/2026
What the actual WHAAAAAAT!!! 😍
The moon softly illuminated around the edges by the first solar eclipse seen by humans from space
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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 14/03/2026
Did crater impacts before spring break! Students were impressed with their own results. "Serving actual crater." "It's giving crater!" 🔭🎢 #AstroEd #AstroEdu
baking pan with flour and cocoa powder simulating a world's surface. Marbles standing in for impactors left craters. A ruler sits nearby.baking pan with flour and cocoa powder simulating a world's surface. Marbles standing in for impactors left craters. A ruler sits nearby.baking pan with flour and cocoa powder simulating a world's surface. Marbles standing in for impactors left craters. A ruler sits nearby.
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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 17/02/2026
Went over to the hellsite where I'd deleted almost every tweet to see what data I had left there while I'm deleting Meta... and look, it's a zombie tweet! My most famous-making viral tweet lives. Even though I definitely deleted it several years ago. h/t @mariadsouza.bsky.social THE FRIEND 😂
"My friends coined a word: hepeated. For when a woman suggests an idea and it's ignored, but then a guy says same thing and everyone loves it." 1:01 PM Sept 22, 2017. 1.8k responses, 50k retweets, 144k likes
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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 06/12/2025
My students got a little slap-happy studying for multiple physics finals and left this on my office door 😂 🎢 ⚛️
Door whiteboard with equation written on it: negative gradient of electric potential equals mass times the speed of light squared
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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 13/11/2025
To be fair to myself... Although I missed the spectacular May 2024 aurora AND last nights AND it's fully cloudy here tonight... I DID get a glimpse of an event in October 2024... ...faint tinge to the naked eye but I got some pictures so I will share those and stop whining :-P
Green auroral glow with vertical pink streamers above the tree line with the Big Dipper - from Oct 2024Bright pink aurora above treeline and clouds with the Big Dipper visible - from Oct 2024
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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 @noisyastronomer.com · 13/09/2025
Decided to delete old posts. But not before archiving them. That was a weird time...
Screenshot of this account's first skeets from May 4, 2023:

Hi, all. Don't know why it wouldn't take "noisy astronomer" (character limit?) but I promise, it's me. And it's also the last week of the semester so I'll be erratic for a bit!

I feel like it's appropriate to start with a dog post. Here's Macey, sleeping on Luna (with a picture of a closeup of two dog faces, a brown one laying on top of a black one)

A few minutes in... discovering this place to be fucking weird in a good way, definitely vibes of early twitter. Hello fellow weirdos!
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