Dr. Jillian Scudder

it’s real it’s a real book Time for emotions about seeing this in person, it’s been such a journey 💡📚💙

I recently thrifted some 100% merino wool sweaters and they are SO comfortable. I’m increasingly convinced that wool is the best textile.

I am on an invited adventure

Fall break means I am prowling my house tackling the piles of things I put down at some point in the last 6 months

This post reminded me that I've been wanting to order this one -- so I just did! Love me some well-researched fun science facts!

In very fun news I learned this morning that my Beloved nonsense space facts book, The Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries, is on its way to a second paperback printing. Congratulations (& thank you!!!) everyone for buying copies and emptying the warehouse 🎉🫡 🧪🔭📚

Today is Thursdaying so hard I’ve caught myself thinking “at least it’s Friday” six times today. Fall break is next week and deeply needed

A figure from the paper: one night’s tracks from one location. Some of these are aircraft or meteors but most are satellites.

The title says it all: arxiv.org/abs/2610.10834 Still in the peer review process but we* felt it Important to get this out there. Satellite companies are not complying with visual brightness limits. Our estimates are that it will get worse, especially at twilight. *I’m a minor part of “we” here

I have begun playing Dressmaker and I would like to congratulate the team on making a game For Me Specifically

Laptop chose violence this morning & decided that one minute before class starts was the best time to kernel panic itself despite operating fine for the 15 minutes before class 🥲

Timeline cleanse.

You do NOT want the flu. It is not just a cold, it is way, WAY worse. Get vaxxed.

Horror story in three acts 🫡

In positive news I finished this crochet project in about a week. It’s super cozy.

40 Ways to Know A Star is available on Bookshop! bookshop.org/p/books/fort...

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. ♥️

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 ✨💪

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.

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.

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!

Some great folks on this list! 🧪

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

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

Happy #BiVisibilityDay!

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

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

COVID and flu shots achieved! +2 plague resistance

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!

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.

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

"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.

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

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...

New postcard from Curiosity using Navcams taken on Sols 5000 & 5003 science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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

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)?