Nora's Guide to the Galaxy

Having a squamous cell carcinoma in situ is so weird because like yeah it's *technically* cancer but it's not like cancer cancer

This was such a good story! Can't believe I know such amazing writers 🫶

It's possible I bit off more than I could chew in this one, trying to touch on the basics of habitability in 16 minutes! But hey I got to throw in a self citation 😏 youtu.be/oLwTB3oPz88 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Pluto was not demoted. It was reclassified. Still complaining about Pluto (and only Pluto) being a dwarf planet is science denialism. Gah clearly I'm going to have to stay off the internet today because I do not have the patience for this shit.

I was really crunched for time the last 2 weeks, so I didn't get to do as much editing on my space fact videos. So this week I enjoyed getting back to "full effort"—except for the fact that it took 3 hours for the 90 second video 😭

I love when I'm making graphics for something and realize that even though I knew the numbers going in, I completely underestimated them. Had to shift the bodies into "lollipops" to make them fit in this one!!

Can't wait for bingo

Written in its stars ✨ On its 4th science anniversary, Webb has turned its gaze towards Centaurus A. Thanks to its high resolution we can now study the galaxy star by star, reconstructing when different events in its history happened 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪

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My husband is a gamer and he plays a wide variety of games, so I love that I never know what to expect when he tells me about them. Today it was a certainly a surprise when he said "Let me show you this city I built. First of all: it's beavers."

Halfway through 2026 😳 Some writing stats for me so far this year: 6 new short stories written 64 short story submissions 53 short story rejections (2 after being held!) 25 queries sent 16 queries rejected 5377 words written in a new novel

Let's gooooo

Happy Summer Solstice! The bittersweet day where I'm torn between being sad about shorter days to come and being happy about warmer days to come!

No matter how much nonwork work I get done on the weekends, it's never enough 😩

TFW you're done with your talk by 10:10 on day 1 💅

IG is absolutely playing with me, why the hell would I be saying "nutrinos" when NEUTRINOS is an actual fucking word 🤦‍♀️

When AAS is in your neighborhood so you get to sleep in your own bed, stop at your usual coffeeshop, and walk to the conference center ☺️

Introducing Artemis III. Four astronauts. Three launches. Two dockings. One splashdown. In 2027, the Artemis III mission will practice docking the Orion spacecraft with two lunar landers in low Earth orbit — the capability we need to return humanity to the Moon’s surface. Original post

Last night I cried myself to sleep because no one wants my stories and today at lunch I submitted 5 stories and that's basically being a writer