Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃

@noisyastronomer.com

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. https://bio.link/noisyastronomer

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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

One of my colleagues is doing “Elections 101: A Nonpartisan Guide for Informed Adults” online Thursday evening in conjunction with the Goffstown Library. Check it out especially for #NewHampshire folks! #NHPolitics goffstownlibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/res...

goffstownlibrary.assabetinteractive.comRESCHEDULED DATE - Elections 101: A Nonpartisan Guide for Informed Adults with Dr. Tauna S. SiscoUPDATE - This event is now VIRTUAL on Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 p.m. Dr. Tauna S. Sisco joins us for a clear, nonpartisan overview as we walk through voter registration, different types of electio...
Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

Updating my ✨sabbatical✨ out-of-office email response with the obligatory "Sorry you can't get into my class" message during course registrations. If I didn't have to GRADE you all (and if I had unlimited lab equipment) I'd happily take you ALL. We could have one big super science fun club...

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

It's not just that grading takes time. I dislike grading on a fundamental level. Assessment is FINE. Everyone needs feedback and to be able to see where they are in their understanding. Still need to spend some brain cycles to make it more of that and less about numbers and still stay sane...

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

I'm not saying drag-burlesque will solve ALL our problems, but spouse and I saw an amazingly creative Halloween show on Friday night at a cute little queer-owned coffee shop and I'm still REELING from the creativity and awesomeness.

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 reposted

aslynn is just a ghoul 👻
@aslynnromano.com

Replying to @aslynnromano.com

ask yourself; Why is Addison the exception that we must now execute? Who are the people who now say he should die? Our governor, his prosecutor Our supreme court, currently in the midst of scandal almost $2 million to try to kill a man THE sole exception to NH's death penalty ban ask yourself

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃 reposted

aslynn is just a ghoul 👻
@aslynnromano.com

AHEM, take 2: Addison has been the ONLY death row inmate here for DECADES a Black man who shot a cop in 2006, was sentenced to death we abolished the death penalty in 2019, Addison alive in prison but the order was written to allow him, the sole exception, to still be eligible for a state murder

Southern New Hampshire DSA@southernnhdsa.bsky.social

In 1939, New Hampshire carried out its last execution. In 2019, we abolished capital punishment. But one exception remains. New Hampshire must not become the first state to execute someone under a repealed capital punishment statute. 🗓️ Monday, October 26th 🕗️ 5:30pm 📍 NH State House, Concord, NH

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

Did either the Cheesecake Factory or Saddam Hussein overuse cheap-looking "gilded" crap or am I just missing the joke? (I have been in a Cheesecake Factory a total of one time. The menu's size overwhelmed me. But I enjoyed the cheesecake.)

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

I keep forgetting that LibreWolf doesn't like certain things... like me sharing pictures without hitting a particular security setting. So when you see me accidentally post absolutely junky looking horizontal stripes... that's why. 😝

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

BEAUTIFUL AF. Going to take a stab at descriptive alt text because WOW this is stunning. (suggestions welcome!) 🔭

Brandon Moore, PhD@rando.insalubrio.us

Recent analyses show that the "Treble Clef" is not a pulsar, as once thought, but is instead a radio phoenix. It's a large filament-like radio source inside a galaxy cluster hidden behind the Milky Way that revived when a cluster merger energized old black hole plasma! 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2607.06659

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

I'm all about zines, but as someone with aging and otherwise problematic eyesight, can we make the text a LEEETLE bigger? I know you wanna get EVERYTHING in there but... isn't that why you put your QR code on it? 🙃

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

Love! Many of the lyrics are applicable to any election situation. Unrelatedly, ALSO vote NO on 2, New Hampshire.

Marian Call@mariancall.bsky.social

We don't need outside direction. This is our goddamn election. Try to buy us -- you're bound to fail. I co-wrote a song with Josh Fortenbery with help from @pat.alaskarobotics.com. We have THOUGHTS about billionaires spending for Prop. 2 in Alaska, and we will be voting NO. youtu.be/W0u7nS1_O_4

youtu.beBound to Fail (Stubborn as a Crooken Nail) - by Marian Call & Josh FortenberyYouTube video by Marian Call
Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

They emphasized the importance of having ground truth... witnesses documenting what's actually going on at a time when rumors and conspiracies are likely to be flying. It's a small but important way to be a part of it. Hopefully, it'll be uneventful and educational. 🤞🏻

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

Causing some fun and reflection in the group chat today...

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social

QUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?

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Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

I was saved when another "weirdo" was put into the class and we bonded over The X-Files. My mother always said I'd find my people when I was older. And she was right. Now I relish my "weird" qualities.

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

Causing some fun and reflection in the group chat today...

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social

QUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

Okay so... I must not have been a very self-aware child. I didn't really internalize being "weird" even though I liked acting weird, making funny faces, building weird daydreams in my head all day... that sort of stuff. Middle school came around and I didn't feel "weird" then, just extremely uncool

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

I went into high school with higher hopes for social acceptance though, as I had all my classes with the same group, the "scholars" who were academically the high achievers. The class split off into two cliques... And then there was me. In neither. THAT'S when I felt weird, and not in a good way.

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

I love this!! #sciart

Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social

This #Spacetober_challenge 🧪🐡🔭 day 10 prompt is Earth so I’m sharing my Theia #linocut about the formation of Earth’s moon. This 6 colour hand printed linocut print illustrates the formation of the Earth’s Moon in a comic book influenced pop art style. The favoured model of Moon formation is that

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

Including bizarre ass imagery from @stealingfromwizards.com Y'ALL ARE A MENACE TOGETHER I love this #SciComm

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social

Today we are playing an ANATOMY GAME. He's a 10. But wow can he NOT handle change. Do you date this body part? I’m going to give you a dating profile of a body part, and you’re going to decide if you’re shooting your shot. youtube.com/shorts/LTpYy...

youtube.comdate that body part! All images are by @studentofwhim #science #sciencefacts #stem #acl #tinderYouTube video by Bethany Brookshire
Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

This is actually brilliant. I'm rooting for you!! This sounds like an incredible way to learn with your students and relate with them.

The Evil Dr. Joanna and Her Two Giant Demon Dogs@jlphistory.bsky.social

This year I said to my students "doing the readings is like going to the gym. Just showing up isn't enough, you have to challenge yourself to do things in order to get better at them. If you do the readings, I will go the gym. At the end of term we'll see how it turns out." Y'all, I am not clever.

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

"I think I'd enjoy teaching way more if people weren't paying superyacht-money... We need to humanities, more than ever, but the systems we've built to commodify them are suffocating them." DAAAAAAAANG. #AcademicSky

Nicole BOO-liucci 🎃
@noisyastronomer.com

Oooooh more historical space weather fun! By @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

Phil Naranjo@philnaranjo.bsky.social

‘…March 1847 incident involving “spontaneous electrical currents” disrupting the telegraph systems on the Midland Railway, as a “brilliant aurora” glowed in the British Isles.’ #spaceweather #uk

arstechnica.comScientists solve 1840s space weather mystery19th century Nature account of 1841 train delayed by geomagnetic storm got year wrong—due to a typo.