Nicole Gugliucci
@noisyastronomer.com
Physics professor, astronomer, education researcher, and scicommer who loves dogs, speculative fiction, weights, and good trouble. NH, US. She/They. Opinions are mine alone. RT≠endorsement. Posts are ephemeral. I swear a lot. noisyastronomer.com
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Physgal ⚛️@physgal.bsky.social · 2d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Please keep my doggo in your thoughts as she spends the night at the vet hospital. She's a tough bitch, but being 16 is rough. So glad we got to cuddle her after driving 6 hours to get back to her.
Neat article also about solar storm effects, and how some folks are preparing for it! 🔭
Laurie Winkless@lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 2mo agoI got to sit in on something unique - a simulation exercise for NZ's electricity sector, designed to stress-test the system against a major space weather event. I wrote about it - and about the challenges that come with an Earth-facing coronal mass ejection (CME) - for @forbes.com 🧪⚛️👩🔬
"the average loss was calculated at $17,000 per farm" Wow.
Center for Environmental Journalism@cej-cuboulder.bsky.social · 2mo agoIn this story for MPR News, former Ted Scripps Fellow Ben Cathey examines how the 2024 Gannon solar storm interfered with GPS-guided farm equipment during the spring planting season, costing Corn Belt farmers an estimated $1 billion in lost productivity. tr.ee/Z5Gw6l #Climate #Weather #SpaceWeather
I appreciate this poetic reflection on genAI... (Yes, I AM a "learn’d astronomer" who LOVES that Whitman poem. I think most of us do!)
Paul@paulruth.substack.com · 2mo agoAnother poetry write back. This time I am writing back to Walt Whitman's 'Learned Astronomer' reflecting on AI. #poetrycommunity #ai #philsky #academicsky open.substack.com/pub/paulruth...
Yesterday I had a wide-ranging discussion about a bunch of things with my spouse and the subject of the imaginary number "i" came up... Him: They just made up a new number. Me: Well, it expands the number system so that numbers are two-dimensional. Him: No. Me: What? Him: Nope. 😂
I recognize that this is true, and I deeply appreciate the science communicators inhabiting these spaces. I, however, am not in these spaces... So, do me a favor? Drop a link to your favorite short-form video science communicators! (Maybe it's even you?) Let's share the good content! #SciComm 🧪
Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 2mo agoTo remain relevant and combat false information, scientists and publishers must engage audiences where they increasingly consume information: social-first, video-driven platforms. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Oooooh... I like this. Hoping to recenter my teaching practice over sabbatical. This will help!
Joe Rowing@jrowing.com · 2mo agoI collect pearls of wisdom from teachers and at lunch today thought it'd be fun to get them edited down to a little book of wisdom style with a prompt for reflection. This is for my own use really, to try and stop me from going stale but it's here: www.jrowing.com/resources/pe... #ITeachPhysics
I'm feeling quite hopeful and buoyed by the discussions this thread led to yesterday. A lot of us care about quality and, perhaps even more in danger here, trust across research networks. Group hug, y'all.
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 3mo agoI realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article.
In case you are wondering what "posts are ephemeral" means in my profile... I use Skeeter Deleter by @emily.gorcen.ski to cull most posts after a couple of days. I'm over the era of endless internet trails... github.com/Gorcenski/sk...
GitHub - Gorcenski/skeeter-deleter: A script for auto-deleting Bluesky posts
A script for auto-deleting Bluesky posts. Contribute to Gorcenski/skeeter-deleter development by creating an account on GitHub.
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What astronomy topics would YOU want to hear about in a two-minute radio segment? I'll be recording more Cosmically Curious this afternoon!
Nicole Gugliucci@noisyastronomer.com · 4mo agoHey all! I'm doing a little segment with @nhpr.org called "Cosmically Curious." You'll hear from me or one of my awesome astronomy colleagues in New Hampshire every week. www.nhpr.org/show/cosmica... 🎢🔭
I only have access to the first bit, but Ab. So. Lute. Ly. on the main point. I've seen this for years in assessments of the science outreach that I love so much. As I retreated to the higher ed classroom, w/ a slightly different population (at least politically mixed) I've had to reckon with that.
Elise Cutts@elisecutts.bsky.social · 6mo agoNewsletter up. Rant incoming. Pop sci mostly reaches educated, left-leaning, wealthy readers — including, of course, scientists and science writers. I increasingly believe the gap between the real general audience and what's called "general audience" in scicomm is huge and worth talking about: 🧪
Wonderful primer on weird plots in astronomy papers.
Astrobites@astrobites.bsky.social · 4mo agoFrom @jaydewst.bsky.social: Ever been confused by a plot online or in a paper? This post decodes the secret language of astrophysics plots so you can finally read the universe like a pro. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/17/secrets-of-plots-in-astro/
Great article exploring all the issues with satellite overcrowding.
Meredith Rawls@merrdiff.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt was a pleasure to go stargazing in Ballard with you, Joe 🔭
This is an absolutely spectacular essay that EVERYONE who cares about the professional field of astronomy and astrophysics needs to read. "...doing astrophysics is a satisfying and meaningful human activity... people are always the ends, not merely the means." 🔭🧪🎢 #AcademicSky (🛢️ coming later)
Astrobites@astrobites.bsky.social · 4mo agoFrom @qwasistellar.bsky.social: Artemis, AI, Astronomy, and our place in it. The author asks why do astrophysics at all. To produce results faster, or to turn graduate students into inefficient stand-ins for software? ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪 astrobites.org/2026/04/10/tell-me-why-a-case-for-humane-astrophysics/
This week on Cosmically Curious, I talked about the "Clever Hans" effect and how we have to be so careful in ascribing human characteristics to non-humans. This comes up in my "Life Beyond Earth" course! 🎢🧪 #SciComm www.nhpr.org/show/cosmica...
Cosmically Curious: Clever Hans and the will to believe
What can a horse teach us about the dangers of human expectation — and how it shapes our search for intelligent life in space?
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Hey all! I'm doing a little segment with @nhpr.org called "Cosmically Curious." You'll hear from me or one of my awesome astronomy colleagues in New Hampshire every week. www.nhpr.org/show/cosmica... 🎢🔭
Cosmically Curious
NHPR is proud to announce the launch of Cosmically Curious, a new space-focused segment hosted by Patrick McNameeKing. It's all about celebrating the night sky with a healthy dose of joy, curiosity an...
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A fantastic instructional designer I know sent along what looks to be a useful tools for evaluating how susceptible your assignments are to AI. I haven't tried it yet, but it DID lead me to the creator's substack "Slow AI" which I am already loving (1/2) Ex: theslowai.substack.com/p/the-people...
The People Deciding AI Can Do Your Job Have Never Done Your Job
60% of organisations have cut jobs in anticipation of AI. 2% have evidence it works.
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Honestly I feel like I can't trust any pictures I see just floating around the internet... Get your Moon goodness straight from the source! 🧪🔭
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo agoOh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)
Ahahahaha THERE'S dancing science guy!
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4mo agoThe reaction of Dr Kelsey Young at the Science Desk was one of the best things in the feed but I'd also like to acknowledge the dude in the lower left corner of the control room view doing his own little dance of joy during Jeremy Hansen's discussion of his corona observations. #Artemis
These are the moments we live for in science 😍 Artemis II science officer Kelsey Young's reaction to the astronauts reporting that they saw at least FOUR impact flashes on the Moon during their observations.
Thomas Fuchs@thomasfuchs.at · 4mo agoscience lady is excited
Sharing and also bookmarking to share in class...
Laura Hollister @xenolith.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhy are scientists, particularly geologists, so excited to get new images and human observations of the far side of the moon? A planets geology is the ultimate “crime scene”. Let me explain…. #Artemis ⚒️🧪
SO GLAD YOU ASKED!!! 🔭📡 The far side is going to be super radio quiet (little human-made interference). Also, the Earth's ionosphere blocks frequencies below a certain limit, and studying the universe at those frequencies can tell us a lot about cosmology cosmicdawn.astro.ucla.edu/lunar_telesc...
Lunar Telescopes - Cosmic Dark to Cosmic Dawn
The site is intended as a free educational resource about the frontiers of galaxy formation.
cosmicdawn.astro.ucla.edu
Greg Smith@notthatgreg.bsky.social · 4mo agoWhat kind of cool things could you do with an array on the Moon?
Great lil 🧵 Going in my class notes for this week :-D
Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️⚧️ Uranus Expert@elakdawalla.bsky.social · 4mo agoI've been thinking a lot about what the value of astronaut photos and descriptions of the lunar farside is. After all, haven't we returned global maps of the Moon from multiple orbiters? The Lunar Orbiters, Clementine, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter... 1/n
