Dr. Jillian Scudder
@jillianscudder.com
Astrophysicist, author (40 Ways to Know A Star, Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries), artist, sewist, science communicator. English/Français/子供の日本語。Associate Professor. hEDS ♿️. She/her. 🏳️🌈. Opinions all mine.
https://www.jillianscudder.com/books
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Dr. Jillian Scudder
@jillianscudder.com
· Mar 19
Hello folks in spite of The Everything™️, my next book is out in one week!! 7 days!
If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book!
To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort...
🧪🔭📚 #booksky
If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book!
To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort...
🧪🔭📚 #booksky
Me, this morning: okay I’ve had an hour and a half of productive procrastination, I’m going to lock in and do this grading
My cat, 1.5 minutes later: [horking noises from the other room]
My cat, 1.5 minutes later: [horking noises from the other room]
December 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me, this morning: okay I’ve had an hour and a half of productive procrastination, I’m going to lock in and do this grading
My cat, 1.5 minutes later: [horking noises from the other room]
My cat, 1.5 minutes later: [horking noises from the other room]
Grades are in for one of my classes. If I can muster the focus, grades should be submitted tomorrow for the other one. I very much want to be done with the semester.
December 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Grades are in for one of my classes. If I can muster the focus, grades should be submitted tomorrow for the other one. I very much want to be done with the semester.
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You can get my books for the space themed folks (deeply affectionate) in your life! Or maybe you are the space themed folk, in which case you can get them for yourself.
Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings.
40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚
Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings.
40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
You can get my books for the space themed folks (deeply affectionate) in your life! Or maybe you are the space themed folk, in which case you can get them for yourself.
Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings.
40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚
Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings.
40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚
You can get my books for the space themed folks (deeply affectionate) in your life! Or maybe you are the space themed folk, in which case you can get them for yourself.
Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings.
40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚
Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings.
40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
You can get my books for the space themed folks (deeply affectionate) in your life! Or maybe you are the space themed folk, in which case you can get them for yourself.
Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings.
40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚
Milky Way: footnote jokes, 45 pgs of citations & silly line drawings.
40 Ways: beautiful diagrams on every page. 🧪🔭📚
Reposted by Dr. Jillian Scudder
Highly recommend this life choice.
Started my annual Winter Holidays reading…
“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world”
(There’s a BBC audio adaptation as well.)
darkisrising.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dar...
“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world”
(There’s a BBC audio adaptation as well.)
darkisrising.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dar...
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Highly recommend this life choice.
At the point in the semester when I typo my email sign off as “Beset,” and take an extra moment to consider how honest I want to be.
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
At the point in the semester when I typo my email sign off as “Beset,” and take an extra moment to consider how honest I want to be.
“But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/...
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/...
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/...
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/...
#ArtAdventCalendar, from 2022. This one took a while to render and I’m still proud of it. 🐡
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar, from 2022. This one took a while to render and I’m still proud of it. 🐡
In honor of #ArtAdventCalendar, some old (2020) art I still enjoy. 🐡
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
In honor of #ArtAdventCalendar, some old (2020) art I still enjoy. 🐡
Reposted by Dr. Jillian Scudder
You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
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Also seen at OSU: a remarkably comprehensive aversion to the letter M.
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Also seen at OSU: a remarkably comprehensive aversion to the letter M.
Today had many lovely meetings with students and faculty at OSU, and my scicomm talk about how I go about translating technical papers into whimsical science stories.
And now I am back home, contemplating that tomorrow is actually Friday and not the weekend. 🧪
And now I am back home, contemplating that tomorrow is actually Friday and not the weekend. 🧪
Today I am at OSU’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics
giving a free public lecture tonight, and tomorrow a quick science chat plus a scicomm lecture tomorrow.
I have brought books to sell, and am excited to get to tell people silly space stories. 🔭📚
giving a free public lecture tonight, and tomorrow a quick science chat plus a scicomm lecture tomorrow.
I have brought books to sell, and am excited to get to tell people silly space stories. 🔭📚
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Today had many lovely meetings with students and faculty at OSU, and my scicomm talk about how I go about translating technical papers into whimsical science stories.
And now I am back home, contemplating that tomorrow is actually Friday and not the weekend. 🧪
And now I am back home, contemplating that tomorrow is actually Friday and not the weekend. 🧪
Today I am at OSU’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics
giving a free public lecture tonight, and tomorrow a quick science chat plus a scicomm lecture tomorrow.
I have brought books to sell, and am excited to get to tell people silly space stories. 🔭📚
giving a free public lecture tonight, and tomorrow a quick science chat plus a scicomm lecture tomorrow.
I have brought books to sell, and am excited to get to tell people silly space stories. 🔭📚
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Today I am at OSU’s Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics
giving a free public lecture tonight, and tomorrow a quick science chat plus a scicomm lecture tomorrow.
I have brought books to sell, and am excited to get to tell people silly space stories. 🔭📚
giving a free public lecture tonight, and tomorrow a quick science chat plus a scicomm lecture tomorrow.
I have brought books to sell, and am excited to get to tell people silly space stories. 🔭📚
I’m four feet and five skeins deep into this absurdly cabled project and officially halfway. 🧶
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I’m four feet and five skeins deep into this absurdly cabled project and officially halfway. 🧶
Reposted by Dr. Jillian Scudder
Reposted by Dr. Jillian Scudder
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I need you all to know about the long eared owl, which I learned about last night, and brings the biggest "cat with its ears back" energy to owlhood I've encountered to date 🦉
📷: Diego Delso, (delso.photo) CC BY-SA
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%...
📷: Diego Delso, (delso.photo) CC BY-SA
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%...
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I need you all to know about the long eared owl, which I learned about last night, and brings the biggest "cat with its ears back" energy to owlhood I've encountered to date 🦉
📷: Diego Delso, (delso.photo) CC BY-SA
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%...
📷: Diego Delso, (delso.photo) CC BY-SA
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%...
I participated in a previous year of this and it was lovely!
Artists & Art lovers!
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky!
Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I participated in a previous year of this and it was lovely!
Reposted by Dr. Jillian Scudder
A cat enjoying the view of stars being born 🌌
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A cat enjoying the view of stars being born 🌌
First time in a while where I’ve had the “wait that’s an IMAGE. That’s the DATA.” double take.
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
First time in a while where I’ve had the “wait that’s an IMAGE. That’s the DATA.” double take.
Reposted by Dr. Jillian Scudder
go.bsky.app/7UhVhcA
Starter Pack of members of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.
Sign up for the very best of space art!
Starter Pack of members of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.
Sign up for the very best of space art!
November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
go.bsky.app/7UhVhcA
Starter Pack of members of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.
Sign up for the very best of space art!
Starter Pack of members of the International Association of Astronomical Artists.
Sign up for the very best of space art!
This weekend I sold books at the Books By the Banks book festival in Cincinnati, and followed that up with going to speak with the very enthusiastic folks at the Cincinnati Astronomical Society, who were regaled with stories of Neptunian diamond rain (and copies of 40 Ways to Know A Star)! 📚🔭
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
This weekend I sold books at the Books By the Banks book festival in Cincinnati, and followed that up with going to speak with the very enthusiastic folks at the Cincinnati Astronomical Society, who were regaled with stories of Neptunian diamond rain (and copies of 40 Ways to Know A Star)! 📚🔭