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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 1d

We’ve reached the 3ft mark of my overly complicated cabling project 🧶

Heavily cabled scarf in progress in gray wool. A tape measure is next to the top edge; the work is about 37 inches long.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 2d

I got a very kind email about this book this week so I figure it’s time to remind all you gentlefolk I have a book out and people seem to be really enjoying it! 📖📚🔭

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

The author’s hand holding a copy of 40 Ways to Know A Star, by Jillian Scudder, PhD, against a beige wall.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 5d

First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍

Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 2d

I got a very kind email about this book this week so I figure it’s time to remind all you gentlefolk I have a book out and people seem to be really enjoying it! 📖📚🔭

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

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 18d

250 rows of cabling. 🧶

A heavily cabled gray scarf in progress with loose ends in four places. It is about three feet long.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 26d

That moment when you find ✨Aesthetic✨™️ art at an art festival and the only question is which wall is it going on. 🐈‍⬛

Artist: borksbotanicalcreations.com

A block print in black ink on eggshell paper of a blob shaped cat about to knock over a vase with roses, sitting on a pile of books, with potions on either side and a mug of tea. One of the books reads “book of meowgic”. It is signed and marked 40/250.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · 26d

Got my COVID shot today. Glad to get it in my system.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Aug 31

Most incomprehensible signage I saw yesterday while driving goes to the fluid transport truck labeled

“INEDIBLE

ANIMAL FOOD”

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Aug 28

Called my reps. Maxed out the voicemail length on one of them.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Aug 12

Took a decongestant before bed and had the worst sleep of my life 🫠

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Aug 12

Anyhow did YOU lot know that decongestants are basically adrenaline pills and if your autonomic system is borderline strugglebug one might have some predictable but not very fun side effects from an adrenaline pill for the duration of said adrenaline pill?

Because I did not. Ask me how I learned.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Aug 12

Teacup the cat has not minded the extra company.

A mostly gray dilute calico sleeps contorted cat style with a hind leg under her head, which is rotated so her chin is in the air. Magnificent toe beans outstretched towards the camera

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Aug 12

Recuperation Summer has been A Time.

I’m 11 weeks post surgery. 2nd shingles shot (rough, but better than shingles), & a mild non-COVID cold. Doctors appointments. Bad sleep. Physical therapy. Naps. Comfort books, more physical therapy. More doctor’s appointments.

I’m all right. It’s a lot.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jul 29

Thanks for reading! ✨📚🔭

Buddy Bear Security @buddybearsecurity.bsky.social · Jul 28

Finally got a chance to read this book … and it’s now, hands down, my new baseline book to give people interested in space. It’s an easy read that somehow manages to pack in a good summary of an astrophysics degree into ~2 hrs of reading time 😱

Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Mar 25

My book, Forty Ways To Know A Star is out TODAY!

A heavily illustrated guide to what the stars have taught us about the Universe, I hope you all enjoy it! 🧪🔭📖📚

To order: bookshop.org/p/books/fort...

To see inside, with thanks to @chroniclebooks.bsky.social:
www.chroniclebooks.com/products/for...

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jul 9

Through exceptional ruthlessness, it’s down to 50. I am proud of myself and also that’s enough email wrangling for the day.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jul 9

Checked my work email for the first time after 6 weeks of medical leave.

620 unread emails. Six hundred and twenty.

It is the SUMMER.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jun 30

It is the last day of pride month and I wish all of you gentle loves.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jun 21

I'm 3.5 weeks into my recovery from surgery and over the last few days have had the energy to tidy up my website, which I've been meaning to do for a while. Progress!

www.jillianscudder.com

Dr. Jillian M Scudder

The personal & research website of Dr. Jillian M. Scudder, Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Oberlin College.

www.jillianscudder.com

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jun 20

My new book made this list of things for summer observing, in other fun news! www.astronomy.com/observing/ne...

New astronomy products to kick off your summer observing

As June brings us the summer solstice, these new products will help you get the most from warmer nights spent at the telescope.

www.astronomy.com

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jun 20

If you see my book in the wild I will always love to see it! 40 Ways to Know A Star came out extremely cute this past March! (I am biased!)

Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · Jun 20

Hey @jillianscudder.com , your book was in a little local art and candle shop!

“Forty Ways to Know a Star” by Jillian Scudder

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jun 20

Thanks for sharing!! It’s been showing up in fun little corners 😊

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · Jun 12

I am in week 2 of recovery from a long awaited surgery (I am healing well) (it will be at least a month more before I’m fully recovered) (I am on medical leave, my email is being ignored).

Please appreciate my hard working cat as a timeline pause.

A mostly gray cat with white paw tips and back leg stretched out along the bottom of the image is extremely lazily partially curled on her side. Her belly is visible and she looks very relaxed on a pale blue blanket.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · May 22

I told them that this does make Earth special, in spite of being around a typical star in an unremarkable place in the galaxy.

And so it is important to take care of themselves and of our Earth, because it is special that we get to live here, in a cosmically gentle space.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · May 22

Introductory astronomy ended well; we finished by walking through the Drake equation, and the class’ estimates gave us a very low probability of life in our galaxy.

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Dr. Jillian Scudder @jillianscudder.com · May 22

I have been busy! I participated in Indie Bookstore Day at Loganberry Books, a delightful bookstore, & staffed with kind people.

If you’d like a copy, check the link here: bookshop.org/p/books/fort...

Promotional image reading “Independent
Bookstore Day:
DR. JILLIAN SCUDDER
at Loganberry Books
Saturday, April 26 at 10:00 am”
There is a picture of the of cover of 40 Ways to Know A Star next to a picture of the author, a pale, blonde woman wearing glasses.

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