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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci

@noisyastronomer.com

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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. bio.link/noisyastronomer

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 7h

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 7h

My dogs aspire to such an epic butt drag

Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 12h

A 126,000-year-old butt-drag just made fossil history.
A tiny rock hyrax scooted across the sand of ancient South Africa, and that moment was preserved in stone.

Even the smallest acts can echo through time.
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/dcGWTR4

The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil

How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the most unexpected stories ever preserved in stone Some discoveries make headlines because they’re dramatic: new...

climateages.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Good for you.

Everyone else: Watch DS9. Let the Bell Riots radicalize you.

countblanc @countblanc.bsky.social · 8h

i'm working my way through Deep Space 9 for the first time right now and just bumped into an episode that takes place in 2024 America where the boys participate in an armed civil uprising. lol.

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 7h

❤️📡🐶

Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 15h

The Very Large Array, part of The National Radio Astronomy Observatory, was formally dedicated #OTD in 1980.

It was renamed the "Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array" in 2012. Happy 45th birthday, VLA! 🧪 🔭 📡

An image from the movie “Contact” shows Jodie Foster’s character listening to headphones in front of a line of VLA radio dishes that stretch off towards the horizon. One of the dishes is my shaggy golden doodle Linus, wearing a post-surgery cone around his head.

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 7h

Agree about email being The Worst. I'm all about the polls.

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 11h

How? I said the systems won't talk to one another. So folks should manually block off every time they have something? I tried that... It takes a lot of extra time. Sometimes it's bad tools, not the people.

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 11h

SHERMAN! 😂😂😂

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 16h

almost did a spit take

lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 16h

it's that time of year, it's time to get your flu and covid booster shot unless you're from massachusetts then it's time for your flu and covid borcester shot

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16h

🧵🧵🧵

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16h

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 16h

"Uniformity of thought" 🤣🤣🤣

Tell me you've never been to a faculty meeting without telling me you've never been to a faculty meeting.

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 18h

Heck yeaaaah

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 2

the full production is available to view on archive.org

archive.org/details/xebp...

Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

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Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- @notapreppie.bsky.social · 19h

Well, this is just amazing.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 1d

Accurate.

Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 1d

My best explanation of parallel lines

Two parallel lines going up. Top line says "The age I consider 'old'" and the bottom line says "My age".

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 1d

Sadly doesn't look like it. We have a few days I think for that one!

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 1d

As a professional astronomer of a certain age, I will never miss an opportunity to post this video...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbB...
🔭

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

while I acknowledge that LLMs do have some uses for stuff like “producing code with knowledgeable human supervision,” this perfectly reflects how I feel about using it for my own creative work

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 1d

Teaching really does help make things click!

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 2d

FTR I use Griffiths for undergrads. E&M is still fucking magic, but at least he kind of admits it.

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 2d

Sent to me by a wonderful student who couldn't fit my E&M class into their schedule, but I think they are swapping notes with their roommate who IS and who couldn't fit in a different physics course. Which... ❤️

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 2d

It feels weird laughing at ANYTHING Nazi related right now, BUT...

I've seen several variations of fake subtitles on this fictional Hitler scene but this.... THIS ONE... is a must see if you're a physicist.

I didn't even have to take that course and I am WHEEZING 🤣
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm-4...

Hitler learns Jackson E&M

YouTube video by Kian Kamgar-Parsi

www.youtube.com

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Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 3d

oof that does hurt

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 4d

I don't think most faculty are even aware it exists! typical state of internal comms around here :-)

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 4d

... And I'm not sharing my personal life with my work account.

I tried so so hard to make it work! But eventually I had to give up. Especially since so people were using it to book meetings anyway.

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 4d

I can't speak for others, but my availability depends on personal and professional obligations that are at various times (yay flexible scheduling... you're always working!) and our institutional Outlook calendars REFUSE to take updated input from my Google Calendar.

Nicole "They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder" Gugliucci @noisyastronomer.com · 4d

Curious why you call it a smoothie? That just seems like such an interesting visual in my head...

And tell it to slow down, I'm covering CMEs on Oct 10th in intro astro! :-P