Jamie L. Molaro
@spacejammie.bsky.social
Planetary Scientist, Artist, Musician, D&D Nerd, Epic Poet. hEDS, Bi ♿️🏳️🌈
I like rocks, study asteroids, and make art out of spacecraft data. I also play harp, own a carousel, and my dog is really cute.
www.jamiemolaro.com
I like rocks, study asteroids, and make art out of spacecraft data. I also play harp, own a carousel, and my dog is really cute.
www.jamiemolaro.com
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Jamie L. Molaro
@spacejammie.bsky.social
· Oct 18
Our 2024 Engagement Report is out! For new followers, the #SkyhorseCarousel is an amusement ride, piece of #SciArt, and science outreach installation celebrating human culture and cosmology from ancient and modern times which we just brought to Burning Man!
skyhorsecarousel.com/news-updates/
skyhorsecarousel.com/news-updates/
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I’ve got weekend plans and books to sell ✨📚
And if you can’t make it, I’ve got links on where to find any of my books here: www.jillianscudder.com/books
And if you can’t make it, I’ve got links on where to find any of my books here: www.jillianscudder.com/books
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I’ve got weekend plans and books to sell ✨📚
And if you can’t make it, I’ve got links on where to find any of my books here: www.jillianscudder.com/books
And if you can’t make it, I’ve got links on where to find any of my books here: www.jillianscudder.com/books
A while back I sent an artist friend who does printmaking a cutting mat from one of my paper pieces and she sent this back. I love how it reflects my art-making process! She doesn't have bandwidth for more, but I'd like to find someone local to collaborate on a series. Credit Left: Linda Fox #SciArt
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A while back I sent an artist friend who does printmaking a cutting mat from one of my paper pieces and she sent this back. I love how it reflects my art-making process! She doesn't have bandwidth for more, but I'd like to find someone local to collaborate on a series. Credit Left: Linda Fox #SciArt
Slogging through a badly needed update on my website. It's so tedious, and only half way to a new place but it'll get there slowly.
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Slogging through a badly needed update on my website. It's so tedious, and only half way to a new place but it'll get there slowly.
OR IN MY BEDROOM THANKS
Coooool! I love scorpions! But definitely not when they’re inside my house and it’s dark! 🦂😨😮💨
November 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
OR IN MY BEDROOM THANKS
Boy owning a carousel is a great excuse for learning lots of things I otherwise might not. Today it’s sandblasting and air compressors.
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Boy owning a carousel is a great excuse for learning lots of things I otherwise might not. Today it’s sandblasting and air compressors.
Happy Halloween from my Untitled Desk Goose 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Happy Halloween from my Untitled Desk Goose 🎃
We went to a smaller festival this month and thought it was such a shame the #SkyhorseCarousel is too hard to bring to small events, so we bought a coin operated horse for next time 😂 It has fabulous hair! We’ll repaint it when we get started on the carousel scenery panels next month.
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We went to a smaller festival this month and thought it was such a shame the #SkyhorseCarousel is too hard to bring to small events, so we bought a coin operated horse for next time 😂 It has fabulous hair! We’ll repaint it when we get started on the carousel scenery panels next month.
I love getting manuscript review requests that fall outside my area of research because it's something I can say no to without feeling guilty 🙃
October 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I love getting manuscript review requests that fall outside my area of research because it's something I can say no to without feeling guilty 🙃
Always feels good to get a proposal out the door.
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Always feels good to get a proposal out the door.
Opened up to scan my timeline and all I have to say is that Avi Loeb is a blight upon a modern media addicted to sensationalizing garbage under guise of avante guard and completely disinterested in the inherent richness that unadorned scientific knowledge brings society.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Opened up to scan my timeline and all I have to say is that Avi Loeb is a blight upon a modern media addicted to sensationalizing garbage under guise of avante guard and completely disinterested in the inherent richness that unadorned scientific knowledge brings society.
Celebrating some (unfortunately still secret) good news tonight with a liqueur I only use on the most special of occasions. Cheers y’all!
October 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Celebrating some (unfortunately still secret) good news tonight with a liqueur I only use on the most special of occasions. Cheers y’all!
I keep getting ads for advent calendars on my social media even though it’s not even November yet and you’re not supposed to open them till December. But on the other hand, it’s been a shitty year so I’ve decided to just embrace Christmas already. Maybe I’ll get an advent calendar for both months.
October 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I keep getting ads for advent calendars on my social media even though it’s not even November yet and you’re not supposed to open them till December. But on the other hand, it’s been a shitty year so I’ve decided to just embrace Christmas already. Maybe I’ll get an advent calendar for both months.
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
Literally one of the coolest comet pix I've *ever* seen: Comet Lemmon seemingly wrapped in the debris tail from a meteor!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/amazing-im...
And hey: I bring you stuff like this three times a week in my newsletter. Please sign up when you visit!
🔭🧪
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/amazing-im...
And hey: I bring you stuff like this three times a week in my newsletter. Please sign up when you visit!
🔭🧪
AMAZING image: Comet Lemmon encounters a meteor, kinda.
Also, a spinny new target for the asteroid-hunting mission Hayabusa2
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Literally one of the coolest comet pix I've *ever* seen: Comet Lemmon seemingly wrapped in the debris tail from a meteor!
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/amazing-im...
And hey: I bring you stuff like this three times a week in my newsletter. Please sign up when you visit!
🔭🧪
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/amazing-im...
And hey: I bring you stuff like this three times a week in my newsletter. Please sign up when you visit!
🔭🧪
Boy I love Halloween but y’all, when you put decorations of black cats all over your yard the neighborhood dogs are going to react!! Fable just injured me freaking out in surprise over a yard filled with no less than five fake cats, come ooonn.
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Boy I love Halloween but y’all, when you put decorations of black cats all over your yard the neighborhood dogs are going to react!! Fable just injured me freaking out in surprise over a yard filled with no less than five fake cats, come ooonn.
Pretty spectacular clouds tonight, hard to fully capture their iridescent pearl quality in the photo. #SkyhorseCarousel
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Pretty spectacular clouds tonight, hard to fully capture their iridescent pearl quality in the photo. #SkyhorseCarousel
When you’re middle aged packing for a festival camp out and worried that the cops might mistake your thousand daily vitamins for drugs 🤦♀️
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
When you’re middle aged packing for a festival camp out and worried that the cops might mistake your thousand daily vitamins for drugs 🤦♀️
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Here's a couple of interesting videos on how the roads, landmarks, and cities in modern LA are built upon the Native footpaths and villages they displaced.
www.tiktok.com/@beachboyz2m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb1D...
www.tiktok.com/@beachboyz2m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb1D...
Longest video I’ve ever made and still barely scratched the surface. The Tongva (also called the Kizh) occupied an area the size of Rhode Island for thousands of years and still are not federally reco...
TikTok video by beachboyz2men
www.tiktok.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Here's a couple of interesting videos on how the roads, landmarks, and cities in modern LA are built upon the Native footpaths and villages they displaced.
www.tiktok.com/@beachboyz2m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb1D...
www.tiktok.com/@beachboyz2m...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb1D...
End of an era! I've been at JPL for the last 10 years! Two years as a postdoc, and then after moving to @psi.edu I kept my office to continue work with collaborators. Current projects have ended and I had to hand in my badge today, a bit sad but new plans are in the works so I'm sure I'll be back :)
October 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
End of an era! I've been at JPL for the last 10 years! Two years as a postdoc, and then after moving to @psi.edu I kept my office to continue work with collaborators. Current projects have ended and I had to hand in my badge today, a bit sad but new plans are in the works so I'm sure I'll be back :)
"Seminar" is a strong word for this despite the heading, it was very informal. But it was fun to share about some of my art projects with colleagues! #SciArt #SkyhorseCarousel #FrameOfReference
Vid of @spacejammie.bsky.social showing off cool Burning Man Informal Outreach projects youtu.be/dkGPpcjIsN8?...
Science Outreach at the Burning Man Art Festival (Jamie Molaro, 09/17/2025)
YouTube video by Planetary Science Institute
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September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"Seminar" is a strong word for this despite the heading, it was very informal. But it was fun to share about some of my art projects with colleagues! #SciArt #SkyhorseCarousel #FrameOfReference
Reposted by Jamie L. Molaro
At least a third of my book (in progress) is just me having fun explaining the humor in Frost’s astronomical poems, but this one is different.
The tone goes from contentious to sad.
Note, the “far star” is a galaxy. 🧪🔭
The tone goes from contentious to sad.
Note, the “far star” is a galaxy. 🧪🔭
September 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
At least a third of my book (in progress) is just me having fun explaining the humor in Frost’s astronomical poems, but this one is different.
The tone goes from contentious to sad.
Note, the “far star” is a galaxy. 🧪🔭
The tone goes from contentious to sad.
Note, the “far star” is a galaxy. 🧪🔭
Ahhhh! I am sitting on some VERY exciting personal news which I am just BURSTING to tell you 😁 Hopefully soon!
September 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Ahhhh! I am sitting on some VERY exciting personal news which I am just BURSTING to tell you 😁 Hopefully soon!
It is mind boggling to me that the template NASA made for the Table of Work Effort in proposals does not fit within the prescribed page margins…
Also their biosketch template eliminates half of what is supposed to be included.
Also their biosketch template eliminates half of what is supposed to be included.
September 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It is mind boggling to me that the template NASA made for the Table of Work Effort in proposals does not fit within the prescribed page margins…
Also their biosketch template eliminates half of what is supposed to be included.
Also their biosketch template eliminates half of what is supposed to be included.
“Dear Dr. Colleague…” Well that’s a new one.
September 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Dear Dr. Colleague…” Well that’s a new one.
oh my god, when I get pinched nerves in my neck it causes my shoulders to itch uncontrollably and I am absolutely dying today. I would so much rather have pain than itching, why is this my life.
September 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
oh my god, when I get pinched nerves in my neck it causes my shoulders to itch uncontrollably and I am absolutely dying today. I would so much rather have pain than itching, why is this my life.
