Dr. Jillian Scudder
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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
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. 🧪🔭📚
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar, from 2022. This one took a while to render and I’m still proud of it. 🐡
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In honor of #ArtAdventCalendar, some old (2020) art I still enjoy. 🐡
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Also seen at OSU: a remarkably comprehensive aversion to the letter M.
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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. 🔭📚
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I’m four feet and five skeins deep into this absurdly cabled project and officially halfway. 🧶
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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%...
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This weekend also marks my transition into being able to (tax law compliantly) sell copies of my books directly, at in person events!

My desire to head to sci-fi/fantasy cons with a giant sign reading “GET YOUR SPACE FACTS HERE” is increasing.
November 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Off we go! Time to sell books ✨📚🔭👍
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 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
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
From spaceweather.com:

From me: booooooooooooo
🔭
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Quick reminder, especially to men:

don’t do this!
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It’s book fair time! Looking forward to chatting about my books with folks here!

#BuckeyeBookFair 📚🔭
November 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
We’ve reached the 3ft mark of my overly complicated cabling project 🧶
October 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
250 rows of cabling. 🧶
September 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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
September 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Teacup the cat has not minded the extra company.
August 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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.
June 12, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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...
May 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Good afternoon; my grades are in, my office is tidy, and it is raining outside.
May 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Fascinating choice to put this fact in the 8th paragraph
April 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Post your space art
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
100 rows of nonstop cabling. 🧶
April 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Do you think we get to unlock a new emotion if we hit zero
April 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Apparently CNN has invented this Fear & Greed Index and there’s something very bizarre about a 100 point anxiety to avarice scale

Normal one continues, in any case
April 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM