Nicole Gugliucci
@noisyastronomer.com
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
Opinions are mine alone. RT≠endorsement. Posts are ephemeral.
I swear a lot.
bio.link/noisyastronomer
Things I did today instead of doomscrolling:
1. Got sick.
2. Whined about being sick.
3. Did a bunch of work while sick.
Uh... Wait... I think I'm doing it wrong.
Come back in a few days...
1. Got sick.
2. Whined about being sick.
3. Did a bunch of work while sick.
Uh... Wait... I think I'm doing it wrong.
Come back in a few days...
Things I did today instead of doomscrolling:
1. Exercised
2. Made myself a London Fog tea
3. Wrote a blog post
4. Wrote some postcards
5. Attended a webinar
6. Talked with a friend
7. Moved some prescriptions to Costco
8. Played with my dog
1. Exercised
2. Made myself a London Fog tea
3. Wrote a blog post
4. Wrote some postcards
5. Attended a webinar
6. Talked with a friend
7. Moved some prescriptions to Costco
8. Played with my dog
Things I did today instead of doomscrolling
1. Continued sanding a chair
2. Shelved a box of books
3. Bought some string
4. Looked in six places for my pliers then circled back and found them
5. Searched for a local willow supplier
1. Continued sanding a chair
2. Shelved a box of books
3. Bought some string
4. Looked in six places for my pliers then circled back and found them
5. Searched for a local willow supplier
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Things I did today instead of doomscrolling:
1. Got sick.
2. Whined about being sick.
3. Did a bunch of work while sick.
Uh... Wait... I think I'm doing it wrong.
Come back in a few days...
1. Got sick.
2. Whined about being sick.
3. Did a bunch of work while sick.
Uh... Wait... I think I'm doing it wrong.
Come back in a few days...
I heard about this at the Physics and Astronomy Conference. Undergraduates are rightly upset and so am I.
Those regional conferences made it so much more feasible for so many participants!
Those regional conferences made it so much more feasible for so many participants!
This is disappointing. The APS merged all of the regional Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) into one conference in Colorado for 2026. This will make attendance for undergraduates a lot more expensive in terms of both money and time. ⚛️ 🎢 👩🔬 #WomenInPhysics
Attendees
Find mentors, explore education and career opportunities and network with and learn from fellow students with varied backgrounds and perspectives in physics.
www.aps.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I heard about this at the Physics and Astronomy Conference. Undergraduates are rightly upset and so am I.
Those regional conferences made it so much more feasible for so many participants!
Those regional conferences made it so much more feasible for so many participants!
Reposted by Nicole Gugliucci
If you need a break from Earthly bullshit may I present to you some cosmic gloriousness? I suspect it may help.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s...
🧪🔭
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s...
🧪🔭
NGC 3370: Stepladder to the Universe
Also, it’s a very pretty spiral galaxy
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If you need a break from Earthly bullshit may I present to you some cosmic gloriousness? I suspect it may help.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s...
🧪🔭
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/ngc-3370-s...
🧪🔭
Reposted by Nicole Gugliucci
Just two lads from 1675 on a broadside ballad, holding sticks with flags, providing space for social media text inserts, and a comment on how broken current academia is.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Just two lads from 1675 on a broadside ballad, holding sticks with flags, providing space for social media text inserts, and a comment on how broken current academia is.
Legos. Step on legos every day for the rest of your lives.
The Senate voted late Sunday evening on a compromise that could reopen the government following the longest shutdown in history. n.pr/47Pet9S
Senators take first step toward reopening the government after historic shutdown
The Senate voted late Sunday evening on a compromise that could reopen the government following the longest shutdown in history.
n.pr
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Legos. Step on legos every day for the rest of your lives.
Seconded!
And closer to home, Jeff Schnick, emeritus professor of physics and one of the kindest, most dedicated colleagues I've ever had.
Lovely 🧵
And closer to home, Jeff Schnick, emeritus professor of physics and one of the kindest, most dedicated colleagues I've ever had.
Lovely 🧵
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Seconded!
And closer to home, Jeff Schnick, emeritus professor of physics and one of the kindest, most dedicated colleagues I've ever had.
Lovely 🧵
And closer to home, Jeff Schnick, emeritus professor of physics and one of the kindest, most dedicated colleagues I've ever had.
Lovely 🧵
Several local drag shows are raising funds for local food banks.
No wonder the far-right thinks they are evil. How dare you help you community!
No wonder the far-right thinks they are evil. How dare you help you community!
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Several local drag shows are raising funds for local food banks.
No wonder the far-right thinks they are evil. How dare you help you community!
No wonder the far-right thinks they are evil. How dare you help you community!
Hey babe wake up. New periodic table of the elements just dropped
please don't @ me like "actually cerium is unique among the lanthanides for its +4 oxidation state"
⚗️🧪 #chemsky
⚗️🧪 #chemsky
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hey babe wake up. New periodic table of the elements just dropped
oh my fuggin crap ARE YOU KIDDING ME
I'm so embarrassed. This is so pathetic.
I'm so embarrassed. This is so pathetic.
New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte used campaign funds to send a billboard around Manhattan, encouraging businesses to flee the Big Apple for the Granite State.
Gov. Ayotte uses campaign funds to send billboard truck to New York City to recruit businesses
New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte used campaign funds to send a billboard around Manhattan, encouraging businesses to flee the Big Apple for the Granite State.
www.wmur.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
oh my fuggin crap ARE YOU KIDDING ME
I'm so embarrassed. This is so pathetic.
I'm so embarrassed. This is so pathetic.
SABBATICAL APPROVED FOR FALL 2026!!!!!
I really needed a win today because I am exHAUSTed and this helps.
I really needed a win today because I am exHAUSTed and this helps.
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
SABBATICAL APPROVED FOR FALL 2026!!!!!
I really needed a win today because I am exHAUSTed and this helps.
I really needed a win today because I am exHAUSTed and this helps.
Dr. Siouxsie Wiles is absolutely fabulous! Got to meet her while doing #SciComm at Convergence some years ago... she brought glow-in-the-dark microbes! 🧪
Her family is trying to make up the legal fees from a long period of harassment: www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Her family is trying to make up the legal fees from a long period of harassment: www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
November 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Dr. Siouxsie Wiles is absolutely fabulous! Got to meet her while doing #SciComm at Convergence some years ago... she brought glow-in-the-dark microbes! 🧪
Her family is trying to make up the legal fees from a long period of harassment: www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
Her family is trying to make up the legal fees from a long period of harassment: www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/852...
😐😶🫥
The 1st law of thermoacademics: the amount of urgent work to be done is constant.
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing
#academicchatter #chemsky
November 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Huh... never thought of it that way!
6-7 again for the sociological win 🧪
“The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.”
*culture*
[Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]
“The teacher says ‘do problems 6 and 7,’ and boom—a shared moment. Laughter. A known way of moving your hands. It's nonsense that makes sense socially. Because for ten seconds, you belong.”
*culture*
[Becky Kennedy’s post on LI]
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Huh... never thought of it that way!
Reposted by Nicole Gugliucci
I wrote this article! 🙂
This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪
This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪
A cosmic explosion known as GRB 250702B is by far the longest gamma-ray burst astronomers have ever seen—if it’s even one at all
These Cosmic Outbursts Normally Last for Minutes. This One Went on for Hours—And Nobody Knows Why
A cosmic explosion known as GRB 250702B is by far the longest gamma-ray burst astronomers have ever seen—if it’s even one at all
www.scientificamerican.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I wrote this article! 🙂
This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪
This is IMO one of the biggest discoveries of the year, but you haven’t heard about it bc of a NASA press release/embargo stuck bc of the shutdown. I however have no such constraint (we’re tracking it in radio but haven’t finished the paper) so got to write about it! 🔭🧪
Reposted by Nicole Gugliucci
😂
Apparently all you needed to do to predict the NYC election results was read that one N.K. Jemisin novel.
November 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
😂
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Reposted by Nicole Gugliucci
Excellent capture, @mseeley.net!
You make it look easy (reader: it is not)
[Alt-text: The full moon showing craters, bright regions and darker patches. Crossing the disc, from mid-left to upper-right is a sequence of frames that display the International Space Station transiting the lunar disc]
🔭
You make it look easy (reader: it is not)
[Alt-text: The full moon showing craters, bright regions and darker patches. Crossing the disc, from mid-left to upper-right is a sequence of frames that display the International Space Station transiting the lunar disc]
🔭
The Full Moon is beautiful tonight, seen here over the Space Coast of Florida at 8:46pm (ET) as the International Space Station and its crew of 7 passed overhead.
Traveling @ ~17,500mph, it took less than 3/4 sec for the ISS to transit the face of the Moon.
#moon #photography
Traveling @ ~17,500mph, it took less than 3/4 sec for the ISS to transit the face of the Moon.
#moon #photography
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Excellent capture, @mseeley.net!
You make it look easy (reader: it is not)
[Alt-text: The full moon showing craters, bright regions and darker patches. Crossing the disc, from mid-left to upper-right is a sequence of frames that display the International Space Station transiting the lunar disc]
🔭
You make it look easy (reader: it is not)
[Alt-text: The full moon showing craters, bright regions and darker patches. Crossing the disc, from mid-left to upper-right is a sequence of frames that display the International Space Station transiting the lunar disc]
🔭
Oh yeah! It's on my Kobo :-)
For those who'd prefer not to do business with Amazon, it's the same price on Kobo.
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Stealing from Wizards ebook by R. A. Consell - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Stealing from Wizards Volume 4: Arson" by R. A. Consell available from Rakuten Kobo. High school is supposed to be a place of new beginnings. It’s where new friendships are forged, old grievance...
www.kobo.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Oh yeah! It's on my Kobo :-)
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It’s almost like if people tell you that to win you have to turn your back on poor people, or Muslims, or trans people, or immigrants, you can just say, “no, that’s immoral, we’re not doing that,” and keep doing good old fashioned organizing and campaigning and things will be ok
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Reminds me of that one apartment in grad school where the roommates went nuts with a label maker and labelled EVERYTHING.
Like, every wall said 'WALL'
Like, every wall said 'WALL'
November 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Reminds me of that one apartment in grad school where the roommates went nuts with a label maker and labelled EVERYTHING.
Like, every wall said 'WALL'
Like, every wall said 'WALL'
Congrats to my amazingly creative and talented friend!!
Cracked the Amazon top 40 on release day in "coming of age fantasy!"
Thanks folks. 🖤
Keep it up and we can climb into the top twenty this week. 📚💙
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9R2M684
Thanks folks. 🖤
Keep it up and we can climb into the top twenty this week. 📚💙
www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9R2M684
November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Congrats to my amazingly creative and talented friend!!
Got to tell my Astro101 class about the time that our virtual star party almost discovered a supernova...
You can see it here at the top left of the galaxy, four days before it was officially discovered by a group of undergrads! www.youtube.com/live/ePOrciu...
cc @fcain.universetoday.com
You can see it here at the top left of the galaxy, four days before it was officially discovered by a group of undergrads! www.youtube.com/live/ePOrciu...
cc @fcain.universetoday.com
Virtual Star Party - January 19, 2014: We Discovered a Supernova?
YouTube video by Fraser Cain
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Got to tell my Astro101 class about the time that our virtual star party almost discovered a supernova...
You can see it here at the top left of the galaxy, four days before it was officially discovered by a group of undergrads! www.youtube.com/live/ePOrciu...
cc @fcain.universetoday.com
You can see it here at the top left of the galaxy, four days before it was officially discovered by a group of undergrads! www.youtube.com/live/ePOrciu...
cc @fcain.universetoday.com
I wonder if staten island will just get it over with and break off into the ocean already.
@nkjemisin.bsky.social's words often ring in my head...
"You are them, Aislyn! You carry the fear and resentment of half a million people, so is it any wonder that part of you wants to flee, screaming?"
@nkjemisin.bsky.social's words often ring in my head...
"You are them, Aislyn! You carry the fear and resentment of half a million people, so is it any wonder that part of you wants to flee, screaming?"
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I wonder if staten island will just get it over with and break off into the ocean already.
@nkjemisin.bsky.social's words often ring in my head...
"You are them, Aislyn! You carry the fear and resentment of half a million people, so is it any wonder that part of you wants to flee, screaming?"
@nkjemisin.bsky.social's words often ring in my head...
"You are them, Aislyn! You carry the fear and resentment of half a million people, so is it any wonder that part of you wants to flee, screaming?"
Reposted by Nicole Gugliucci
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM