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Emily Rice
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Astronomer at CUNY & AMNH, CEO of STARtorialist, HQ for Astronomy on Tap, I guess I’m trying to make science fun?

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67° all the way down…

Sorry not sorry @amnh.org
Old school Museum display showing trees in different types of forests, with temperatures labeled at various heights above the ground, focus on on a tree that is 67 degrees from top to bottom
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Not like this
Cosmic cliffs JWST image displayed a digital screen on an ice cream truck for the investment conference attendees
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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WHAT IS GOING ON
Lincoln Center adorned with banners for an investment group conference featuring JWST image of the pillars of Creation Close up of a sign for an investment group conference featuring the JWST image of the pillars of creation
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I SUBMITTED A FULBRIGHT!!!
Selfie of Business Emily holding an ice cream cone in front of a Salt & Straw shop
September 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I found a frog with some students this morning!
A light-colored hand holding a medium-sized American bullfrog with outstretched legs, with another person’s arm, a wood fence, and sunlit plants in the background
September 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Playing in the newest exhibit at AMNH! (Hope to cross worldlines soon - maybe AAS in Phoenix?)
A six year old climbing on a larger than life model of a Hercules beetle in a museum exhibit
August 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Aaaaaand Crew-11 launched! This time I got to chat with Tom Costello, Cady Coleman, and Marissa Para about the importance of the ISS and supporting NASA’s missions
Selfie of Emily with under bright lights with tv hair and makeup, cool nerd glasses, a blue blazer over space image t-shirt, with a screen of a newsroom behind her
August 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I don’t have a recent flower photo, but here is a kiddo enjoying a sunset
A cloudy bright orange and light purple-blue sunset viewed across a field with trees at the horizon and a kid’s arms raised above their head in the lower left
July 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Still from the Steve Buscemi with a skateboard meme with caption “How do you do, fellow kids?” With kids crossed out and “early career researchers” added underneath
June 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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How it started —> How it’s going

@gnarayan.bsky.social & @bethwillman.bsky.social prepare us for the @vrubinobs.bsky.social First Look at #EAS2025
Gaitham (left) and Beth (right) flanking a screen showing the first sketch of the “dark matter telescope” from 2001
June 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Hello from EAS in Cork, my hometown-by-marriage! I’m co-hosting an @astronomyontap.bsky.social lunch session tomorrow and presenting at @aotcork.bsky.social Wednesday evening, ask me about the time I met Cillian Murphy!
Selfie of Emily (wearing a space image shirt of course) in front of University College Cork, with a banter for the EAS conference on the gate
June 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Today was a fun day! I got to speak at & help judge some science fair projects at the Bronx STEM Expo at Yankee Stadium, and I admit when someone asks if I am willing to be on camera I always say yes 🤩
Emily smiling widely, standing in the concourse at Yankee Stadium holding a Fox 5 microphone, wearing a sweatshirt printed with the JWST Cosmic Cliffs image (kind of Mets colors, oops) and a red ribbon reading JUDGE in gold letters pinned to her shoulder
June 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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I have a brilliant idea to save Sesame Street: make all those parody musicals real. I would pay
so much money to see Scramilton!
A kid standing in front of a large poster for Scramilton, with Oscar the Grouch in silhouette on a black star in a parody of the Hamilton musical poster, imitating the pose while holding an Elmo doll and wearing a pastel Abby hat
March 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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TFW you:
1️⃣ buy @astrokatie.com’s book
2️⃣ from AMNH
3️⃣ to lend to a student!
🎉
(After making five phone calls to my senators and representative in Congress 😡)
A light-skinned hand holding a hardcover copy of Katie Mack’s book “the end of everything (astrophysically speaking)” in front of the 77th st entrance to the American museum of natural history, with ornamental cabbages visible in the mid-ground.
February 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Kenneth the Page energy
Emily sitting on a NBC “peacock” logo couch/bench thing in front of the NBC news studio, with Hallie Jackson at the anchor desk in the background
January 16, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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I might be on TV? Or it might get scrubbed, either way, this is worth it!
Emily in TV make up and wavy hair in front of an NBC news sign, showing off rainbow solar spectrum earrings
January 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I WILL run into Cyndi Lauper at a random coffee shop in NYC and promptly embarrass myself asking for a photo
1980s full-page portrait of Cyndi Lauper from a 1990s Rolling Stone magazine
January 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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DJ Carly Sagan has a message for you
Mirror selfie of a woman wearing an Astronomy on Tap t-shirt and a short orange wig and thick-rimmed glasses holding a phone in front of most of her face. A sign above her head in the background reads “YOU LOOK GREAT” in gold letters
December 13, 2024 at 3:38 AM
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Getting ready to go on stage for @astroontapdc.bsky.social at DC9!

astronomyontap.org/event/astron...
Selfie of Emily on stage holding a mic stand with the DC9 logo signs in the background Photo of Emily on the screen of the stage at DC9!
December 13, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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Look who I met at #AGU24!!!!!!!
Emily in a conference exhibit hall next to a person in a very tall Beaker costume
December 10, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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I don’t always wear space-themed outfits, but when I do… oh who am I kidding, I ALWAYS wear space-themed outfits! Necklace by Oh Pluto, dress features DKIST image, both available from @startorialist.bsky.social !
Smiling Emily in a head and shoulders crop wearing an sunspot-print dress under an orange v-neck sweater and a brightly-colored acrylic necklace of the Solar System planets, Moon, and Pluto
November 22, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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I’d say we have a pretty good relationship overall. She picked today for a no-school day and we rope-dropped Invisible Worlds at AMNH, excellent choice.
Blurry photo of a kid in a pink onesie with the hood up running along the wall of an immersive theater with projections of a large tree and jungle background on the floor and wall. The kid is trailed by interactive illumination on the floor.
November 18, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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Hello NASA/Planetary friends! Can anyone confirm what the Europa Clipper “mission identifier” features represent?
Europa Clipper mission identifier, with a small circle mostly surrounded by 5 stylized V-shapes pointing inward, and a four-pointed star in the upper right (where the 6th V would fit).
October 11, 2024 at 1:02 PM
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Hello from an apt urban sculptural landmark!
Emily reflected in the Cloud Gate “bean” sculpture with white clouds and blue sky
July 17, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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T+24 hours from totality. I am absolutely gutwrenched. It was still amazing, but why does Rochester have to be like this???
Selfie of Emily wearing sunglasses on front of a crystal clear blue sky, the sun over her head
April 9, 2024 at 7:15 PM