Dr Jennifer Sieben

🌞🛰️Sun-watcher SOHO turns 30! 🎂
"SOHO has overcome nail-biting challenges to become one of the longest-operating space missions of all time" – Prof. @cmundell.esa.int , ESA Director of Science
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I'm having friends over for dinner together. Did I need a custom 7 hour playlist for the evening? Maybe not. But it's a delightful mix!

YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions A Brief History of Telling Stories With D&D (Detail Diatribe!)

EVERYBODY ROLL INITIATIVE -R

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Completed applesauce in 7 containers plus extra in the pot.

All apples are churned and I ran out of containers.

Lots of apples ready to be cut up

Today's plan: Make applesauce, catch up on Desiquest

Unless something goes unexpectedly sideways, I'll be at AAS in January and I'm really looking forward to seeing a bunch of my friends in person again.

I absolutely adored GM GM today! I really do hope this becomes semi regular. I would be perfectly happy if it stays Aabria and Brennan or if there are occasional guests, I just love discussion about telling stories. @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social

Our special November issue, celebrating 30 years of exoplanets, is now here! https://bit.ly/483MH9I
#astronomy #exoplanets

President's house in Philly at night. doorway and window frames without an exterior wall.

Tall ship with some lights in the rigging at night as seen from the deck.

Illuminated decorated carvings on the columns of a building entrance

Grave marker for Dick -- one of Edgar Allen Poe's ravens

I had a lovely time visiting Philly and exploring offbeat museums! I ate a lot of good food and walked a ton. Still plenty of things to see if I'm ever there again.

Aurora Science 🔭🧪

What do the colors of the aurora tell you 👇

Utterly unfair that there's aurora at my parents house when I'm not there to see it.

I'm glad that years of practice mean the 500 words I handwrote at 2am in the dark because the imagery of a scene seized me are still legible in the morning.

Dragon head sculpture

Overhang with vines

Plants with river and bridge in the background

Red blossoms

Enjoyed a fall nature walk yesterday followed by some live music in a churchyard with a big group of picnicers. (I skipped the bike ride, but maybe next year.)

It might not be all in one project, but I'm going to try to hit 50k again this year. It's been a long time since I wasn't working on the same story every November and I'm looking forward to the uncertainty.

I love watching @thatbronzegirl.bsky.social DM because she makes me feel so much better about my lack of a poker face while DMing. Laughing with your players is the best. #criticalrole

I didn't think I could love Bolaire any more, and then that cold open. 🖤 It's like Taliesin made the character just for me. #criticalrole

Block early and fast!

YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions Trope Talk: Haunting the Narrative

good morning! it's time for GRIEF -R

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I know I'm a night owl, but sometimes even I surprise myself with how much energy I have at 3am just because I was invested in a good story.

Congratulations!

Maybe it's the introvert in me, but if I was still waiting in line for a bar at midnight, I would simply go home.

An old black and white picture from the 1800's of a very austere woman (Elizabeth Brown) in an awesome dress that has a plane floor-length skirt but wonderfully puffy and layered sleeves and bodice. She is standing next to a mid-size telescope inside a telescope dome. This picture is from the The Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol. 9, pp.214-215. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Brown_(astronomer)#/media/File:Astronomer_Elizabeth_Brown.jpg

Today I salute Elizabeth Brown (1830-1899) who "with the gentle persistency which characterised her...would not take 'No' for an answer", was a key architect in the founding of the British Astronomical Association at a time when the Royal Astronomical Society was not admitting women! Pure legend 🤩👩‍🔬🔭

AAS Nova Celebrates 10 Years of Astronomy Research News AAS Nova turned 10 this year! For our 2,000th post, we're looking back on the past decade of astronomy research.

AAS Nova turned 10 this year! For our 2,000th post, we’re looking back on the past decade of astronomy research. aasnova.org/2025/10/03/a... @aas.org 🔭🧪

YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions Over the Garden Wall (And Straight Into Dante's Hell) - DETAIL DIATRIBE

happy october! -R

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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Postdoctoral Researcher in Extragalactic Astrophysics Haverford College invites applications for our full-time (37.5 hours per week), fixed-term (2 year appointment), exempt, benefits-eligible Postdoctoral Research in Extragalactic Astrophysics opportuni...

I'm hiring at Haverford - a 2 year NASA funded postdoc to work on Galaxy Zoo with Roman Space Telescope Data: www.haverford.edu/human-resour... 👩‍🔬🔭

The Astrosky Ecosystem - Open Collective We're building an open-source ecosystem of social media tools for the space science & astronomy communities.

For the last two years, I've been paying for the Astronomy feeds hosting myself.

It has been a privilege to grow our community here, but I also shouldn't keep doing it for free 😅

That's why I'm delighted to announce that we now have a donations page on Open Collective! 🔭☄️ #astrophotography

#heliophysics

New Arabic records from Cairo on supernovae 1181 and 1006 The remnant of the historical supernova SN 1181 is under discussion: While the previously suggested G130.7+3.1 (3C58) appears too old (3000-5000 yr), the unusual star IRAS 00500+6713 with a surroundin...

One of the awesome bits of supernova science I always love is when someone finds a new ancient record of a supernovae! In this case new Arabic records for SN1181 and SN1006 from poems!

arxiv.org/abs/2509.04127

Lovely long rainbow today