Jillian Smith
@Jillian_nSmith
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Public affairs, deep tech, and space.🪐 Views, tweets, and bad puns are my own.
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Grabbing a drink at a bar. Guy next to me starts talking to the bartender about Ukraine. I’m bored, so I listen. He pauses, turns, smiles at me and says, “You’re so pretty, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about, do you?”
It did not end well for him.
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“NASA scientists say images from the Webb telescope nearly brought them to tears.”
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!! I can’t wait! 🥲
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My first day at NASA I was told there is a particularly nasty office politics squabble everyone has to navigate: Star Wars or Star Trek. So I don’t say this lightly: May the 4th be with you.
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What do you call cheese that accidentally escapes the International Space Station?
Space Da Brie
I’m here all week, thanks.
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Ladies, pro-tip:
If you’re going to a conference and you’re a bit nervous, wear a LOUD suit.
Every other woman there will gas you up like no other and you’ll get the confidence you need to power you through.
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Made it! Finally had the OPPORTUNITY to fulfill my CURIOSITY.
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@funfactscience
I know he’s definitely an outlier but the fact that they do exist in the year of our Lord 2022 is wild.
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My fiancé wrote this. It’s a little strange translated from Russian but I thought the message was worth sharing, and showing that some Russians vehemently condemn what’s happening.
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Did you hear about the time NASA charged a fine to a billionaire who brought his pet cat up to the ISS and it made a mess?
It was a cat-astro-fee.
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I wonder why so many people don’t know we are going to the Moon again. My own parents didn’t know.
Any thoughts?
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Not to be dramatic but I AM IN A GIANT HOLE CREATED BY A MASSIVE SPACE ROCK SLAMMING INTO THE EARTH WITH A FORCE 150X GREATER THAN AN ATOMIC BOMB. ☄️
@MeteorCraterAZ
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Everyone stop and look at my beautiful little
#JWST
earrings. Saluting you and your successful sun shield deployment, JWST.
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I know Twitter isn’t the place for selfies but just please take a minute to appreciate my James Webb Space Telescope earrings AND pin!
#JWST
#UnfoldTheUniverse
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Why haven’t any of the Mars rovers been named Red Rover? Somebody please correct this oversight.
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Some *personal news*
I met a guy at a shoe store in Shanghai 5 years ago and this weekend we got married!
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That’s a wrap on
#JWST
for today, but only the beginning of what it will continue to awe us with for years to come.
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My non-native English speaking husband just learned the word cahoots and desperately wants to use it.
He keeps asking if he and I are in cahoots and I don’t know how to answer him.
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Please enjoy this NASA space cats shirt, as well as this alpaca.
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I’m trying to get my friend as hyped as I am for the Artemis 1 launch by explaining it’s the most powerful rocket ever built.
But I don’t think they understand the gravity of the situation.
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I just went to a special screening of Lightyear for NASA employees!?
At the very end of the credits there’s a line that says “Special thanks to our friends at NASA.”
Chris Evans, you can stop now with this friends thing and just admit your feelings for me. But also great movie!
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BILL NELSON JUST GOT IN THE ELEVATOR WITH ME AND ASKED ME HOW I THOUGHT HE DID ON HIS SPEECH.
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Have you ever had like, the reverse of imposter syndrome?
Just had this feeling on a call with a NASA engineer - someone MUCH smarter than me - who nonetheless very sincerely sought my advice on how to communicate something.
And the thing is, I knew exactly how to help her.
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I may be a grown woman, but I literally just called my dad and asked him to review a very important email I’m sending for work and he dropped everything he was doing and did it. Bless him, I feel so lucky 😭❤️
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Omg omg omg it’s happening. I’m getting a husband ya’ll.
My fiancé applied for his visa in Sept. 2020. Between Covid, embassy closures, and war, we’ve been delayed years.
He was finally approved today. I can’t believe it.
Here’s us when we first got engaged lol.
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You’re in his DMs. I’m getting ready to wow him with my Pantone/JWST inspired eyeshadow palette.
We are not the same.
(Also can some makeup company plz actually make a Carina nebula palette?)
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@andresdavid
Right?! Like, I really would like to know how he thought that could lead to the outcome he wanted.
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There is nothing left, there is no more reality other than the NASA TV hold music.
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I can’t believe this is real life!!! Two years, one pandemic, one WAR, and thousands of miles later, my fiancé is here!!
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Did you know that on the ISS, only one type of pasta dish is allowed?
It’s beef astro-ganoff.
Why? Because it’s meat-eor than spaghetti.
I’ll see myself out.
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JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST JWST
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Fun fact: many celestial bodies have scientific names, but the Earth, Moon, and Sun do not. They’re whatever your lovely language decides to call them.
H/t
@SciShow
.
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Wearing these babies for good vibes every day until the 12th.
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Today in, my fiancé learned English as a second language:
Him: That cat is such a saucebox, always seeking attention.
Me: Saucebox?
Him: Yeah I made it up.
Me: You can’t just make up words. That’s not how English works.
Him: English is all vibes. That’s exactly how it works.
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Fun fact: they don’t use shampoo on the International Space Station. They use beef broth. Apparently it allows for a meatier shower.
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A dog has been sitting at the door of my apartment gym for over 15 minutes. I think he snuck out and his owner doesn’t know.
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The coolest part of this story is when they mention that little kids in school now will grow up to be the ones studying the samples Percy is currently collecting.
*NOT crying.*
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Why did the space cowboy steal the Sputnik in the middle of the night?
He wanted a saddle light.
(Hahaha. Help me I’m a monster.)
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My fiancé decided since English isn’t his first language he’s allowed to use the idioms of any region that speaks it.
So far he’s used “ya’ll” and “arse” in the same week.
This is out of hand.
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Today at a massive Zoom meeting the presenter’s daughter crawled into his lap, stared at us all on the screen, waved, and told us “I love you!”
I’m just saying...the is what we miss with the return to the office!
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Tortured Poets Department? You mean the people in charge of making up NASA mission acronyms?
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I have a space joke, but I think it’s a little out there.
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This woman in my Zoom meeting is making an extreme effort to listen very professionally to something about Mars, but her cat is in her lap pawing at her hair.
There’s just a little paw that keeps popping up from the bottom of the screen and I am not ok.
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When you’re just trying to buy a plant but work follows you wherever you go. 😉
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She’s a 10 but she’s actually a 10 billion because she’s the Carina Nebula. Like are you kidding me? That’s wayyyy too pretty.
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People ask me all the time how I got my job at NASA. This is what I tell them.
I was THIS close to not applying because I thought it was out of my league. Never sell yourself short!
This is your reminder to apply for that job. Don’t self-eliminate.
I talk to too many people who say they didn’t apply because they didn’t perfectly match all of the requirements.
Job postings are wish lists, not requirements. Apply.
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I had a dream I was in law school but all my classmates and I had call signs like in Top Gun Maverick and that’s how the professors addressed us in class. Mine was Topo Chico????
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Things that impressed me working w/ women lately:
- One who politely but unapologetically corrected me on the pronunciation of her name
- One who accepted a compliment and didn’t try to diminish herself doing it
- One who passed a media opp to a coworker bc she deserved it more
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@TheGalacticGal
Official credit for this masterpiece goes to geniuses
@maggiemasetti
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@KatyMersmann
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“Quick, take a picture of me with my amazing NASA spin-off technology.”
#SpaceBlanket
#ThankYouNASA
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Orion just broke the record for farthest distance traveled by a spacecraft made to carry humans AND snapped a selfie of itself looking amazing.
Good looking, talented…why don’t we just call it Orion Gosling at this point?
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Voyager texts back after 15.1 billion miles, technical issues, and five months of failed attempts.
Ladies, if he wanted to, he would.
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Wowee. Hello everybody! I never expected this to become what it has, but I think it’s indicative of how this touches a nerve for so many women who share similar experiences. Some other thoughts:
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When I hear “representation matters,” I think of people like
@lizlandau
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In her I found someone I both relate to and look up to.
Loved having time with an incredible woman science communicator whose joy of discovery is infectious. 🛰️🪐💜
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Like, humans have never ever ever tried to MOVE anything big in space ever. We’ll be doing it in 10 mins - to an asteroid 7 million miles away - and we have a LIVE STREAM of it.
What!?
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@KyleForgeard
@elonmusk
You could have chosen to say…anything, anything other than this. And yet, this is what you picked.
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Worst office ever. Just a bunch of giant clicky pens (?) and no printer in sight.
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I kept searching Netflix for a show I was really starting to get into. I couldn’t find it anywhere. Then I looked on my nightstand and realized it was a book.
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Shamelessly proud of this one.
Today
@NASA
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I am so so happy. Humans really can be amazing.
We are going.
For the first time, the
@NASA_SLS
rocket and
@NASA_Orion
fly together.
#Artemis
I begins a new chapter in human lunar exploration.
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Ladies and gentleman, we are taking NO chances today.
PS - thank you everyone who kept me from caving and wearing a worm logo.
#Artemis1
#WetDressRehearsal
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My chiropractor sent me X-rays of my spine and let me just say if you are looking down at your phone right now, raise that blasted thing eye level and keep it there as often as possible, I don’t care how dumb it looks or how tired your arm gets.
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I was confused at work and so I got up and ate a little piece of chocolate.
I came back and the problem was magically solved.
The scientific process dictates that I must eat a little piece of chocolate every time I am stuck at work now, right?
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Yes, very sad that these things are still going on in 2022, and there’s obviously a lot of work that needs to be done, but I’m so encouraged by all the amazing people I’ve been interacting with here too. Thank you again!
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Why aren’t human males more like bird males? Dress up for us. Do more elaborate gestures to impress us. Place our baby on your bare feet while standing on an ice sheet so I can go fill up fish for god’s sake.
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I’m constantly amazed by how many times I am THIS close to not asking for something because I don’t think it’s the right time or I’m the right person, etc., but then, upon saying “what the hey, why not?!” and shooting my shot, I get way beyond what I even asked for.
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I’ve been stuck at an airport all day in North Carolina. A couple here is breaking up. The woman is calling the man a cheater and a drunk. The man is nodding along…in somber agreement…and also playing with a yo-yo????
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Mind blown to learn today that Pi isn’t just something people memorize for Tootsie Rolls and is in fact used by NASA quite often.
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I used to feel so embarrassed that I was not a “math or science person.”
And then I have days like today when I see what I can do with words and it shocks even me.
Like, wow clever brain, I can’t believe you just made language do that.
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Cottage cheese implies the existence of mansion cheese.
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Reading this book and I CANNOT stop thinking about this one footnote on hibernation vs sleep:
“…hibernating ground squirrels actually incur sleep debt and must periodically rouse from inactivity and raise their body temperature so they can get some actual sleep.”
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If my own research is correct, at least six current/former US astronauts got their start at a community college.
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Today in “my fiancé learned English as a second language”:
Fiancé: I love you — psyche!
Me: Um. What?
Fiancé: What?
Me: ...What do you think “psyche” means in this context?
Him: Like, you’re feeling psyched up about something?
Me: Ah. No honey, no.
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Finally made it to the
@artechouse
#JWST
exhibit. One of the coolest immersive experiences ever. Amazing collaboration
@NASA
!
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Black holes and tiny moon dirt plants. What a day to be alive.
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I had thought the Barbie movie was surely overrated. There was no way in my mind it could possibly live up to all the hype it has received.
Dear reader, if anything, it is underrated.
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My sister, reading the website of a person attending her Very Important Meeting:
“Do you think he was trying to be like cute and humble, saying he started off as a barista?”
Me: *checks website*
“My sister in Christ, that says barrister. He was a barrister for INTERPOL.”
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“If you held a grain of sand at the tip of your finger at arm’s length, that’s about the same as what you’re seeing right now with this image.”
- Bill Nelson at JWST first image briefing
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T-25 days and 17 hours until
#JWST
’s first official images get beamed back to Earth.
Ahhhhhhhhhh!
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Fun fact ahead of the
#AcademyAwards
:
The same company that gold-plated the James Webb Space Telescope also gold-plates the Oscar trophies.
#JWST
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Ya’ll…I did it.
I convinced a MAN in my friend circle to go to therapy.
And he said he liked it!
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I say this only sort of kidding. Can we not convert some of the office space going unused bc of remote work into housing to ease the housing crisis?
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4 days until we BOOP!
On Monday,
@NASA
's DART spacecraft will smash into an asteroid to see if these kind of impacts could save us in the future from an asteroid heading for Earth! So this week we find out all about it from Dr. Thomas Statler from NASA's
@AsteroidWatch
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Anyway, this is mostly a speech to my younger self so if you’ve read this far, congratulations, you and the me of the past that somehow time-traveled to this moment are both getting this lesson, so you both definitely deserve a cookie. (But younger Jillian especially.)
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She’s a 10 but she makes you wait ten minutes and listen to boppy elevator music while doing so.
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