Nicole Gugliucci
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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.

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November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
as early as next week around here 😩
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
lol what is even happening on this site 🤣
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Reposted by Nicole Gugliucci
To be sure, there can be (and are!) bad actors in bad faith using A.I. for bad, impure purposes. No disagreement there. But your anti-A.I. stance does not justify or excuse the decision to deliberately misuse something that is intended to help disabled people. Abusing alt text will have real harm.
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.

The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
kill GenAI with fire
November 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
hot damn 😭 🫂
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
heck yeah!
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
coatimundi sound way more interesting than deer!
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Now THAT I'm a pro at ;-)
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
oooOOOoooo
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I might need some more deep thoughts when I finally get to take my sabbatical next year :-P
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
You taught me to be open-minded to new and unusual opportunities, and helped me consider my extracurricular writing part of my work, and I did.

And now I always tell my students to go ahead and cold-email someone they'd like to meet in their field. Sometimes it works! :-)
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I want to be rewarded with a book deal and a lecture tour for NOT being a fucking garbage human while also being a pretty damn good science communicator buuuuuut I guess that's not how the world works 🙃
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
yo SAME.
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm interested, but I don't see the DM button on your profile.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Mea culpa me for no context :-)
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM