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What I wanted when I called for a Strike for Black Lives
A personal view on #Strike4BlackLives/#StrikeforBlackLives and #ShutdownSTEMnote: This is my perspective on this, and it should not be interpreted as speaking on behalf of any other author whose name...
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The Disordered Cosmos is coming! Preorder July 8!
Some of you are getting this because you signed up for a reminder to order on July 8 and further updates about the books. Welcome! I also update folks on my writing!Here are links to my recent New...
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The Disordered Cosmos Pre-Orders Are Under Way!
Preorders for my book have begun! The book itself doesn’t come out until March 9, 2021, but the way the industry works is preorders start early and how those are going can really impact how a book does...
View ArticleParticle physics in the wake of slavery & settler colonialism
note: I prepared these remarks and delivered them to the July 2020 meeting of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP), which is the governing body of U.S. particle physics. You can listen to the...
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October Update: I won an award!
Dear readers,Here are some updates from the “road” of doing writing and science! First of all, I responded to the copyedits of my book this past Monday, which means basically I completely finished the...
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End of 2020! UK Release Date! Nature 10!
(illustration by Michelle Urra, for Vice)Hello Party People!What a terrible year it has been, and thus what a strange year to be reporting good news. Yet here I am, in your inbox, with good news.Public...
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"Can I understand your book?"
Dear readers,Usually I send out updates about how things are going with the book or other writing items. Today I want to do something a little different: I want to answer some questions I’ve been...
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The Disordered Cosmos book tour, playlist and more!
Dear Party People,A few items in this update: book tour dates, A BOOK PLAYLIST, a book giveaway and news about other writing items. Book Tour!I can’t believe that The Disordered Cosmos will be in your...
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#DisorderedCosmos is out in the wild and what is Substack doing?
Dear Party People,Thanks to all of you who have bought The Disordered Cosmos, gifted it, attended an event, clicked on an interview or an excerpt. The response has been so incredible that the book is...
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Confronting Colorism (in Science)
Before the book got its cover, this was my own personally designed logo. I can’t wait until the pandemic is over and I can try to get whole cupcakes in my mouth in one shot again.Dear Reader,As The...
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Is "white supremacy culture" a thing?
Dear Reader,I saw a really great talk last week about space weather by Dr. Chigomezyo Ngwira, and you can read my tweets about it here. His talk convinced me that space weather is a pretty exciting...
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Is physics supposed to have a content warning?
a little orange snake in a little top hat!Dear readers,I apologize. I haven’t sent anything since May. Many things have happened since May! Like, the pandemic got worse. The Afghanistan War ended the...
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Astronomy and Colonial Poison in Hawaiʻi
Reporting from Hawaii News Now on the Red Hill CrisisOʻahu’s water supply is in crisis due to negligence from the colonial U.S. military. And it might not seem obvious to everyone that astronomers are...
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More Disordered Cosmos in Paperback + Events + New Pubs
Dear Reader,First off. I wrote this whole newsletter and then realized I didn’t say FUCK YEAH I WON A 2021 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE!!!!! Details. Text of speech. Video of speech.Anyway, do you want...
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The Whole Thing is Unsafe
Photo by Miko Guziuk on UnsplashThe United States is not a safe place. Everywhere in the US is unsafe for someone. Some (white) folks are new to the idea that there are jurisdictions that are unsafe...
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Orders of Magnitude: Intuiting how rich these f*ckers actually are
Note: I tried to place this in a pub, the editors rejected it as too political, so I’m placing it here because why not? (Shout out to my dad who said, “Nice try!” when I told him what happened.) I may...
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About your diversity and inclusion requirement
Photo by vianet ramos on UnsplashOn repetitionI almost feel silly writing this piece because I have written some version of it so many times. I wrote Diversity is a Dangerous Set-Up and the Rules of...
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Taking Responsibility for Historical Homophobia at NASA and Beyond: #RenameJWST
James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Seen in Full Bloom. credit: NASAThe following statement is from me, Dr. Brian Nord, Dr. Sarah Tuttle, and Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz, authors of the Scientific American...
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Celebrate 50 Years of PhDs: Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy...
Willie Hobbs Moore with her daughter Dorian. source: Ronald E. Mickens Collection on African-American Physicists, AIP Niels Bohr Archives2022 is the 50th anniversary of the first Black woman to earn a...
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NYT Exploits Black Physicists for Culture War Clicks
Photo by Alex Motoc on Unsplash12/20/2022 5:32 PM ET Update: It turns out that this is not the first time a Powell has specifically come after a woman assistant professor. It seems there’s a...
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Signal Boost: *The Movement to #RenameJWST Is About More Than One Person*
A new statement about last week’s NYT fiasco has been released by Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz, Dr. Sarah Tuttle, and Dr. Brian Nord. I had no hand in writing this, but felt it was important to share since...
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Against a Milquetoast Politics of Integration
This is Edmonton Pride in 2011. As a grad student who was finding her queer political footing, I was involved in a similar group in Toronto. sourceThis focusing upon our own oppression is embodied in...
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How This Lawyer Confronts Sexual Assault on Campus
Photo by Edwin Andrade on UnsplashI first met Olympias Iliana Konidaris at her brother’s wedding, where she gave a great toast that affirmed all of my complaints about him (he, a fellow astrophysicist,...
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The Edge of Space-Time is coming!
Hello Party People!It’s been a while since I’ve written a more personal note. A lot has happened as late, including that the owners/creators of Substack continue to be totally fine with hate speech on...
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On Getting Tenure
caption...Yesterday, the academic excellence committee of the trustees of the University System of New Hampshire approved the President’s recommendation to promote me to Associate Professor with...
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Welcome to The Edge of Space-Time
Hi Friends!You're getting this email from Buttondown because I've migrated away from Substack, who suck, as a company. Since I don't have paid subscriptions, this involves making a move from a (venture...
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Why Scientists Must Stand with Palestinians
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. (source)“On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed – how...
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A Call to *All* Scientists from Particles for Palestine
Since I last wrote about Why Scientists Must Stand with Palestinians, several thousand Palestinians have been murdered by a violent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The hospital infrastructure has been...
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Our job is to protect student curiosity
Hundreds of Temple, Drexel and UPenn students marched in solidarity with Palestine to UPenn's campus on April 25, where professors walked out of classes. Students also set up tents in solidarity with...
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The Mathematics of Solidarity
Palestinians walk past a mural of George Floyd, a Black American who died after being restrained by police officers, in Gaza City, Tuesday June 16, 2020. Photo and caption by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto.Day...
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