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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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