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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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