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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How This Lawyer Confronts Sexual Assault on Campus
Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash I first met Olympias Iliana Konidaris at her brother’s wedding, where she gave a great toast that affirmed all of my...
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. source This...
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...
NYT Exploits Black Physicists for Culture War Clicks
Photo by Alex Motoc on Unsplash 12/20/2022 5:32 PM ET Update: It turns out that this is not the first time a Powell has specifically come after a woman...
Celebrate 50 Years of PhDs: Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography
Willie Hobbs Moore with her daughter Dorian. source: Ronald E. Mickens Collection on African-American Physicists, AIP Niels Bohr Archives 2022 is the 50th...
Taking Responsibility for Historical Homophobia at NASA and Beyond: #RenameJWST
James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Seen in Full Bloom. credit: NASA The following statement is from me, Dr. Brian Nord, Dr. Sarah Tuttle, and Dr. Lucianne...
About your diversity and inclusion requirement
Photo by vianet ramos on Unsplash On repetition I almost feel silly writing this piece because I have written some version of it so many times. I wrote...
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...
The Whole Thing is Unsafe
Photo by Miko Guziuk on Unsplash The United States is not a safe place. Everywhere in the US is unsafe for someone. Some (white) folks are new to the idea...
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...
Astronomy and Colonial Poison in Hawaiʻi
Reporting from Hawaii News Now on the Red Hill Crisis Oʻahu’s water supply is in crisis due to negligence from the colonial U.S. military. And it might not...
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...
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...
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...
#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...
