On Writing The Queer Edge of Space-Time + UK/Europe Release: May 7!
A cover unveil and a few thoughts about writing the cosmos while queer
Knowledge Is Worth Your Time
A few thoughts about why we must embrace the hard work of learning.
Gazan Physicist: "This is happening to human beings like yourself"
New book by Gazan student Wasim Said on life and death during genocide is a cry for justice
It's Andromeda Season!
Now is the time to go outside at night and look at our next door neighbor. It's not creepy!
Feed Your Head
Even now, especially now, your curiosity is powerful.
Refusing to name the Final Solution in Gaza
The ancestors demand justice for the living.
The Edge of Space-Time: PREORDER + COVER REVEAL!
Coming 4/7/2026: The universe, reimagined!
Fund astronomy, not genocide.
You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using...
Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services
Act now to defend the integrity of our civil service from the dangerous Schedule F proposal!
The Mathematics of Solidarity
Black and Palestinian solidarity is essential.
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....
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...