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...
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...
"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...
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...
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,...
Particle 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...
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...
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...
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...
I just turned in my second draft!
Well, the subject line was the whole announcement: draft #2 of The Disordered Cosmos is off to my editor. I promised that “The Disordered Cosmos” would be a...