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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Asst. Prof: Theoretical Physics/Astro/STS. LA Times Book Prize for #DisorderedCosmos. all #BLACKandSTEM/all Jewish. queer/agender/woman/she. tweets by/for me.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 24, 2023
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Important thread

Tweet Mar 24, 2023
My Students Are Giving Each Other Furtive Looks. The State Needs to Step In my latest for NYTOpinion -- The death of civilization has many facets. In his great 1836 painting "Destruction," the artist Thomas Cole depicted liberal college students pr
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 16, 2023
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Reading the Taylor Branch trilogy on MLK and my mind is blown every other page. Historians do such amazing and important work.

Book Nov 15, 1988
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
by Taylor Branch
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 8, 2023
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Nylah Burton's essay about the antisemitism is worth a read, for people who weren't aware of that problem:

Article Dec 28, 2018
Alice Walker’s Terrible Anti-Semitic Poem Felt Personal — to Her and to Me
by Alice Walker and nylah
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 5, 2023
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Fantastic new piece in @CellCellPress led by Jenny Reardon and incl Evelynn Hammonds: "It should be unacceptable to support science that does not center ethics and justice throughout the research process." #BlackandSTEM #AAASmtg

Paper Feb 3, 2023
Trustworthiness matters: Building equitable and ethical science
by Jenny Reardon
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 5, 2023
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Reading this book now, and it's so good!

Book Jul, 2022
Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity
by Sarah F. Derbew
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 4, 2023
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Thread you should read about the economics of being a book writer:

Tweet Mar 4, 2023
*some news* (at the risk of getting in trouble for sharing writerly INSIDER BASEBALL): VIROLOGY earned out its advance three months after publication, by September, 2022. www.virologybook.com twitter.com/reluctantlyjoe/status/1632114685276192769/p
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 3, 2023
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Interesting thread here!

Tweet Mar 3, 2023
@StartsWithABang Hi @StartsWithABang , the Type Ia supernova community has made a lot of recent progress on an explosion mechanism that doesn't involve the Chandrasekhar mass at all.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 3, 2023
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(also I'm riffing here off some related comments about neoliberal subjects and the implications for workers that Ben McKean makes in his fantastic book Disorienting Neoliberalism)

Book Oct 9, 2020
Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom
by Benjamin McKean
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 2, 2023
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You should read @AstroKatie’s book!

Book Aug 4, 2020
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
by Katie Mack
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Mar 2, 2023
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And that’s just a tweet. Read this essay. It’s the kind of energy on the page we need.

Article Nov 22, 2022
Two new movies, ‘Till’ and ‘U.S. and the Holocaust,’ help us connect the dots between Jim Crow and fascism
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Feb 23, 2023
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for people who don't know the book, this was one of my favorite reads of 2022:

Book Feb 15, 2021
Identitti
by Mithu M. Sanyal
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein @IBJIYONGI · Feb 23, 2023
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Insightful thread about the difference between creating a chill space for a few people and a social media org for a large number of strangers

Tweet Feb 22, 2023
IMHO, the issue isn’t that Spoutible’s CEO handled a controversy poorly. We all have off weekends, new sites have growing pains, shit happens. The bigger issue is that he seems to have a self-contradictory vision for the site, that he has not fully
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