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

by Ted McCormick

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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

by joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

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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.

by Ken Shen

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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