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Theoretical Astro/Physicist: https://chanda.science First book: https://tinyurl.com/DisorderedCosmos PREORDER MY NEXT BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/EdgeOfSpaceTime Newsletter: news.chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️‍🌈/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 28

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.

Web: chanda.science
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Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

I stopped myself from quote posting the writer 😂

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Richard Chirgwin @rchirgwin.bsky.social · 1d

It isn't about what some "we" needs or wants. It's about whether capital can work out a way to put a rent on something that's currently free.

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 17h

One of the questions is why we allow private corporations to fill the sky with junk?

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

Not to be pedantic but I feel like NYT editors should know that ”scores” and “hundreds” are not the same order of magnitude

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 7h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez

www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...

Chicago ICE crackdown's first casualty, a father of two, had built a quiet life in the US

An agent shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, father of two, during a massive immigration sweep.

www.reuters.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

No true scotsman, he screamed 🃏

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 7h

technofascist Tescreal bullshit is behind Elon Musk's gutting of USAID; some 14 million killed.

communist atheists persecuted Jews, Muslims in USSR; China persecutes Falun Gong and Muslims.

social darwinism and eugenics inspired colonial brutality and the Nazis.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

I mean, as a lifelong atheist, I look forward to your long and hard search for any statements from me saying I believe in god lol

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

Can you point to the post where I made a point of mentioning my profession in connection with statements claiming that the supernatural exists?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

I have a substantial following and let me tell you that it does not feel rewarding after about 4K followers lol

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

Gotta bring them to heel first

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 7h

if anyone is interested, my friend lucia has been giving classes in jewish liberation theology for well over a decade

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, I'm an atheist. I think that atheists really owe it to themselves and others to acknowledge harms done in its name, just as it's important for Christians to acknowledge the harms done in their name.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

these are rhetoricals really because you just revealed that you didn’t even read the bios of the people you were replying to much less find out what their beliefs are

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h

Why are you assuming that astrophysicist in question (me) believes in the supernatural? Have you checked evidence on this point? Or do you just work based on your beliefs?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

On Threads I get fed soooo much reactionary disinfo from questionable accounts

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

Too bad you can’t opt out of being included in it

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

I’m not expert enough to know how much of this is people being in a very fucked state of mind that has been trained by years of being on other algorithms plus this political moment vs other factors

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h

Ok I do think one way BSky is *not* like early Twitter is that on early Twitter if you said you liked or didn’t like a thing most of the engagement was you finding your people but on BSky as with all other networks, a significant share or even most engagement is people who are NOT your people

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 8h

I have seen the Starfleet Academy trailer and as far as the copious make outs go all I see are straight people being straight

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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 8h

Looking good! About time they put a male lead in a skant/skirt. Come on, SNW, put Spock in a skant in the last season.

Hopefully, we’ll see a return to queer storylines as well. A queer Klingon is something we haven’t seen from the francishe yet!

#StarTrekStarfleetAcademy

Malcolm Wood @woodmally1979.bsky.social · 8h

So the haters are already starting upset that a Klingon warrior is wearing a skirt. Well wait till they find out how Viking men dressed when they went into battle. Wonder if they think of them as "woke" fandompulse.substack.com/p/new-york-c...

New York Comic-Con Unveils Male Klingon Wearing A Skirt For Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Star Trek may not have had its wokest moment yet under Alex Kurtzman.

fandompulse.substack.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

People who act confused by Hamas' desire to free Barghoti are bizarre to me, Hamas wants him out even though he isn't Hamas affiliated because they believe he is one of the few, or maybe even the only, individuals who can unite the whole of Palestinian factions under the PLO

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 12h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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