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This week for #BlackHistoryMonth, we honor physicist and astronaut Dr. Ronald McNair! 🚀 As an MIT laser physicist and NASA mission specialist, he was a master of orbital operations.

Connect his legacy to our STEMcoding Orbital Motion project! Students code simulations of Kepler’s Laws to see how satellites stay in orbit: https://explore.stemcoding.org/projects/keplers.html

"Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one." ✨

#STEM #BlackInPhysics #STEMcoding

Calixthe Jul 30, 2023

She was one of the first people that I followed on Mastodon.

Not only did she experience terroristic threats, but she was also gaslit by members of the #Fediverse somehow trying to "well actually" death threats. 😒

She is a great human being and she's always been kind and gracious every time I've ever spoken to her in passing at conferences.

I encourage everyone that can to read her book and essays. Lots of gems.

Here is one of my favorite essays of hers:

https://medium.com/@chanda/surviving-and-thriving-how-to-be-a-urm-astro-physics-student-part-1-97df8e81eb59

Here is her personal website:

https://chanda.science

Here is the trailer for her book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Q8vG_9J0M

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It me (she/they)Dec 16, 2022

#WomenInScience #BlackInPhysics

On the 15th, early for #BlackFriday Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein released a Zotero library to help researchers #CiteBlackWomen 's work. "This bibliography is a roughly complete list of all the professional publications of US-based Black women+ with PhDs in physics."

Read more about how to use the bibliography here:

https://chanda.substack.com/p/celebrate-50-years-of-phds-cite-black

Celebrate 50 Years of PhDs: Cite Black Women+ in Physics and Astronomy Bibliography

A new resource that is now available

The Disordered Cosmos

Dr Luke Davis Nov 8, 2022

Any other #BlackInPhysics and #BlackInMath out there? 👀🧑🏾‍💻. Whichever instance you are on, we can still connect across the fediverse. Be superfluous with hashtags!