Fewer than 20 Black women physicists in the U.S. have earned tenure. This scholar just joined the club. - Lemmy.world

And, at the risk of crossing subLemmy boundaries, here’s Mekka Okereke (@[email protected]) on that achievement, and Mastadon’s loss: And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen. So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. 😢 Which is why we’ll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones. #BlackMastodon