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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
@chanda.blacksky.app
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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:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️‍🌈/agender/woman.

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The Edge of Space-Time is coming! You should preorder it -- look at what THE Ed Yong had to say about it:

“With this extraordinary book, Prescod-Weinstein cements her status as one of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time; as polymath, griot, teacher, and more; (1/2)
suffused with gorgeous poetry and frequently very, very funny -- Ed Yong, author of An Immense World along with an image of the cover of The Edge of Space-Time, which is described at the link
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I’m pleased to have the endorsement of a Mamdani Campaign Fan, me 😹
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME FoR The People, Coming April 7
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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You two @thebatman9000.bsky.social and @staceylscott.bsky.social
Wade Wilson @thebatman9000.bsky.social + Follow back Follows You I am a Democrat from Columbus, Ohio. 1 am an ally to the LGBTQ community and support women's reproductive rights.... Stacey L. Scott @staceylscott.bsky.social Follows You SW WA foul-mouthed, autDHD GenXer Homelessness shouldn't exist: DemSocialist; UBI & RBE now!... + Follow back
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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What could Elon Musk’s $1 trillion compensation package fund if it were returned to the people?
www.instagram.com/p/DQxKWX-E4L...
2/3 What federal programs could be funded with $1tn? • Snap benefits Federal spending for Snap benefits was around $99.8bn. One trillion dollars could fund Snap for 10.2 years. • Nasa Federal spending for Nasa in 2024 totaled $24.9bn. One trillion dollars could fund this budget for around 40 years. • Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Federal spending for HUD in 2024 totaled $70bn. One trillion dollars could fund HUD for 14.3 years. • USAID Federal funding for 2024 included $35bn. One trillion dollars could fund USAID for 29 years. Sources: US Government Budgent FY 2024, Planetary Org, Congress.gov, USDA Economic Research service,
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Omg Ben Jonson told William Drummond that Donne should be hanged for this poem and Drummond wrote that shit down and published it???? 💀💀💀💀💀

Thank god Ben and Bill did not have social media??
Donne and Metaphysical Poetry BEN JONSON [Conversations about Donnelt That Donne's Anniversary was protane and full of blasphemies. That he told Mr. Donne, if it had been written of the Virgin Mary it had been something. To which he answered that he described the Idea of a Woman, and not as she was. That Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging. He esteemeth John Donne the first poet in the world in some things: his verses of the lost chain' he hath by heart; and that passage of "The Calm," That dust and feathers do not stir, all was so quiet. Affirmeth Donne to have written all his best pieces ere he was 25 years old. 2*** That Donne said to him he wrote that epitaph on Prince Henry, Look to me, Faith, to match Sir Edward Herbert? in obscureness. The con mowas that
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Always arrives late but I love it anyway. This was an especially good issue. I liked the article about the mystery of M102! 🔭
CIGET READY FOR SPAIN'S SOLAR ECLIPSE TREBLE SEPTEMBER 2025 Sky at Night RUBIN RISING Why the Vera Rubin Observatory is going to change everything we know about the Universe PLUS Saturn shines high & bright at opposition NASA'S JUNO MISSION NEARS ITS END AT JUPITER 986089 THE STAR CATALOGUES EVERY ASTRONOMER SHOULD KNOW #244 €6.99 MISPRINT OR MYOPIA? THE MYSTERY OF MESSIER 102 A NEW WAY TO FIND THE MILKY WAY'S MISSING RLACK HOLES REVIEWED: STELLAMIRA'S 4-ELEMENT REFRACTOR
November 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Rolled out of bed and voted even though I can’t vote for Mamdani because school board elections matter! Local elections matter!
A photo of me in a blue jacket with an “I voted” sticker on
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Cool part of my job: getting to pull out @asymptotia.bsky.social’s beautiful book for work 😻

Highly recommend this for adults and kids of any age who are curious about the cosmos — entirely in comic book style, beautifully rendered! 💙📚

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/658631...
The cover of The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe by Clifford V. Johnson, more details at the link
November 3, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Hill I will die on: this is the best post win photo

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Kiké Hernandez topless with his tongue out and bug eyes wearing a batting cap and his arm warmers
November 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Absolutely fucking cute to come into the mentions of a Black Jew who lives in the area and lecture them about luxuries from the comfort of wherever the fuck you are
Sy Nakamura @ttacosttacos.bsky.so... • 44m I don't have the luxury of acting as a medium for redemption of an unrepentant Nazi glorifier who seems to believe he is owed a position of power in my party He has work to do and it's not my problem 1 门 ••. Sy Nakamura @ttacosttacos.bsky.so... • 39m Back when gamergate began a lot of well meaning journalists and academics tried to interview the neo fash and all we got was a bunch of Nazis with media platforms Don't. Platform. Nazis. 1 • Sy Nakamura @ttacosttacos.bsky.social Follow back And finally people who can't "flatten" rejecting Nazi glorification into "a binary" aren't worth my time either
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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So extremely excited to read this book, which debuts on Tuesday. 🎉

#BookSky

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/745621...
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations and the Untold Story of Audley Moore by Ashley D. Farmer with an image of the subject in black and white on the cover. The book is inside a box with a matching purple, pink, and blue color scheme with three matching pencils and a notebook that says “Self determination, reparations, liberation now.” The box also says this on the interior of the top.
November 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Double supernova 🤩

🔭

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Lots of stars and at center a roughly circular form that is orange (hydrogen)on the outside and blue (calcium) on the inside, the blue looking like paint was splashed
November 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Comment on that video, I haven't checked the TOS myself
Read it... you agree to let them collect all your data, any data they can get from Facebook /LinkedIn/etc, all of your contacts from those services & their information, your employer, job titles, salaries etc .... also grants them permissions to combine that with information they acquire from 3rd parties that they purchase and the right to share that information with third parties (unnamed) they choose to work with... you are the product.
October 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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This one? lol
Mohit @mverma19.bsky.social • 1m Crazy how so many newcomers on this bandwagon think they can fix the game of baseball after watching for 4 weeks. Who the fuck do you think you are saying this? Shohei is a unicorn. If you want to lose, of course you pitch to him. And the Jays don't want to lose! Chanda Prescod-W... •@ch….. •37m • she/they Bluesky Elder The Blue Jays plan to walk Ohtani for the rest of the series is embarrassing and the baseball equivalent of flopping to get foul shots because you think you're not good enough to win by actually playing Usually I'm against new MLB rules but this should never happen again
October 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I don't think we talk enough about how the Barbie Sally Ride looks like she's a Black woman lol
Sally Ride Barbie doll surrounded by copies of my first book The Disordered Cosmos in English, Spanish, and Korean
October 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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On a happy note ... the ARCs of The Edge of Space-Time have arrived!!!

After this went to press I rewrote parts of the last chapter and fixed the Hebrew and Arabic. So it's out of date, but it's still cool to see a first printing!! #BookSky

Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I‘m so grateful to the advance readers like @ruha9.bsky.social who spent time with my book and understood the work I hoped it would do. The principled creative work that Ruha does is an incredible model 🖖🏽

Preorder The Edge of Space-Time today:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
"See the cosmos not just through equations, but through the rhythms of music, the textures of art, and the power of storytelling." -Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology The Edge of Space-Time particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie Prescod-Weinstein
October 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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watching Emmerdale and doing my homework #BookSky
The book anayzes such phenomena as the deachment of science from pracrical life, formalized morality, the manipulative nature of entertainment culture, and a paranoid behavioral structure, expressed in aggressive anti-Semitism, that marks the limits of enlightenment. The authors perceive a common element in these phenomena, the tendency toward self-destruction of the guiding criteria inherent in enlightenment thought from the begin. ning. Using historical analyses to elucidate the present, they show, against the background of a prehistory of subjectivity, why the National Socialist fundamental characteristics of Western civilization. terror was not an aberration of modern history bur was rooted deeply in the Adorno and Horkheimer see the self-destruction of Western reason as grounded in a historical and fateful dialectic between the domination of external nature and society. They trace enlightenment, which split these spheres apart, back to is mythical roots. Enlightenment and myth, there-fore, are not irreconcilable opposites, bur dialectically mediated qualities of both real and intellectual life. "Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment revers to mythology.?"This paradox is the fundamental thesis of the book. This new translation, based on the text in the complete edition of the Works of Max Horkheimer, contains textual variants, commentary upon opment of Critical Theory, them, and an editorial discussion of the position of this work in the devel- TURAL MEMORY IN THE PRESENT STANFORD UNIVERSITY DR & Adorno DORNO LECTU Horkheimer DIALECTIC of ENLIGHTENMENT Theodor W. ADORNO Cultural Memory in the Present MAX HORKHEIMER & THEODOR W. ADORNO DIALECTIC of ENLIGHTENMENT Philosophical Fragments Edited by GUNZELIN SCHMID NO Translated by EDMUND JEPH
October 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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A lot of folks need to read this book, which is a reminder that *all of German society* was implicated in the Nazi machine, not just soldiers detached from society
MODERN CLASSICS Extraordinary... redemptive Daily Telegraph Hans Fallada Alone in Berlin
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Americans are not super hype about “AI” it turns out
www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
A chart of national attitudes toward AI, described in the link
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Been working on self-portraits because I need new author photos and here is one from yesterday that I can’t use but really liked

Earrings by Tayla Fairbanks (White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe):
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Me with blurry trees in the background standing in profile, with red lipstick and long blue beaded earrings
October 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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I had such a nice day on campus yesterday. Thank you to the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association for their active support ✊🏽
Z Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award Recognizes UCSC graduate alumni for notable achievement in a career directly related to their UCSC degree program, which played a significant part in their career success. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (M.S. '05, astronomy and astrophysics) Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Graduate Division '05 60 UG SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI Awards ai physics diers at allehysics 1sa *ty studies. 1 Astronomy o 10 people inixed her as 1ald Breaking y luto Dark a vards, rience and ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENT
October 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Proud to be Californian and a Banana Slug 🐌
CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE CERTIFICATE OF CALIFORNIA STATE LEGISLATURE CERTIFICATE OF Recognition CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award In honor of your groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, science communication, and equity in STEM. As a leader in cosmology and Black feminist science studies, your work expands the boundaries of knowledge and inclusion. On behalf of the State of California, we celebrate your powerful voice, scholarly excellence, and commitment to reimagining the universe-and who belongs in it. October 17, 2025 Oden Land Senator John Laird 17° Senate District Mail Peller Assemblymember Gail Pellerin 28th Assembly District LAST CALLS CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award In honor of your groundbreaking contributions to theoretical physics, science communication, and equity in STEM. As a leader in cosmology and Black feminist science studies, your work expands the boundaries of knowledge and inclusion. On behalf of the State of California, we celebrate your powerful voice, scholarly excellence, and commitment to reimagining the universe-and who belongs in it. October 17, 2025 Oden Land Senator John Laird 17° Senate District Mail Peller Assemblymember Gail Pellerin 28th Assembly District
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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I met Subrina because she was a fan of my writing, which was pretty wild to hear because I was a fan of hers. And as I got to know her separately from the person I knew from the podcasts, I learned that she was warm, funny, quirky, with a wide-ranging intellectual appetite.

I LOVED her weird.
Subrina cosplaying as Dr. Kovich at STLV 2024
October 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I’ve spent a lot of this evening in tears because my friend Subrina has joined the ancestors.

May she rest in power. I’ll be writing more later. But for now, my thoughts are with her family, her SyFy Sistas, and all my fellow #Trekkies who were impacted by her brilliant presence.
Two smiling women standing next to a poster in a convention settings
October 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM