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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Asst Prof: Physics/Astro/STS. Author: #DisorderedCosmos. chanda@blacktwitter.io. all #BLACKandSTEM/all Jewish. queer/agender/woman/she. tweets by/for me🖖🏽
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"Elon says he is a free speech champion and he is banning journalists for exercising free speech. I think that calls into question his commitment,” WaPo's , who was banned tonight, told CNN.
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Anyway these days when I log into mastodon and look at Black Mastodon users, a lot of them are writing about the struggles over racism on mastodon. Same old, same old. Struggle is here too. The conversations on Twitter remain more interesting for me. Why? Quote tweets.
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That said, people should actually be sensitive to the fact that for freelance writers and book authors, the loss of a sizable social media following can be pretty stressful. It’s how folks circulate their work, and publishers ask for social media size. It can affect your advance.
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My actual concern: not the size of my following. The size of my block list. Over the years I have built up an enormous block list on Twitter, and there’s no way to import that to Mastodon. Also block chains are not possible on Mastodon.
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The thing is, I never sought to build a big platform on Twitter. I am a lot less concerned with the size of my following than folks think I am. If I’m talking about being concerned about the racism and the literal death threat? Those might actually be my concerns.
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Mastodon is yet another space that is definitely not designed with people like me in mind, and it was interesting watching this guy — who complained about not being empowered to harass me on Twitter — felt empowered to “assess” me. Exhibit A, really.
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I relation to this point, I had an experience on Mastodon a few weeks ago where I was posting about my experiences with racial slurs and death threats on that platform. A white man weighed in to tell me my real problem was that I was sad I was losing my big platform.
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My read of this is that leftists and progressives leaving Twitter means that you are acting as expected under their cartoon villain plan
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Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit months ago. Pretty remarkable to read after these suspensions of journalists tonight.
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The suspensions come as Musk has backtracked on his promise that he would run Twitter as a free speech absolutist, reinstating accounts associated with the QAnon movement and other far-right groups while banning others.
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In case I disappear, you can find me in all of these places:
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Stay in touch! Grab #DisorderedCosmos! Substack: chanda.substack.com Instagram: chanda.prescod.weinstein FB: facebook.com/chandapw Mastodon: @chanda@blacktwitter.io Tumblr: disorderedcosmos.tumblr.com Trailer w/captions: youtu.be/t6Q8vG_9J0M
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I would like to remind people that there are almost 2000 PhDs awarded in physics and astro in the United States every year, and Black women earn 5-10 of them. We have no statistics on gender expansive folk -- I'm the only out one on the list. This is a small and precious group.
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So far there have been two updates who are now in there: 1. 2022 PhD Brittany E. Miles, who is so new she does not yet appear on the AAWIP list. 2. 2017 PhD Danielle Speller, who currently does not appear on the AAWIP list. Will be alerting AAWIP to both updates!
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Awesome collection of amazing Black people working in science! chanda.substack.com/p/celebrate-50 {Repost of the link in case the original tweet disappears.)
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NEW!!!! It's here. For the last 2 years I have been working on a #CiteBlackWomen bibliography focused on #BlackandSTEM astro/physics. PRESENTING: 50 years of papers by Black women+ PhDs in physics, a public resource. More details here: chanda.substack.com/p/celebrate-50
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This was fun to do — we talked for almost 90 minutes — mostly about the social aspects of time and gravitational time dilation (more fun than dilation due to motion 😹). Pretty amazing to hear it in context and to appear on #AllThingsConsidered.
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