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

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10m
It’s not a cover . It’s a continual plan that people including @unbreaking.org have been tracking for over a year and that was in Project 2025 Everyone got comfortable with being anti DEI And even when Hegseth says it they avoid it unbreaking.org/issues/equal...
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Equitable Federal Workforce: Timeline — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 9h
That Bannon says that about Newsom should be the kiss of death for his nomination prospects. Definition of an acceptable nominee is someone who is Steve Bannon's worst nightmare.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 10h
People often ask me, "How is it being in Ohio?" knowing the attacks on higher education are acute here. But the fact is, nowhere is safe. Here's a story about senseless and devastating budget cuts in Minnesota. There is no political party that seriously defends higher education in the U.S. today.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 11h
This tech is based on stolen labor, then I reject it. This tech intensifies racism, sexism, and class exploitation, then I reject it. This tech exploits workers in the Global South, then I reject it. This tech exacerbates env & climate problems, then I reject it. All these rationales are valid!
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10h
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Save 30% on #NewBook "Enter the Lion," by John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah, which assembles a vital archive of the history of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie I state visit to Kingston, Jamaica in 1966. buff.ly/69p9RiK
Cover of Enter the Lion: The 1966 State Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean by John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah. Cover features a green, orange, and red gradient imposed on a historical photo of a crowd with signs surrounded by military. The title is bold and white, with the subtitle bottom-center in white and yellow. The authors' names are in yellow across the top of the cover.
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 11h
Yes, SOCIAL DISTANCING will be out on March 2, 2027 from @semiotexte.bsky.social, look at the gorgeous cover!!🌺Galleys coming soon, so let me know if you need an advance copy for any potential media coverage🌺Gorgeous blurbs by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Johanna Hedva, & Amina Cain below, get ready🌺
The book cover for SOCIAL DISTANCING by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, featuring a very tall skinny pine tree stretching at an angle to the sky, trunk bending backwards to avoid the diagonal electrical wires, the photo is cyanotype, so bright blue on white, and then the title is in a magenta diagonal font with sharp letters at the bottom of the electrical wires, author name in white script above the wood slat fence at the bottom.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h
Sunny Hostin, who is a lawyer, deserves all the smoke for misrepresenting the law and the lawsuit
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h
Interesting effort to provide guidance on LLM use in mathematics: agmai.org/general-sep29/
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Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h
A couple of years ago, I interviewed a leading attorney who represents survivors of sexual misconduct on campus, Iliana Konidaris (whose brother is the awesome 🔭 Nick Konidaris). I learned A LOT:
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How This Lawyer Confronts Sexual Assault on Campus
Photo by Edwin Andrade on Unsplash I first met Olympias Iliana Konidaris at her brother’s wedding, where she gave a great toast that affirmed all of my...
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 13h
I need more people who spend 5 hours a day posting about politics on here to spend like 2 hours a week canvassing
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h
Cornell University has agreed to an independent investigation into how the school handled fraternity sexual assault allegations, governor says
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Cornell agrees to independent review of how it handled fraternity sexual assault allegations: Governor
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for the outside review, saying what happened raised "serious questions about Cornell campus culture."
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"AI has not rescued the humanities. What it has done is reveal, with unusual clarity, what happens when societies allow the institutions that cultivate judgement to erode."
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AI just made the case for philosophy majors; the humanities should not waste it - Oxford University Press
Sophie Goldsworthy, Global Academic Publisher, explores how AI companies hiring philosophers may have made a compelling case for the study of humanities disciplines.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 16h
The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15h
i really need an answer to this question 🤕
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 16h
“I’m planning to punch myself in the balls” “I don’t think you should do that” “But what’s the alternative plan?”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16h
just learned the word "dilogy"
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 23h
I unfortunately can not help but recall how much vitriol and bile Uncommitted received and note how little of the same is being dished out for those who clearly want Abdul El Sayed to lose— including this Democratic state representative
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Rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-Sayed
Noah Arbit, a rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan’s state Legislature, has been a vocal critic of Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat whose Senate campaign in the key battleground state has exposed deep ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h
do you ever think about the fact that Battlestar Galactica (reboot) and The L Word were airing at the same time or just me because I'm a scientist queerdo
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h
On the one hand, I watch Brandon Flowers give interviews on night shows and I think "man that guy really has got it" and on the other I am such a cynic about the music business that when I listen to his music I'm like "did he really write this??? one person???" is there a ghost writer? reassure me
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The kids are alright. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22h
Pathetic…..
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h
Cool to see work in the world that builds on and is in conversation with work I did with my former PhD student Dr. Nathan Rutherford (now at @fqxi.org) and @profannawatts.bsky.social! 🔭
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Bayesian Constraints on Bosonic Dark Matter in Neutron Stars within a Covariant Density-Functional Equation-of-State Ensemble
We investigate neutron stars admixed with repulsively self-interacting bosonic dark matter (DM) using current multi-messenger observations. The dark component is modeled as a complex scalar field coup...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 22h
this picture is from 10 years ago in October. as students we took it upon ourselves to organize bystander intervention and consent workshops because our institutions let survivors down. it popped into my head this week considering how in some ways students today have worse material conditions
Lex in 2016 in college, holding a white board reading “it’s on us to end sexual violence because as a 2x survivor I am seeking justice by creating an accountable, healing and radically loving community”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h
I guess I'm going to be that jerk and ask . . . how did a paper that makes really big claims about preprints while presenting no data in support of the claims get past peer review? And isn't it more than a little ironic for such a paper to be a complaint about preprints? 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2609.35787
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The Preprint Evolution: The Rise of Unreviewed Drafts on arXiv and its Implications for Astronomy
The arXiv preprint server originally democratized astronomical research by digitizing the circulation of early manuscripts and removing the financial barriers of journal subscriptions. However, a syst...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22h
you have to give voters a fucking choice and you have to explain to them why your way works. its just politics
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h
we did get someone talking about having the most lethal military in the world though 🎉
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026
To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."
Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal). 

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
latest Liberation Conversations has just gone up - talking to activist and author @luciaoc.bsky.social about her My Body Keeps Your Secrets, Epstein and the myths used to discredit victims of abuse www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... #podcast #epstein @chanda.blacksky.app @holliemcnish.bsky.social
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Liberation Conversation with Lucia Osborne Crowley | Robin Ince
Lucia is an activist and author. Her work is one of the reasons I resigned from the Infinite Monkey Cage. The Lasting Harm is a remarkable
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Lisa Manic @lisamanic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you used to listen to @robinince.bsky.social on The Infinite Monkey Cage then give his new podcast series a go. This episode with @chanda.blacksky.app was very interesting and enlightening. It also added a few more books to my To Be Read pile! tinyurl.com/374udvz8
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Chanda Prescod Weinstein in LIBERATION CONVERSATIONS | Robin Ince
Chanda is a scientist and science populariser I adore - whether it is "queering the universe" or explaining how Star Trek has rocked her w
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bluesmaster @bluesmaster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Funny how a Muslim looks after his Jewish constituents BETTER than any of his "Christian" predecessors...hmm...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
All it's missing is: “Please note, no support for Palestinian rights shall be articulated. Discovery of human rights advocacy and opposition to genocide will result in immediate, nonnegotiable expulsion, and where applicable, deportation.”
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Donald Trump has spent two years attacking Minnesota, and Michele would be “honored" to have his support. That's everything you need to know about Michele Tafoya.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Readers of our daily email—where we send you our scoop of the day—will have seen we're mixing stuff up. Now we email you a chunk of the main story, but also other stuff we've written and wild/whacky shit we're seeing across the web. People are loving it, sign up here: www.404media.co/surveillance...
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Surveillance Finds a Way
CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."
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naomi @skuaenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
essentially the western 1/3 of Colorado was stolen from Ute people. Their 1868 treaty says that land was “set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
This was like watching a 4 minute murder mystery with an incredible reveal at the end
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
With few exceptions, if you are asking me to do something with a deadline before the end of January, the answer is no.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?
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Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won the last federal election on a platform largely built around protecting Canada from Donald Trump’s imperialism. Eighteen months later, the prime minister’s strategy loo...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
I listened to this album yesterday, and it is intense, and I'm surprised he's not in jail yet tbh
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Transphobia is just sexism, hope all the TERFs who’ve supported ending my trans rights can go stare long and hard in the mirror, then get a good therapist.
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☀️Huma☀️ @huma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is God Is is so good if there are men you hate with every fiber of your being.
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Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"...the misogynists are in charge, they are powerful, and they are ruthless. And we are not perfect heroes. But however damaged we may be...we can be heroes. And we can cry, and scream, and mourn, and do it girly, do it rough...as long as we remember the value that we help those in need."
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More context
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GUEST ROOM | Cornell's Dereliction of Duty
Dylan Jackaway '24, M.Eng. '25 calls on President Michael Kotlikoff to answer to the Cornell community and the Board of Trustees for his mismanagement of the Title IX investigation of the alleged Chi ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
If you like me are a survivor of rape who is maybe losing her mind a bit this week, I recommend a few movies about surviving men/holding them accountable: “Sorry, Baby” “Is God Is” and “Supergirl” Supergirl was, in a way, about fraternity rape culture I discuss them here:
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You should go see Supergirl
It's pop art that is unapologetically political.
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gbhnews @gbhnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance alleges that clients are being cut off from SNAP benefits due to a shortage of caseworkers. bit.ly/4rxTtOl
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Disconnected: Suit alleges families in need can't make contact
A lawsuit against Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance alleges that clients are being cut off from SNAP benefits because there are too few caseworkers.
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