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1/? nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s… @NASA has decided to celebrate #LGBTQSTEMDay by... let me check my notes here...
Deciding not to rename JWST for the flimsiest of reasons.
Deciding not to rename JWST for the flimsiest of reasons.
2/? Let's be clear here. We had evidence (and NASA includes evidence in this report) that James Webb was AWARE of homophobic practices at NASA.
So how does NASA justify not changing the name?
So how does NASA justify not changing the name?
3/? They have two main points of argument against changing the name.
The first is that James Webb did not directly carry out homophobic acts on his own. Or, as it is more commonly known, the superior orders argument.
He only ENFORCED homophobic practices. It's fiiiiine.
The first is that James Webb did not directly carry out homophobic acts on his own. Or, as it is more commonly known, the superior orders argument.
He only ENFORCED homophobic practices. It's fiiiiine.
Okay folks, it's time!! This was definitely a labor of love, and something that's been in the works for 4+ years.
Inspired by the perfect similarity between #JWST's primary mirror and the Catan board, I present JWST Catan: Explore the Universe
#UnfoldTheUniverse 🧵(1/23)
Inspired by the perfect similarity between #JWST's primary mirror and the Catan board, I present JWST Catan: Explore the Universe
#UnfoldTheUniverse 🧵(1/23)
2/ The full board at a glance. This is a 1-to-1 mapping to the original Catan game, subbing in astro stuff for all your favorite resources and game pieces.
In what I'm sure will be way too long a thread, I'll show the pieces and mappings from the original game
In what I'm sure will be way too long a thread, I'll show the pieces and mappings from the original game
3/ (Just to be super clear, I'm making no claims to creating any ideas or Catan gameplay. All I did was come up with some astro mappings and go a bit overboard in painting game pieces and designing cards etc.)
Aquí llegó. La primera imagen "a color" producida por el James Webb Space Telescope! 📸🛰️🔭
¿Qué representa? Te lo contamos más abajo! junto a un dato no tan amigable del James Webb...
#UnfoldTheUniverse:
¿Qué representa? Te lo contamos más abajo! junto a un dato no tan amigable del James Webb...
#UnfoldTheUniverse:
Es una imagen profunda, en luz infraroja, de un campo de galaxias muy lejanas: el cúmulo SMACS 0723. Estas galaxias nunca se habían podido observar con tanta nitidez.
El "redshift" del cúmulo es al parecer 0.4, es decir, está como a 4 billones de años luz de la Tierra, o un poco más de 1000 megaparsecs.
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We're about an hour away from the release of the first proper images from #JWST, the telescope that launched on Christmas Day. (1/n)
Since then, the team from NASA & ESA have been working hard to commission the instruments and get it ready for science. Today is a milestone in that process. (2/n)
The observatory is already hard at work; all over the world, astronomers are getting their hands on data from its golden mirrors, learning how to use new software to analyse it, and preparing to tell new stories (3/n)
Happy weekend! Lots of people are anxiously awaiting the #JWST images releasing Tuesday. (I've seen them and they're pretty cool!) But did you know many astronomers want to #RenameJWST?
Learn more in this documentary I produced for the @JustSpaceOrg:
Learn more in this documentary I produced for the @JustSpaceOrg:
I produced the 40-minute JustSpace Alliance documentary in consultation with historians, the authors of the petition, members of the @AAS_Office’s @AasSgma, and queer astronomers across several countries.
NASA Policy Directive 7620 (nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm…) requires a committee to provide naming recommendations for any major NASA project, with input from "the responsible NASA Centers and contractors."
Right, so let's talk about James Webb. It's a big and complicated story and maybe, like me, you've been mainly following it through headlines. Maybe you'd like to think about it more deeply now and consider why we should #renameJWST. For you, a thread 🧵: scientificamerican.com/article/new-re…
But first, I need to thank all the folks who spoke to me so cogently and passionately last week on this topic (some taking time out of their weekends), including @RocketToLulu, @IBJIYONGI, @bsgaudi, @yaoyuanmao, @johannateske, and others. You are all stellar!
I also have to thank @alexwitze for being a real journalist and staying on this story and providing us with this treasure trove of emails via FOIA. I'm entirely riding on her coattails here. media.nature.com/original/magaz…
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Exclusive: Documents reveal NASA’s internal struggles over renaming Webb telescope - by @alexwitze @Nature
nature.com/articles/d4158…
Exclusive: Documents reveal NASA’s internal struggles over renaming Webb telescope - by @alexwitze @Nature
nature.com/articles/d4158…
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#RenameJWST: NASA Hid Findings Affirming James Webb Homophobia - by @IBJIYONGI, @iamstarnord, @niais & myself patreon.com/posts/64153800
#RenameJWST: NASA Hid Findings Affirming James Webb Homophobia - by @IBJIYONGI, @iamstarnord, @niais & myself patreon.com/posts/64153800
@IBJIYONGI @iamstarnord @niais I spent this past weekend reading the full FOIA request and let me tell you, I have
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