Dr. Brittany Kamai, Ph.D.🌏 (she/ʻo ia) Profile picture
floating in the cosmic currents I share knowledge about astrophysics, Hawai'i, & treating others with dignity & respect🌺 #ShutDownSTEM🔥 #HawaiianInSTEM 🤙🏾
Sep 9, 2020 14 tweets 11 min read
In honor of today and tomorrow's #ScholarStrike founded by Dr. Anthea Butler @AntheaButler & co-created by Dr. Kevin Gannon @TheTattooedProf

I am connecting this with everyone who participated in #ShutDownSTEM , #ShutDownAcademia & #Strike4BlackLives 3 months ago!

Let's go🚀1/ When you joined into #ShutDownSTEM & #ShutDownAcademia it is because you were on a #Strike4BlackLives

This is because you were making a commitment to eradicate systemic racism.

This is because you understood you have a role to play.

We need to end this.

Together.

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Sep 5, 2020 26 tweets 15 min read
1/ I AM sTooOOoOkkeed about this latest LIGO result!

Today’s #PhysicsFriday , I am going to talk about the result, how it connects with detectors and some rad accounts to follow & learn more about this awesome science.

🚀Strap in! We are gonna talk about GIANT black holesss 2/ First off, we are on earth & the detectors measured these signals are LIGO-Hanford in Washington, LIGO-Livingston in Louisiana & VIRGO in Italy. These are the names on the main plots. The strength of how it hits each detector us figure out where in the universe it came from