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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: news.chanda.science all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️‍🌈/agender/woman. Posts by/for me🖖🏽

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jul 28

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies.

Web: chanda.science
Newsletter: news.chanda.science
Insta: chanda.prescod.weinstein

Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime, coming 4/7/26.

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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s.d. hernández adkins, phd @hernandezadkins.bsky.social · 16m

UNC has been the place to watch for years. Look what these fuckers have done.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19m

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7m

This part was 😭😭 bsky.app/profile/cuw....

Cuw @cuw.bsky.social · 1d

"We expected it to have the integrity of the president of the united states" lol

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8m

Shout out to the worker who put Rump instead of Trump on the watch these people paid $650 for lol

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 44m

After his mother's death, Houston boy Daron Brim used Texas’ TCHATT counseling to write a book to help other kids coping with loss.

Houston boy turns grief over mother's death into a book through therapy program

After his mother's death, Houston boy Daron Brim used Texas’ TCHATT counseling to write a book to help other kids coping with loss.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18m

All of this is illegal, for the record

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 18m

Workers in the Office of Special Education Programs at the Department of Education noted their Reduction-In-Force notices came a day before their longtime director's funeral today

www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/w...

Gregory Corr Obituary - Washington, DC

Celebrate the life of Gregory Corr, leave a kind word or memory and get funeral service information care of Joseph Gawler's Sons, LLC.

www.dignitymemorial.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17m

Israel can’t stop bombing its neighbors
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Intensive Israeli air strikes kill one, injure seven in southern Lebanon

Lebanese president condemns Israeli attack on Msayleh as a 'blatant aggression' against civilian infrastructure.

www.aljazeera.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19m

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

www.dailytarheel.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

RSF drone strike kills dozens in Sudan’s war-ravaged el-Fasher: Activists

Activists say nearly 60 killed as RSF attacks displacement shelter and university grounds besieged area in Darfur.

www.aljazeera.com

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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 16h

Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died

A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism

www.kare11.com/article/news...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

This story is NUTS

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

as caregiving and revolutionary commitments allow!! That’s all we can ask!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

Everyone here showers and deodorizes as frequently as caregiving and revolutionary commitments allow, I hope lol

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

It’s really excellent!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

Yes my brain is just a book association machine

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

WHY DID THE EDITORS

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

What a great moment to wash your eyes and nose out with the incredible Kirkus Prize-winning book *In Sensorium: Notes for my People* by perfumer and novelist Tanaïs #BookSky
www.harpercollins.com/products/in-...

Ebook is $1.99 right now!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

KENDRA WHAT IS THIS AND WHY

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 18h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 16h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19h

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 19h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14h

Legit shocked at how stupid this alleged crime is

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17h

“Real Housewives of Potomac” star Wendy Osefo and her husband, Eddie Osefo, were arrested Thursday in Maryland after being indicted by a grand jury for allegedly falsely reporting a home burglary and theft.

'Real Housewives of Potomac' star Wendy Osefo and her husband arrested on fraud charges

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said the couple fraudulently reported a burglary and theft at their Maryland home.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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