Heard this today and it resonates... "The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world." - Paul Farmer

Thank you Rosa DeLauro, Rep. Tom Cole, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Rep. Andy Harris, MD, Cheri Bustos, and Rep. Barbara Lee (Archived) for having the courage to join the #ALS fight with me. The time to #EndALS is now.

Some of the best of humanity: when faced with the darkest of days, Brian and Sandra have chosen to make a light that will reach all of us. Many thanks to Barack Obama for supporting this.

Humans: we are fallible and cruel, yes; but we are so much more- we are loving, we are brave, and we are beautiful. The best of us is magic.

I committed to the June 10 academia strike for Black Lives. I strongly encourage everyone I know in Academia to do the same. Read the details of the strike... IMO, the request is of basic human decency.

Just bc the #Strike4BlackLives #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM day of action is done doesn’t mean you should stop intentionally #AmplifyBlackSTEM #citeBlackSTEM. Make it daily practice. You, yes you, can make your work more inclusive every single day. Who did you cite today?

As the 1st BW to graduate from Yale astro w a PhD in astrophysics, I was asked to comment on the racist dept emails sent by senior faculty in this @buzzfeednews story. TBH, I wasn't planning to. Not surprising and not worth my time. #BlackintheIvory buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha…

Mentoring, at its best, is world-building. Co-creating a future that is desired but unfinished. Helping to catalyze dreams into reality. This generative space has been core to my work for many years and I don't see that stopping anytime soon. A joy to chat w National Academies about it.

New paper day! We tackle the infamous question of what observables can be explained by conventional assumptions in chemical evolution models when realistic stellar migration is added. Thread! arxiv.org/abs/2103.09838

15 Years of APOGEE Teamwork over two hemispheres and nearly 1 million targets (2.6 million spectra!). Sloan Digital Sky Surveys Looking forward to what these faces do in SDSS-V/Milky Way Mapper!!

James is an incredible person and grad student. I’m grateful to be able to collaborate with him and this team. Check the thread below on his latest paper!

⁦Feels like breaking the fourth wall (though it shouldn’t): Dan F-M⁩ ‘s NumPyro tutorial made the Python Weekly newsletter. Neat! mailchi.mp/pythonweekly/p…

Somehow always knew #astronomy was a related backup plan to the NBA cc James Bullock x.com/mcuban/status/…

Diversity of planetary nebulae structure could be due to binary star interaction (talk by rudy phd visiting Vanderbilt University )

My grad advisor... Looking good David! x.com/sdssurveys/sta…

We should get group of influential "flat earth society" members and 1) get them to mark "edge" of earth on a map 2) fly them over it x.com/David_Bressan/…

VERY exciting to be a part of this project. Amazing people + amazing science = woohoo! x.com/sdssurveys/sta…

And we're looking for new members! Join us! #ittakesanearth x.com/PKU1898/status…