New Scientist

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17 September 2025 15:29

The impact dinosaurs had on Earth was so big that their extinction seems to have caused dramatic and wide-ranging changes to the planet’s landscapes, such as by shifting rivers.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

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10 September 2025 17:13

#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.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

chanda.blacksky.app

10 September 2025 17:13

Fifteen years ago today, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation, "Cosmic Acceleration as Quantum Gravity Phenomenology" and my co-PhD advisor @nafshordi.bsky.social had this cake made to celebrate. I have since graduated three PhD students of my own! 😅

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

chanda.blacksky.app

10 September 2025 17:13

Thrilled by how many @newscientist.com readers (subscribers and library users!) engaged with my column about spacetime vs space-time and sent me notes with their arguments for one or the other. Got a pretty compelling one for "spacetime" this morning! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

Rebecca Altman, PhD

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10 August 2025 20:53

Hi #Inc5 — did you know the high-profile environmental calamities at Woburn (Travolta’s A Civil Action), Parkersburg (Ruffalo’s Dark Waters), Toms River (@danfagin.bsky.social’s book won the Pulitzer) even Japan’s Minamata ALL involved PLASTICS-associated chemical pollution? 🛢️🏭 #plasticstreaty