www.blackinphysics.org/about/ #BlackInPhysics #ContactSite #Physics #Mentors #STEM

Edward Hitchcock's (1793-1864) ichnofossil collection from western Massachusetts.

A Phi-Geo research group fieldtrip today to see the Holyoke dinosaur footprints in situ & a behind-the-scenes tour of the Beneski museum.

African American women mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson did the complex calculations that made spaceflight possible. Johnson helped map the trajectory for Apollo 11. Vaughan lead unit of Black women mathematicians. Jackson became NASA’s 1st Black woman engineer.

Sophie Germain, born on 1st April 1776 in Paris, made important contributions to the field of #Mathematics, in particular to number theory and the applied mathematics of acoustics and elasticity. My post➡️ www.lanostra-matematica.org/2025/04/soph... 🧪 ⚛️ #histsci #WomenInStem #histmaths #mathsky 1/4

"these attacks were designed to set up the Trump administration to act with impunity. [They] laid the groundwork ...[to] make decisions based on ideology rather than evidence; remove staff, scientific findings, & regulations that could have been roadblocks to its agenda" blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat...

Aliyah is the first African American student to earn a PhD in Marine Sciences at UNC. Thanks to her incredible mentorship and work as CEO and founder of the non-profit Mahogany Mermaids, Aliyah is helping the next generation find their place in STEM. Learn more on her website! aliyahgriffith.com

Today's Find: My blog post about the first certified, practicing female physician in Alabama tinyurl.com/ph4ykgv Halle T. Dillon at Tuskegee Institute in the 1890s #histmed #medicalhistory #tuskegeealabama #alabama #alabamayesterdays

We end the chapter by saying that this return of race science, given the history of race science, provides reason for disquiet. You can find the page proofs for this chapter here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

But it was a science. That’s the thing, that this sort of stuff can be legitimized and indeed it has been legitimized before. I cannot stress enough that just about every intellectual in the early 20th century at least dabbled in a little eugenics, as a treat.

Beyond his gutter racism, Cofnas consistently resists even approaching the modern scientific literature. He doesn’t cite, or seem to understand, the consensus among geneticists that race doesn’t exist and genes can’t explain behavior. He traffics in shallow controversy and shallow controversy alone.

A week ago @terzake.bsky.social gave a platform to Nathan Cofnas. At some point, Cofnas said: "The people who do know, the experts, are not the ones calling me a racist pseudoscientist." He received no critical questions about this statement. /1 www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Fantastic new episode with Paul C. Taylor, talking about race, aesthetics, and the importance of philosophical thinking in the Black Studies intellectual tradition. Listen here or at your fave stream: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

race realists are so insidious... how can he even be getting jobs and not laughed out of the room? > Cofnas is not conducting legitimate academic research into race and intelligence but instead spreading pseudoscience. www.brusselstimes.com/2020013/ughe...

Kathryn Sophia Belle in conversation about philosophy and Black Studies, gender and race, and blackness inside the academy. Here and most streaming services: go.umd.edu/KathrynSophi...

Now out: How did earthquakes come to have a (quantitative) size? How can we quantify without experimental control? @cristianlarph.bsky.social and I answer both questions and show their implications for human science measurement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philsci #histsci #seismology

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said. (Published Dec. 2025)

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #mathematician & #geodesist Gladys West (née Brown 1930-2026). Shown with 3 satellites important to her career + tracks: Seasat, GEOS-3 & a GPS satellite. 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬🧮⚒️ #histsci Her work using math to precisely model the shape of Earth laid groundwork for GPS!

Phi-Geo Research Group Lunar New Year lunch bokulich.org/%cf%86-geo-g...

10. Clarice Phelps. www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/u...

Rümeysa Öztürk got her PhD yesterday, roughly nine months after being released from ICE custody. Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk!

“Historically, Black philosophical traditions emerged less from philosophy departments than from Black intellectual culture — churches, newspapers, political movements, labor struggles, and independent study.”

From the latest issue: Are We in a Sixth Mass Extinction? The Challenges of Answering and Value of Asking – Federica Bocchi, Alisa Bokulich, Leticia Castillo Brache, Gloria Grand-Pierre & Aja Watkins Abstract in alt text or read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #philsci #philsky

Boston/Cambridge folks, ICA is #free today. Go see "Say It Loud"✊🏾 Founded in 1977 by artist, educator & activist Dana C. Chandler Jr., the African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program (AAMARP) at @northeasternu.bsky.social is one of oldest residency programs for Black artists in the U.S.

"This is not only about "data privatization." It is a struggle over who gets to know, in detail, how climate risks are distributed and changing—and therefore who gets to prepare, to profit, and to decide" #philsci 🧪

Valerie Thomas invented the patented illusion transmitter, a 3D imaging technology. A strong advocate for science education, she has worked to expand opportunities in STEM for women and underrepresented students. https://awis.org/historical-women/valerie-thomas/ #WomenInSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth

The idols of white empiricism www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Delighted to share the news that my wonderful #HPS colleague @miguelohn.bsky.social has been appointed the next Director of the BU Center for Philosophy & History of Science, beginning July 1st. Congrats Miguel! www.bu.edu/cphs/about/

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate mathematician and NASA scientist Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; 1918 – 2020). 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬🧮🎢 #histsci One of the first Black women employed as a NASA scientist (and its predecessor NACA), she was known for her mastery of complex manual calculations of orbital

Ernest Everett Just (1883–1941) was a Black American biologist who researched marine invertebrate reproduction, including sea urchins, marine worms, and sand dollars. #marinebiology #blackhistory #histsci #blackhistorymonth

Jordon King was told "no" 40 times looking for a professor to mentor him. Now he's researching the Everglades, inspiring thousands on social media, and showing young people that scientists don't all look the same. When barriers try to stop us, we break through them anyway.

This is the month and year to capitalize that B when referring to Black persons or populations or people. And for those in the back….. we do not say “Blacks” EVER #Blacksky #BHM365

Happy Black History Month!

GPS pioneer and mathematician Gladys West has died. She was 95.

After 56 years, Indiana University is canceling the MLK dinner hosted by their Black Student Union.

"The university’s Committee on Academic Freedom, Responsibility and Tenure voted 8-0 that Texas A&M 'had no justification for dismissing' McCoul and 'failed to follow required procedures at multiple stages,' according to a Sunday statement from the Texas A&M chapter of the AAUP."

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true. They are getting creative!

More on the sudden and unexpected cancellation of Dr. Leonard Bright's class...

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social and @capitalb.bsky.social have consistently been doing some of the best reporting on data centers and environmental racism, btw. If you want to support independent journalism, throw them a couple of dollars if you can

Thinking about Octavia Butler’s mantra “so be it. See to it.”

If you're just learning about Nikki Giovanni, there's no shame. You can always read her words and meet her on the page.

I’m going to keep it real and hope I don’t get accused of overstating the issue; children’s liberation is the key to the future you want. The active, and often dismissed, oppression of children is near the root of what ails us as a nation.