As of the last time I checked, @NSBPInc President-Elect Hakeem Oluseyi’s blog entry that seeks to exonerate homophobic federal admin James Webb still contains what I consider to be potentially libelous comments about me, one of the only openly queer faculty in the organization.

"The...article references a professional astrophysicist as his original source for learning about the allegations against Webb. This scientist propagated unsubstantiated false information as if it were true without performing proper scientific rigor to investigate its veracity."
This comment specifically cites an article on https://t.co/5MxzND1CGW by Matthew Francis where Francis says that he first learned about the allegations against Webb because of me. Francis does not identify me as an authority nor does he quote me as an authoritative source.
I believe that what Francis was (quite reasonably) referring to is seeing me tweet The Stranger article by Dan Savage.

Oluseyi takes it a step further by insinuating that I knowingly made false statements and claiming that I did not investigate.

Oluseyi has no evidence.
Again, I want to highlight that the president elect of the National Society of Black Physicists wrote an essay, claiming to support queer people, where he makes a point of impugning the integrity of the only openly queer faculty member in the org, who is also early career.
Oluseyi did not approach me with his concerns. He did not reach out to me with a correction to my tweets about this. (that I should have said State Dept instead of NASA might have been fair!)

Instead he chose a public attack on me and frankly, on Matt Francis as a journalist.
Oluseyi’s essay is in my opinion homophobic, and I do not believe he should be leading an organization like @nsbpinc that includes a growing queer student and other early career researcher population. That’s just my opinion though. The board/membership will do what it wants.
Next I want to turn to the larger astro comm, including NASA folks who circulated this piece:
1. As @RocketToLulu outlines with support from @ColdWarScience and @adrianlucy, the history side of piece is poorly researched. Were you competent to evaluate it?
https://t.co/BapaMCtvLw
2. It’s clear some of you circulated it without reading the whole thing carefully because if you had, you would have noticed the pointed personal comments. Surely you know those would be inappropriate in a scientific paper, right? Why didn’t he include a name? This is a red flag.
3. The desire to exonerate a dead white guy who was in the thick of federal governance during the McCarthy Era should give all of you pause. Like, seriously. If he had been a radical freedom fighter, he wouldn’t have been in the Truman administration. Learn some history.
4. The silence over the last two days as the homophobia and damaging personal attacks in the piece were made clear is grotesque, homophobia, and misogynoir. A lot of you have left us to address the homophobia alone and me to address the misogynoir by myself.

Shame on you. SHAME.
I feel compelled to say especially to the hetcis astronomers that this is particularly shameful because I am now on day 4 of using up time addressing this, as is Lucianne. And Adrian is a student who is in their final year!

Science time has been stolen from queer people by you.

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The first ever world map was sketched thousands of years ago by Indian saint
“Ramanujacharya” who simply translated the following verse from Mahabharat and gave the world its real face

In Mahabharat,it is described how 'Maharishi Ved Vyasa' gave away his divine vision to Sanjay


Dhritarashtra's charioteer so that he could describe him the events of the upcoming war.

But, even before questions of war could begin, Dhritarashtra asked him to describe how the world looks like from space.

This is how he described the face of the world:

सुदर्शनं प्रवक्ष्यामि द्वीपं तु कुरुनन्दन। परिमण्डलो महाराज द्वीपोऽसौ चक्रसंस्थितः॥
यथा हि पुरुषः पश्येदादर्शे मुखमात्मनः। एवं सुदर्शनद्वीपो दृश्यते चन्द्रमण्डले॥ द्विरंशे पिप्पलस्तत्र द्विरंशे च शशो महान्।

—वेद व्यास, भीष्म पर्व, महाभारत


Meaning:-

हे कुरुनन्दन ! सुदर्शन नामक यह द्वीप चक्र की भाँति गोलाकार स्थित है, जैसे पुरुष दर्पण में अपना मुख देखता है, उसी प्रकार यह द्वीप चन्द्रमण्डल में दिखायी देता है। इसके दो अंशो मे पीपल और दो अंशो मे विशाल शश (खरगोश) दिखायी देता है।


Meaning: "Just like a man sees his face in the mirror, so does the Earth appears in the Universe. In the first part you see leaves of the Peepal Tree, and in the next part you see a Rabbit."

Based on this shloka, Saint Ramanujacharya sketched out the map, but the world laughed