Cosmology, Particles, and the Stuff That Came After. A newsletter from theoretical physicist and Black feminist theorist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
My new book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie , is a finalist for the New England Book Award! And available in North America, UK, and Europe wherever you get your books. I encourage you to shop your local indie , use Bookshop for ebooks , and Libro for audiobooks . There are signed copies of the hardcover at Water Street Books . Loyalty Books has signed book…
My book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie , is now available in North America, UK , and Europe wherever you get your hardcovers, ebooks, and audiobooks. I encourage you to shop your local indie , use Bookshop for ebooks , and Libro for audiobooks . There are signed copies of the hardcover at Water Street Books . Loyalty Books has signed book plates for both…
My book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie , is now available in North America, UK , and Europe wherever you get your hardcovers, ebooks, and audiobooks. I encourage you to shop your local indie , use Bookshop for ebooks , and Libro for audiobooks . There are signed copies of the hardcover at Water Street Books and Harvard Books , which is also the only…
My book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie , is now available in North America, UK , and Europe wherever you get your hardcovers, ebooks, and audiobooks. I encourage you to shop your local indie , use Bookshop for ebooks , and Libro for audiobooks . There are signed copies of the hardcover at Water Street Books and Harvard Books , which is also the only…
My book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie , is now available in North America, UK , and Europe wherever you get your hardcovers, ebooks, and audiobooks. I encourage you to shop your local indie , use Bookshop for ebooks , and Libro for audiobooks . There are signed copies of the hardcover at Water Street Books and Loyalty Books while supplies last. This is a…
My book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie , is now available in North America wherever you get your hardcovers, ebooks, and audiobooks. I encourage you to shop indie , use Bookshop for ebooks , and Libro for audiobooks . There are signed copies of the hardcover at Water Street Books , Loyalty Books , Lost City Books , Gibson’s Books , and Charis Books while…
My book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie , is now available in North America wherever you get your hardcovers, ebooks, and audiobooks. I encourage you to shop indie , use Bookshop for ebooks , and Libro for audiobooks . There are signed copies of the hardcover at Water Street Books , Loyalty Books , Lost City Books , and Charis Books while supplies last.…
Just as I was preparing to send this newsletter, I saw that SCOTUS had ruled in favor of conversion therapists. This is a terrible setback for trans folks and trans children especially. I want to remind you that Trans Lifeline is ready to take calls at +1-877-565-8860 from people in need of support right now and that now is the time for BOLD and VOCAL allyship. A quick rundown of what’s below, in…
Note: My new book The Edge of Space-Time debuts April 7. Preorders help enormously , and you can get signed and personalized ones here . Twice a year, Duke University Press has a 50% off sale and I spend hours going through the catalog looking for new and upcoming releases that I should get my hands on. In the last round, I preordered Justin L. Mann’s Breaking the World: Black Insecurity and the…
My second book The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie debuts on April 7 in North America and May 7 in UK/Europe . If you haven’t preordered already, please do. Want a signed and personalized copy? Come see me on tour or preorder from Loyalty Books by March 30. Last week, I announced my book tour. Then a few days later, I had to withdraw from one of the events…
The Edge of Space-Time Book Tour is coming! Edit 3/13/2026: I pulled out of the June 14 Seacoast Litfest event because I was not comfortable with their headliner choice. We are just weeks away from Tuesday, April 7, release day! I’m super excited to announce my U.S. book tour for The Edge of Space-Time , which hopefully you’ve preordered by now (UK/Europe folks, you can get it there too, preorder…
Photo credit: Mariana Dale/LAist . Original caption: Ayleen was a junior in Lopez's AP U.S. History class. “When he sees that a student's not OK, he asks them personally and he doesn't embarrass them in front of everybody," she said. Dear Students, Dear Mr. Lopez, I read today in LAist about your activism and teaching, alongside your comrades at Maya Angelou Community High School. The student…
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Before I get started, let me point you to my Exciting 2026 Book Releases list. Please take it to your local indie and shop shop shop! A lot of them are losing money right now, and this is one way to keep an important business in your community. Don’t forget also to preorder a signed copy of my new book The Edge of Space-Time . After the 2024 election, I realized…
Preorder from Loyalty by 3/30 to get a signed, personalized copy! I am proud to partner with queer, Black and Asian-owned Loyalty Bookstore to create this opportunity for people to get signed, personalized copies of The Edge of Space-Time no matter where they are. Order by March 30 , and I will personalize when I stop by Loyalty Books and Lost City Books on April 6 for one of the first events of…
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to the UK . . . without an Oxford comma! Preorder preorder preorder !! Before I go on a little queer rant, first things first: Meet the U.K./Europe edition of The Edge of Space-Time , which is now available for preorder and will be arriving from Canongate Books on May 7, 2025! Notice that it’s a different color, it’s got an Ed Yong quote on the front, and the…
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash (This originally appeared at my BearDev blog , but I thought newsletter readers might also find it interesting.) Folks who hang out on Bluesky/Twitter may have caught bits and pieces of the discussions amongst academics about what to do about today's university students -- both at the undergrad and grad level. Across disciplines, many of us are finding students…
The book I read over the weekend. “For me, it’s not just about a book — it’s an attempt to make our voice and our suffering heard. If we succeed in publishing the book, it might give me a chance to survive and leave Gaza. And if not, then at least, if they kill me, I will remain.” This is what physics student Wasim Said said to me on Saturday when he asked me to read his book of memoir and…
60 thirty-second exposures (30 minutes total) of Andromeda and its two most visible satellite galaxies, added together, taken Sept. 15, 2025 in New Hampshire. One of the things that I write about in The Edge of Space-Time (now available for preorder, please preorder !!) is taking up the work of doing astrophotography — not for research but because it would be pretty cool to do and share with the…
Photo by JD-Photos on Unsplash When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead And the White Knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's off with her head Remember what the dormouse said Feed your head Feed your head — Jefferson Airplane, “White Rabbit” As authoritarian politics becomes more popular and dominant across the globe, curiosity falls by the wayside. There is a pressure to not…
A 4-year-old Palestinian girl, lost her life due to malnutrition and lack of treatment due to the war on Gaza. Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “I was in danger of verbalizing my moral impulses out of existence.” — Daniel Berrigan, on trial in Baltimore for pouring napalm on draft papers in Catonsville, Maryland It is August 14, 2025, and there are Palestinian people dying in…
Meet my second book! And preorder it from your local bookseller! Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie My publisher says it’s a “fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos .” Indeed, I am the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos AND I have written another book! The Edge of Space-Time: Particles,…
You can help save cosmic science for future generations. This figure by Skylar Grayson shows how much the univese we will be cut off from studying using cutting edge instruments if the Trump budget proposal succeeds. Read more from Skylar on BSky . One of the major strategies of the American authoritarians that currently run the United States governing apparatus is overwhelm. They make messy,…
Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash MARCH 23 UPDATE: The comment period has been extended until June 7. Please keep submitting comments! (Thanks to the reader who hipped me to this.) I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service, from the people who regulate food safety to the people who determine what scientific research has…
Palestinians walk past a mural of George Floyd, a Black American who died after being restrained by police officers, in Gaza City, Tuesday June 16, 2020. Photo and caption by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto. Day 321 of the genocide. Over 40,000 Palestinians are known to be dead. The number is likely higher . The United States gives over $3 billion in military aid to Israel every year. Actually, this is just…
Hundreds of Temple, Drexel and UPenn students marched in solidarity with Palestine to UPenn's campus on April 25, where professors walked out of classes. Students also set up tents in solidarity with the Columbia University student encampment. Credit: Joe Piette. Dear Everyone, The semester is starting at my home institution. Maybe you are also somehow affiliated with a university or college and…
Since I last wrote about Why Scientists Must Stand with Palestinians , several thousand Palestinians have been murdered by a violent Israeli bombardment of Gaza. The hospital infrastructure has been completely destroyed, multiple universities appear to be completely destroyed, and there is a water crisis. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers appear to have free range in the West Bank, where IDF has also…
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. ( source ) “On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed – how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die after a long life and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword and…
Hi Friends! You're getting this email from Buttondown because I've migrated away from Substack, who suck , as a company . Since I don't have paid subscriptions, this involves making a move from a (venture capital-backed) free service to one with a monthly cost. I'm glad I can afford this without any concerns. Even so, I am considering whether I will activate some kind of tip jar (maybe later). In…
caption... Yesterday, the academic excellence committee of the trustees of the University System of New Hampshire approved the President’s recommendation to promote me to Associate Professor with tenure. This brought to an end a journey that I’ve been on since I was 11, when one of Stephen Hawking’s graduate students responded to my e-mailed query about how to become a theoretical physicist. There…
Hello Party People! It’s been a while since I’ve written a more personal note. A lot has happened as late, including that the owners/creators of Substack continue to be totally fine with hate speech on this platform, Apartheid Clyde has blocked Substack previews on Twitter in retaliation for Substack’s development of Notes, and I really want to find a new platform and am intrigued by but uncertain…