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The closing plenary at #ICHEP2018 is the best plenary: dark matter and astroparticle physics 🙌🏽 
Imagine 6.5 tonnes of Xenon! #ICHEP2018
Being a scientist requires extraordinary patience. We keep pecking away at dark matter, even though we still haven’t seen it after decades of searching. #ICHEP2018
Now @bbeckford000 shows how hard core #BlackandSTEM are: he went from giving an expert talk and Q&A about diversity in physics to now giving an expert talk about particle physics. Here he is prepping. Black physicists are 200% physicists.
Pions and neutrinos production at KOTO. Importantly for Chanda: the axion mass * coupling constant is proportional to the pion mass * coupling constant. 😍 #BlackandSTEM
Show your kids: that’s a Black man talking about looking for unusual particle interactions — Dr. Brian Beckford of the University of Michigan #BlackandSTEM
He starts by situating how we should think about “diversity” in context — and he argues for the need to create safe spaces #ICHEP2018
African youth are almost 1/5 of the world’s youth. What does it mean for *humanity* that #BlackandSTEM are excluded from science on the continent and globally? #ICHEP2018
You have two minutes to join us for Brian’s talk, #ICHEP2018!
Here we go, strategies for improving diversity (in an American context) from @bbeckford000 #ICHEP2018
Brian is beginning by highlighting that underrepresented minority and minority are not interchangeable. URMs don’t earn degrees commensurate with presence in US population.
Ranking of paper production by funding/institution: US Dept of Energy and CERN both getting worse in ranking #ICHEP2018
Slide from talk by Maria Grazia Pia, INFN
By quantitative measures, astrophysics is doing significantly better than particle physics in diversity — but she didn’t explain what factors go into these measurements (although I believe this is true)
I don’t know why this tweet amused me. Maybe because I’m at the diversity session of #ICHEP2018, a conference on particle physics where I gave a talk about ... particle physics, being a person who has nothing to do with STEM lol
Actually turns out I was in the wrong room. I knew there were too many white men and not enough women in the room lololol
The only men at the diversity session so far are the ones who are speaking or chairing it LMAO YAY PARTICLE PHYSICS
Does Ly-alpha data rule out ultra light fuzzy dark matter? Maybe! #ICHEP2018
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