This chapter about melanin is so fascinating and surprising. Melanin is a conductor, that is also an insulator, depending on the presence or absence of water? Melanin could be a building material? Melanin could be the key to constructing materials for bioelectric implants? Awesome stuff, and Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is right to consistently rail against the exclusion of Black people from academia and physics in particular. Damn, Fedi, she was here and then she left. Imagine how much cooler this place would be if us white folks had been a smidge more hesitant to do microaggressions, a tad less disbelieving of the direct first-hand reports of racism and white supremacy from her and others like her.

@thief@weirder.earth Certainly. The wording reflects my opinion of the effort that would have been involved in not being so racist as to drive her away completely.