Although I have IG I’ll probably keep it personal, and I’m also keen to wind back how much time I spend online, so catch my updates on my website ellietheelement.squarespace.… and so long and thanks for all the fish folks
ALT The freeze screen of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with a dolphin: “So long and thanks for all the fish”
“The fate of two planned giant telescopes in Hawaii and Chile rests with the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), after a review of the U.S.-led projects, each vying for $1.6 billion in NSF funding, did not pick a clear favorite.”
science.org/content/article/…
Check out our photo exhibit at #RGSIBG24 on the 'Earthly imprints of the new space age' until tomorrow afternoon!
Co-organized w/ @EllieTheElement & Chakad Ojani w/ the support of the @UW Global Innovation Fund 🙏🏻 🚀 🌎
🧵 below w/ captions~
'The earthly imprints of the new space age' is an exhibition at #RGSIBG24. Engage with the geographies of ‘New Space’ in this exhibition by Eleanor Armstrong, @cryopolitics and Chakad Ojani.
rgs.org/research/annual-inte…
🚨BREAKING NEWS: @UN sends Urgent Action Letter to Government of Canada with serious concerns that @canada and its astronomy entities & corporations through involvement in @TMTHawaii are violating the human rights of Native Hawaiians.
#KuKiaiMauna#ProtectMaunaKea#AoleTMT
ALT With a background photo from the summit region of Mauna Kea on Hawaiʻi Island, depicting mountainous peaks in front of near cloud formations, there is text stating: "The United Nations is concerned that Canada is violating Native Hawaiian rights by supporting the TMT on Mauna Kea."
We're back in October with the theme Justice in Action! Submit your poster abstracts (at most 100 words!) for #SSiC2024 by 12 August.
Submit boldly and share widely!
More info & submit here: tiny.cc/SSiC-Posters
ALT Title: Call for posters
Subtitle: deadline 12 August, theme: Justice in Action
Below is a pink QR code titled “submit a <100-word abstract: tiny.cc/SSiC-Posters”
In the bottom right is a pink planet with black rings, superposed by a large green moon. In the bottom right says “Space Science in Context 2024, 17–18 October 2024”
Palestinians respond to the nine @Eurovision contestants' statement.
ALT PACBI, a founding member of the largest Palestinian coalition that is leading the global BDS movement, welcomes the refusal of nine Eurovision contestants to remain silent.
However, by participating in Eurovision alongside apartheid Israel while it carries out its live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, armed and enabled by many European governments, the contestants would be complicit in artwashing these crimes.
Feigning symbolic gestures of support while dismissing the call of the oppressed reflects a patronising and colonial attitude on the part of the contestants that is familiar to Palestinians, and many oppressed communities globally.
Israel is defying the World Court and the UN Security council. This means everyone has a responsibility to end complicity in supporting or covering up its crimes.
We call on all Eurovision contestants to withdraw from the contest, as a meaningful gesture of solidarity and to fulfil this moral responsibility to do no harm
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Do you research spaceports or the geographies of New Space? 🚀
Consider submitting to our paper session or offering an artifact for discussion to our world café session @RGS_IBG 2024 (London 27-30 Aug 2024).
Full CfP: tinyurl.com/7fsn52hw
Deadline: 26 Feb
@EllieTheElement
It was a delight to write with Julie Klinger, @RiaAdams and @EllieTheElement on our research experiences in Kiruna, Sweden - a place subject to overresearch - for a special issue of Lychnos on #Arctic dreams.
Read all the articles freely here: tidskriftenlychnos.se/issue/…
Cool to see our piece up on the @HSNatSci twitter - read the Essay @jordanbimm and I wrote that grapples with what looking at the capitalist impulse to buy-and-sell things that have been to space 🚀
This paper links beautifully with @jordanbimm and Eleanor S. Armstrong's essay on Space Auctions. Bimm and Armstrong look at the growing trend of auctioning both memorabilia and official documentation from space programs and ask, is there a problem with this trend?
As Hawaiians wake up to the news of Palestinian anticolonial resistance in Gaza to Israeli settler colonialism, remember that—from Hawaiʻi to Palestine—occupation is a crime. A lāhui that stands for decolonization and deoccupation should also stand behind freedom for Palestine.
Having to ask "weird barbie" for advice is the equivalent of having to ask the most senior grad student for department lore and how to navigate in said space.
Huge news here - amazing and unrelenting work by @uahikea at the @ziibiinglab keeping this issue on the agenda and getting action and response at international level: keep an eye out for the finding of this evaluation
🚨BREAKING: @UN to evaluate petition concerning Canadian violations of Indigenous rights in Hawaiʻi🚨
@Canada government, corporations & astronomical entities are under new international scrutiny for involvement in @TMTHawaii at Mauna Kea.
#KuKiaiMauna#ProtectMaunaKea
ALT Page one of press release titled, "United Nations to evaluation petition concerning Canadian violations of Indigenous rights in Hawaiʻi".
ALT Page two of press release titled, "United Nations to evaluation petition concerning Canadian violations of Indigenous rights in Hawaiʻi".