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Articles by Divya M. Persaud
I almost got canceled for being anti-war, and I'm asking you to do the same.
A little story time for the scientists and engineers in the room. About a decade ago, at a space agency, I was put on a project contracted to the DoD to help surveil the Niger River Basin for "national security." This was a community that West-backed Shell had devastated through an oil spill, damaging the livelihoods of thousands, and the US government wanted to link this devastation and colonial, ecological disaster-making to "terrorism." I was horrified.
Why I tell my clients to confess, not hide, accessibility gaps
Many of us are working towards more equitable, inclusive meetings in science and other disciplines. This work is riddled with mistakes, oversights, and gaps in knowledge, oftentimes because those who would most benefit from equity measures are not on the organizing committee, itself often a symptom of both exclusive practice and the exclusivity of the field itself.
What is the future of conferences? And what should be?
In May 2020, I co-organized a virtual conference called Space Science in Context. Our vision was simple, but bold: bridge two or more very disparate fields - space science and social science - and innovate virtual platforms.
THEY WILL BE FREE: a song cycle, by Divya M. Persaud
1. It is the not-so distant future. We follow two astronauts sharing a capsule, traveling through space. They are alone. And yet, they are not. This is the story of humanity’s search for life in the Universe and what it finds. 2. we are a moment of time spared motion this is the end of earth, birthed umbral ocean. i am not alone; they speak inside me, the ash of beings, the last of home. they will be free among the stars, we, spilled clean among the stars. 3.
Supremacy is for racists - use ‘quantum advantage’
CORRESPONDENCE 10 December 2019 We take issue with the use of ‘supremacy’ when referring to quantum computers that can out-calculate even the fastest supercomputers (F. Arute et al. Nature 574, 505–510; 2019). We consider it irresponsible to override the historical context of this descriptor, which risks sustaining divisions in race, gender and class. We call for the community to use ‘quantum advantage’ instead. The community claims that quantum supremacy is a technical term with a specified meaning.
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