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That's a good article. The following tactic always makes me roll my eyes and crack a furtive smile: "I will not even link the article because I do not want to bring attention to it and I urge others to ignore it."

Here's what I expect a Tweeter to do with your blog post. (I jest here).

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With regard to "Decades of systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation," (C.Y. Chen et al. 2022), Charles Reichhardt writes, and I quote, "...this is amazing work" and "something needs to be done about the National Science Foundation grant funding process." I encourage everyone to do your own research. RTs welcome to amplify. Views my own.

Alas, it's 377 characters - much too long for a single Tweet. So use a screen shot, or make a TikTok with scampering puppies.

For fun, here's a revised Tweet meeting the traditional 140 character limit. I think you'll agree this is the jist of your article.

On C.Y. Chen's works, Charles Reichhardt glows, "...this is amazing" & "something needs to be done about NSF." DYOR. RTs welcome.

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The latest great observatory is the James Webb Space Telescope, JWST. Some use the former, and others use the latter. The former does not appear all spelled out in the 7.12.2022 60-page technical summary, "Characterization of JWST science performance from commissioning." I don't think it was an oversight but was intentional, since the lead author is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Rigby_(astrophysicist)

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I should have noted that the original essay wrote, "James Webb Telescope (JWT)" leaving out the word "Space" and the "S." Incidentally, I remember when the name was announced, I shrugged and thought that they had to come up with a name pronto because the former working title, "Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST)" was going to be confusing with the newly formed merger that produced Northrup Grumman Space Technology (NGST), especially since NGST had been selected as the prime contractor for NGST. It could have been confusing to interview NdGT about NGST's NGST.

NdGT = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson

I have since read claims from officials that the coincidence of "NGST" did not influence the timing of the naming of the telescope. However, I don't believe those claims.

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