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skrishna

@skrishna@wandering.shop

#space | #science | #startrek | #gaming | #scicomm | #tech | #scifi
Freelance space editor, Inverse. Occasionally: Fast Company, Wired, NPR, Science Friday, StarTrek dot com
Author of A POCKET GUIDE TO STARGAZING (Chronicle Books, 2023) and co-editor of SWORD STONE TABLE (Vintage, 2021).

I live outside Philly.

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skrishna, to knitting
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Working on this sweater, love the color and softness @knitting

skrishna, to random
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Today is your LAST day to take advantage of B&N's pre-order sale (code PREORDER25) and, if I may be so bold, my book is available for pre-order!

STARGAZING: Contemplate the Cosmos to Find Inner Peace is out in August.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pocket-nature-swapna-krishna/1143066371?ean=9781797221366

adamjcook, to science

If you are into the intersection of , and (and everything in between), my recommendation is to follow @skrishna (host of PBS's FAR OUT).

I particularly enjoy Swapna's TikTok and I recommend checking that out too, if you are there: https://www.tiktok.com/@swapna_krishna

Swapna's work is insightful, inspiring and always engaging... featuring highly-digestible tidbits of information on topics that I seldom knew even existed.

Great stuff.

skrishna,
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@adamjcook this is SO KIND wow. Thank you!!!

skrishna, to knitting
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Got a good prognosis for my eye today, which means it’s time to do some damage at the Purl Soho clearance sale to celebrate @knitting

skrishna, to space
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Context for the Starship explosion, if anyone wants it:

It’s not actually a failure. It would be better if it hadn’t exploded, of course, but most of us expected it to explode. Rocketry is just a controlled explosion.

skrishna,
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@adamjcook @mjf_pro @Mark_W_White break stuff, build fast or whatever his motto is, does not play well with environmental factors and I do hope there are consequences for that

skrishna, to StarTrek
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I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.

She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"

And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.

I can't think about it without crying.

(The original article: https://authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-Star-Trek-Discovery-and-Michelle-Yeohs-accent-aa6d2eb01b3a24970abf406c39146df33)

skrishna,
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She means SO MUCH to me, my captain, and to see her succeed like this is amazing and incredibly well deserved.

(The site I wrote the article for took down all their pre-2019 content, so that's a personal copy of it.)

skrishna,
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The interview unfortunately also doesn't exist anymore, but I found a transcript. Here's what said to me about keeping her accent on the show.

I forgot about this: ”You know how it is. That's what we are."

I'm crying again.

skrishna,
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Ok y'all, a few things:

(1) That article is from freaking 2017. There is zero point in critiquing it now. All you're going to do is get muted.

(2) If I knew it was going to go viral multiple times, and be read by an audience other than Asian American kids, I would have written it very differently. Please keep in mind that it was written FOR Asian American children of immigrants before anyone else.

skrishna, to random
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Finally starting the third season of , thanks to AMC+’s streaming deal right now. This show is beautiful.

skrishna, to space
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I write at the intersection of , , , and pop culture (). I’m the host/writer of PBS’s YouTube show Far Out. I’ve got a book on stargazing coming out in 2023 and co-edited the Arthurian anthology SWORD STONE TABLE.

I have a Wired column where talk about as a parent. I contribute to dot com and co-host of the podcast Desi Geek Girls.

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