Putting out a request to folks in #SciComm to avoid spelling out #JWST in full - people are still pushing back, it's just not in the news as much.

“It is hypocritical of NASA to insist on giving Webb credit for the exciting things that happened under his leadership — activities that were actually conducted by other people — but refuse to accept his culpability for the problems,”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-really-really-wont-rename-jwst-despite-community-pushback/

#LGBTQ #Allyship #NASA #activism #renameJWST

The Movement to #RenameJWST is About More Than One Person https://notnotrocketscience.substack.com/p/the-movement-to-renamejwst-is-about

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NEW: @RocketToLulu @niais @iamstarnord and I respond to the NASA #RenameJWST report.

"Webb has at best a complicated legacy, including his participation in the promotion of psychological warfare. His activities did not earn him a $10 billion monument."

https://chanda.substack.com/p/taking-responsibility-for-historical?utm_source=twitter&sd=pf

@photex This article on SciAm appears to not be behind a paywall, so it should be a good primer: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-needs-to-rename-the-james-webb-space-telescope/

But, in short: JWST was named by a NASA administrator for another NASA administrator, in contrast to how these namings usually go. Webb has been tied to sanctioned harassment and discrimination of gay State Department and NASA employees, which this report was commissioned to investigate. A large fraction of professional astronomers want to #RenameJWST.