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------------------------------------------------------------------------------ arXiv staff to participate in the #Strike4BlackLives #ShutDownSTEM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The arXiv staff is deeply saddened and angered by the recent killings of George Floyd, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others. We recognize that Black people live with the injustices of systemic racism every day -- and have for centuries -- in North America and around the world. We acknowledge that in research, as in life, people often perpetuate bias and systemic racism, both consciously and unconsciously. Members of arXiv’s own physics community asked us to pause business-as-usual this week and join scientists participating in the #Strike4BlackLives (https://www.particlesforjustice.org) and #ShutDownSTEM. Our US-based staff agreed. arXiv is an essential, daily tool for most physicists, and Black physicists are faced with the simultaneous tasks of writing and reading papers, while also fighting for their rights. “The strike is an idea that grew out of discussions among Black physicists and astronomers, and importantly one thing that it offers us is a day of rest,” says Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (http://www.cprescodweinstein.com), professor of physics at the University of New Hampshire and co-organizer of the #Strike4BlackLives. “I want a day where I don’t have to worry that I’ve missed an important paper on the arXiv because I am stressed out while my non-Black colleagues happily keep going. The strike is not just about gathering people together to begin to take action, but it is also about a day of rest for the people most affected by this heated moment.” arXiv will not mail a daily announcement on the evening of Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Submissions received at or after 14:00 ET Monday, June 8 and before 14:00 ET Wednesday, June, 10 will be announced at 20:00 ET Wednesday, June 10. We also encourage authors to pause their submissions on Wednesday, June 10 to participate in the #Strike4BlackLives. We encourage arXiv readers to use the time they would normally spend reading the daily announcement or submitting an article to instead read about and discuss racism (https://www.particlesforjustice.org/resources) and how they will work in their own local and professional communities to address it (https://www.shutdownstem.com/action). If you choose to participate, please consider tagging @arXiv on Twitter (https://twitter.com/arxiv) to let us know what you are doing. arXiv was founded as an open and freely available service to disseminate scientific research, and, as such, is an equalizer and democratizer. We are proud of this heritage and at the same time recognize there is still much work to be done. We are participating in the #Strike4BlackLives and #ShutDownSTEM at the request of our community, and we encourage members of minority groups around the world who are underrepresented in science to reach out to arXiv (https://bit.ly/arXivStrikeInput) to help us understand how to serve you better. -- Você está recebendo esta mensagem porque se inscreveu no grupo "LOGICA-L" dos Grupos do Google. Para cancelar inscrição nesse grupo e parar de receber e-mails dele, envie um e-mail para [email protected]. Para ver esta discussão na web, acesse https://groups.google.com/a/dimap.ufrn.br/d/msgid/logica-l/CAO6j_LhmDCDQb8_MnXDk6f-tLzs5eyh%3DOiugKUWDbded0Def1g%40mail.gmail.com.
