The Drake Equation is a thought experiment whose purpose is to understand the ingredients necessary for life and advanced technological civilizations to exist on other worlds in our galaxy. However, beyond reflecting on life on Earth we have no knowledge of many of these ingredients, such as the number of planets that have life, the number of with intelligent life, the number with advanced...
The Society of Indigenous Physicists (SIP) was founded in 2020 as a collective of mutual support, where we are connected by our dual identities as Indigenous and physicists. SIP’s mission is to support Indigenous physicists through an organization that uses culturally relevant community practices so that we can find belonging, grow, and offer our unique contributions. In this talk, I will...