Twitter User Explains The Truth About Who Contributed What To The Black Hole Image

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mattstaff
Apr 12, 2019 2:30 PM EDT

Let's not mess up the celebration of a miraculous human achievement. Twitter user Andrew Chael, was quick to call out people online who are taking away from the incredible achievement of his colleague, Katie Bouman. 

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    Text - Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit (1/7) So apparently some (I hope very few) people online are using the fact that I am the primary developer of the eht-imaging software library github.com/achael/eht-ima...) to launch awful and sexist attacks on my colleague and friend Katie Bouman. Stop.
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    Text - Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit 11h Replying to @thisgreyspirit (2/7) Our papers used three independent imaging software libraries (including one developed by my friend @sparse_k). While I wrote much of the code for one of these pipelines, Katie was a huge contributor to the software; it would have never worked without her contributions and 5 L285 3.1K Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit 11h (3/7) the work of many others who wrote code, debugged, and figured out how to use the code on challenging E
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    Text - Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit 11h L (4/7) as a result, this is probably the most vetted image in the history of radio interferometry. I'm thrilled Katie is getting recognition for her work and that she's inspiring people as an example of women's leadership in STEM. I'm also thrilled she's pointing 270 3.6K Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit 11h (5/7) out that this was a team effort including contributions from many junior scientists, including many women junior scientists facebook.com/photo.php?
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    Text - Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit 11h (6/7) So while I appreciate the congratulations on a result that I worked hard on for years, if you are congratulating me because you have a sexist vendetta against Katie, please go away and reconsider your priorities in life. Otherwise, stick around - I hope to start tweeting L737 24 6.6K Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit 11h (7/7) more about black holes and other subjects I am passionate about -- including space, being a gay astronomer, Ursula K. Le Guin, arc
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    Text - Andrew Chael @thisgreyspirit 11h (Also I did not write "850,000 lines of code" - many of those "lines" tracked by github are in model files. There are about 68,000 lines in the current software, and I don't care how many of those I personally authored) ti 409 91 5.6K
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