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Diversity and inclusion

Prioritization and a passion for science can get you through burnout

29 Oct 2021

This article is the fifth in a series of essays written by Black physicists and co-published with Physics Today as part of #BlackInPhysics week 2021, an event dedicated to celebrating Black physicists and their contributions to the scientific community, and to revealing a more complete picture of what a physicist looks like. This year’s theme is “burnout”.

Photo of Gibor Basri
Gibor Basri: “My own solution when things got out of hand (which they regularly did) was to remember that it was a temporary glitch arising in the context of an incredibly satisfying career”. (Courtesy: Gibor Basri)
I write as a successful senior Black astrophysicist. It saddens me that there are very few of us; it

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