i agree

they all amount to "look! its a girl! she did this because we say so! praise her!"

but she doesn't deserve any hate herself

its why the page has no valuable information beyond public records

no she doesn't

and I don't want to underplay her contribution to the Event Horizon Project

but giving her this much attention and so much credit is wrong

The media is crazy.. She didn't may had even known

yup

last I checked she hasn't actually made ANY public statements in the last few days

There's was also a lot of misinformation being pushed

though several people have impersonated her on social media

That she was the head of the team

She wasn't

yea

shes a grad student for crying out loud... and she doesn't actually have any background in astronomy

I mean shes a great programmer for sure, but shes not actually a scientist

tbh she has contributed like 2400 lines of code on the project's github repo

there's a guy who has more than 850'000 and nobody talked about him

Lines of code doesn't tell much about it

The guy had made a statement about it

i know there's more than writing code to programming, but the time consuming part is writing, debugging and all that stuff

He said, that code was mostly auto-generated by algorithms

i didn't know that

but even if it was 90% generated he has still typed 80'000 lines of code more than her (assuming that she wrote all of her contributions)

the team that designed the program that put the image together doesn't seem to care about how much of the code they personally wrote in the final product

so if they don't care, I'm not going to waste effort on it either... it was a group project and they should all receive equal recognition for it

https://mobile.twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/1116518544961830918

He made this tweet

I'm just upset about all the actual astrophysicists, astronomers, and scientists that put years of effort into this and are now forgotten in a campaign of misinformation

they are trying to shape public perception and its working and unforgivable to me

^this

this kind of achievement should have been genderless and nameless... it belongs to everyone

I know for a fact thats how those involved feel, because I've been speaking with them about it locally

You spoke to them directly?

it is super cool they accepted the Hawaiian name submission though

I live near one of the observatories involved in the effort

yesterday I specifically went to one of the astronomy professors to talk about it

can you give us some more details? it sounds very interesting

on the name?

no, more like stuff he/they said and how he/they felt