Re-reading this article by Anton Hur on Han Kang's Nobel prize. During my year in Korea, I heard so many times about the angst surrounding Korea not winning a Nobel prize....until last year it finally happened. Beautiful piece, such a privilege to know Anton

Lovely article, so enjoyed reading this. Go Anton!

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IMC 2025 Cycle 2 deadline is nearing...registration deadline is May 8th and paper deadline is May 15th. The paper submission website is now open. Hope to see many exciting measurement papers.

I had two NSF grants terminated last week, for a total of just under $1M. The largest one had just started and its goal was to provide users with more context and information on the content that they see on social media.

"The last few months have been a moral catastrophe. At least there’s no economic upside."

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

IMC 2025 replicability track call is out. New this year: The papers accepted under this track will be part of the proceedings. You can also choose to replicate papers not only from previous IMCs, but also IMC-adjacent conferences. Take a look at the call and do apply!

(1) This is awful, and shows the cruel end-game of this conservative takeover. 1/

A very interesting archival project called “Indian mathematicians at work” does these long-form interviews with mathematicians not only about their mathematics but also about their lives. Here are two-part videos of an interview of my dad Prof Balasubramanian, an analytical number theorist.

I found this to be a really interesting and illuminating thread

I keep thinking about how many institutional failures symptomatic of our society led to this doctor being able to cause such harm. This @propublica.org piece is long, wild, sad, terrifying, and definitely worth reading! #MedicalEthics #MedEthics

Live view of professors joining Bluesky.