Always fun to see the amazing people who win. Congrats to mathematician Lauren Williams on winning a MacArther genius grant! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Love this!

What does this image have to do with math education? There's huge benefit in concentrating on what we don't see. Who are the students who aren't in our classes - who didn't make it through to our part of the math education system? Read my latest MAA blog: maa.org/math-values/...

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Grrrr. How is it you took dhoti yesterday but not backbeat?!? @beemoan.bsky.social

Oh, I love the logic of this. Why are you eligible for the Covid shot? Because the underlying condition you have....is that you haven't gotten that shot.

Looking for a job? Know someone who is? TPSE has a half-time admin spot open. It's fully remote, pretty flexible, includes BENEFITS - and you'd get to work with a fun bunch of math people. Circulate widely - esp. to any of the 100's of dedicated former fed workers. www.indeed.com/job/administ...

Morning shock: Olympic 1500 champ champ Cole Hocker DQ'd for jostling at the World Champs. x.com/letsrundotco...

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle in a (math-themed) revival of Proof? Sign me up - can't wait! playbill.com/article/ayo-...

And after going 0-18, Anisimova wins her first game in a Slam final!

What can math teach us about equity? What do metric spaces have to do with righting past injustices - and dare we say DEI? @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social brings her usual brilliant take and excellent writing: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/o...

Our tax money was used to threaten Gambian leaders into signing a contract with Elon's Starlink. Want to know why Musk threw his weight (and $$$) behind the Orange one? It was all about the $$. No democratic admin would have been so corrupt.

Looks like the administration is looking to create another opportunity for them to terrorize (some of the) amazing scholars that come to the US to further their education (and in many cases, make incredible contributions to the US). Open for public comments: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Great article about how math skills improve students' performance in science. But, um, maybe some editing would be helpful? www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

What's been the impact of the Common Core, 15 years since its rocky roll out? My take is quoted in this lovely piece from @jonapolitano.bsky.social. www.the74million.org/article/some...

I believe the word you're looking for, @nytimes.com, is "racist."

I too would like to remove dev ed (math) from our (and students') existence.

The only thing surprising about this decision is that it was 5-4 not 6-3. In any case, the destruction of the world's best science infrastructure continues. Not sure how Republican lawmakers feel about this. Pretty sure Chinese and Russian officials are thrilled.

The most beautiful mathematical creation in nature ✨ And exactly how we can recreate it… #mathematics

Over 350 folks from across the mathematical sciences (mostly higher ed) have signed on, pushing for us to modernize the curriculum. What specific changes would you like to see? I'll start... docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Um, I have one in my garage....

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GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.

MathFest!!!!! Who's coming? Who will we see at the TPSE reception Celebration of Effective Math Teaching, Thurs 8-10, Hyatt Capital View, 15th floor

The NSF canceled all grants to UCLA- including IPAM (one of the math research centers). Terry Tao weighs in on the impact of this decision (dressed up in the language of fighting antisemitism.) mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

Can we call it fascism now? Where exactly is the bar?

BlueSky vs Twitter, a telling anecdote. After skeeting this the form was doing great (100+ responses.) Then I posted it on the other place. Immediately I was getting ~1 bot response every second. Ugh! Had to go back and require folks to log into Google. Not going back...

Over 100 signers already! Great to see so much momentum! Let's keep it going - encourage your friends to sign on...

Hey higher ed math/stats folks: have you noticed how our curriculum isn't up to the moment? We're still teaching math to win the Cold War, and haven't updated content to focus more on data, modeling, computation, and statistics. Join the movement - 100+ signed already! forms.gle/A9P72vDu1nKE...

The story about Colbert being cancelled because…. Trump doesn’t like him, should be a warning shot to everyone. The oligarchy has the power… they will use their money to silence you. Time to rise up.

Love this thread - about how kids can make sense of fractions without going all "school math." Also: tasty looking cupcakes.

Life expectancy in Gaza dropped from 75.5 years pre-war to 40.6 years, according to this study in the Lancet. #CeasefireNow

Love hearing Mahmoud talk about math and data!

Great aerial shots of the latest volcanic activity in Iceland- near the Blue Lagoon.

Hmmm. Are they finally giving credit to all the creatives whose work their LLMs are based on? Sadly, no.

One of my colleagues and a union comrade was abducted at the Camarillo action yesterday. We still don't know where he is, who is holding them, or any other information about his status. If you're in the area, please reach out to the folks listed in the press release and donate to the bail fund.

"My photographer got hit twice by less than lethal rounds and he's got blood on one of his arms and we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic."

TIL there's a place in Venezuela where that has nearly continuous lightning about half the year. About 1.6M lightning bolts a year. Look up "catatumbo lightning." www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

1/ Ever received a random text or DM from a stranger looking to befriend you? Here's how a simple message could be a small piece of a global fraud machine that exploits some of the world's largest banks. THREAD 🧵

I have filled out hundreds of applications checking different things depending what the options allowed. I literally cried when the 2000 census let me check two boxes. How is this a story @NYTimes? If you were born in Africa and moved to the US, isn't African American a perfectly appropriate?

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Cancelled my Paramount+ subscription this morning. Just can't reward this sort of surrender with my hard-earned dollars.

Glad to see this small ray of light for the beleaguered trans community.

We've all wondered what we would have done in Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy. There's 50 US Senators who now know - they just voted for $45B in ICE concentration camps. History will not look kindly on them.

What's wrong with this picture? #Wimbledon

My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great #Math4Citizenship activity: Critique this post. Pay close attention to the bins in the histogram. What data would you need in order to evaluate the post's claim? Given just the graphs shown, what would a mathematically accurate post have looked like?

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

Wow. Being separated from one's family and loved ones. That would really suck. Yeah, let's have less of that, please.

This morning HUD announced it was moving into the (fully occupied) NSF building. Here's how it played out: www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...