what's the math joke about not talking about fight club? #MathSky

This is a big deal. Approval polls, like the media, courts, and Congress, can serve as vehicles for presidential accountability. We are watching in real time as the institutions that could hold this administration to account wither on the vine.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Okay sounds like no but please tell me if I missed something. Should I organize an outdoor gathering? (In cold weather)

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

It's the time of year where teachers like giving "fun" holiday activities Please make sure theyre not Xmas centric Yes, many students may enjoy them but unless youre at a religious school, youre bound to have at least one student who will feel alienated & likely won't be comfortable speaking up.

My dad told an apocryphal story about a PhD defense where someone on the committee went off the rails on questioning and the advisor butted in with “Now is neither the time nor the place to get answers to the questions that have been troubling you all your life.”

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Practice letting people know that you appreciate them. It costs nothing.

See if we had kept the Me Too men cancelled the first time so much of this could have been avoided

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

I am eternally grateful for reading the book Cool Math (by Maganzini) when I was 8. Before it, I did not know that math was interesting. Now I am a mathematician.

As someone with ME/CFS my entire life is "rational assessment of the threat environment," because I walk a daily tightrope of illness management. I don't have the luxury of ignoring the science, which overwhelmingly proves the threat of covid is still very real. That's not fear, it's fact.

Nooooo. @jamellebouie.net really understands eugenics and public health in this moment, with the exception of covid and masking. Soooo close to getting it, so disappointing

Lotka-Volterra event in Tennessee called The Nashville Predator–Prey Models

This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...

TODAY'S THE DAY! It's one of the coolest dates of our lifetime. Whether you go by month/day/year or day/month/year, if we write the date as one number, we will get a square number! Both sides can agree that today's date is a square date. 9,272,025=3045² 27,092,025=5205²

10/31/25: University of Michigan, '2025 IACC Long Covid Case Competition' 'A student-led initiative at the University of Michigan aiming to raise awareness and drive industry engagement around infection-associated chronic conditions (IACC) like Long Covid...' www.bus.umich.edu/Conferences/...

Also our wait times do in fact suck, and people who claim you can buy your way out of them just haven't realized that maybe there's literally only one neurologist in driving distance of where they live.

Will there be any respirator-masks-required sessions at JMM 2026? #MathSky

If you want to see complete lists of all platypus graphs with a given lower bound on the girth, you are in luck. They are available at houseofgraphs.org/meta-directo...

Wowa! We printed 200+ “How to Report Ice” zines & got them in 41 Little Free Libraries in Takoma, Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant, Capitol Hill, H St, & Trinidad! If you see any tag us & let us know! Print (in linktree above), fold, & get some in a little library near you 🤗

“I’m sorry you got upset” isn’t an apology.

I say this every time something of note happens in DC and inevitably someone gets mad at me: It’s not just “where the government is.” It’s a real place with real people living in it. Reducing it to some playground of the elite and powerful is inaccurate and often racist

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It was satisfying to write in the why are you unsubscribing text box, “I never subscribed to you, Gavin”

hello again did anyone read the bluesky policy changes and want to tell me what to think of them? 😭

If you want my recommendation for groups that are actually doing on the ground work and not just using this moment to get attention and get new emails for their listserv: @remorahousedc.bsky.social @dcmigrantmutualaid.org

RFK Jr. should resign. Any healthy Democratic Party would demand it right now. Any public health apparatus of value would demand it right now. We are leaderless in government and academia. America is a fucking death cult

This is also about school.

A comment we got in our kid's assessment was basically like "the number of times she interrogated the nature of the questions instead of answering them was indicative"

On Severe ME Day, my hope is for recognition that this is a humanitarian crisis on a massive scale. I hope everyone aware that this is happening will commit to demanding a commensurate response from government, industry and charitable giving. 8/

RFK Jr believes that it's our own fault that we're sick, whether it's via chronic illness or cancer. Please don't believe that he cares about Long Covid or any other chronic illnesses. His anti-vaccine and MAHA stances are clear.

“Numbers are there for you to play with. Numbers serve at your pleasure, right? Say whatever numbers you want, in whatever order you want, whenever you want. That will not make it math.” — @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social, 31:45 in the linked video

I was told we would be valuing DEI at my workplace, starting with trauma informed care. I saw them finally starting to do the work to make that true. Being forced back to work with ever diminishing safety precautions made it impossible to trust they meant anything they said about inclusion.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Happy Last Primitive Pythagorean Triple Day of the Century! (The holiday name could be catchier. I'm still preparing my celebration...) I hope your angles are right and your legs and hypotenuse are integral! 📐

Happy Last Primitive Pythagorean Triple Day of the Century! (The holiday name could be catchier. I'm still preparing my celebration...) I hope your angles are right and your legs and hypotenuse are integral! 📐

Nooooooooooooo 😭

This happens so often with conference organizers, people I thought were colleagues, online courses, And more. Even when I offer to collaborate and do some of the work myself. 

🎵 don't ghost people who are asking for disability accommodations 🎵

Someone shared a concentration camp job ad from Indeed on Facebook (calling it what it was). I was reminded of my commitment here.

The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force. Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!

EPIPHANY: people who care about you are supposed to ask you how you're doing and not need the answer to be fine. (I'm not being sarcastic 😭😭)

Republicans keep saying the “genuinely disabled” don’t have to worry about losing Medicaid. All disabilities are genuine. You also need healthcare to get a diagnosis. To get the paperwork done. To “prove it”. They’re ensuring people get trapped in red tape loopholes so they can’t get care.

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!