Ah, the ortolan phase

Ok I do actually see rolls of something now, but idk if it’s tarps or if they ARE tarps if it’s for the front so don’t get too excited about it for now

Okay, I'm just going to enjoy this as a Constructivist performance piece.

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These look like photos from a fictitious alternate history, maybe part of an SCP story, but they're tetrahedral kites designed by Alexander Graham Bell. publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

Good to see that both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz know who comes out of downing street first.

Heya, @wellesley.edu friends, Please join us for a rigorously intellectual and fun evening at the Wellesley Books on June 24th at 7pm. @ismarvolic.bsky.social, @kcarterjackson.bsky.social and I will be in conversation. Reserve your ticket here wellesleybooks.com/event/dender...

This is a delightful book and a wonderful, committed team of authors. I had the honor of seeing the letters that supported this book's nomination, and truly it's supported math instructors in transforming their teaching and, through them, made a lasting change in how former students see the world.

That Oxford education really shone through

Tour-de-force work written to communicate to a broader set of researchers in the field

Before (2020) / After (2026) Rue Henri Dubouillon in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Trees have grown a bit since the change from a parking street to a pedestrianized garden street in 2023.

Since September I've been working with an international group to develop what we hope can be a response from the mathematics community to artificial intelligence in maths. The Leiden Declaration is now posted and open for signatures: https://leidendeclaration.ai/ #leidendeclaration

How we can challenge social injustice—with data and humanity. Unlocking Justice by @chadtopaz.bsky.social is now available (28 July UK pub)! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliSci

Celebrate by obtaining for yourself a copy of the excellent book by De Lellis and collaborators, at a 50% discount in the PUP summer sale: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Please join in congratulating AMS members Emmanuel Candès and Camillo De Lellis, who have each been awarded the 2026 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. Read more: https://www.ams.org/news?news_id=7656

Floppy disks are aging out and so are the people who understand them. Here’s how one Cambridge project is rescuing that data before the hardware and know‑how disappear.

The race began at 9:01, but at 9:14, D rider Kalayaan Mendoza was still waiting for lift off. But the D came through in the end at 9:37 a.m.!

Race thread! The #DLineDash will begin today at 9am. Follow this post for live coverage during the race - see thread below. What are your predictions? Who will win?!?!

Will there be justice for The Egoist, at last?

STOKED about receiving my pre-order of @chadtopaz.bsky.social’s new book. I expect that one or both of my kids will want to read this, too.

Wondering what to say about this fab book but realise I said it on the back cover!

What math are people buying in the big Princeton sale, thus far -- sale runs to June 9th. A thread. #mathsky

Opportunities to print a copy of the Declaration of Independence available until December!

SCOOP: American Cinematheque's Grant Moninger has new details on the revival of the Village Theater. Screenings kick off soon, and Richard Rushfield's "favorite place in the world to watch movies" will survive the 12-month renovation - mrf.lu/_qyV

“If the D line was open, I would’ve taken it from home,” says Jerry O’Connell, emcee for today’s @metrolosangeles.bsky.social D line extension opening, as VIPs arrive on the purple carpet at the Petersen Automotive Museum

"...Kitty Puff Puff. It fought its opponents (which had names like the Eviscerator and Death Machine) by sticking a piece of gauze to its opponent's armature, and then driving in circles around it, until the opposing robot was so cocooned in gauze that it couldn't move."

Westwood sooooon

A particularly useful episode of the always enjoyable LA Podcast: city budget, AirBNB manipulation, June elections:

At the Strand bookstore in New York City

update: guy on the street just asked "is that true" and "isn't that the golden ratio" somehow it ended up with me saying "ah no that's a fibonacci number thing, pineapples are lucas numbers" and ended with "huh you really know your stuff about this" and me pointing "yeah, i got the t-shirt"

my thoughts on that fireside chat between Jay Bhattacharya and Emily Oster deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that... #NASEM #NIH #CDC #replication #innovation #COVID

Next week, 5/2 at 6:00pm EDT, @politicsprose.bsky.social welcomes Roland Betancourt, author of Disneyland and the Rise of Automation! He'll discuss the engineering marvels behind one of America’s most innovative and beloved entertainment experiences. This is a free, in-person event: buff.ly/tpUew4d

Listening to National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics workshop on research integrity. Will try to create a thread, but will use hashtag #IntegrityNASEM in case the thread breaks. First: Uri Simonsohn from Wharton Credibility Lab on data provenance.

yiiiikes

#JMM2026 Invited Addresses are on YouTube. Today's video is the AAAS-AMS Invited Address by Ismar Volic, Wellesley College: "Math goes to Washington: The Mathematics of Democracy, from Theory to Practice." Watch: https://youtu.be/hm_nBJ_xpAQ

I’m on BBC Radio’s More or Less talking about my book, Beyond Belief. I explain how Dr Spock's unsubstantiated advice to put babies to sleep on their fronts fuelled a rise in infant deaths (SIDS) A powerful cautionary tale on importance of studies to find causes. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Holy smokes! I remember 10 years ago, having a front row seat when volume I was nearing completion.

What an odd thing to say

This orange tabby approves

How to make learning math fun? Frame your arithmetical tables with ornamental borders! In this 16th c. handbook of commercial arithmetic, written in Lombardy, the charts include addition, subtraction, and four different methods of multiplication. (UPenn Ms. Codex 468) 🔗: https://bit.ly/3OcBSfA

hachiya persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1917

Very relevant for voters in any jurisdiction where judges are elected, too.

NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC? I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive. The BBC's next DG is a corporate yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on journalism in order to destroy it. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/matt-britt...

A 164 triangles version of the Stanford Bunny folded from a 4ft x 4ft thin aluminum sheet, following a crease pattern created by the *Origamizer* algorithm of E.Demaine & T.Tachi. Folded by an MIT group in 2011. cs.smith.edu/~jorourke/Ma... #MathSky #MathArt #Origami #Mathematics #Engineering 🧪

(printing is manufacturing and still expensive and you really need to try and get it right the first time you make 10,000 of a book; the economics is why expertise still survives, I suppose, but we gotta keep banging the saucepans for the ancient trades or they get quickly forgotten)

Happy 21st anniversary to Donald Shoup's "High Cost of Free Parking"! For those who don't have time to read all 800 pages, revisit this brief explainer Shoup wrote on the book's three bold ideas for parking reform that have since inspired a global movement transfersmagazine.org/2018/07/19/d...

What in the absolute fuck is this.