It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Summaring the problems in every maths department.

"There is no sugarcoating this; a majority of 39 Israeli Knesset members approved in a first reading a bill that effectively mandates courts to impose the death penalty exclusively against Palestinians." #Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Apartheid #Incarceration #Courts #Genocide

One more excellent piece of advice for research mathematicians! My favourite approach to specialist help is expert coauthors who are, or become, friends.

Envisioning a glorious future where Sally Rooney is PM of the UK and Ms. Rachel is POTUS

This Thursday I'll be chairing the second @londmathsoc.bsky.social Early Career Researcher Professional Development session, on "Applying for a Grant". There's still time for PhD students and ECRs to signup for the Zoom event. #MathSky www.lms.ac.uk/events/ECR-C...

Usually the best part of my commute is the walk at the end (see photo). Today however the bus was full of primary school kids, and halfway up the hill they started singing Sofia by Àlvaro Soler. I am in my office now and I am still smiling. I may have tanked energy for the whole day.

The reason why I'm so angry has a lot to do with the lives that will be lost — people are absolutely going to die as a direct result of Senate Democrats folding on health care. It also has a lot to do with the suffering that was endured — people were struggling to get by without food assistance. 🧵

Please sign this excellent letter to Ursula vdL, so she can see that nonsense AI hype is neither true nor appropriate for anybody to believe or spread.

Out for a walk.

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Maybe I should just excerpt some stuff about congressive / ingressive from Eugenia Cheng and send it to him

Today I sent three overdue emails discussed maths with coauthor* got Covid and flu shots met therapist *It turns out what I thought was “easy” is anything but. Of course once it’s all proven nicely the referee will find it trivial.

Right, so maybe a better way to frame the question of the thread is, what are good ways to teach people how to meaningfully contribute w/o setting themselves up as smarter / better / faster / superior?

@uniofnottingham.bsky.social permanently suspends all teaching of Modern Languages, Music, Plant Biology, Microbiology, Theology, Agriculture, Food Science, and, ironically, Education. And that's not even the complete list. #Nottingham

I think you can get it from the Pieri rule: S²V⊗V*≅S²V⊗Λ^{n-1}V⊗D^{-1} where D is the 1-dim determinant rep. Let W=S^{(3,1,1,...,1,0)}V (Schur functor) Pieri now gives S²V⊗Λ^{d-1}V≅(D⊗V)⊕W Tensoring with D^{-1} gives V⊕(D^{-1}W), so the cokernel of your map is always the GL_d irrep D^{-1}W

Why use LLMs when one can ask human beings and get much better answers?

It's time. If you do (or do not) follow me, do (or do not) study math, and are (or are not) drinking coffee, please send along a #MathCoffeeSelfie and let me know how you've been doing.

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

No cat has been harmed for this picture. Buona domenica!

did you know that intercountry #adoptees born before 1983 have no guarantee of US citizenship, and instead are treated as immigrants who must obtain citizenship through naturalization? That they are subject to deportation if they have committed a crime or are deemed to be in the US “illegally?”

#LinearAlgebra #AlgebraicGeometry #MathSky Let V be a vector space, dim V = d. The map V⊗V→S²V induces f:V→S²V⊗V*. If d=2, coker f = (canonically isomorphic to) S³V⊗Λ²V*. If d=3, coker f =Λ²S²V⊗Λ³V*. This is a key step in a paper I am currently writing. 1/3

For those who can’t access the image: it’s the text of the poem Suicide in the Trenches, by Siegfried Sassoon en.wikisource.org/wiki/Counter...

On the death of James Watson So James Watson, a deeply unsavoury individual who co-won a Nobel Prize by stealing Rosalind Franklin’s ground breaking research on DNA, and was an unrepentant racist and misogynist, is dead. Lest it be forgotten, here is a collection of authentic quotes that give an…

"An article published by The Times suggested that Iran was making donations to Palestine Action "via proxies" It turned out that the story was allegedly planted in the British press by a PR firm working for an Israeli weapons company. Read the full report from Joshua Carroll: novara.media/4hLyeUx "

The findings mark the first time a US government report has acknowledged the scale of Israeli actions in Gaza under the Leahy Laws, legislation that bars U.S. military assistance to foreign military personnel accused of human rights abuses.

Last night 20:30-21:00 phone dad 21:00-23:00 calculations on the ONE in 4 unused bedroom whiteboard 23:00-01:00 awake in bed to old music I know lyrics of*, (party in a flat across the street, door windows open as ppl smoked on balcony) 01:00-08:00 😴 *also Saturday Night Fever, very appropriate

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Way ahead of u lol

Remember this one?

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I don’t have any special medical excuses to offer, I have no health problems and I’d probably recover in a reasonable amount of time if I caught whatever virus is going around, I just really value not being sick

There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

« Whatever you think of the man, RIP… » See, this is one reason I left academic science, and another reason I stay far away from certain types. You’re mourning someone who thought that people like me were stupid. May your shampoo never rid your scalp of sebum.

Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January

#Leicester rather infamously tried to dismantle their #PureMath group in 2016, and sadly succeeded in 2021. Lack of respect for blue-skies research is a canary in the coal mine for wider intellectual destruction. (2021 article from @wtgowers.bsky.social ) gowers.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/l...

yup, even as their expertise is CRYSTAL clear www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I hope I can remember this birthday long enough to talk about Felix Hausdorff‘s life and death in my course next week. We will be discussing separateness so it will be a very good fit..

Rude.

If you’re a graduate student who wants to learn about ∞-category theory please apply! Some background in category theory or homotopy type theory can't hurt! 📍 @icerm.bsky.social 🗓️ Workshop dates: August 17–21, 2026 📬 Deadline: March 31, 2026 Links in the next post👉

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.

"Israeli forces opened fire on a wedding in the [..] Gaza City neighborhood of Shujaiya [..], wounding several children including an 8-year-old girl, Sundus Heles." "[T]ook place inside the so-called 'safe yellow line' zone." #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military #EthnicCleansing

real sign of the times that an oil fund has to suspend its ethics rules to hold tech company stocks

Transphobes are already targeting the biggest star in women's soccer and baselessly alleging she's a man because she's Black. This is what trans people warned would happen. Gender policing that becomes explicitly racial. www.outsports.com/2025/11/6/24...

HELLO BELGIUM!!!!!!! Thank you @bruegel.org for introducing #TheDoubleTax to the EU airwaves. One thing that BAFFLES me is that so many EU countries don't collect data on race so literal stories about Black people are absent from the numbers. We dig into that in this episode: #blacksky

I just tried to share this paper as an answer to a colleague sharing the open letter (openletter.earth/an-open-lett...) as well as other critical opinions on the mailing list of teachers of the faculty of sciences… and the dean of the faculty (who moderates the list) rejected my email. 🙃

Dear @erc.europa.eu today another woman who should have won the Nobel prize was born, Lise Meitner. She had to flee Germany because she was Jewish; her collaborator, Otto Hahn, got the Nobel prize for research they had planned together and that she explained to him by letter from exile. 1/2