Atiende, que Ayuso ha obligado a 30 centros públicos de enseñanza a ofrecer sus espacios para acoger a los voluntarios del papa mientras que a los centros concertados, mayoritariamente católicos, no se les impone obligatoriedad. Ya no sé ni qué decir.

Chicago people! The Math Book Club Chicago meetup has chosen my book The Joy of Abstraction this summer! There will be four events to discuss it. The first two are virtual and the 3rd and 4th are at the Chicago Athletic Assocation. I will be attending the last one! www.meetup.com/math-book-cl...

According to Germany, the lesson of the Holocaust is not that genocide is wrong but that Germany must help Israel to commit genocide.

His most beloved character in the whole of hell is his gay teacher Ser Brunetto Latini and he has a bunch of friends or at least close acquaintances among the gay men in general. Because all* fanfic is gay. *I learned this from one of my kids, the rest in highschool like almost every Italian.

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

Those are good things about the article, but I can't agree with the statement that this is good reporting. It's not. The article is trash. Because it again fails to mention that NYC has 1,000 National Guard troops deployed against Black people too, in decisions made by "tough on crime" Dems.

Depuis plus de deux mois, Achille Baucher, doctorant à l'Université Grenoble Alpes, se voit refuser l'accès à son laboratoire par décision du fonctionnaire sécurité défense de l'établissement. (1/6)

Una tristezza multilevel. Triste, per la morte di una persona. Triste, per la morte di una artista incredibile. Triste, per la bellezza di "Persepolis". Triste, per il suo dolore dopo la morte del marito, lo scorso anno, che forse ha portato a questa fine. www.ilpost.it/2026/06/04/m...

This is incredibly sad news. RIP Marjane, you brought beauty into the world and spun amazing stories.

Thanks for your careful replies, Michael. The Leiden Declaration has inspired me! This document can be a subject of a roundtable discussion session in a workshop I am convening in July, maths.anu.edu.au/news-events/... . Lack of global diversity of mathematics vs. global reach of AI is at issue.

So, how did Texas get into this mess? The screwworm was eradicated back in the 1960s, and the US had 3 facilities producing huge amounts of sterile flies and a monitoring team in Panama to keep an eye out for any resurgence of the fly population. Then guess what happened? Budget cuts. 3/4

"Even the gods rejoice at the sight of our love." Happy Pride month to all the fantasy nerds and especially to the mtg queer community! 🏳️‍🌈

i would love to guest on your podcast. idc what it is. i really enjoy recording and i'd like to meet other people who are also doing it

This study of four cohorts of French schoolchildren shows that the gender gap in math (girls falling behind) begins essentially immediately as soon as kids start school. They use the natural variation in kids' ages at school start to show that it's school entry, not age, that triggers the change.

In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.

Really can't cope with the fact that Nottingham's now departed VC (now VC at Leeds - god help them) wasted £80 MILLION on a building it is now selling at a crushing loss (£14m), and is attempting to recoup some of that by sacking 100s of academics and decimating the institution. Absolutely criminal.

I am sure there will be no problem at all holding #ICM2026 in Philadelphia. The statements by IMU and @amsmath.bsky.social have convinced me! #sarcasm

If you wonder how big Trieste is, I went for an after dinner stroll along the sea with Lothar and met Mulas who was doing the same.

Happy Pride everyone

Stephen Lawrence was killed by six men. It took 19 years for two of them to face justice. Four never did. Henry Nowak's killer has been convicted and jailed within six months of his death. The two cases *are not the same*. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

Academia has also done great evils. Let's not add another by allowing AI to pass.

If you're an academic and are worried about AI and feel powerless, don't let it get to you. It's actually what they want. They want us to burn out and give up. You can turn off the internet and chill. I promise. All you need to do is stay strong, with breaks of course. From an email I sent an ally:

Things that will never happen to me, and not just because I will never write an opinion piece and get it published. I am usually anxious, but not about this.

Yet another example of Not The Onion: "A top Sydney academic used AI to write an opinion piece that urged students to 'do the work' and not cut corners by using such technology [...] Western Sydney University’s pro vice-chancellor for quality and integrity" So much integrity and quality there...

For complicated reasons, we rarely have Mathematics Colloquia at Sissa. Today we had Raffaella Mulas from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam talk on "Spectral Graph Theory with a Touch of Coloring" and it was absolutely amazing.

Se ne va una grandissima giornalista e una persona meravigliosa, una delle poche in grado di far comprendere con estrema lucidità le problematiche dell'era digitale www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2026...

Academics and scientists are absolutely meant to fill this role in society. Ethics and integrity at fundamental to our work, we cannot simply stand by while these things are ignored in broader society

Happy launch day @chadtopaz.bsky.social !! Do you break a bottle of champagne on a box of books or

McNutt really shining here, saying grad students can just be replaced by AI-driven robots. She must have loved that garbage essay on this a few months ago. If you believe you can replace your grad students with robots, 🚩 you should be fired: good faculty mentor the next generation of scientists.

Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:

They murdered a gay teenager in the street. In France.

I know in some sciences authors routinely disclose possible CoIs, conflicts of interests. Could anyone kindly link me to a reasonably correct but also easy to read definition?

Astrophotography, or parking on the street in the summer.

It is tasteless for Marcia McNutt, the president of the National Academy of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, to JOKE about the exploitation of students. Students who are watching their hope of a scientific career burning up in front of their eyes.

"intolerance" lmao

I am a slow reader and I will not have a comment on the Leiden declaration on rules for AI use in mathematics anytime soon.

Me: Why am I so tired? My smart band, on last night: 4.5 hours of sleep Correlation? causation? buonanotte a tuttə! 🥱🫩🛌💤😴

@mjb Exactly how international is this working group? Is the resulting declaration? It's... ok as far as it goes, but reads a bit gatekeepy of eurocentric mathematics, and does not reflect a global diversity of mathematics. So important issues may be missed, such as AI and mathematics in […]

Currently hosting the Weather & Climate livestream to show Americans about the weather & climate research currently at risk of being defunded federally. Tune in to check out some cooool science talks!! 😃 @wclivestream.bsky.social

I noticed that LLMs already affect student presentations a lot, but now at #SIAMOP26 I realize that also here, people use ChatGPT et al. to produce their slides (at least, that's the obvious explanation for all the "Why this matters" boxes I see on slides...)

Oh yes. One of the three things I don’t mind recommending. The GrandPad was an absolute success. 24/7 helpful, human assistance. Easy navigation. My 92 year old great aunt still loves her, “granny pad”. She may have developed a tiny gaming addiction - poker - on it but wth, she is 92! 😂

Today is — at long last — official launch day for my book, "Unlocking Justice." I wrote it to help and to be hopeful. Tradition says I post a pic of me with the book. 🤷‍♂️I'm overthrowing tradition and posting (abbreviated) acknowledgments. This book exists only because of so many people. I feel moved.

I hate the chin-rubbing men who try to pretend like this is some sort of "nuanced' issue. It isn't, you're stealing and you're trying to put on a gross little performance to pretend like it isn't.

Happy Lotte Reiniger's birthday!

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

Two truths and a lie: 1. I am the new Director of National Intelligence 2. I am a 12 out of 6 on the Kinsey scale (twice as gay as the next most gay person) 3. My new book is out today

And you didn't care that they'd regret it, either. Those nose jobs? Huge regret rate as they often impact breathing. You never cared.

Using generative AI for imagery is **directly harmful** to artists, graphic designers, photographers etc. This isn't a vague moral argument: this is just normal, standard theft, except at a completely new scale and social acceptability. We need to reverse that. www.instagram.com/reel/DY2L2-g...

Teresa Mattei -partigiana "Chicchi" e più giovane eletta Assemblea Costituente- il 18/3/1947 all'Assemblea dice: "qualcosa di nuovo sta accadendo nel nostro Paese [...] accanto alla formula che delinea il volto nuovo, fatto di democrazia, di lavoro, di progresso sociale, della nostra Repubblica,