The "we're not saying he's guilty of criminal fraud, but we're not not saying that and many people are saying he's fraud-adjacent" edition.

Oh I am: it's the haters who are right

The section that the Guardian censored… By Prof Judith Butler

in case you are wondering how am I doing: I have been here for six full days and am still somewhat jetlagged but also someone explained to me how to open and close the window in my hotel room. so maybe tonight sleep, tomorrow fully awake?

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

@yale.edu released a report on why the public (allegedly) doesn't trust higher education. The @nytimes.com covered it uncritically. So... I'm "pleased" to unveil my next debunking: an interactive annotated doc that points out factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Enjoy! #AcademicSky

He really is racist.

Vogue calling an afro a "Cloud Bob" in 2026 is a federal offense.

The experts call Israel's bombardment of Lebanon on April 8 'a blatant violation of the UN Charter'.

In case it is unclear: your ethical and moral obligation is to refuse to participate in enforcing this. To validate that this is wrong. To push back and stand with trans kids. To offer safe bathrooms. It is not to make it palatable or tolerable for other adults. sentinelcolorado.com/metro/federa...

Just watched a video of Andy Weir describing neutrinos and he says they quantum tunnel through pretty much everything and I don’t feel this is an appropriate use of ”quantum tunneling” Anyway why ask a woman physicist when you can ask a dude novelist

A reminder that we should cancel or relocate #ICM2026 as we did in 2022, so no mathematician has to choose between watching online or risking this. If you are happy with privileged ones being there and others online, let me kindly know so I can block you.

'Voice Shift', the documentary I took part in last year has won Best Documentary Short (Jury) at the Cleveland International Film Festival -- it's now eligible for Oscar consideration! (Picking out my outfit rn 🤣) Congratulations to director, Roberto Duque, his amazing team, and all who took part!

Still pretty exhausted, hopefully tonight I will sleep through. Maybe I should start asking "does the window OPEN?" before any hotel reservation. As a regalo della buonanotte, a sentence that I just read in English which can't really be translated in Italian: "(Name) topped off his coffee". 🥱🛌

The thing (1982). I saw it by mistake when it came out in Italy.

Another professor wrote a campus paper piece arguing that the economics gender gap is mostly biology. This... did not survive close reading. So because I am this way, I made an interactive annotated edition cataloging the factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Wheee... Enjoy! #EconSky #AcademicSky

Slowly recovering from exhaustion and jetlag. Heavy rain on Wednesday afternoon in an otherwise dry week. (For non mathematicians: this is also known as "free afternoon" in conferences).

The plan, which could see 500,000 people apply, makes Spain an outlier as anti-immigration sentiments fester in Europe.

real analysis is a scam because polynomials and their quotients are the only reasonable functions. just do calculus like a normal person

Yet another reason to make HPV vaccination more widely available! HPV vaccination cuts cancer risk in men by about half, study suggests www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

Siguiendo con los actos por la memoria en torno al 50 aniversario del golpe de estado en Argentina, mañana en la Universidad de Alcalá tendremos esta mesa de lujo con Luciana Peker, Juan Diego Botto y Gerardo Pisarello

Anyone knows a date for this declaration about #ICM2026 from the director of Fields Institute? www.fields.utoronto.ca/news/Directo...

The same old story every. damn. time. 1) Ed-tech often attracts dedicated and enthusiastic teachers. That, and not ed-tech, is what makes them successful. 2) Motivated and well-supported students usually do well anyway. 3) Everyone is shocked that this does not scale. Shocked!

The expression of the cat in the front means “you know this guy was in the same party at Orbán like two years ago, right?”.

School librarians! I would like to buy you a copy of this. First to reply gets it :) Pls RT as I don't know how many school librarians follow me.

If you're wandering what happened to me, I gave three lectures in two days at a school conference while seven hours jetlagged. I did manage to talk to two people* about #ICM2026 which should be canceled. *math professors and friends

Peter Magyar, the new Prime Minister of Hungary, is a cat guy!

Shout out to the editor who turned down a pitch from me about something where I am an expert and published a worse piece on the same subject by someone with no expertise

mi domandavo come mai politici da destra a sinistra seguissero in gregge proclami sui divieti d'accesso ai social media e non ci fosse nessuna/o a dire le cose come stanno: non servono, i divieti sono una foglia di fico per governi e aziende tecnologiche Poi arriva ministra estone Kristina Kallas:

A tutti gli italiani e a chi parla italiano: fate parole oggi. In cinque lettere il miglior commento ai risultati elettorali di ieri in Ungheria. pietroppeter.github.io/wordle-it/

Obviously, while my musings are topical - Carl Sagan had already said the crux much more eloquently and succinctly.

People in Myanmar sacrifice a lot for one family memher to study in UK. They have done nothing wrong or illegal but UK govt revokes their study visas. Please sign this petition to revoke the UK ban on study visas for Myanmar students petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7631….

Omg imagine a surprise un-party where you tell an introvert they have to go to a party and then when they get there surprise a bunch of acquaintances have sent their regrets they couldn't make it and two or three friends are making food and cleaning the kitchen & they've brought their own work to do

Maremma impestata tutto questo thread

Just thinking about the time I was at a CLE held by a group of women lawyers, and one of the lawyer speakers (a cis man) said that men can't mentor women anymore because "we're all afraid you'll cry rape." Then, when one of the women said she'd been assaulted by her boss and broke down crying,

I still remember the guy who asked me who was taking care of my kids during a month abroad at a research institute - in which he was also participating while his own kids, about the age of mine, remained in their home in a different country. He could not see the analogy even when I pointed it out.

Reading this you might think post doctoral men never have children but of course that’s not true. We simply don’t demand men juggle these things. It’s 2026 and we still treat women— with whole ass PhDs— like that’s what they’re for.

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

I fasci di Vanny hanno cominciato a tappezzare i negozi a Parma con questo adesivo: sapere vero che se ne vedete uno non dovete entrare neanche se fosse l’unico negozio che vi serve nel raggio di tremila anni luce?

Just don’t forget that “during the worst pandemic in a century” is RIGHT NOW AT THIS VERY MOMENT.

Is this gap really there in English? You lack ammaraggio and allunaggio? (I admit ammartaggio and attitanaggio sound weird, but it's only because we haven't used them much so far).

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

There's never too many reminders that the current 🇩🇪 Kanzler Merz voted to keep marital rape legal in 1997.

It's already #Caturday here so you can all gaze at eldest's cat napping on eldest's lap. I am away from home so I get sent cat pictures.

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Des universités bombardées : L'université de technologie de Sharif en Iran a été bombardée dans la nuit du 5 au 6 avril 2026. Le principal centre de mathématiques du Vénézuela a aussi été détruit en janvier dernier. ⬇️

Beautiful excerpt from @chanda.blacksky.app's new book!