"Spanish flu": came from Kansas. We call it "Spanish Flu" bc Spain was the only country that didn't lie about having a flu outbreak! So the first news most people heard about "Hey lots of healthy young people are dying of flu" came from Spain. So we blamed Spain for CAUSING the outbreak!

My dad is gone. At home, in his bed, as he would have wanted. As you can see, even in his late 80s, his hair kept the warm brown colour my mom fell in love with 60+ years ago. I am lucky to have had him for so much of my life.

If you want to support a brilliant Scottish author, this is Val McDermid and her wife at Glasgow Pride yesterday. Her Karen Pirie series is great, but I love the Allie Burns books a lot too.

> You find yourself in a dark room. > There is a woman there, but you > can't discern much. You could: [ show her a #MathCoffeeSelfie ] [ tell her about your day ] [ USE your STEAMED HAM on her ]

regime’s goal here: make it so unpleasant and uncertain for international students to come here that they just decide not to.

"The case of Science above clearly shows that somebody can be Editor in Chief of a very powerful journal, one that makes or breaks careers, and can write a piece called AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive, and then use ChatGPT without disclosing it until confronted."

Football fans in Gaza express support for Spain in showdown with Argentina, citing Spanish solidarity with Palestinians.

Hey Siri, show me a system that looks to filter out the scientific discoveries of women with seniority. The paper confirms the hostility many of us feel is baked into the editorial & peer review community (sitting behind a veil of anonymity) that prefer to see papers led by women thrown out.

Palestinian teenage footballer dies a week after Israeli settler attack https://aje.news/x1sbtp

OK, it's honestly very distressing and worrying and I have ADHD, so I wrote it all down to get it out of my head olivia.science/entryism/ Enjoy, I guess...

And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.

A month later and no answers/accountability. Instead, the story seems to be fading out of the mainstream. A 1-year-old was shot by the police over an accusation of shoplifting a box of diapers. This should talked about nonstop on every national media outlet until the officer is held accountable.

When I heard "leak" I assumed the list was emailed to the wrong John Smith, not that it was barely one step better than <font color="#fff">please do not read</font>

They could just .... wait for it ... fire sexist editors and hire more women bsky.app/profile/iris...

Manuscripts with women as corresponding authors are less frequently sent out for review at Science. The ones reviewed receive less favorable reviews by both male and female reviewers.

None of these levels are agreeable for me

heartbreaking

So apparently a man has run a mile (a unit of length used in the remote past) faster than previously measured, and we all get treated to a photo of him with a teet completely out because he unzipped his top and all I can think is fuck sexism.

Alt text: a tweet by The Hormuz Letter @/HormuzLetter Breaking: the US has struck two strategic water tanks in the Bemani district of Sirik, Southern Iran, competition destiny them and cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kihstak, 1/2

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.

It's so difficult to get cis people to understand the jk Rowling thing isn't that she doesn't like us so you should punish her. It's if you give her franchise any kind of support you are contributing to trans people being excluded from society

I’m pretty sure that Springer Nature(‘s subcontractors) use AI to do typesetting, introducing errors in bibliography and math formulae. Me and several colleagues had to do several rounds of proof checking to correct the errors that they had themselves introduced in a few Natural Computing papers.

The alt text is terrible so here is a better one. (Thanks @barbarafantechi.bsky.social)

I am so so proud of this article 🤩 if you care about supersingular elliptic curves, check it out. We study the smallest degree of an isogeny from a ss ec to its conjugate and give a sharp bound for this degree (depending on p), leading to studying the primes for which this bound is attained #MathSky

On a piece titled "AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive" 🫤

p.s. Reading his article, it is not at all surprising that he is not particularly critical of the tech: bsky.app/profile/hold...

the human mind is the most fascinating thing in the universe imo and I’m developing mathematical theories of how it constructs itself. man I’m lucky.

According to the weather app, it's 39⁰C and it feels like 43⁰. I am having a walk in the park and finding joy and peace in the sun and the cicadas, so much that I need to share. NB I am wearing a thin, wide cotton dress.

I have scheduled a substantial Moderated Roundtable Discussion Session on LLMs in mathematics research, next week at Global Mathematics Histories and Futures. I wonder what participants will say and what consensus there will be, and how that will look in a year's time. Peer review is a huge issue.

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

I stopped using Airbnb. I have seen many calls for people to stop using substack (I never started so I can't say I stopped!) For people using Github: where do you draw the line?

I’ve said this before privately and now I’m saying it on the record Go check the status of your voter registration and set a recurring reminder to do it again this time in two weeks. Do not let this lapse.

Taylor Farms grows lettuce in Salinas and Yuma. They also buy from other farms and process produce all over, incl Mexico & Europe. They've caused multiple outbreaks and sell under a variety of brands/labels to consumers and restaurants/food service. They're about a third of entire US salad market.

The lettuce supplied to taco bell by taylor farms is bad. No taylor farms products are safe until this gets sorted out. But it's taco bell they're focusing on, because taylor farms are major republican donors.

Okay but in addition to just being cruel this upends the entire graduate school educational ecosystem. i know I said these people have literally no understanding of how knowledge is produced & think they can just Have Best Stuff while simultaneously degrading & dismantling academic research, but jfc

Gut feelings and vibes are key to maths research. You have to trust that the theorem you want to prove is true, and that the concept you want to define is meaningful. You can't even get started without instinct.

Due to personal reasons, I am reading a LOT of romance novels in the low angst category. The current one contrasted being a maths person with following one's instinct. Now I want to scream and go key a car viciously and fill a house with glitter. May they stomp on legos.

Facts that Hollywood tried to keep from the masses but overtime it was proven to be true 💯🎯

Tomorrow is the last day she will be treated with equality & respect at school. Tomorrow is the last day she will be safe at school. Trans kids are bearing the sharp end of aggressive state persecution that is hitting all trans people. No wonder the UK's on our 2nd genocide warning.

Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.

cabo verde held both world cup finalists to a draw across 90 minutes and almost took argentina to penalties, easily the best performance anyone has put up against either team all world cup

Man würde meinen, dass die Strafanzeige von Anna Liedtke wegen mutmaßlicher Vergewaltigung durch Gefängniswärterinnen in Israel auch deutschen Mainstreammedien eine Meldung wert wäre...? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The Argentinian player that scored the 1st goal against England, is the same one that uploaded a social media video of himself singing racist and transphobic songs about Black French players. The transphobia was included to insult Kylian Mbappé, and to isolate trans people from public life.

For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Morgen ist wieder Open Lab Day! 15-17 Uhr, im UG des Mathematikon HD Kommt vorbei! www.instagram.com/reel/Da0cijV... #mathe #MathLab #ScienceAtPlay #math

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

Want to donate to relief efforts for the fires in Northern Ontario? Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction has shared some links here on their Instagram: www.instagram.com/torontoindig...

Imari Haines, seeking a fresh start after her breakup, finds herself in Appeley where she unexpectedly reunites with childhood friend Cassidy Martinez, igniting an instant connection. Is it possible for Imari to trust Cassidy and find love? is.gd/bjElfS #plussizeromance #wlwbooks #blackbooksky