#ChatControl is a dangerous development at the EU level, after many failed attempts it looks closer to becoming reality than ever. Detailed information on what is it about and why it is not a good idea can be found in many places, like the link below. #stopscanningme

How did I found out about Math Empathy? Because EWM-NL is organizing a fantastic annual event: The human dimension of mathematics. We’ll discuss work/life balance, career challenges & valuing diverse paths in maths. 📅 Nov 7th (14:00-17:30) at CWI Amsterdam!

I recently learned about this Math Empathy video series www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... by Mura Yakerson, answering existential questions by her students. I think it is a great idea #mathSky #empathy

This website has fantastic IKEA-style visualization of algorithms. Here the quicksort example, idea-instructions.com/quick-sort/, but take some time to explore the others! #eduSky #scicomm #visualization

Oh my… this is really addictive 🤣

Mijn oprechte complimenten aan wie dan ook het idee van het nieuwe AH‑cadeautje had en aan de genie die ze zo verbazingwekkend precies heeft ontworpen 🤯

Just came across this insightful video about Bézier curves from @freya.bsky.social Beautifully animated <3 youtube.com/watch?v=aVwx...

I totally agree. Summaries may be fine for some forms of science communications but scientists need the detail to make up their minds on the veracity of claims in papers.

Cavaco 2.0 “Unlike human intelligence, it lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty” www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Join us for a great leadership workshop organized by @apnet.bsky.social (If you are or become an APNet member, registration for the workshop is free!)

Far-right thugs rampage in the Hague, attacking police and the HQ of centrist party D66. While parliament condemns the threat of “fascist” antifa. Shame on every politician -including VVD ones - who spent the last year ramping up tensions to win votes. You don’t get to do that and then condemn this.

Congratulations to all the winners, and in particular to this year’s physics ones :) improbable.com/ig/winners/...

Always good to repost this. Lots of good food for thoughts in this letter

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Ik kan er niet bij hoe onverantwoord het is om in deze tijden van uitdagingen, problemen en crises juist het onderwijs zo achter te laten. Kennis is de enige grondstof die Nederland in overvloed heeft, maar op deze manier niet lang meer. Met dank aan kabinet Schoof. www.aob.nl/actueel/arti...

Have you encountered barriers to accessibility in conferences and events? There are so many, even in mathematics conferences I have seen that are run by people with experience. Would you like to help minimise these barriers? 👇🏼

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology

NASA to needlessly kill Juno mission to Jupiter this month NASA's Juno mission has been scouting out Jupiter and its icy moons since 2016. The next mission won't arrive until 2030. So why kill Juno when we're still learning so much from it? bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #nasa #juno

I fully agree with this recommendation!

Nice seeing some satirical cartoons in the @ukrant.bsky.social ukrant.nl/cartoon-3-se...

Ook in Nederland. De inmiddels gevallen regering zet(te) ook de eerste stappen richting de ‘Orbanisatie’ van de academie, oa door zware bezuinigingen en door nu een minister te willen benoemen die regenboogzebrapaden net zo provocerend vindt als hakenkruizen.

If you are in the Netherlands and part of the bottom-right corner, join the AP Network at @apnet.bsky.social. #AcademicSky

Seems like a good moment to do a purely random lottery and see which one fares better in a few years

And so is finally happening 😰 let’s use a statistical system, biased from its training data and past hypes, to decide what is interesting research… what can go wrong?? www.science.org/content/arti...

2 not entirely unrelated things I've discovered this week. 1. Some countries ban youtube adverts. Setting your VPN to Andorra is fun 2. a meeting of the Waipā District Council Finance & corporate committee has almost 2.7million views as it's become default for ppl pretending to be in a zoom meeting

Snake City.

The rules for our FREE ART GIVEAWAY are simple: 🧝 Post about your Cypher character and tag us 🚀 Use only human creations, no AI allowed 🐉 And that's literally it We want to commission art for YOUR character! Enter now—and hurry, it ends Sunday! gleam.io/X34Pc/win-a... mymcg.info/cypher

I didn't really expect the latest Signals & Threads episode to be as interesting as it turned out; managing physical datacentres involves "thermal events", sensors that trigger when they melt, figuring out the specific heat capacity of water/air; very good fun! signalsandthreads.com/the-thermody...

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

~15 years ago, Aaron Ciechanover, a Nobel prize winner in Chemistry came to visit HKUST where I was doing my PhD. Here's what he shared about his view of the academic world, promotion/funding/hiring & for-profit publishing. It stayed with me for long: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcJg...

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

It was such a pleasure being a guest on "Math-Life Balance", a podcast devoted to interviews with mathematicians. Mura Yakerson is a fantastic interviewer! Check out our chat at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8F... #mathsky

If you agree with our 5 requests to our universities, please sign 🖊️ the open letter and don’t forget to confirm your email! ☺️🙏 openletter.earth/open-letter-...

“Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' … is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas and undermine scholarly discussions. It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research & engagement with society.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

“But some educators are pushing back against the “inevitable” technology, and open letters are becoming one tool of the resistance. (…) In the Netherlands, over 900 educators have signed a letter entitled “Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia.” www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

International Resistance To AI In Education Marked In Open Letter’ — by Peter Greene. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

MATHS TEACHERS: If you’re seeking ways to add quirky ‘real world’ maths to lessons next year I’ve updated my blog index robeastaway.com/blog/blog-in... . You can use it to find odd applications of (say) quadratic equations. It’s the sort of thing you might use as a lesson starter (1/3) #TMiP25

@floorrusman.bsky.social verwoordt heel helder het probleem met ChatGPT: "Wie bezig is met denken, doet [...] aan selecteren, samenvatten, onderscheid maken, verifiëren, verbanden leggen. Hoe behoud je die vaardigheden als je ze uitbesteedt aan een LLM?" www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

Not an expert in this but based on the data security training I’ve done at work it is no longer appropriate for me to use MS products (e.g. excel) for things like student info, oral history transcripts, medical research data etc. as it explicitly does *not* comply with GDPR etc.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Friends, the mathematics department @hmc.edu is looking to hire a new tenure-track operations researcher who would feel at home in our department. Please spread the word: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...

Research grants take hundreds of hours to write and cause so many sleepless nights, but it’s okay as there are good reasons to write them #academia

Juno is an AMAZING mission. The camera onboard was never supposed to last this long (the radiation around Big J should've zapped it a while back) but it just keeps on ticking. Killing this mission while it's still working and producing great science is a crime.

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Its so funny to force this into everything and then say "hey actually don't use it if your job depends on being factually correct"

This is brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Very interesting thread. It reflects my experiences when playing around with vibecoding