if we fund this good enough we get paper dolls

This new paper looks pretty interesting. arxiv.org/abs/2602.04232

Book Review: North Continent Ribbon: Stories by Ursula Whitcher librarycomic.com/book-review-... #bookreview #fiction #sciencefiction

Math people, note the second paragraph. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Neon Hemlock's kickstarter is at $7,314 of their initial $16,500 goal! you know what to do! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

Today's historical fantasy research factoid is that the very British use of "queue" as a verb is 20th century; in the early 19th century, queues were hairstyles and queuing up was French.

people are underselling the role of Misha Gromov as a fixer for Epstein, someone who helps him extend his network of influence by softening his reputation and making high profile introductions. Perhaps non-mathematicians won't know these names but this is not a small thing

Meet the six authors we've solicited to be part of WHAT ELEGANT FUNCTION 🚀

Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations. We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community. Read our full statement: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

They left an elderly US citizen on her way to pay her rent with a torn rotator cuff and a concussion. This was in Salem, Oregon. Absolutely no one should vote to fund these lawless thugs.

5 classes I took (as an undergrad) because I wanted to: - Homeric Greek - Literary translation - Data structures - Medieval towns - Differential geometry.

HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

It's a thriller about an obstetrician who gets kidnapped by a cult and has to figure out how to endure and rebel and escape without getting murdered. Out in June, available for pre-order. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold. It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

I just backed Neon Hemlock’s latest anthology, which is pitched as Swordspoint meets Star Wars, so we’ve got fashion, court intrigue, and queerness out the fancy wazoo. Lara Elena Donnelly and Arkady Martine and Ursula Whitcher and Catherine Kim are in this. It’s gonna be great!

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming

I'm Coreo. I can't work full-time anymore, and I need help paying down my revolving debt. Can you share this to people who might want to see some kittens? (1 more pic in my latest update on the GFM page!) gofund.me/4903591f2

A million things are on fire right now and asking for help for a loved one feels weird. But here goes. Coreo, my housemate, is walking the long road of cPTSD and burnout recovery. Can you help them have a little financial relief in the process? gofund.me/79413dccb

The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...

✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨ satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

La SMF ne tiendra pas de stand au Congrès International des Mathématiciens (ICM) de Philadelphie en 2026. (1/3) (Motion du Conseil d'Administration du 16 janvier 2026) smf.emath.fr/actualites-s...

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

This is a small immediate action you can take to support the businesses where the murder this morning happened. They were closed yesterday. Now they’re going to have to close today. Few of them can take multiple days without business.

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When @neonhemlock.bsky.social solicited me for this anthology I was like, this is what I was BORN to write. Throw some $ their way if you wanna read my wildly self indulgent Dorothy Sayers pastiche IN SPACE. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

i can't go to @confusionmi.bsky.social next weekend (and i'm extremely sad about it) but i *did* have this fun little virtual chat with pal @jordankurella.com about burnout. jordan *will* be at confusionsf and he's rad! 👀 if you're in MI, go check it out!

This call is now open 🚀 Looking forward to your queer space opera fashions!

Just finished, perhaps the best book on the Arab Spring that I’ve read. Inter alia, introduced me to the concept of “refolutions”’: powerful revolutionary movements unleashed on the streets that ended up pushing for reform in and through the institutions of the incumbent states.”

#Booksky 1/2 Real talk: the Press and several of our authors are based in Minneapolis, which is experiencing a significant government-fueled assault on our people, our communities and our local economy. And I have a LOT of bills to pay this month. queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

It's live! I'm writing a story for this anthology!

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next! naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

I have a fancy new "book me for your faculty and graduate student development workshops" and "please buy my books" website. If you're interested in learning a practical approach to public scholarship, take a look and please share it with your Faculty Development/Teaching and Learning admin!

"Fifteenth Saint" vibes

tfw you hit the "oh fuck" moment in the book you're reading, but nobody will understand, because it's an ARC

A bunch of Minneapolis authors are coming together to offer incentives for donating. If you DM me proof of donation, I’ll send you a bookplate and a piece of microfiction that is set in the word of The First Bright Thing.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

Different ways of thinking about poetry: buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

This week on Planetside… Our Speculative Poetics series continues with “STEM and Leaf: Writing Math and Science Poetry” by @yarntheory.bsky.social : www.sfwa.org/2026/01/13/s...

using my research meeting to talk my collaborator into voting in the Hugos

Quoting so I can look up the full article later.

i wrote about dissociation, reading as comfort, vice and self obliteration during times of horror, and also about reading exclusively about gay love for like. a year buttondown.com/theswordandt...

The Analog Reader's Choice poll for 2025 is up! analogsf.com/analog-scien... Please consider my short story "The First Velodrome on Mars" as well as the poems by my wonderful friends Ursula Whitcher and Geoff Landis!

I read 78 books last year, and I finally got my favorites and most importantly, my charts together, so I could talk about them. My favorite book of 2025 will not be a surprise to anyone browsing these parts longer than two months. 🔗 ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2026/01/07/l...

For comparison, there were around 250 players chosen in the 2025 NFL draft, and roughly 60 players chosen in the NBA draft

"According to the academic math jobs listings, there were 150 faculty tenure-track jobs advertised in 2024. There were 70 advertised in 2025. So that gives you a sense of the cuts. Of those 70 jobs, Simons is funding 10 of them."

If you're trying to keep your heart focused on the work that you're best-placed to do, it is, unfortunately, a great day to use this procedure @kateschapira.bsky.social and I worked on. I'm going to add a few ideas and songs that I find helpful in this process. Thanks to all who contributed ideas!

Apologies to my neighbors, but I want a wizard's turret.