“Unlike human intelligence, it lacks the humility to acknowledge uncertainty, …When unsure, it doesn’t defer to deeper research or human oversight; instead, it often presents estimates as facts.” 🤨 Like some researchers I know… www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This would be an important breakthrough if it holds, but I'm skeptical on first glance. Large parts of this were clearly written by a generative AI. Doesn't mean it's wrong, but I suspect it's a "vibe theorem", i.e., not a theorem. I'll wait for Vidick, Regev, etc. to weigh in.

There is a new claim by Yifan Zhang arxiv.org/abs/2509.12341 that the method currently considered to be the *best* protection we have against Shor’s algorithm on future quantum computers, is vulnerable … #PQC #mathematics

Tell me what’s wrong with this picture #mathsky

SCOOP: The Trump administration has installed a new acting director of the Census Bureau, @npr.org has learned. George Cook takes over the federal government’s largest statistical agency after it's been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

I asked ChatGPT to create a picture of a young me sliding down an elliptic curve 🤔

I feel like I should be able to crochet elliptic curves 🧶 Has anyone done this yet?

🤔… maybe I should feed it one of my #mathematics problems 😁

💻🧪 Applications are open for our Computer Science Small Grants, where grants of up to £1,000 are available to support collaborative research at the interface of mathematics and computer science. Deadline: 22 October ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/grants/compu...

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

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? 👇🏼

The chiral Potts model “is out of the class of all previously known models and raises a host of unsolved questions which are related to some of the most intractable problems of algebraic geometry which have been with us for 150 years.” 👊🏼 👉🏼 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral_...

I go to conferences because they spark new ideas. After I gave my talk at #Baxter2025, a friend pointed me to Baxter’s work on the Chiral Potts model and voila 🚀

Calling Australian writers with a disability: the Writers' Space residencies at Varuna in Katoomba, NSW are open for applications. There are six two-week fellowships available for writers with a disability or who are D/deaf, incl one-on-one mentoring & travel costs. www.varuna.com.au/for-writers/...

My talk today for #Baxter2025 at 11:30 AEST (UTC+10) 👇🏼

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

Listening to talks in the #Baxter2025 conference, I am reminded once again how incredible and influential Rodney Baxter’s body of work was … en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_...

Thinking of changing my name to It'sOnTheSyllabus.

Like everything I love, complex analytic function theory has become the beautiful lens through which I see everything.

I have loved complex analysis ever since I read Lars Ahlfors’ book 📕.

The President of @science.org.au Chennupati Jagadish is on fire today, with the best speech I’ve ever heard him give calling for change in the way Australia to change our commitment and investment in science

Are you here at the @science.org.au gala dinner tonight ? 🙋🏾‍♀️#ShineDome25

Two years ago, I had an epiphany, which led me to pivot my research towards mathematics for quantum era security. We’re nowhere near where I’d like to be yet, but I hope that these tantalizing new ideas will lead us to an unusual new perspective … go.sydney.edu.au/Idtmpn

Calling algebraic geometers 📣 are there any images of examples of bielliptic surfaces?

So many great questions from high school students who dropped in today : 1. What does research in mathematics mean? 2. What is pure or abstract mathematics ? 3. What careers does mathematics lead to? (TBH asked by so many parents.) 4. Can I do maths and an arts subject?…

Will you be @sydney.edu.au today for #OpenDay? I’ll be at the Mathematics desk in the Great Hall 12:00-14:00 AEST

Excited to report my new paper with Pieter Roffelsen on arithmetic dynamics of a discrete Painlevé equation: arxiv.org/abs/2508.18578 which has some tantalizing conjectures in it. Can you prove them?

An interesting conversation going on at #SAGE2025 tonight

I was described as a warrior tonight… It felt good #SAGE2025

#FOCS2025 has specific funding (thanks to industry support, U Syd, and the Australian government) to (1) help attendance from underrepresented groups and countries, and (2) some funds to facilitate childcare support. Please apply! focs.computer.org/2025/travel-... focs.computer.org/2025/childca...

We are advertising a Level D/E position in Pure Maths at University of Adelaide (for non-Oz-initiated: E=full Prof, D=one step down). https://careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/517088/associate-professor-professor-de-pure-mathematics

I was interviewed by @biancanogrady.bsky.social for the State Library of NSW's Women in #STEMM oral history collection 🎧 collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/Yj7EW...

So in July, I completed a 2-year-long marathon journey of preparing and submitting multiple rounds for a (very large) grant. The length of days stopped mattering, esoteric typesetting commands became part of my dreams, and the repertoire of personalities I could cope with dramatically expanded. /1

Is it being a mathematics professor that causes me to often go to the wrong building on campus? #mathsky

Just read an email subject line "Free group fitness classes" and I was like "ooh, what's the 'fitness' of a free group?" #MathSky

Today, Florence Nightingale is famously known as the founder of modern nursing, for her work as a trainer of nurses and as ‘the lady with a lamp’ during the Crimean War, working to improve hygiene and reduce suffering. What's often overlooked is that she was also a *pioneering statistician*. 1/

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/dress #smbc

I love the theme of the 2026 International Day of Mathematics: “Mathematics and Hope” 👉🏼 www.idm314.org #mathsky

Soon it will be a century since Martin D. Kruskal was born. Sorry 🧏🏽‍♀️ , have you not heard this name before? 👉🏼 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_... #mathsky

Knots are everywhere: DNA, materials, and maths. How can we use algebra – numbers, operations, and structure – to unravel their mysteries? Join this public lecture hosted by @sydmathinst.bsky.social, as part of National Science Week. Register now: srkr.io/63326guY

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

My version of the advice, which is hard to follow in practice: if you’re not terrified you’re probably not being ambitious enough.

New Zealander and black hole pioneer Roy Kerr wins the Dirac Prize, one of the biggest awards in physics... www.ictp.it/news/2025/8/...

Snake-in-the-Box Problem xkcd.com/3125/

Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well: ‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’

I have been away for a while …

For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...