And another article by me for @sciam.bsky.social up this morning! Featuring linguistic puzzles, a high-stakes competition and the story of the unendingly passionate and enthusiastic people behind them! 📖

Read about some cool new math results about tournament brackets in this super-short-turnaround piece I did for @sciam.bsky.social Featuring March Madness!!!🏀🏀🏀 (and a “presidential fighting tournament”👨🏼‍⚖️???) www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧮🧪

Anyone know anything about basketball? If I'm gonna be a person who has written multiple articles about the math of sports, I'd better start learning something about sports.... 🏀

Happy Pi Day everyone!!!

Thanks @dodecalemma.bsky.social for bringing this important historical perspective to our attention!

Obsessed with this article, all past and future math puzzles I write are officially dedicated to the raccoons. 🦝

And, check out the @sciam.bsky.social Pi Day landing page to help you prep for Pi Day this Saturday 3/14 and bring some mathematical joy into your life!!! 🧮🧪🥧 www.scientificamerican.com/report/the-s...

The Pi Day content begins! 🥧 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... I had a lot of fun working on this piece for @sciam.bsky.social about the wacky places that pi arises in random values. And as always, so grateful to @unamandita.bsky.social for her gorgeous graphics. I hope you all enjoy it!

And, keep an eye out for some awesome Scientific American Pi Day coverage coming soon!!! 👀 🥧

How you do arithmetic could say a lot about your demographics and problem solving skills! Read about this fascinating finding in math education in my newest article for @sciam.bsky.social 🧮✨ And build your skills with my accompanying math puzzle! www.scientificamerican.com/game/math-pu... #mathsky

Small Rhombicosidodecahedron if u even care. I know it can be made with a single (incredibly long) modelling balloon because every vertex only has four lines coming from it, so it has an ✨Eulerian path✨

🚨new shape just dropped🚨 (by @dodecalemma.bsky.social with graphics by me) www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer

Wanna dive into a delightfully nerdy corner of math? 🧵🪢⭕ Knot theory is a growing field with deep ideas and surprising connections—and in my new piece for @sciam.bsky.social, you can try it out yourself through interactive puzzles! I had so much fun with this new format. Hope you enjoy it too!

www.scientificamerican.com/article/subl... Funky fact about the way that AI learns. I had a lot of fun writing this piece for @sciam.bsky.social

Writing stories like this for @sciam.bsky.social, and getting to speak to all the people involved who are brilliant and so committed to making other people's lives better always gives me hope. I hope you all enjoy! 🧪🧠

It's a weekly seminar held at the CUNY Graduate Center. We have talks, workshops, discussions, etc. all about topics in math education and communication. Some sessions are focused on prepping for teaching or talks, others are aspirational, and some are just fun, like our math art show-and-tell!

I'm organizing the CUNY Math Ed/Comm Seminar for its second year ever!

A refreshingly nuanced take on AI v. the International Math Olympiad by none other than Emily Riehl (@emilyriehl.bsky.social) for @sciam.bsky.social

Pick-up Sticks, Probability, and Pinecones, oh my! (My newest math article for @sciam.bsky.social) www.scientificamerican.com/article/stud... #mathsky #probability

I had an enlightening conversation with mathematician Hannah Cairo about how she broke a huge conjecture in Harmonic Analysis at just 17 years old, what being a transgender mathematician means to her and how math has supported her along her journey! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌊 ✨ Read the Q&A here:

Smooth-rolling knots! At @markpauly.bsky.social’s lab, we found a way to optimize knots for smooth rolling. I presented our work at Bridges 2025 – the conference for #MathArt. More below ↓

New world record longest lightning strike just dropped! 🧪 (by @dodecalemma.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social)

ok i am aggressively not a sports person, but this story by @dodecalemma.bsky.social is so cool! and the graphics were fun to work on :) www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

A collection of tricky logic puzzles + the power of friendship? Sign me up! www.scientificamerican.com/article/try-... #mathsky 🧪 🧮 ✨ @sciam.bsky.social

Experts I spoke to say mathematicians and those who care about them need to speak to their representatives—we as mathematicians aren't always accustomed to advocating for ourselves and our research to the public, but there's no time like the present! 🧮

Math is in crisis. The NSF claims the over $80M in cuts is due to "changing priorities" but when asked how math fits to their new priorities they said it is "required to advance future discoveries in every critical technology area." What gives??? www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...

worms worms worms worms WORMS WORMS WORMS WORMS

I spoke with @standupmaths.bsky.social earlier this summer about his epic new quest—calculating Pi on the Moon! 🚀🌘

I can't quite pinpoint why, but a certain book by @scalzi.com is going through my head as I contemplate this headline...