I had a dream about a musical called "Faculty Meeting" and weirdly it was good? The first number is about someone objecting to approving the minutes without unanimous consent but not offering a correction. This is how we meet The Parliamentarian, our narrator.

Today is @judalicious.bsky.social's and my 29th anniversary. We met in '96, he moved in 2 days later, and 6 months later we uprooted our lives to move to CA. Everyone told us we were nuts and this was a terrible idea and we'd regret it. Everyone was wrong. It was love at first sight and it still is.

When you get palm trees and snow capped mountains in the same shot.

FFS this was in an enclosure and now the kid told me “look! Their meal is leaves and supplements, just like you.”

Call the burn unit. At the zoo and just passed a sign that said “living fossils” and the teen points at Jude and me and says “like you guys.”

Story about the transformation of a rough around the edges postal carrier into a hot hunky UPS delivery guy. I call it Pigmailman.

Story about the transformation of a rough around the edges postal carrier into a hot hunky UPS delivery guy. I call it Pigmailman.

Wishing the world less generative AI in 2026 y'all.

Academic Year In Review. Because I'm me, I think I'm ****ing garbage. So I am *trying* to feel proud of my work in 2025. No one else needs to actually care. Thread also has reflections on being research-active faculty at a (privileged) small liberal arts college. 11 research papers 1 book 4 op-eds

Enough holidays, it's back to focused work, which, obviously, is why I accidentally just spend 51 minutes in a useless Wikipedia rabbit hole about the Yugoslavian royal family.

I got these socks. Best f*%^ing Xmas ever.

How much could a Christmas bag of threats cost, Michael?

So re the OU debacle with a grad student getting railroaded by conservative BS: I made a public records request to the university for emails related to this matter and just got the response and it contains… almost nothing? How can this be? Any journalists wanna follow up?

Heading off for the one real vacation I take each year and MY INBOX IS EMPTY.

“Now did everyone moisturize thoroughly, applying emollients, humectants, and an occlusive?” - Me, laudably making sure the family is prepared for holiday air travel

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Today, my book is the #1 New Release in "Discrimination and Racism." Pre-order now! Great delayed-gratification holiday gift! (Link is to Amazon since that's where the #1 rating occurs, but you can also find the book on Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, and Princeton University Press).

Team, we are #1 New Release in "political process"... five months before release.

Thanks Noah. The support from you always means a *ton* to me.🙏

🚨 I’ve been keeping this under wraps until published and it’s out today. Do judges with background in law enforcement act differently at bail time? Our groundbreaking NYC study estimates that when they set bail, it is a full 32% higher on average compared to other judges. Check it out and share.

🚨 I’ve been keeping this under wraps until published and it’s out today. Do judges with background in law enforcement act differently at bail time? Our groundbreaking NYC study estimates that when they set bail, it is a full 32% higher on average compared to other judges. Check it out and share.

I absolutely 100% cannot. Like,

Periodic reminder that traditional academic grading is a sham enabled by collective delusion. And inertia. You’re welcome!

Fun science fact, if you cool a material to zero degrees Kelvin its atoms will move at the speed of academic publishing. #themoreyouknown

Fun science fact, if you cool a material to zero degrees Kelvin its atoms will move at the speed of academic publishing. #themoreyouknown

This is holiday spirit I can get behind.

I post less on here about my music life, but in case anyone is interested in seeing a very emotive third desk violist... for reasons I do not understand, the camera person likes me (and my friend Mea in the cellos) a lot. Enjoy this Tchaikovsky! youtu.be/cXVoPajClps?...

Each year, I declare December to be Unsubscribe Month. All those annoying emails that show up in my inbox for reasons I cannot understand? I finally bother to click unsubscribe on every single one of them. JOIN ME.

Listen up all — this is important.

I know some people are like “no dogs on planes” and I want the opposite. I want me and like 149 dogs and no people.

This is the empty seat next to me on this five hour cross country flight. It might be the most beautiful sight I’ve ever seen.

Y'know, the main reason I wrote this book is: justice. But coming in a close second on the list of reasons is: to amuse myself. You can pre-order now if you want. :) Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/unlo... Amazon: www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju... Publisher: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I am ugly-crying bc my book now has blurbs from two of my heroes, @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social and @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social. They said nice things so of course my brain can't handle it and I will be using therapy to deal with my feelings of undeserving-ness. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I am ugly-crying bc my book now has blurbs from two of my heroes, @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social and @dreugeniacheng.bsky.social. They said nice things so of course my brain can't handle it and I will be using therapy to deal with my feelings of undeserving-ness. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

University of Nebraska regents getting rid of the Department of Statistics -- BASED ON FLAWED STATISTICS -- is making my head explode.

Here is a true story that just happened to me that will be *most* appreciated by any Math Twitter escapees who are here. #ITeachMath #mtbos

Here is a true story that just happened to me that will be *most* appreciated by any Math Twitter escapees who are here. #ITeachMath #mtbos

Ok activists and nerds... I promised that I was SO MAD ABOUT HOW CONFLICT-AVOIDANT "CENTRISTS" UNDERMINE RESISTANCE TO FASCISM that I would resort to math to make this point and that I would write it up in a paper. So, here ya go. Share, enjoy, and get up on that soapbox. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Following up on this, I am so mad about conflict-avoidant centrists that I have now, for lack of a better word, pooped out a 15 page paper over the past 3 days. Here is the abstract You're welcome. I'll continue editing paper and post within a week I hope.

I am up in the middle of the night writing a math paper that demonstrates how conflict-averse "centrists" can allow fascism to triumph over resistance. LITERALLY RESORTING TO DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS TO MAKE THIS POINT.

Go ahead, say the word "vibecoding" to me and see what happens. MAKE MY DAY.

I was very focused for the first 85% of my workday and then fell off a proverbial cliff and spent the last 15% watching random Youtube videos of coverage that tourists surreptitiously took in North Korea.

Again reminding you that this is the university that rescinded a res life job offer to me when I was a grad student after they found out I was gay and partnered. BTW, a few spicy stories like that one appear in my forthcoming book. Preorder now so you can see me spill tea in print in a few months.

"Northwestern officials proudly noted that their pact with the WH explicitly declares that the agreement doesn’t allow the gov't to dictate “the content of academic speech and research” .... But the pact itself restricts speech and research at the university. Saying otherwise won’t change that."

I co-run QSIDE, a small but mighty social justice + data science nonprofit. 2025 was a rough year for America and I hope @qside.bsky.social's end-of-year newsletter will inspire you by showing you how progress is possible. I am also *so* proud of our courage in not backing down from DEI principles.

Hi America! Just another day of me doing woke DEI antifascist research grounded in data. Come at me!

I will answer your email at one of the following three times: (a) Right now (b) At 3:45 a.m. tomorrow morning (c) Never Those are the options.

Update.

This is the same university that rescinded a res life job offer to me when I was a grad student after they found out I was gay and partnered.