CU computer science is doing a search for a tenure-track position in quantum computing this year: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta.... The scope of the search in particular includes quantum CS theory! AMA about how awesome Boulder and Colorado are!

Yall please go watch @merriam-webster.com’s new AI ad😅 youtu.be/RvQnl3O0D3c?...

Automatically updating content can be extremely distracting, especially for users with vestibular disorders or attention difficulties. This could force users to scroll through page content to not see the animation, or to just look away. Allow animations and updating content to be paused or stopped.

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity" Gift link from @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Does anyone know of a meta-analysis of ungrading research? #ungrading

Yet another way that tech billionaires are stealing from us while getting richer off of planetary destruction (in addition to data centers being unbearably loud, noxious, water hogs that are driving up local utility prices):

Andris Ambainis, Hartmut Klauck, Debbie Lim A Hierarchy for Constant Communication Complexity https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22004

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

Online CS Theory Seminar Fri 2025-10-03! Excited to have Danillo Barros de Souza (BCAM) presenting "Efficient #Algorithms for Computing Higher-Order Forman-Ricci Curvature from #ComplexNetworks" www.bcamath.org/en/people/bc... www.colorado.edu/cs-theory/th... 🧪 #MathSky #ComplexSystems #Networks

Let’s say, hypothetically, you appreciated our position paper and @olivia.science and I would be recording answers to questions about it. What questions would you have?

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

“In their latest biweekly survey of AI adoption, the US Census Bureau found evidence of an obvious drop-off in corporate AI use — the largest since the survey began in November of 2023.”

Question for #MathSky: What is your favorite result, trick, or technique involving generating functions? Whenever I ask a question like this I always learn something new.

Yes. So much of this would be clear academic misconduct or negligence if only people hadn't been led to believe investor money is a foolproof loophole for laws, norms, and accountability.

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today at IAS, I gave a 2 hr 15 mins lecture on why TIME[t] is in SPACE[√(t log t)]. You can watch it here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThLv...

📖❤️ NEWS: You can now pre-order my book! "Unlocking Justice confronts America’s unfair legal system with data—and humanity." It's accessible, optimistic, and in the spirit of Ida B. Wells, who said “the way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” I wrote it for each of you. Also, ⬇️

quelle surprise that the same shitty company is now taking all rights to turn your academic content and likeness into AI sludge in your name, unless you opt out

The abstract opens with flagrant nonsense. An LLM has no representation of ideas, certainty, or factuality. "Hallucination" is not an aberration, but inherent in every response. The magic trick is that remixing words somewhat out of context and without understanding can often be perceived as true.

Reminder about timeline for #NetSciX2026: Submission deadline Friday this week, 26th September. Notifications will be sent out from October 25th. Early bird registration deadline is November 20th. Conference 17th-20th Feb 2026 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. netscix2026.github.io

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Here’s a story from March about how changes to the H1B visa - far more minor changes than Trump just announced - would devastate rural communities because so many depend on immigrant doctors. www.fosterglobal.com/blog/rural-a...

*Please* take a moment to support those of us who rely on telehealth by calling your reps. 🙏 The elderly, disabled, & so many others have benefitted from telehealth. Please share.

"Introduction to Web Accessibility" is a free course designed for people of all roles and all experience levels, so regardless of your background, there's something you can learn here. www.edx.org/course/web-a...

#MathSky! We (@code4math.org) have MORE talks tomorrow Mon Sept 15!! 🌟 at 9am Eastern, Accessible papers with PreTeXt 🌟 at 3pm Eastern, Intro to the LMFDB 🌟 at 4pm Eastern, Lessons from software on managing complexity (Note the last two talks were just switched around to accommodate scheduling!)

If you want math in your #MathSky posts, Keenan has you covered!

Finland's epidemic 14 Sep 2025: total number of diagnoses continues to rise, despite price hikes in the private healthcare sector. 1/x

"Do Universities Investing In Technology Transfer Via Patenting Lose Money?" This study reaches a conclusion I've believed to be true since seeing how tech transfer offices work. The paper calls for closing tech transfer offices and instead open sourcing all innovations. ttb.sk/clanky/do-un...

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

University of Utah study of 154,565 children aged 8 to 17 years shows that children and teens who had a COVID infection had a 40% to 59% increased risk for new-onset depression or anxiety compared to uninfected kids. buff.ly/qfhzz9L #medsky #pedsky 🛟😷

this will end predictably poorly www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all...

Deadline is September 25, 23:59 AoE

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

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

"how much could a microwave oven really cost to run michael"

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

Join us virtually next Monday and the following one!! Each day, one session begins at 9am Eastern/3pm Central European time, and the other at noon Pacific/9am Hawaii time, to cover as many time zones as we can so hopefully you can make it at least a little while! #MathSky

Cinzia took a difficult problem and is slowly but consistently dismantling it. She does very difficult research AND gives excellent talks about it.

That's the standard example... I prefer R[x,y]/(x^2+y^2+1) though. Here's a decent explanation grossack.site/2021/10/12/n...

Finally posted my syllabus for Computational Algebra (which I'm using to launder half a course on commutative algebra...) crgibbons.github.io/post/syllabi...

And, this is to my colleagues in academia who think they can "play" or "work with" ChatGPT: read this. What exact benefits do you imagine you get out of ChatGPT that you cannot get from existing technologies/techniques, aside from feeling tech-savvy, and getting on the bandwagon, or perhaps, $$?

Registration for the SUBgroups program for first-year math grad students is now open! Find out more and register here: gradsubgroups.org Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!

Nominate researchers for the FOCS 2025 Test of Time awards! These awards "recognizes papers published in past FOCS for their substantial, lasting, broad, and currently relevant impact," and will be presented at #FOCS2025. Nominations deadline: ⏰ Sep 15 Guidelines: tc.computer.org/tcmf/2025/08...

College students are bombarded by #misinformation. Teach them fact-checking! theconversation.com/college-stud... via @us.theconversation.com "...in a world flooded with misinformation, helping students learn to sort fact from fiction might be the most civic thing we can do."