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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!

In NYC, @uaw.org was the first union to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to his primary victory last month. Here in Seattle, we at @uaw.org were the first union to endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to her primary victory last night. We pick winners ✊

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The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.

Scientific American thinks mathematicians are being quiet about the devastating NSF funds to our field. We need to be LOUDER. www.facebook.com/share/r/1J3Z...

I love when I tell people I study category theory and their first reaction is “oh, no!”

Incredibly bad (changes to N.S.F. funding for math):

Today was a big win for workers in Washington state as unemployment insurance for striking workers was signed into law! UAW members joined @wslc.bsky.social, fellow union members from across the state, and bill sponsor (and former @uaw4121.bsky.social member) Sen. Riccelli for the signing.

UW changed its layoff policy without bargaining- risking the job security of 1000s of UW research workers 👎 1,200+ have signed the open letter demanding they reverse this policy. Join us next Monday @ noon in UW's Red Square to deliver the letter and tell admin to follow our contracts! 💥💥💥

I’m in this article along with other @uaw4121.bsky.social members to explain what’s happening to grad student researchers in the US right now. It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America.

It sure is encouraging when the Trump administration personally praises the way my university deployed riot police on a student protest 🫠 Same cops that our university called on me and my union siblings during our peaceful labor action last year, by the way!

A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. @ericaklarreich.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-12...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

sometimes i see blackboard bold out in the wild and remember that mathematicians do not have a monopoly on fonts

okay bear with me here but if you count (a) live staged play readings, (b) video games, and (c) papers that will be published later this year my erdős-bacon number is 6

Solidarity with our @uaw4121.bsky.social researchers ✊!!!

Some photos from @jayapal.house.gov’s Town Hall last night and today’s @uaw4121.bsky.social rally to defend federal funding for our scientists and researchers!

lol it me

as a sophie germain fan seeing chladni plates show up on severance was kinda sick

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

Should be coming out this year!

Have any mathematicians watched this “Prime Target” show? I just saw the trailer and it’s managed to accidentally be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

Thinking about my trans friends and students this morning, who are some of the most real, brilliant, vibrant, and strong people I know.

Really disorienting to watch a homotopy theory talk where “Cat” stands not for “Category” but for *squints* “Catalan”

🔥 TWAS THE STRIKE BEFORE CHRISTMAS! 🔥✊ Starbucks baristas are going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting tomorrow in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle... and soon, from coast-to-coast. 🧵

I’m ashamed to admit that I still have to look up which one’s zeta and which one’s xi

Few things have delighted me more lately than this thread of Roxane Gay discovering the show How to Get Away with Murder

As of this morning, @nytguildtech.bsky.social, which represents NYT tech workers, is on strike. Unless it's resolved while today's Wordle is still live, this streak is gone. Here's a 🧵 with info on the picket line and how you can help. PLEASE READ — the rules may not be what you think!

This was incredibly depressing to wake up to. I pushed to make both math and theater racially diverse and equitable while I was an undergrad at MIT, but none of that works if you don’t have a diverse student body to begin with news.mit.edu/2024/qa-unde...

Registration for SUBgroups is now open! Register here: gradsubgroups.org Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!

this story from today's Ask A Manager is killing me

Thanks Kyle—beat me to my own announcement!

Here’s a recording of my 20 minute ACT 2023 talk on categories of polynomials! (This was also pretty much the talk I gave at JMM earlier this year.) youtu.be/q2b_z-ewo-k

can’t believe connections knew it was my birthday yesterday

yesterday i asked my professor what i should be doing now that i'm in my third year of grad school and he spent an hour basically telling me to make more category theory friends so please, be my category theory friend

ok i think i followed all the math folks on here that i recognize, hi 👋