I'm listening to a wonderful book about Roger Penrose, THE IMPOSSIBLE MAN, by @patchenbarss.bsky.social . Such gorgeous writing and sensitive storytelling. And the math & physics – and the sociology of science – are described so beautifully and compellingly! Bravo!

The concrete -> abstract approach is used in elementary math ed as well with success. Found the trig example ~ metric space connection intriguing. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Kevin Hartnett is one of today’s finest chroniclers of math. With marvelous clarity and narrative flair, he introduces us to computer-verified proof, the drama behind it, and the people reimagining what math can be.” — @stevenstrogatz.com www.quantabooks.org/books/the-pr...

@stevenstrogatz.com I was showing my undergraduates your lovely 1988 Romeo & Juliet differential equations paper. Which is an excellent way of demonstrating novel and enjoyable applications of maths. A possible popular update could changing it to the two protagonists of Heated Rivalry.

Had fun talking with @websedgescience.bsky.social at the #APSSummit26 on how physics & math can explain fashion cycles! @aps-dsnp.bsky.social @stevenstrogatz.com

Join us at Cornell on March 24 for a screening of this wonderful new documentary about a summer math camp for high school kids that has had an amazing impact on math in the United States. #ithaca as.cornell.edu/news/hunting...

The 2026 Science Communication Awards are now open! If you’re a science journalist, communicator, or researcher creating public-facing work communicating #STEM, I encourage you to apply. Deadline: April 3, 2026 Apply: www.nationalacademies.org/awards/excel... #SciComm

@bcdreyer.social you might get a smile out of this one, as seen in the Wikipedia page for Jonathan Rosen: "He lives in Manhattan with his wife, a Conservative rabbi, and their daughters." Just hope they're all happy with this arrangement. Who am I to judge?

I've just started reading this new book by Shekhar Khare, a renowned number theorist at UCLA, and I highly recommend it. It takes the reader on an intellectual adventure, with very illuminating analogies and vivid storytelling. It's a book about some brilliant math, but it also has a great heart.

My applied math colleague Chris Earls is looking to hire a postdoc. The area — interpretability of emergent behaviors exhibited by AI systems — is fascinating and important. Info below:

Preparing for our annual family ritual — a blind taste test. This year's category: hummus!

The Future of Veritasium @veritasium.bsky.social -- if you are a fan of the channel (as I certainly am!) you'll definitely want to watch this. It's Derek at his best. youtu.be/piHGnG4LsmQ?...

Absolutely nuts how everyone is firing on all cylinders in The Lowdown, if they don’t get renewed we riot

@rachelcrowl.net You are so fantastic in The Lowdown! The whole cast is amazing, and so is the series, but you really steal the show whenever you're onscreen :-)

The Geometry of Julia Child's Greatest Apple Tart The perfect recipe for the holidays -- made even better with math! By Manil Suri manilsuri.substack.com/p/julia-chil... #MathSky

Reaching the Masses: Six Authors on Public Outreach [about Mathematics] A Zoom conversation with: Keith Devlin Marcus du Sautoy Jordan Ellenberg Sarah Hart John Allen Paulos Steven Strogatz ams.org/journals/not... PDF: ams.org/journals/not...

Does the number of people following you grow linearly in time, or exponentially? Manil Suri examines this on Substack: manilsuri.substack.com/p/will-my-su...

Very excited to share some life updates: in summer 2026 I will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Physics at University of Toronto! My group will study a range of problems in biophysics using nonequilibrium statistical mechanics—cellular signaling and adaptation, gene regulation, etc.

I haven't been very active here for several months, because I've been working on a new book. Soon I will be able to tell you about it. Is anyone out there interested?

Congratulations to all the tremendous science communicators honored this year! bsky.app/profile/scic...

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Network Science, and three of its avengers, featured in the latest @veritasium.bsky.social video (one of the largest youtube channels for Science education)!! youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?... @stevenstrogatz.com Duncan Watts @barabasi.bsky.social

This is a really good video that I enjoyed a lot By @veritasium.bsky.social ft. @stevenstrogatz.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlo...

Mathematician Chad Topaz's new book looks at America's criminal legal system through the lens of data science. Pre-order at www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...

The New York Times Learning Network is going to be publishing four lessons over the next four weeks on Tuesdays, based on my Math, Revealed series from a few months ago. Here's the first installment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/l...

so back 🚕 cc #iTeachMath x #MathSky x #EduSky bcc #MathIndustrialComplex #BigMath

Here is a @desmos.com activity about the symmetry-preserving transformations of a square, inspired by my colleague Tom Jameson. classroom.amplify.com/activity/68c... For a really great intro to how this relates to group theory, see this by @stevenstrogatz.com archive.nytimes.com/opinionator....

As a researcher, @stevenstrogatz.com sees #math everywhere — around us and inside us. 👀 ♾️ Read about his love of #mathematics, where it shows up in his everyday life, and what sparked his efforts to communicate about it: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/08... #scicomm

[email protected] has devoted a whole issue to the fundamental science of climate. Can't wait to read this – we hear so much about climate change, but so little about the basic science. Press: www.newswire.com/news/quanta-... Issue: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

The New York Times Learning Network is going to be publishing four lessons over the next four weeks on Tuesdays, based on my Math, Revealed series from a few months ago. Here's the first installment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/l...

Happy 4^ / 3^2 / 5^2 day!!! (3^2/ 4^2 / 5^2 for us weird Americans) Not too many days satisfy the Pythagorean thm. @amermathsoc.bsky.social @austms.bsky.social @stevenstrogatz.com @monsoon0.bsky.social ht Peter Baxter for noticing. Looking forward to coming back to the US for joint maths in Jan.

Tonight, @momath.bsky.social and @stevenstrogatz.com celebrated the winners of the math communication prize that bears Steve's name. Want to be inspired by creativity of high schoolers? See the prize winners work at: momath.org/strogatzpriz...

Great interview with @stevenstrogatz.com with a lot of discussion of research advising. Parts reminded me of @eegilbert.org and @informor.bsky.social's (excellent) guides to PhD mentorship, with a big focus on ideation. Eric's: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Mor's: s.tech.cornell.edu/phd-syllabus/

Just started, but some really interesting videos from Mura Yakerson www.youtube.com/@math-life-b...

It was such a pleasure being a guest on "Math-Life Balance", a podcast devoted to interviews with mathematicians. Mura Yakerson is a fantastic interviewer! Check out our chat at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx8F... #mathsky

Birds aren't descended from dinosaurs. They 𝘢𝘳𝘦 dinosaurs. Tune in to "The Joy of Why" from @prx.org and @quantamagazine.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/do-beautiful... BTW, this is our last episode of the season. See you all soon, and thanks for listening!

So many spam journals out there these days. The language in this invitation made me smile: "As we aspire to disseminate supreme publications from prominent people like you, I wish to have your speedy response in 48 hrs."

Nonlinearity. In this case, the whole is less than the sum of the parts.

Noah Giansiracusa to Receive 2026 Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) Communications Award “for his extraordinary contributions to public understanding of the societal impacts of algorithms through his acclaimed books and influential media presence." www.ams.org/news?news_id...

Eco friendly hair implement?

🧪⚛️ Here is a terrific salaried opportunity to get involved in the critical area of science policy. One of my own students was a @apsphysics.bsky.social Congressional Fellow & it changed his life. * APS member + US citizen with MS or Ph.D * Deadline Nov 4 2025 www.aps.org/funding-reco...

Are you a student in mathematics or an adjacent field? Help us understand how funding access and eligibility have affected your career. Take a short survey here tinyurl.com/MathFundingA...

Mary Wootters: "I get really excited about my work, about the mathematical and technical ideas in it, and want to—I want to share the joy, right? [....] there’s like this little 5-year-old kid inside being like, “Oh my God, it’s so cool!”" www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-math... @stevenstrogatz.com

Remember CDs? If you have one that’s been scratched — but not too scratched — it will still play normally. We have a technology called an error-correcting code to thank for that. Tune in to "The Joy of Why": www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-math...

Mary Wootters is a computer scientist at Stanford. She also created a kids book and a board game. On this week’s episode of "The Joy of Why," we discuss how playfulness can be an essential tool for scientific discovery. www.quantamagazine.org/how-can-math...

Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

If you missed my New York Times series, "Math, Revealed", here are free gift links to it -- no paywall 🕺 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Too polite

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...