Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I read 80% of consumer use of chatbots as "I am ready to chew my own leg off to stop trying to deal with the administrative complexity modern life has inflicted on me," we really are at the "deus ex machina required" stage of Too Much for people managing jobs, families, health, school, lives.

Today's the day. I'm doing my taxes. I'm going to live skeet in this thread.

Happy Easter if you celebrate. Happy McSweeney's either way.

One of the weirder family traditions I miss is watching Frankenweenie every Easter at an aunt's house.

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AWM and Math for America (MfA) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 AWM-MfA Student Essay Contest! Learn more about the winners and read their essays here: 🔗 awm-math.org/awards/stude.... Please join us in congratulating this year's winners! #AWM #MathforAmerica #STEM

USians, let's really really do the May 1 general strike. No buying. Cancel subscriptions. Visit a library. Etc. Keep it going a few days if possible! If we're mutuals, DM me an address and a "prompt" and I'll mail a hand-doodled postcard to you in solidarity. (Offer applies internationally!)

PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS! PROTECT YOUR NIGHT SKIES!! 🔭🧪

I've said this many times before. The crucial point is actually to understand why 0.99999... refers at all. Before that conversation, an algebraic proof is actually obfuscatory. As a diagnostic, ask yourself: does ...99999 = x = -1? After all, x - 10x = 9.

What?! Is that JEOPARDY? Can we get confirmation from @kenjennings.bsky.social? Congrats @kdayers.bsky.social!

Heyyyy that’s my friend!!! Congratulations Kim!!! @kdayers.bsky.social 🥳

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

I need to get my vision checked. I thought the social media links at the bottom of a NIST newsletter ("connect with us on...") included tindr. Talk NISTy to me, indeed. (it was flickr)

Maybe auto detection. "It looks like you're lashing out, would you like to send this to JD Vance instead?"

Trying to solve a Rubik’s cube under 1 minute

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. As of this year, federal employee health insurance policies outright discriminate against trans folks by no longer covering gender affirming care. Those who need surgery & hormone therapy are going without or paying out of pocket. Trans Feds: you matter. 💙🏳️‍⚧️

On this Trans Day of Visibility, a reminder: If you don’t want to see transness in the world, you are welcome to pluck out your eyeballs.

My ears are ringing so hard it's like I can physically feel vibrations and pressure in my ears, jaw, and neck? And it's drowning out real sound? This has been happening whenever I have even a little sinus pressure. Anyone familiar with this?

I spent all break not getting sick from my kid and spouse and here we are, Monday morning, sick.

JK Rowling is calling women athletes men even after they pass genetic testing. People in her replies are talking about these women having “ambiguous” genitalia. We are in an extremely frightening moment for ALL women thanks to transphobia.

Please, if you read one thing about AI today, read this.

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

Eternally grateful for these Essential Resources from Dr. Chanda! medium.com/@chanda/inte...

A jury found that Meta violated New Mexico law and that the company should pay $375 million in damages. Meta is expected to appeal the decision.

This is monstrous of us. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finished (minus weaving in a few now ends, adding surface crochet, and blocking)! Kiddo is very excited about his nonconvex dokaitetracontagon.

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

Look, I'm an Xennial, an elder millennial, whatever; so my understanding of the word "based" comes from how it is used in context. From this I conclude that it is perjorative. "That is so based" is telling me some asshole is up to some assholery (and it's not manic pixie dream fun assholery).

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Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."

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Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now." - Fred Rogers In loving memory of the beloved and forever impactful Emmy/Grammy-winning television icon, minister, advocate, and pillar of true human decency on his 98th birthday.

Abolish billionaires!

Will the ICM ultimately be cancelled because of A) visas B) US aggression C) the cost of fuel needed for travel to Philly from anywhere outside of Philly D) some other thing between now and July ?

"I never got to hold her." Juan Chavez Velasco is a dad of three, he served on the frontlines of the pandemic, and he's a DACA recipient who lived nearly his entire life here. He was delivering milk to his baby in the NICU. This cruelty must end. No more funding for ICE. bit.ly/4cZUPfM

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Yes, computers helped to crack the enigma (we did hear about that at length) but also greatly supported the Nazi regime, for example by selling 1.5 billion punch cards and corresponding machines for censuses. How can it be that CS never discusses this history? www.felienne.nl/2026-10/#tec...

Sometimes I'm nostalgic for cathode ray tubes and how when everything got too much on the TV/early internet you could put your face up to it and see the light separate into red, green, and blue.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

A long, heart rending read. The governor of Alabama granted clemency to Sonny Burton, which is a good thing. But there's so much wrong that still needs to be put right. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/13/c...

Need to pick a border color. I have three options (white, ecru?, grey) or could acquire more options. Kid's favorite color is orange.

Great, we found polyhedra.tessera.li#triaugmented... and now I know about 80 of the Johnson solids, which, again, is not the math I thought I would be doing at this point in my career, but my toddler is really into it. ("Truncate! Gyrate! Rectify it!" - to the tune of Technologic)

If you think politics has nothing to do with math… think again. Gerrymandering, fair representation, and even AI policy all hinge on math. New episode with Dr. Karen Saxe, senior vice president, government relations for the @amermathsoc.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

Okay, so first I make an ideal in ℂ[x_11,...,x_44] from the polynomials x_11+x_12+x_13+x_14-84...