"Even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Monday through Friday, five days a week, from morning to night, outside work, I’m actually a really good person." #McSweeneysTop25of2025.

I worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in multiple countries to bring medical care to refugees and other populations at risk. There are a 100% committed, professional, non-political organization. Netanyahu banning them from Gaza is an unspeakable outrage. People will die.

What are some small technical things/automations that would make your life easier? Like, a one-liner shuffling the odd and even pages of document back together if you scanned them separately. A little script to separate one pdf with versions of one assignment into separate pdfs for each version.

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.

Reported by my spouse: Our child stopped sobbing on a drive to point and remark "look at that ugly cybertruck" and then went back to being inconsolable. (fav campus hangout spot was closed)

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

Trying to pick new glasses. Thoughts? A for the ombre B for the green with purple (Current glasses are shaped like the first pair, solid green in the color of the second pair)

It was bound to happen. I encountered a child saying "six SEHvennnnn" *hands wave* but regrettably she's related to me.

since there are only 7 Clay Millennium Prize Problems (one of which has already been solved) ... this must be paradigm-shifting work, excited to see AI naysayers proved wrong!!

Getting ready to go see family for the holidays so of course I'm letting my anxiety run wild, mentally digging up everything that was bad this year, stewing in angst, and generally preparing to regress to a surly teenager. Happy season!

Sure would be a shame if we all made the 60 Minutes video go viral...

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

Just thinking out loud, but... maybe it's bad if journalists embrace and celebrate innumeracy? Perhaps it's irresponsible for media figures to shirk these modes of thought in a world increasingly controlled by big tech?

Has anyone experimented with scoring points in SET? Playing with people of different experience levels and thinking about how to slow down the quicker players to give the others a chance to build that experience. How about scoring a set by 1pt for every attribute that differs? #UKMathsChat #mtbos

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When people discover I'm vegan, they ask if I get enough protein, and I ask which amino acid they're worried about. That's how I feel about people saying students need AI skills. What skills specifically? Which kind of AI does that include? Too much parroting, not enough thinking in both cases.

Teaching friends, when you turn in your semester grades, do you go into a full-on crash, or is that just me? It's like the whole semester finally lands and I can barely keep my eyes open the next day. I guess it's the adrenaline leaving my system, or my stress response system trying to recalibrate?

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else

#MathSky #MTBoS and co, I'm trying to revive my WeBWorK problems Abstract Algebra project alongside my Abstract Algebra, Actively! textbook in PreTeXt. While I'm confident in my ability to remember PGML, I'm not sure where the best place to turn for help with Runestone. Leads appreciated!

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

It's flu SZN, people

I'm dying. 11/10, no notes

🚨 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.

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

Excited to share a new career achievement: this semester, I hit an all-time high of 16 distinct Taylor Swift jokes (plus one Travis Kelce joke) in one 50 class on Taylor series. Or, as I think of them, Maclaurin Series (Taylor's Version).

In his deposition for his Medicare fraud case, where he committed (at the time) the greatest amount of Medicare fraud ever, Rick Scott invoked the 5th Amendment 85 times. This is who the GOP has as their "Healthcare Expert".

Well that's not good.

The tyranny of Spirit Week(s). I'm radiating "never going to be the class parent" energy by sending my kid to day care *without* fuzzy socks today.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

I don't want to see one more congressperson posting about gun violence unless they are introducing a bill to ban assault weapons. "We must do somethi-" Yes, that's why we elected you.

“It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.” What a terrible end to a terrible year that isn't even over yet.

As always, we don’t yet know the identity of the shooter or the motivation for the massacre but we *do* know it involved one of the millions of guns that are drowning this country.

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Please read this moving blog post.

Melt the guns and melt the bullets. Fa la la la la, la la la la! Assault weapons are such bullshit. Fa la la la la, la la la la! Schools should places of learning. Fa la la, la la la, la la la! Set the gun-melt fires a-burning. Fa la la la la, fa fucking la!

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

I'm off insta, facebook, twitter, tik tok, etc etc. I don't want to be making them money or doing the surveillance state's work for them. It sucks that there's so much good content from good people there, though. It makes it hard for others to leave and shuts us conscientious objectors out.

Morning chat: Kiddo: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 Me: Wait, where's 9? Kiddo: 9 is causing some DRAMA

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Sat down to fix a code snippet, accidentally learned a whole new R library and built a Shiny app (that doesn't currently work, but sleep...?) This is why I can't be a programmer. My brain is a car with a gas pedal but no brakes, no gears, no steering wheel, no mirrors, and the doors don't unlock.

Hey all, there's a notice on the Federal Register about new rules for travelers who use ETSA. It's open for comments until February: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Great time to get the professional societies you're part of (etc) to file a comment.

I'm not sure why shingles is the discourse in my feed, but please: if you can get the vaccine, get the vaccine. I had shingles three times in one year. It was the worst pain I've ever experienced and it went on relentlessly. Luckily the third time I caught early enough that it was milder.

PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation. Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.

Read this as an American woman and then go break something.

Looking for an illustration for something else, I found my "Lego-grange's Theorem" picture.

This was great the first time, and it’s still great

My graduate alma mater is putting the Ass in Nebraska. Bad look, UNL. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

The best American flag is the battle flag of Tecumseh Sherman’s 23rd Corps, made from the tattered remains of Confederate banners.

Won my cats' peace prize, which I discovered by stepping in it. It's a hairball. I'm so humbled and honored by the distinction.

#MathSky provably correct