You shouldn't have to travel for hours to get maternity care, but Republican Medicaid cuts might mean you have to. It's shameful that a party that claims to be pro-family is cutting maternity care.

Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...

My video for #MathsAnimationTMiP July: Create an animation showing that a reflection followed by another reflection is equivalent to a rotation. youtu.be/wFdlrn-kzsg Find out more and join in at www.talkingmathsinpublic.uk/animation/

Teenage cuber, Andrey Maslov, was scheduled to speak at Bridges about making two-sided Rubik's Cube mosaics (the same image on both sides, with different colors). He found out at the last moment that he was unable to attend. So, he posted his talk on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uap0...

Getting excited for the Bridges fashion show tonight! On the runway will be the world premiere of my black and white rhodium plated knight's tour jewelry!

BIG day for mathematicians who play NYT Spelling Bee.

The same goes for surgery on many folds.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Definitions in math are not inevitable, but rather are choices people have made. We could make different choices if we thought it would be useful.

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

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Here are all 54 distinct knots/links that Tanya and I have identified in our exploration of a specific class of knots on 9-layer Rubik's cubes. We have also determined that this list contains no redundancies & that any of the 4096 patterns that we began with is equivalent to one of these 54 knots.

I've been investigating a class of knots with Tatyana Khodorovskiy. We began with 4,096 initial patterns on a 9-layer cube and have reduced this set to identify 54 distinct knots in this class. You can read more about it in my Bridges paper from last year, but we're currently writing up the results!

Are you working in civil rights enforcement for the federal government and being made to investigate racial equity programs OR are you an organization being investigated or had your federal funds stripped for racial equity work? Message me. Signal: nhannahjones.67

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

This explains it! Thanks for including me, Martin.

Apparently, “notationally” is not one of the six pangrams today.

#MSH45 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. The bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a lateral blast surges through the disintegrating slope. 7 miles north, Gerry Martin describes what he sees—until the radio goes silent.

Younger folks around here might shocked to learn that once upon a time Bill Clinton let a few campaign donors have a sleepover at the White House & the national media spent months treating it as the greatest scandal in the history of the republic

Thinking about @steckl.es and my Mathematical Objects podcast. Last season we chatted poetry, category theory, space-filling curves, parallelepipeds, voting & road sign regulations, we stared deep into an area the size of Wales and feasted on a universe of cake. Search wherever you get podcasts.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Timing that promotion to full before all STEM Ed grants go extinct.

Tonight, 7pm we premier Matt’s Say The Prime debut! It’s a wild 5 minute ride of number fun. Come along, I’ll see you in the chat :) youtube.com/@saytheprime

#iTeachPhysics: Some nice animations here for some doppler effect intuition: www.einstein-online.info/en/spotlight...

Cotija ergo sum

Looks like we got ourselves a good old-fashioned schism, boys and girls.

🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF

I imagine all of us have our little daily escapes to help look away from the feed of doom. Here’s one I’ve gotten into lately. Super wholesome Canadian concrete installation videos on YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/ctBSl...

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

I am the current chair of the US National Commission for Mathematics Instruction. Our commission represents the US in an international community of mathematics education under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences. Our very modest NSF funding has not been renewed. #iteachmath

One of my students just made the faces of my Rubik's cube delightfully symmetric!

FYI: I'm part of the Finite Group, a friendly bunch of mathematicians with a free Discord community and monthly livestreams about cool bits of maths. Our next is 23rd May, when I'll be chatting with @Ayliean.bsky.social about maths & Rubik's cubes! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk

In my latest "Devlin's Angle" post for the MAA, I reflect on the legendary math educator and civil rights advocate Bob Moses. maa.org/math-values/...

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

Trump Revokes PBS Funding After Antique Grandfather Clock Receives Meager Appraisal theonion.com/trump-r...

Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march). Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs. That is one 3-year NSF grant per day. Waste and abuse, my ass. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Periodic reminder that we make unique wood puzzles! Smaller ones make great gifts but go for an Agate or Bismuth if you want more of a challenge n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/line.ph...

"You may recall that we used to issue heartfelt, strategically worded statements affirming our unshakable commitment to DEI—usually right after a national tragedy...we are now fully prepared to replace those sentiments with constitutionally sanitized synonyms" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus

Here’s a candid shot from the time I met Ernö Rubik in 2018. He very generously signed several of my cubes and chatted about my patterns. Thanks to @cardcolm.bsky.social for setting up the opportunity.

It's that time of year again where @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social is recounting the events as they unfolded in real-time leading up to the catastrophe. This is a fun account to follow if you are not already doing so.

As a kid who LOVED Beverly Cleary, it’s way cooler than I’d admit to see THE Klickitat Street!!! 🥰

I don't speed cube, but follow it closer than most folks. Multi-blind is the most awe-inspiring event for me. Rowe Hessler recently memorized 66 scrambles and successfully solved 63 while wearing a blindfold - all in under one hour.

What would encourage you to add to the baby supply?

I use onenote, but this exercise stands out in my memory.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

“Constitutionally, you have a right to due process,” says Bridget Fahey, a legal scholar who specializes in contracts at the University of Chicago in Illinois. New story from @dangaristo.bsky.social on NSF grant terminations (a fresh batch today, even more than last week's ~400 terminations):