Here are two shapes. If you had to assign the name "bouba" to one and "kiki" to the other, which name would you give to which? In this Lingthusiasm zine, @gretchenmcculloch.com gets enthusiastic about these two linguistically famous shapes Print it yourself here: lingthusiasm.com/post/8223518...

God I love math

everyone who's called the latest MAHA testosterone grift "gender affirming care" needs to pay the nearest trans man $20

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

If you're gonna read one obit today, make it this one instead. Two guys doing the hard, unglamorous, deeply human work of making their corner of the world a little better and more hopeful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n...

gm, everyone

Hello from academia

weather check: melted cheese

I keep underestimating the demand for my Feynman Diagram Bauhaus print, so I made another edition! 🧪🐡🎢 This linocut was inspired by the way the exuberant lines and shapes of Bauhaus paintings, like those of Wassily Kandinsky, reminded me Feynman diagrams showing particle reactions on the quantum

it should be illegal to require professional references at time of application. please stop making more pointless busywork for all of us

Do people with ME know this is what you’re supposed to do? That if you’ve reduced your activities enough, you shouldn’t have symptoms?: “stop all activities, rest intensively until they are symptom-free, and then dose everything they do to prevent the symptoms from returning.”

Oh hey, it’s some new art! Here is: Rigid & Non-rigid transformations

combat drills

Congrats to everyone for overcoming being gay today

This, as requested by @mhplives.bsky.social, is the @newscientist.com cartoon that Alan Moore describes (rather well) in a recent episode of the Team Human podcast www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/371...

Sorry Buddy, I’m going to be late to meet you because I just realized my gift for you is a hot mess but now it’s better. Here is Y^2=X^3-25X

4/5 120-Deltahedron B. Icosahedral symmetry and 120 faces. The three corners of each triangle sit on a 5-fold, a 3-fold and a 2-fold rotation axis. Next year, I'll be involved in teaching a symmetry course at Glasgow. I'm quite excited by the prospect. Can you tell? 🧪 🐡 #Symmetry #MathArt

idk who needs to hear this: just because you have a cat means everyone wants to see it constantly. like you have to post it every day and fill up our feed. use your common sense folks. post constantly without discretion.

Rep. Tom Kean took leave to get help for depression. But as a member of Congress, due to voting for Medicaid work reqs, and as part of the New Jersey state leg, he hasn't made it easy for others to do the same. New w/ @hurwitz.bsky.social at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

having to force yourself to drink water because it's "important" to "stay hydrated" is such a scam

WE GOT! A murder of crows flying gloriously in front of a nearly full Moon as they head off to roost for the night! I've been trying to get this for years, you really only get one chance a month Hell yeah nature! Go log off, set a meaningless personal goal, achieve it, then go do it again! Joy!!🪶

A paper model representing the fullerene C70, colloquially known as Rugbyballene. 🧪 #ChemSky #ITeachChem #SciArt

ok it is time for a thread of NYC PRIDE PARADE PICS starting with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @mayor.nyc.gov

Perhaps my #MathSky friends will be interested in the artwork that my wife and I bought at the Carlsbad Art Fair this morning. Made with wild oat straw collected by the biologist/artist who made the piece.

do you wanna tell math-based ghost-stories, or is the poor little baby 2²

New Baby Role Call! We've got Mocha (big boy), Maple (his slightly smaller gal twin), Caramel (the dilute tortie), and Vanilla Bean (horrified eyes child)!

Having kids in grad school comes with more costs for women than men. "Citation scores for women who started to have children before the age of 30 were 14% lower than comparable men and 21% less than women who waited until their late 30s to start having children." www.science.org/content/arti...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Culinary calculus: The surface area to volume ratio of a cylinder of radius r and volume V is 2πr²/V + 2/r, so you can maximize sauce per noodle by letting r→∞ (wonton wrappers) or r→0⁺ (angel hair pasta).

Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.

pleased to announce that I have been hired full time as a cat bed. please direct all inquiries about my future availability to my supurrvisor, Noodle

Have you heard the good news about our Lord and Savior, Baphomet?

thinking about the time in class that a professor asked me specifically what the smallest non-abelian group was and I said the Klein four-group because my brain switched up abelian and cyclic to make me look bad

ncase.me/polygons/ in case people haven't seen it

Did you know that there is FREE SHIPPING at @bookshop.org today because *$%^Y&U^ Prime Day? And did you know that I have a whole lot of lists of books for you to help you find exactly what you need? A thread! 🧵 1/x 1) Level up your political education.

Aharonov–Bohm Effect - quantum mechanics: Two beams of electron (electron waves) interfere, causing diffraction patterns. If the electrons pass by a solenoid, the pattern is shifted - even though the magnetic field is zero everywhere outside this coil. #SciArt #MathArt #Physics

The Monterey Bay Aquarium PROUDly presents “Otter This World,” written and performed by Monét X Change with special guest Trinity the Tuck.

fixed your headline

Made some more progress on this piece

it was literature pub quiz night and our team name "flowers for algae gone" didn't get a single laugh, this isn't the country i grew up in

numbermonger, get yer numbers, the very best numbers folks, numbers that will be lost like tears in rain, get yer numbers folks

Messi xkcd.com/3260/

Hey so the solution to dealing with a eugenicist is not to point out how productive you happen to be. Hope that fucking helps

Time warp. June, 2026. Fabric, wire and wood veneer.

One of the new exhibits is "hope is a discipline." civilrightsmuseum.org/exhibition/h...

I keep seeing that 'post the best picture of your pet!' game going around and I don't know if this is the BEST picture of Franca but it is certainly what she looks like a lot of the time

Okay I was waiting for later, but there is too much Monday in this Monday. Emergency Kitten- exasperated Nanny Cat, Unca Nutsy edition