The “ Ice Throne” at Puffer’s Pond in the @townofamherst.bsky.social this morning!

The latest issue of Torch and Trefoil has a feature on the Centennial of Alpha Phi Omega, founded at Lafayette College on December 16, 1925. The picture at the top of the title page in Hogg Hall, where the first initiation was held. I was initiated into Alpha Chapter APO in the same building!

Among the recovery efforts after the Olympia Place fire displacing 230 @umassamherst.bsky.social students in @townofamherst.bsky.social, the UMass New2U shop www.umass.edu/sustainabili... is organizing a clothing drive to help the students who lost all everything in their rooms! We gave!

I have yet to meet a dog in the @townofamherst.bsky.social with one of this year's most popular puppy names.

Going for a walk in @townofamherst.bsky.social near the Mill River this afternoon with @annanagurney.bsky.social we came upon this deer nibbling her way down the street, oblivious to us, other walkers, and cars!

State of Emergency @townofamherst.bsky.social www.amherstma.gov/CivicAlerts....

Over the top Halloween decorations in our neighborhood of @townofamherst.bsky.social

This morning, Academia.edu through its AI Impact Hub offered to make a comic on my paper with @annanagurney.bsky.social, Medical Nuclear Supply Chain Design: A Tractable Network Model and Computational Approach. The paper can be downloaded at supernet.isenberg.umass.edu/articles/Med... Here's it is!

The InFORMS President’s Award being presented to @annanagurney.bsky.social

In Atlanta and saw a passenger being picked up by a Waymo self driving taxi!

Just found out that my work in UAVs and Disaster Relief has a broader impact!😃

🎉 Big congratulations to Professor Anna Nagurney for earning the 2025 INFORMS President’s Award! 💜 Her research in supply chains and dedication to using analytics for good make us proud to call her part of Isenberg. 🔗 Read more here: https://loom.ly/yUOub88 #UMassAmherst #Isenberg #INFORMS

Enjoyed helping the Food Bank of Western Mass -- WillBike4Food -- today providing radio support for the 100, 50, and 25 mile rides with radio amateurs from the Franklin County Amateur Radio Club! Thanks also to Stop and Shop, who sponsored the water/snack stop where I was located at Nourse Farms!

I was composing an email using Outlook this morning. Microsoft suggested the following correction. I guess I learned another dialect of English in grade school!

How come I am not surprised! Uniform answers, reduced cognitive ability: CT professors say AI’s footprints already in the classroom www.yahoo.com/news/article... via @@YahooNews

Hot Air Balloon looking west from UMass Farm @townofamherst.bsky.social this morning!

Sunrise in Ogonquit, Me!

Out for a neighborhood walk with @annanagurney.bsky.social in the @townofamherst.bsky.social this morning!

Proud to see that the Lafayette - Lehigh Football Rivalry is listed as #41 of the top 100 Best Football Rivalries in the US! www.nytimes.com/athletic/646...

Proud to see the Ukrainian Flag flying alongside the Union Jack and the St. Andrew’s Cross in front of the Scottish Parliament.

Profound thought of the day from Windermere, UK!

Stumbled upon a Car Show in Leeds,UK! There is always a 57 Chevy at a show (and there was a Mustang).

Fly fishing below the Puffer’s Pond Dam on #FathersDay morning in @townofamherst.bsky.social

Great job by the @townofamherst.bsky.social DPW Highway Division! The workers need to be cloned so that all town roads are repaired.

Another great editorial reprinted in the Scranton Times-Tribune. enewspaper.thetimes-tribune.com/infinity/art... - Now is the moment to pressure Putin, not appease him

Editorial in my hometown paper, The Scranton Times-Tribune reprinted from the @nydailynews.com enewspaper.thetimes-tribune.com/infinity/art... - Trump's moves attack academic independence

Great seeing a former student receive his Master’s degree from @uofhartford.bsky.social CETA

My Letter-to-the-Editor was published in the June 2025 issue of QST. Thanks to the ARRL DXCC staff.

Pope Leo XIV with Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Great catching up with #SamtheMinuteman at @umassamherst.bsky.social Founders Day! Always exciting to hear Sam's insights on @nba.com & #NHL #Playoffs, as well as his prognostications on next year's #UMassFootball, #UMassBasketball & #UMassHockey! Enjoyed the cookout with @umassinforms.bsky.social!

Proud that my hometown in PA is establishing a Sister City relationship with a Ukrainian city! enewspaper.thetimes-tribune.com/infinity/art... - Scranton to establish sister city bond with Sheptytskyi

Proud that the Presidents of both my Alma Maters, Lafayette College and @brown.edu signed this statement!

Can this be an April morning in @townofamherst.bsky.social !

⚡️Ukrainian diaspora groups urge NHL to reject games with Russian league. “To organize any such events in partnership with Russian government or sporting officials would be to ignore, and thereby to implicitly endorse, Vladimir Putin’s crimes,” the signatories write.

🥹 Ukrainian soldier apologises for muddy boots on train; railway responds with touching message

In day's Masslive @annanagurney.bsky.social is quoted in the article Tariff impact is already felt by Western Massachusetts companies www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

Great haul of #QSL cards received including one from the Japanese Antarctic Station and 3 mailed directly from #Ukraine that arrived within 3 weeks!

One of the final activities of the #AustrianRailwayGroup before disbanding was the publication of this book on the #Ybbstalbhan, a Narrow Gauge Railway in the Ybbs Valley. I received my copy today with King Charles postage!

Found - My original LaTex disks. Would you believe the entire distribution was a bit over 1Mb!

A hike to the Puffer’s Pond waterfall with @annanagurney.bsky.social and the the sunset over @townofamherst.bsky.social

Getting out my 2025 Pi-Day shirt from @virginiatech.bsky.social -Remember #Hokies go the extra 183’!

Be defiant.

I grew up in Scranton - My grandparents founded St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic Church - I worked at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant summers in college - A clear act of revenge by the MAGA Administration! bbc.com/news/article...

Democracy can't be saved from our couches.

Trudeau holds news conference after 'dumb' US tariffs take effect www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/v... via Daily Mail Online

Proud of St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Scranton, PA, of which my grandparents were founders. enewspaper.thetimes-tribune.com/infinity/art... - Blessed effort

My husband @hawkeceprof.bsky.social is from Scranton, PA, and we have many relatives & friends in Pennsylvania. Thank you, Governor Josh Shapiro!