The people deserve to know!!

Picked our year to be away from Vermont so well 😭🙌🏻

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees? Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey. The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

I love when the hockey panel has to admit how good the Habs are as they choke on it.

It is Friday at 5pm and I’ve done 2 of the 4 things on this week’s to-do list 🤗🙃

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

How many miles of roads? Why is it logistically and financially realistic to clear every road? 🤔

The only thing I will say about the BAFTA thing is that the issue is white supremacy. There shouldn’t be a word that can harm like this, and it’s on us white people to work every day to repair our long history of racism. And if you’re not moving in that direction, then you’re part of the problem.

Vermont!! #the802 #VT How Vermont dominates the Winter Olympics. slate.com/culture/2026...

Question mark cat! #ShapesWithCats

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Hey, New Yorker, sitting at home, or a friend’s place, scrolling on your phone as the snow comes in? Want to take a quick moment to support our public libraries? It is easy-peasy, and libraries are an absolutely crucial, varied, and delightful public resource! 👇🏼 actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

After bringing us four dead rats in the last three weeks, today Comète decided we were ready for the next step of hunting our own rats and brought us a small live one 🥰 (sarcastic emoji!) Content note: rat picture

Fund the libraries!! I now dislike his ads 😭

Circle cat for @barbarafantechi.bsky.social

Euclid’s algorithm 😭🙌🏻 (inject this into my veins) Might have to use manipulatives when I teach elementary number theory next time 🤔

Here I go, studying French grammar rules to help kiddo with his French homework 😅😅

When we moved to a new building the original plan was for the faculty offices to not have any bookcases because apparently books are not necessary anymore and we can find everything online 😭😭 (Thankfully all of maths and stats complained and we got the choice between a filing cabinet or a bookcase)

To conclude, I'd like to paraphrase Sara Ahmed: if activism is seen as damaging the epistemic mission of the university, then we need to damage the epistemic mission of the university. And we need to damage it so thoroughly that it has to confront the conditions that structure that mission.

Recommend this relatively short survey about what resources could help meet accommodation needs. It took just a few minutes and asks thoughtful questions about how things could be improved

Wow.

”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

Comète the cat!

Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

'I Swear' has made the BAFTA Longlist for 6 awards this year, including 'Best Film', 'Leading Actor', and 'Casting'. As a disability scholar focused on Tourette Syndrome, and a tourettic person myself, here's a couple of my concerns in a short thread... #TouretteSyndrome #BAFTA #Disability

Still some room to join our Getting Started With PreTeXt #MathSky @mathtech.org workshop! Sign up at scholarlattice.org/collections/...

I love a non-resealable bag of candy. You’re damn right I’m going to eat the whole thing!!!

Vermonters arrested for protesting #ICE. Brave little state #VT

If you see this and you’re not watching but want to, it’s time for the half time show!

Does it count if we’re happiest after everyone has gone to sleep? (I’m not a morning person.)

Another addition to the website to help us built *systems* and not just have me trying to do everything alone: If you'd like to adopt a rent that you can either *cover immediately* and fundraise for, or just pay outright, please fill out this form and we will contact you via Signal.

Looking up the teams that will be in the Super Bowl today 😅 #AmericansAbroad

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

Temperatures only do this when they are very distressed 😭

This isn't easy to share, but I'm grateful for any support, prayers, or encouragement during this season. Love to all. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

I am co-organising (with @drl3c7er.bsky.social and Lucjan Hanzlik) a workshop on Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography in Rome on May 10 as an affiliated event to IACR Eurocrypt. Submit your best PEC-work (3-page extended abstract) for presentation by February 25th: privcryptworkshop.github.io

What a disaster 😭😭

Anyone know if the NSF postdoc offers have come out yet? #MathSky

Asking because you never know. I really want to give a talk about my research at HBCUs. So, if you know people in high places ask them to invite me. www.uvm.edu/larnermed/bi...

“In addition the SMF remains fundamentally attached to the heritage of Benjamin Franklin, which is inseparable from rational thought, and condemns the mistrust in science and any attack on academic freedom.” — SMF on the topic of the upcoming ICM #MathSky

“Indeed, neither does the issuance of visas from the host country, nor its internal security — where martial law is regularly imposed — seem guaranteed” — SMF on the topic of the upcoming ICM #MathSky

Good for them!!

France (or at least its principal mathematical society) pulling out of the ICM in the U.S. - how long before the rest of Europe follows suit? #mathsky

We adopted Buddy nine years ago today. We had so little time together… never pass up a opportunity to tell your pet they are good 😭