I cannot tell you what it means to get this shout out from someone I have looked up to for my entire career. Thanks, Steve. 🙏

Grant writing is 20% perspiration, and 80% WTF RESEARCH.GOV WHY WILL YOU NOT LISTEN TO ME!

Save the Date! ATMCS 12 is coming up fast, January 26-30, 2026, in Leipzig. More info at the link below, call for contributions coming soon! www.mis.mpg.de/events/serie...

#MachineLearning loves data. #Topology loves shape. Let's bring them together! 👉The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) bridges both worlds, as I outline in a recent article in the Notices of the @amermathsoc.bsky.social Engage! 🧵1/n

Oh, right, that's why I never fly United.....

Hahaha ok so first off, I was tipped off at the answer, and second, it's because the answer was my last name 😜

I had given up on wordle for a while, but a friend gave me a heads up that my usual starter word was FINALLY the answer 😜😂😂🤣 Wordle 1,460 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Math professors for trans rights

New personal best: From revise and resubmit request email to resubmit in 12 hours 32 minutes.

Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.

The average American has three friends: ℝ, ℂ, and ℍ.

The average American has three friends.

The average American has three friends.

the function of ChatGPT isn't *being* correct it's *looking* correct. often the two line up surprisingly well! but sometimes they don't!

My colleagues and I draft a statement about the recent end of equal opportunities employment practices at @michiganstateu.bsky.social It’s incredible that our community is standing up where our administrators aren’t. #academicsky #edusky #highereducation #msu

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

This feels existential for US science: To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work (e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.) No institution could *ever* comply.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK #MSU So, we don't provide equal opportunities anymore? >Per the guidance from MSU Human Resources, please remove the following language from all letterhead immediately: “MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer”.

I am still in research and in academia because I found community in the WinCompTop research network. Beautiful work in the April Notices putting numbers behind the impact of these important networks. www.ams.org/journals/not...

Proud to stand with and for my colleagues. We’re just getting started. www.fox47news.com/neighborhood...

Here's what I said if you are interested: danny.hellmo.space/posts/speaki... #academicsky #solidarity #highered #msu #MichiganState #puremichigan #unionstrong

Whelp, there goes the neighborhood. www.science.org/content/arti...

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx

"Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart." - Haruki Murakami

lmao Timothy Gowers made an April Fools joke that Grok had solved an open problem in graph theory and now Google is saying that it's a real problem and that Grok has actually solved it (Dubnový Blázen is Czech for April Fools)

It is impossible to put into words what a force of nature Sayan Mukherjee was. The field of TDA is better for having him as a part of it. The world lost a wonderful person this week.

Who in my network is a very, very experienced data scraper in R and might want to make some quick consulting money on a justice-focused project? Need someone who is shovel-ready for this. DM me and/or @judalicious.bsky.social and plz spread the word.

Today marks Equal Pay Day, how far into the next year women would have to work to make the same amount as a man in 365 days. But not all unequal pay is equal. For each $1 a white man makes: Asian American women make 93c White women make 80c Black women make 66c Latina and Indigenous women make 58c

Circling back on this…

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

So it honestly took longer to frame than to actually make, but I finally finished stitching Federico Ardila's axioms for my office! #mathsky

Congratulations to Dr Elena Xinyi Wang ( @elenawang.bsky.social ) for a fabulous and successful PhD defense yesterday! 🎉🎉🎉

My life goal is to be half as cool as Ingrid when I grow up. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...

Hey look, we did a thing!

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

We have got to stand against tyranny. None of what is happening to Mahmoud Khalil is moral, ethical, or legal.

Ok, I know the world is burning, but my Escape Room team from the Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference got out so quickly we made it on the wall!

Ooooh excited, need to watch!

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

#art #BluSkyArtShow #artyear Reading By Moonlight This is my biggest piece so far at 13”, it took a little over a month to complete. I love the details the most. Especially Frida’s scissors. All hand stitched with a double hoop. #handembroidery #spotlightart #doublehoop

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

My friend @mathyadriana.bsky.social lost her job last week, and I want you to know the story: buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

Last reminder, I promise, because it’s today! Would love to connect with some of you DC area folx in person at my nontechnical data + social justice talk. Quoted post below has the deets and here is my conclusions slide. Spread the word!

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The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the *US* ... shocking.

After 3 years as a rotator at NSF, i became permanent last august (and suddenly on probation despite years of good work). I quit my academic job in January. Today i was unceremoniously fired for “poor performance” (a lie) along with 167 other amazing folks (like Courtney). So unfair & insulting.

Never change, Lansing.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

#februARTy #sensoryart #sweet A zoom in on this sweetness. #handembroidery #motherhood