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Diana Gillooly

@dianagillooly.bsky.social

Mathematical sciences editor @princetonupress.bsky.social; was @cambridgeup.bsky.social. UCLA/Westwood, Los Angeles well-wisher

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal)@politicanimal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Five years+a few days ago, I set off on a 24-hour bus odyssey that would turn out to be the first of many occasional public transport challenges. (Origin story here for newbies www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...) Well, I couldn’t let that milestone pass without a new bus jolly. From 4pm, it’s #BusCity24

London council worker's bus odyssey sparks Twitter storm

Jo Kibble got from London to Morecambe in a day on public buses - "a great way to see the country".

bbc.co.uk

Mike Levin@mikelevin.org · 3w ago

NOAA launches the weather balloons, floats the ocean buoys, flies the satellites, and staffs the forecasters that tell us when storms are coming. That data supports about two-thirds of the economy, roughly $1.3 trillion a year, and it paid us back $73 for every dollar we spent on it.

Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor@chadtopaz.bsky.social · 3w ago

Whoa my book just got a glowing review in a math journal, and the best part is the reviewer’s main complaint: she kept wanting more math, then remembered it isn’t written for mathematicians. Correct! It’s for EVERYONE—no formulas, just stories of data fighting injustice. I hope you will read it.

Screenshot of a book review from The American Mathematical Monthly. Header: "Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change. By Chad M. Topaz, Princeton University Press, 2026. 232 pp., ISBN 978-0691276151, $27.95. Reviewed by Kimberly Spayd." Section 1 is titled "YOUR INVITATION TO BE A MATH ACTIVIST." Spayd writes that the writing and publishing of Unlocking Justice is a political act in today's world: a proud invitation to work towards justice and equity in the criminal justice system using math and statistics, made accessible for a wide audience. She says it would be irresponsible and disingenuous to ignore the advocacy and resistance the book boldly encourages; instead she wants to amplify Topaz's activism and echo his invitation to readers to join the fight. To the question "why do they have to make math political?" she responds that math has been political far longer than Topaz or she have been around: the discipline's politics have promoted certain ideas and people while demoting and minoritizing others. Examples: infinite series, discovered by Madhava and Nilakantha three centuries before Newton and Leibniz but widely attributed to the western greats, and regression, developed by Galton for his still-reverberating eugenics agenda. On the other end of the spectrum, Topaz highlights data analysis and visualizations by Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois that raised awareness of racial violence and countered racial stereotypes. Humans do math and bring their identities to their work; nearly everything is political now, including books, data, and knowledge. She argues that becoming a math activist is not accepting the slanderous accusation that higher education is liberal indoctrination; rather, it is academics' professional responsibility to enter political spheres and pursue answers with a critical lens, guiding students to draw their own conclusions—which, she concludes, is what Topaz does for readers of Unlocking Justice.
Diana Gillooly@dianagillooly.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Copies on display -- and to be given away -- at #ICM2026, #JSM2026, and #MathFest.

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bradley Efron's To Think Like a Statistician equips readers with powerful ideas from the statistician’s toolbox & explains the tricks of the trade, enabling anyone to become a more sophisticated consumer of information in an increasingly noisy world. Out Aug 4: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

To Think Like a Statistician by Bradley Efron. Why you don’t need to be a statistician to think like one.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago

Every incident of crows leaving gifts that I know involves a juvenile bird carrying something interesting, getting distracted, and leaving it behind for something *even more* interesting.

Diana Gillooly@dianagillooly.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is a delightful book and a wonderful, committed team of authors. I had the honor of seeing the letters that supported this book's nomination, and truly it's supported math instructors in transforming their teaching and, through them, made a lasting change in how former students see the world.

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We're thrilled to see that Annalisa Crannell, Marc Frantz, and Fumiko Futamura, authors of Perspective and Projective Geometry, have been awarded @joinmaa.bsky.social's Daniel Solow Author's Award! Learn more about their book here and take 50% off with code SPRING50, valid thru 6/9: buff.ly/dCf3NYu

Perspective and Projective Geometry by Annalisa Crannell, Marc Frantz, and Fumiko Futamura
EmmanuelSPV@emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Before (2020) / After (2026) Rue Henri Dubouillon in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. Trees have grown a bit since the change from a parking street to a pedestrianized garden street in 2023.

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Michael Barany@mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 3mo ago

Since September I've been working with an international group to develop what we hope can be a response from the mathematics community to artificial intelligence in maths. The Leiden Declaration is now posted and open for signatures: https://leidendeclaration.ai/ #LeidenDeclaration

Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

leidendeclaration.ai