Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d...

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

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Friends, the mathematics department @hmc.edu is looking to hire a new tenure-track operations researcher who would feel at home in our department. Please spread the word: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...

People who teach in the mathematical sciences, please look at this open letter to modernize our field and consider lending your voice. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Ph.D. students Devan Mackenzie and Hajra Fayyaz plus @dyong.bsky.social and I have a new chapter out. We worked with a group of teachers to work out what culturally sustaining pedagogies might look like in math and computer science classrooms www.igi-global.com/book/cultura...

Video of press conference featuring Representative Zoe Lofgren, AFGE National President Everett Kelley and AFGE Local 3403 President Jesus Soriano in response to letter of dissent from NSF employees. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44YH... #SaveNSF #SaveScience #FundScience @savensf.bsky.social

Science Committee Democrats & AFGE Joint Press Conference Releasing NSF Employees' Letter of Dissent

YouTube video by House Science Committee - Democrats

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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

#LAfires help @harveymudd.bsky.social students to think about the connections between #STEM and society https://buff.ly/3WPw64E (Erika Dyson and @dyong.bsky.social)

California wildfires force students to think about the connections between STEM and society

In this course, eight professors share their disciplinary perspectives to help students analyze proposed interventions for increasing wildfire risks.

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Today in our team-taught class, my colleague Vivien Hamilton posed this question: what if all of our knowledge production enterprises were centered around care for each other and our more-than-human kin, rather than on control or commodification?

Academics who are in the process of writing new NSF proposals: How are you responding to NSF's announcement today? new.nsf.gov/executive-or... I was working on something that involves broadening participation in STEM, because that was what the RfP asked for. Due in a few weeks. Advice?

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

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Share this if you're feeling grumpy about the holiday season this year... youtu.be/3qRRmubHlgQ

Ex-Twitter-BlueSky-Migrants: Use this Chrome extension to easily find people that you used to follow here on BlueSky chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store

Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a long piece about how conservative groups have “co-opted both the rhetoric of colorblindness and the legal legacy of Black activism not to advance racial progress, but to stall it. Or worse, reverse it.” [nytimes.com]

The ‘Colorblindness’ Trap: How a Civil Rights Ideal Got Hijacked

The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.

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My college (Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA) is hiring a Director of Learning Programs, who will oversee our Writing Center and Academic Excellence Program and contribute to the teaching of our first year core writing course. lnkd.in/gxTPRqkE Please help me spread the word!