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Erica Klarreich

@ericaklarreich.bsky.social

Mathematics and science journalist. My work has appeared in Quanta, Nature, The Atlantic, New Scientist, Science News and other publications.

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Erica Klarreich@ericaklarreich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mathematicians have figured out how to assign each knot a hexagonal "QR code" that is as symmetric and delicately detailed as a snowflake -- my latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social #MathSky www.quantamagazine.org/a-powerful-n...

A Powerful New ‘QR Code’ Untangles Math’s Knottiest Knots | Quanta Magazine

With a newly discovered mathematical tool, researchers are hoping to gain unprecedented insight into the structure of complex knots.

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Erica Klarreich@ericaklarreich.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to learn that my Quanta article about the Noperthedron will appear in The Best American Science and Nature Writing! Many thanks to guest editor @xkcd.com + @jaimealyse.bsky.social, Mariner Books, @jordanacep.bsky.social and @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

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Erica Klarreich@ericaklarreich.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social is about a geometry problem devised more than three centuries ago by King Charles I's nephew, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, leader of the Royalist forces in the English Civil War. www.quantamagazine.org/first-shape-...

First Shape Found That Can’t Pass Through Itself | Quanta Magazine

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved.

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Erica Klarreich@ericaklarreich.bsky.social · last yr.

Some dimensions are weirder than others! In a new proof, mathematicians have shown that a certain kind of strangely twisted shape can exist only in dimensions 2, 6, 14, 30, 62 and 126. My latest for Quanta Magazine: www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-12...

Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta Magazine

A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.

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Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · last yr.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Kelton Minor@keltonminor.bsky.social · last yr.

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

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WIRED@wired.com · last yr.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · last yr.

Slate is offering free Slate Plus access to federal employees who lose their jobs. Here's how to sign up. @slate.bsky.social has lots of relevant career advice, money advice, smart news coverage & entertaining distractions from all the chaos and cruelty. slate.com/fed-plus

If you’re a federal employee—current or recently laid off—Slate Plus is free for six months.

Thousands of federal employees are facing job cuts—or working under growing uncertainty. Slate is offering them six months of Slate Plus for free.

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Philip Ball@philipcball.bsky.social · last yr.

I hope this action is not forgotten. It will be a small thing in the tsunami of very bad things, but is symptomatic of so much. And I simply can't see that it is in any way the result of enforcement. This is the sort of anticipatory obedience that happens in authoritarian regimes.

Jennifer Goff, PhD@jlgoff.bsky.social · last yr.

It has been brought to my attention that my article has been censored to exclude certain terms: asm.org/Articles/202... web.archive.org/web/20250114... #MicroSky

Thomas Lin@7homaslin.com · 2y ago

In case you're in the mood for some good news today, I'm excited to announce @quantabooks.bsky.social, our new imprint at @simonsfoundation.org partnering with the amazing team at @fsgbooks.bsky.social. Learn more at www.quantabooks.org and send us your book queries!

Quanta Books

Publishing books that explore the frontiers of science and math, illuminate our quest to understand the universe, and capture the wonder of discovery, for curious readers everywhere.

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Quanta Books@quantabooks.org · 2y ago

Today we’re thrilled to launch Quanta Books, a new science imprint led by @7homaslin.bsky.social, the founding editor of @quantamagazine.bsky.social, in partnership with @fsgbooks.bsky.social.

Evelyn Lamb@evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 2y ago

In 2017, I wrote about how the center of gravity for math and science research moved from Germany to the United States under the Nazis and how public funding of science research allowed the US to remain the center of many fields after the war. That is under threat now. undark.org/2017/02/01/m...

A Math Lesson From Hitler’s Germany

In the 1930s, prejudice and anti-science ideology destroyed the world’s leading math department, at Göttingen. It couldn't happen here, could it?

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Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her)@liebschutz.bsky.social · 2y ago

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Erica Klarreich@ericaklarreich.bsky.social · 2y ago

"A proof that Riemann missed" -- my latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social addresses an age-old question: which numbers are irrational? www.quantamagazine.org/rational-or-...

Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer. | Quanta Magazine

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A broad new method can help settle this ancient question.

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Erica Klarreich@ericaklarreich.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hector Pasten didn't want to write an exam for his students, so he procrastinated by thinking about a nearly century-old problem about prime factors--and solved it! My latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social #MathSky www.quantamagazine.org/big-advance-...

Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making | Quanta Magazine

A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication — and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture.

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Erica Klarreich@ericaklarreich.bsky.social · 2y ago

In a "crowning achievement," mathematicians have proved a major part of the profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program -- my latest for @quantamagazine.bsky.social #MathSky www.quantamagazine.org/monumental-p...

Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture | Quanta Magazine

In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.

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