god i hate the blue angels. one thing i will not miss about seattle

life hack for an american traveling in europe: treating everything like usd prices but pretend you’re tipping

Um, actually, MIT stopped using the word “freshmen” on anything official around 2019, so this banner would say “first-year”

when your math department is so broke it resorts to selling summer research projects to undergrads for $2500 apiece

👏 CHECK 👏 YOUR 👏 BALLOT 👏

Order my book today! a.co/d/7XOhaa6

Registration for the SUBgroups program for first-year math grad students is now open! Find out more and register here: gradsubgroups.org Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!

SUBgroups

Online peer groups for first-year math graduate students.

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In NYC, @uaw.org was the first union to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to his primary victory last month. Here in Seattle, we at @uaw.org were the first union to endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to her primary victory last night. We pick winners ✊

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The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.

Scientific American thinks mathematicians are being quiet about the devastating NSF funds to our field. We need to be LOUDER. www.facebook.com/share/r/1J3Z...

I love when I tell people I study category theory and their first reaction is “oh, no!”

Incredibly bad (changes to N.S.F. funding for math):

Today was a big win for workers in Washington state as unemployment insurance for striking workers was signed into law! UAW members joined @wslc.bsky.social, fellow union members from across the state, and bill sponsor (and former @uaw4121.bsky.social member) Sen. Riccelli for the signing.

UW changed its layoff policy without bargaining- risking the job security of 1000s of UW research workers 👎 1,200+ have signed the open letter demanding they reverse this policy. Join us next Monday @ noon in UW's Red Square to deliver the letter and tell admin to follow our contracts! 💥💥💥

I’m in this article along with other @uaw4121.bsky.social members to explain what’s happening to grad student researchers in the US right now. It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · last yr.

The Trump administration’s slowdown in science funding has left U.S.-based scientists and researchers scrambling to find homes for promising work that could lead to medical treatments and cures. Now, many are looking abroad.

It sure is encouraging when the Trump administration personally praises the way my university deployed riot police on a student protest 🫠 Same cops that our university called on me and my union siblings during our peaceful labor action last year, by the way!

Reuters@reuters.com · last yr.

US reviews occupation of University of Washington building by pro-Palestinian protesters reut.rs/4k2c7ZH

A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. @ericaklarreich.bsky.social reports: 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.

quantamagazine.org

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

Research.gov - Homepage

Research.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amon...

research.gov

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈@davidimiller.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

sometimes i see blackboard bold out in the wild and remember that mathematicians do not have a monopoly on fonts

okay bear with me here but if you count (a) live staged play readings, (b) video games, and (c) papers that will be published later this year my erdős-bacon number is 6

Solidarity with our @uaw4121.bsky.social researchers ✊!!!

Some photos from @jayapal.house.gov’s Town Hall last night and today’s @uaw4121.bsky.social rally to defend federal funding for our scientists and researchers!

lol it me

Guy Oron@guyoron.net · 2y ago

Scenes from the Prop 1A party

as a sophie germain fan seeing chladni plates show up on severance was kinda sick

To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.

Should be coming out this year!

Have any mathematicians watched this “Prime Target” show? I just saw the trailer and it’s managed to accidentally be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

Thinking about my trans friends and students this morning, who are some of the most real, brilliant, vibrant, and strong people I know.