I don't just want to list papers. I want to understand how people have thought about the problem and how this has evolved as our knowledge has increased. This helps situate my work into the larger arc of research. It almost always hints at interesting questions I hadn't thought of. 3/
Jessie Oehrlein
@numberdance.bsky.social
The stratosphere is my favorite. I teach stats & math at Fitchburg State University. Arospec, she/her. Methodist. Texan/Oklahoman in the Northeast. Many sports, dance, books, roller coasters. jessoehrlein.github.io
Begging the high school I attended to have transparency and student protections/supports at the level of its academic ambitions
In the new 2026 CSTA standards, each includes a "Students are not expected to" to help understand what the standard is not. So, what are students not expected to "understand", "apply" or "build"? "math" appears in 31 of the standards! In 27 of those, it appears after "Students are not expected to"
I spent four weeks this summer at math camp with 11-14 year olds: two weeks at Camp Conway, and two weeks at MathPath. I taught algorithms (x2), dynamical systems, graph coloring, math of climate, and probability & Bayesian stats. Two posts about how it went: #ITeachMath
Summer 2026 Reflections: Camp Conway – Jessie Oehrlein
Doing fun math with 11-14 yos, part 1
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#MathsToday Climate & Chaos students today might have taken the crown for thorough, detailed concept maps. Other than that, I only had about half a plan (fractal dimension of melt ponds something something?), but it worked out!
#MathsToday Wrapped up Graph Coloring with game chromatic number and some of the most thorough concept maps I've ever had students (of any level!) create
#MathsToday Everyone's focus is a bit gone, so we ended Bayes with a bunch of problems, including a student-written one that the students acted out!
#MathsToday Using candy sharing on a grid as an exploration to start thinking about ocean GCMs works weirdly well! I thought maybe it would feel contrived (it's a really different set of "rules" for how things work), but it gave students a lot of room to think about how we build models.
#MathsToday bifurcations and hysteresis and snowball Earth in Climate & Chaos! Kind of a technical day, but I'm planning more play and exploration for the next couple of days. Bayes featured the Monty Hall problem but with Glensheep instead of goats.
#MathsToday: Great discussions of energy balance models in Climate & Chaos, and very revealing homework in Conditional Prob & Bayes about what ideas did and didn't fully land today. It's always useful to know where to start tomorrow!
The way to have a really busy MathPath conferencing time is to ask a question that class didn't quite prepare the campers for, whoops
For people that lack the experience/context I arrived to the US in 2014 in an F-1 visa and finished my program in exactly 5 years. Additionally I was under OPT for 1 year. That means 6 years total under F-1 My husband arrived in 2014. Was forced to master out in 2017. Worked in OPT 6mo 1/n
Inside Higher Ed covered it on Thursday when the regime announced they would publish the final rule on Friday, and I thought their reporting was good (although there are still some giant unanswered questions about matters for undergrad students). www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
At two different camps this summer, I have felt so so so lucky in my camp faculty colleagues.
#MathsToday Wrapped up Graph Coloring with game chromatic number and some of the most thorough concept maps I've ever had students (of any level!) create
#MathsToday L(2,1) labelings in Graph Colorings, because they were such an important part of my path (back?) to math. And some puzzles and game strategy in Algorithms to wrap things up there.
#MathsToday 6 Color Theorem and 5 Color Theorem in Graph Coloring, shortest path algorithms in Algorithms!
#MathsToday Proved that trees have chromatic index equal to their max degree in Graph Coloring, and talked about time complexity and (many different, very creative) sorting algorithms in Algorithms
This is awesome and you should watch to understand the importance of separating content from presentation in STEM documents. If you also are concerned about accessibility for all, including non visual, readers, check out PreTeXt. We aim to make it as easy as possible at PreTeXt.Plus.
Camp had all the campers who took my classes write a note on a poster with our class photos 😭
Anyone have favorite things to do with discrete dynamical systems (preferably without linear algebra)? Or favorite 1d systems for talking about bifurcations? (Logistic map coming later in the week, not yet.)
ArieForce One 😕 very happy to have gotten two visits over the past couple of years with a bunch of rides on this beauty
USCOTS 2027 is next June 24-26 (workshops starting on the 22nd) at Penn State! Theme is Constancy & Disruption. #StatsEd www.causeweb.org/cause/uscots...
USCOTS 2027
The 2027 USCOTS will be held at Penn State in State College, PA from Thursday, June 24th - Saturday, 26th, with pre-conference events starting on Tuesday, June 22nd. The main conference will start with lunch on Thursday, June 24th and end after lunch on Saturday, June 26th.
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At @statsuoa.bsky.social, we've been exploring scaffolded code interactions ("code blanks") to support positive first experiences with code while encouraging curiosity, tinkering, and exploration with data. For a short summary, watch my short #eCOTS video here 😀: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qIE...
Hello #rstats and #tidyverse lovers, learners, and teachers. We just released 5 additional chapters of Hello Data Science book, bringing the total to 10 chapters & completing the Exploratory Data Analysis portion. More to come on modeling and inference. hellodata.science
Hello Data Science
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As it's Aromantic Visibility Day of Pride Month, Authors; let's do an Aro Books thread! 🖤💚🩶 If your book(s) have significant aro rep, drop your book description, graphic & direct sales/ link to all stores! ♠️🌈📚
Happy Aromantic Visibility Day 2026! Young Adult Shapes of Love by L.V. Peñalba When nineteen-year-old Sasha’s first album throws her into stardom, her fans become obsessed with discovering who inspired her love songs.... https://lgbtqreads.com/2026/06/05/happy-aromantic-visibility-day-2026/
Happy Aromantic Visibility Day 2026!
Young Adult Shapes of Love by L.V. Peñalba When nineteen-year-old Sasha’s first album throws her into stardom, her fans become obsessed with discovering who inspired her love songs. Except, Sasha is aroace-spec (aromantic, asexual), and she’s not interested in romance (unless it comes in the shape of a slowburn enemies-to-lovers book or a star-crossed-lovers manga). Her music is all about her favorite love stories, not her own.
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turkey and seven chicks at the new house this morning 🦃