This is pretty tough reading ngl

ProPublica@propublica.org · 10mo ago

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

On this day, of all days, make sure to check in on your gullible friends. It can be a difficult time of year for us. I’m personally grieving that my old school friend isn’t actually getting married next month. I really hoped him and that lady he met on holiday would go the distance :(

Econ PhD students and Postdocs!!! Make sure you submit your papers to the QMUL workshop - the deadline to submit is next Friday. We’ve got some great keynotes! :) And don’t believe the rumours about London weather in May. I hear it’ll be glorious and sunny.

Lorenzo Germinetti@lorenzo-germinetti.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Don't miss it! 🚨 Join us for the 7th QMUL Workshop for PhD Students & Post-Docs! 📅 May 22-23 | 📍 Queen Mary University of London ✨ Keynotes: Tim Besley & Martin Pesendorfer 🏨 Accommodation available 📝 Apply by March 14 → bit.ly/4hTaZHj Find out more: bit.ly/3EKwPhv #EconSky

I made a little pasta Please appreciate my little pasta

Marking exams, and I’m kinda dismayed at how many times I’ve read “firms are maximising profits, therefore social welfare is maximised” :/ Guess I really need to channel Marx* harder in my IO lectures next year…

Three postdocs positions (36 months each) are available in the School of Geography at QMUL; all working on a great ERC project on the dark side of green energy (waste, labour rights, etc) with Dr Carlo Inverardi-Ferri. Please share! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

Please enjoy this happy little mole on a discarded scrap of paper my mother-in-law doodled. She is very talented.

Someone sent me a great article combining two things I spent a disproportionate amount of time doing - Chopping onions, and Multivariate Calculus: medium.com/@drspoulsen/... About how to cut onions to ensure all the pieces are as close to uniform size as possible. I love this stuff

A solution to the Onion Problem of J. Kenji López-Alt

Kenji López-Alt posed a mathematical problem on his YouTube channel about how to best cut an onion. I present a detailed solution.

medium.com

Spare a thought for the poor souls that dropped this. I can only imagine their pain :(