Matt Cordes

Map of Scotland showing location of road gritter. Most names are puns.Bear Chills, sled Zeppelin, credence clear road survival, thistle gritter through

It's the season to appreciate the names of Scottish road gritters ❄️
#Scotland #Christmas

Knot diagram that looks like three jellyfishes touching

What if we kissed 👉👈 in the topological jellyfish

Sick t-shirt!

Checkmate melon haters

Person in a party hat giving a presentation and it says The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out

;)

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

“How can we expect them to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?” nymag.com/intelligence...

Two holes in a stone wall, each featuring a pigeon sitting near the front. A third pigeon is peeking out from the back of one of the holes.

Me, circa 2008: “Sure you can pull some neat tricks with it, but does the pigeonhole principle actually matter for real world day-to-day things?”

Edinburgh, this morning:

I don’t have one 😅! LaTeX isn’t excellent with this either, but they’re working on it. Tbh I’ve resigned myself to learning PreTeXt to make accessible documents

I tried it and liked it, but the thing holding me back is (the last time I checked) it cannot produce accessible pdfs

again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression

Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income … Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital … an ample theater, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafes, and so forth. Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford… We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors. Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life? …

Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister

There’s a time for everything, even performative devotion.

Quark
On he runway you are serving solid gold press latinum.
But in the comedy challenge you forgot the 97th Rule of Acquisition, if you want to profit, dont bore Q!
You're safe

It's also high time we recognize that all mathematics is Hazardous (and wouldn't be worth doing if it weren't).

Only 1 day until the fifth annual OURFA2M2 conference. Are you ready?


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Meet 4 of our Crash Course speakers for the upcoming OURFA2M2 conference February 8-9 2025!

The goal of the Crash Course talks is to inspire curiosity and give students exposure to various areas of math.

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Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.

I've said it before and will doubtless have occasion to say it again: a cool 60% of everything that's wrong with higher ed stems from colleges believing that they are credentialing institutions rather than educational institutions

Oh no—awful, that doesn’t seem to happen to me (are you using the Beamer document class?)

I think on a recent update the developer switched the order of some autocomplete things, so maybe they’re open to suggestions (I’m struggling with \vspace* as the first suggested autocomplete over \vspace)

Lololol I broke a big scary task up into so many little tasks that I got overwhelmed and gave up

These are so good!

An array of Swiss snacks, chocolate covered strawberries and raspberries, branded Fruity Souls

Me and @mcordes.bsky.social