Hope

in a better world arXiv has always had the policy that all papers must be in esperanto

Just picked up a planner for 2026, very charmed by the addition of this page at the back

First thing that sprang to mind is having a natter, I've never heard someone refer to many natters - does that count?

Jonathan Schilhan
Transcendence degrees over mutually generic extensions
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02725

The goal is that I know more about the Bristol model than I do about history by the time I'm finished ...

I'm such a stationary hoarder that I'm currently writing notes for a paper I'll write for my PhD in a notebook that mostly contains my GCSE history notes on WW2 😭

So they renewed line of duty for another season, and I very confidently told my girlfriend that the first 3 seasons are some of the best TV I've seen - am now rewatching to see if this opinion formed by undergrad me holds up

Can someone give me like an extra year of PhD funding please I wanna think about hat problems

Voyager 1 artist’s depiction.

in case you didn’t know, in a year voyager 1 will be 1 light-DAY away from earth.

it took almost 50 YEARS of travel time to reach that distance and will be the first human-made object to reach this distance.

Been really enjoying listening to tiny desk concerts while I mark recently, had the Nile Rodgers one especially on repeat

Close-up view of a few storm systems on Jupiter near one of its poles. These storms come in various colours from beige to blue.

A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Enaldo Valadares)

Got too much maths on the brain, I've been spelling the chef's name Gordon Ramsey 😭

Was recognised in the noodle place near campus for being a regular and given a loyalty card, super sweet!

I spent most of today marking, so I'd like to shout out caffeine, noise cancelling headphones and MF Doom

Idk why but the clocks changing is definitely responsible for my overwhelming urge to rewatch old doctor who

I should time myself on whether making beamer slides or drawing iPad slides is quicker for a maths talk because truly I have no idea

screenshot of a math paper where you can see a proof outline with three steps. Step 1 is labelled "very natural," step 2 is labelled "much more mysterious" and step 3 is labelled "classical."

love to see an argument broken up into steps, labelled by how mysterious each step is

Genuine shout out to the student who submitted a picture of their group theory problem sheet for me to mark that was very clearly taken at the pub

This is a real sign from a real deli near the Wesleyan math department, and they put it up because the mathematicians were too engrossed in their mathematics discussions to efficiently order sandwiches. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

This is the answer I wish I had time to give when people ask me what I do for work at parties!

Peter Holy, Jonathan Schilhan
The Ordering Principle and Higher Dependent Choice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14821

Today's self care has been going on a run in the rain, doing the marking I've been putting off, and belting radiohead while I made pesto pasta. 10/10 Sunday

One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!

I just had an absolutely delightful afternoon talking about #infinity with @hopeiona.bsky.social, for a special episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast.

Tune in next Wednesday to hear about the history and the now of infinity.

#talkingmaths
#mathsky
#mathshistory

The problem class I'm teaching that requires speaking to everyone individually is in a sloped lecture theatre with a different door for every row ... I've just spent an hour vaulting over and sitting on tables like I'm trying to be a cool supply teacher

lots of pain in the world but sometimes you stumble on a stranger’s obsessive wikipedia table. michelangelo had the sistine chapel, this guy had the “guess who” article. perhaps both sacred

Started using anki again for German vocab which I'm really happy about, but directional and positional verbs are really kicking my ass rn

Spent today drafting a pre-print, and this evening eating malatang, watching taskmaster and playing Baba is you 🥰

Have I told you the black hole drinking game? The rules are:

(a) watch a documentary involving black holes
(b) when someone says, "not even light", take a drink.

Easy!

("Not Even Light" was my working title for "The Dead Star" 😁)