Darryl Yong (he/him/his)

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 thezebra.org/2026/01/18/d...

Friends, the mathematics department @hmc.edu is looking to hire a new tenure-track operations researcher who would feel at home in our department. Please spread the word: math.hmc.edu/tenure-track...

People who teach in the mathematical sciences, please look at this open letter to modernize our field and consider lending your voice. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Sorry for the dreadfully slow reply. This is for a climate change (California Wildfire) course that I co-teach with colleagues.

Ph.D. students Devan Mackenzie and Hajra Fayyaz plus @dyong.bsky.social and I have a new chapter out. We worked with a group of teachers to work out what culturally sustaining pedagogies might look like in math and computer science classrooms www.igi-global.com/book/cultura...

YouTube video by House Science Committee - Democrats Science Committee Democrats & AFGE Joint Press Conference Releasing NSF Employees' Letter of Dissent

Video of press conference featuring Representative Zoe Lofgren, AFGE National President Everett Kelley and AFGE Local 3403 President Jesus Soriano in response to letter of dissent from NSF employees.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=44YH...

#SaveNSF #SaveScience #FundScience @savensf.bsky.social

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

California wildfires force students to think about the connections between STEM and society In this course, eight professors share their disciplinary perspectives to help students analyze proposed interventions for increasing wildfire risks.

#LAfires help @harveymudd.bsky.social students to think about the connections between #STEM and society https://buff.ly/3WPw64E
(Erika Dyson and @dyong.bsky.social)

Today in our team-taught class, my colleague Vivien Hamilton posed this question: what if all of our knowledge production enterprises were centered around care for each other and our more-than-human kin, rather than on control or commodification?

Part of me doesn't want to capitulate early, since the RfP is still stands and if they are going to reject our proposal based on the new EOs, then all the RfPs need to be rewritten first to give people a fair shot. But OTOH I wonder what it's worth to just submit and force them to say no to equity.

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

Academics who are in the process of writing new NSF proposals: How are you responding to NSF's announcement today? new.nsf.gov/executive-or... I was working on something that involves broadening participation in STEM, because that was what the RfP asked for. Due in a few weeks. Advice?

Share this if you're feeling grumpy about the holiday season this year... youtu.be/3qRRmubHlgQ

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.

Ex-Twitter-BlueSky-Migrants: Use this Chrome extension to easily find people that you used to follow here on BlueSky chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

The ‘Colorblindness’ Trap: How a Civil Rights Ideal Got Hijacked The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.

Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a long piece about how conservative groups have “co-opted both the rhetoric of colorblindness and the legal legacy of Black activism not to advance racial progress, but to stall it. Or worse, reverse it.” [nytimes.com]

My college (Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA) is hiring a Director of Learning Programs, who will oversee our Writing Center and Academic Excellence Program and contribute to the teaching of our first year core writing course.

lnkd.in/gxTPRqkE

Please help me spread the word!