Nelson Niu

SUBgroups Online peer groups for first-year math graduate students.

Registration for the SUBgroups program for first-year math grad students is now open!

Find out more and register here: gradsubgroups.org

Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!

out celebrating katie wilson’s win!!

In NYC, @uaw.org was the first union to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to his primary victory last month.

Here in Seattle, we at @uaw.org were the first union to endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to her primary victory last night.

We pick winners ✊

okaaaay, boomers! 👏 [affectionate]

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The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.

Absolutely! Here at the University of Washington, our academic worker union is hosting a town hall with our congressperson next month to demand an end to cuts to NSF & NIH. Would be great to hear that folks at other schools are doing the same.

Scientific American thinks mathematicians are being quiet about the devastating NSF funds to our field. We need to be LOUDER.

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I am in fact still in grad school haha

I love when I tell people I study category theory and their first reaction is “oh, no!”

Oh man, no, I’m just on AT and CT which are both generally pretty reasonable!

I have email updates turned on and read through them eventually as well. If I see a paper that’s really interesting I’ll actually open it up on the arXiv. But then I just end up with a bunch of open tabs of arXiv papers I don’t know what to do with 😅

Incredibly bad (changes to N.S.F. funding for math):

Got it 🫡

And they worked! Turns out speaking up actually does shit

We’re gonna keep organizing and voting in MLKLC for Wilson, but we’ll see how June goes. My dream is regardless of what other big union leadership says, actual membership will organize unofficial Wilson voucher parties anyway, which is probably hopelessly over-optimistic but hey

lol we’re already seeing buyers’ remorse, mlk labor just voted not to give him the $650 donation he asked for

Dozens of Washington union members gathered in a conference room for the bill signing

Three UAW members with Senator Riccelli

Today was a big win for workers in Washington state as unemployment insurance for striking workers was signed into law! UAW members joined @wslc.bsky.social, fellow union members from across the state, and bill sponsor (and former
@uaw4121.bsky.social member) Sen. Riccelli for the signing.

Temporary letter layoff delivery. 12 to 12:30PM PST. Red Square, Monday May 19. For more information, visit: www.uaw4121.org/2025-layoff-policies/

UW changed its layoff policy without bargaining- risking the job security of 1000s of UW research workers 👎

1,200+ have signed the open letter demanding they reverse this policy. Join us next Monday @ noon in UW's Red Square to deliver the letter and tell admin to follow our contracts! 💥💥💥

meanwhile uw's facing a budget crisis and all ana mari can muster up at her "town hall" this morning is assuring us there will be no cuts to her personal police force

"we absolutely need to keep them strong. we've seen that this week" 🙄

www.youtube.com/live/o5EKy4a...

I’m in this article along with other @uaw4121.bsky.social members to explain what’s happening to grad student researchers in the US right now.

It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America.

It sure is encouraging when the Trump administration personally praises the way my university deployed riot police on a student protest 🫠

Same cops that our university called on me and my union siblings during our peaceful labor action last year, by the way!

Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta Magazine A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.

A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. @ericaklarreich.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-12...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

i used to always immediately get sick once spring break started 😭

sometimes i see blackboard bold out in the wild and remember that mathematicians do not have a monopoly on fonts

okay bear with me here but if you count

(a) live staged play readings,
(b) video games, and
(c) papers that will be published later this year

my erdős-bacon number is 6

Solidarity with our @uaw4121.bsky.social researchers ✊!!!

Some photos from @jayapal.house.gov’s Town Hall last night and today’s @uaw4121.bsky.social rally to defend federal funding for our scientists and researchers!

lol it me