Teresa K Dunleavy, Ph.D.

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student named Hannah Cairo solved a 40-year-old mystery about how waves behave, surprising and exciting mathematicians. @kevinhartnett.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

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North Carolina Democratic Party is trying to educate and organize rural voters The party is hosting listening sessions in rural North Carolina counties in an effort to rally voters ahead of the 2026 midterm election.

More of this!

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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself

Bottom line: the proposed NIH & NSF cuts alone would eventually strip at least $10 billion per year from U.S. output.

www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

I’ve done that too!

An interesting story about the psychology of changing people's minds, with a dash of data visualization. ♾️

Make a packet. Sort by topic. Assign each table group a topic. Students present by topic, based on 11x17 posters they create and you scan into a slide deck. Create listening and presenting rubrics.

This is such an intentional and blatant destruction of programs created to level the playing field for students from low income/ underserved/ marginalized backgrounds. They mean to keep everyone “in their place”. Only the elite privileged kids will have access.

partially eaten breakfast taco with egg and kimchi bits. droplets of salsa are splattered against a white plate

dropped my egg & kimchi breakfast taco and accidentally made a michelin star plating?

Sign reads HEY! You're about to walk by a BOOKSTORE. Are you okay?

2 books, the handmaid tale and the color purple

The indie bookstore around the corner had this sign. So I went inside and bought 2 books from the banned book section. Support local small businesses. Read banned books. Drink your Ovaltine.

Reel Physics - Images Oscillations

Want some physics images?
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West Ada School District teacher ordered to remove inclusive signs from classroom West Ada School District sparks controversy by ordering a teacher to remove signs from her classroom due to content neutrality policy.

Idaho teacher ordered to remove inclusive signs from classroom.

Being a decent human being is frowned upon now in Idaho?

www.wkyc.com/article/news...

E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

Shutting down the work of improving the air quality in our most polluted areas makes all of us unhealthy www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

BREAKING: Volunteers have recreated the Old CDC Website from before Trump took office here: restoredcdc.org Please Share

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30 Charts That Show How Everything Changed in March 2020 It can be easy to forget, or look away from, the pain and disruption of the pandemic. The numbers will be there to remind us.

30 charts that show how everything changed in the U.S. in March 2020. My new piece with Irineo Cabreros @upshot.nytimes.com Here's a paywall-free link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

Tonight Senate Republicans will try to ram through a budget that sets the stage for huge tax cuts for billionaires — all while Trump and Musk continue to cut vital public services for all other Americans.

We'll be fighting back all night and proposing amendments to stop this betrayal.

Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts (Gift Article) The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

I know there may mot be much university leaders can do at the moment, but I would like them to state that they at least see the risks. It’s not just the loss of federal funding for overhead. It’s the whole enterprise at risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI followed by a next arrow

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. SIGBI

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

RFK Jr. is disqualified, dangerous, and cannot be given the power to make critical health care decisions for millions of Americans.

I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.

Analyzing Imagery in Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Show

If anyone needs a lesson tomorrow, I made this real quick on Kendrick’s halftime performance. It’s going to be my Black Fact of the Day, because Black History isn’t just the past, it’s the present as well 🤎✊🏾

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I am begging all high school history teachers: review the three branches of government & checks and balances tomorrow.

It's an unobjectionable civics lesson that will come in handy over the next few weeks as students witness things unfolding before them, when you'll need to explain much, much more.

Frame 1: The sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees. Explanation: This is a fundamental geometric principle, meaning that if you add up the measures of all three angles inside any triangle, the total will always be 180 degrees. Frame 2: Stick figure eating cereal saying "Yep. Can't argue with that." Frame 3: A triangle with 3 right angles on a sphere. Frame 4: Stick figure spits out cereal.

Different geometries meme

#math

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

When you want students to solve a system of linear equations:

#math #ITeachMath #EduSky

What's that you say? STILL didn't put it in your calendar? We start on Tuesday. #AcademicSky #EduSky #iteachmath #rstats