Catherine Greenhill

Queer and Trans Mathematicians Queer and Trans Mathematicians

The 3rd Queer and Trans Mathematicians in Combinatorics (QTMC) conference starts today at UQ. Hope everyone has an interesting and enjoyable time!

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I need you all to remember this as well...that bluesky actively assisted in ethnically cleansing Palestinians

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check out this quanta article about our recent work! Eleon will present it at @focs2025.bsky.social this december

The UK is implementing a nationwide trans bathroom ban without debate or even passing a law through parliament.

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New Fellow Prof Aidan Sims FAA (UOW) – 2025-26 Australian Mathematical Society President – is a maths trailblazer whose C*-algebra research advances quantum computing by modeling complex quantum systems. #FellowsAA

Prof Jessica Purcell FAA (Monash Uni) explores low-dimensional topology to enhance computer vision for autonomous vehicles & medical imaging. A math leader inspiring students! #FellowsAA

Hind Khoudary reports that Israel is using explosive robots to demolish entire residential areas in Gaza city.

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

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A fantastic first week of research collaboration at the "Combinatorics of McKay and Wormald" research program. www.matrix-inst.org.au/events/combi...

It's a real privilege to have both Brendan McKay and Nick Wormald present—two pioneers whose foundational work continues to shape the field.

The Reasoning Void
Made with #python #numpy #sympy #matplotlib

There is a straight line from when people started decrying diversity statements as "political tests" to now replacing them with actual political tests.

l FINANCIAL REVIEW Russia-Ukraine war - Exclusive Queensland firm probed over parts in Russian 'Frankenstein' missile Andrew Tillett Foreign affairs, defence correspondent

So it’s a problem for conservative media when our missile parts are used by Russia but not by Israel???? You cannot make this shit up. It is so incredibly racist.

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. @jessielilley.bsky.social Got in before me! I'm launching a new independent media outlet with Antoun Issa, formerly of the Guardian and Al-Monitor.

If you want journalism that's not afraid of the Zionist lobby, consider becoming a founding subscriber: www.deepcutnews.com

New State Department style guide requires trans people to be misgendered in all communications | Katelyn Burns Get more from Katelyn Burns on Patreon

Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

Crazy that this is the first piece that decided to actually examine if Gaza “cost the Greens votes”. If the party ever wants to get outside the white enclaves of Sydney and Melbourne this kind of campaigning is what they need to do, and it pays off? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Baraka Arrested for 'Trespassing' at Controversial Immigrant Detention Facility - Insider NJ Authorities with Homeland Securities Investigations at the ICE detention facility Delaney Hall this afternoon arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

Y'all ICE just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for "trespassing" at one of their black site detention centers. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

This is pretty much all we get from the media, a constant message of how extreme we are for wanting Australia to stop breaching international law and actually sanction Israel which is carrying out daily massacres and starving kids to death. None of our many other policies are mentioned.

It’s a very dark reflection on the state of Australian politics that Labor (including Albanese) seem more satisfied with defeating Bandt than Dutton.

Progressive voters are tricking themselves into thinking this election was a great result, but Australia’s centre of gravity keeps going right.

Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)

Bleak.

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A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

applying for jobs again

World Central Kitchen | WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out After serving more than 130 million total meals and 26 million loaves of bread over the past 18 months, World Central Kitchen no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

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Israel approves plans to intensify Gaza operations, official says An Israeli official says Cabinet ministers have approved plans to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip.

BREAKING: Israeli ministers agree on plan to capture all of Gaza and remain there for an unspecified amount of time, two officials say.

As every election, worth pointing out that the Greens win 1-2 reps seats despite winning 12% of national vote, while the Nats win 10+ seats on just 4% of natl vote

Two arrested over bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio attended by millions Two people have been arrested in connection to an alleged planned attack on Brazil’s LGBTQ community at the singer’s Sunday concert, police say

“Two people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to detonate explosives at a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro, in what authorities believe was an attempt to target Brazil’s LGBTQ community. More than 2 million people were in attendance.”

Labour promised trans people dignity. I am not sure it knows the meaning of the word | Nicky Bandini The terror I felt after coming out as a trans woman was assuaged by the acceptance I encountered in the real world. Someone should let our policymakers know, says football writer and broadcaster Nicky...

Had to take a step out of my sports writing comfort zone this week to say a thing that needed to be said.

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Visas terminated for 15 UCF students "We reach out to relay that information to the student and advise they leave the country."

Wow—15 international students at the University of Central Florida have had their visas revoked as a result of the school's signed partnership with ICE. One was detained. Literally handed over to immigration cops by their own university. Despicable.