Dr. Diaz Eaton up to Good Trouble

OER Posted! 30 min #AILiteracy online asynchronous tutorial co-authored w/3 Bates students. It includes 2 videos and instructor guide (an an example AI policy) qubeshub.org/publications...
Also includes slides and video scripts to adopt and adapt for your own institution. @rioscommunity.bsky.social

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

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Well I had a great week at AIM at CalTech! Lovely friends, new and *ahem* old. Lovely weather and vistas. Lots of banter and lots of productivity.

Next week I'll be in Madison, then I'll see you all at Mathfest back in California!

It could have been... you never know! Wishing you the best as well!

Also - that was one of the posts imported from my archive of Twitter. So it's really like years old... but it is fun to find those old throwbacks.

Fighting Weaponized AI in Higher Education BY BRITT S. PARIS, LINDSAY WEINBERG, AND EMMA MAY Tomorrow, July 23, the Trump administration plans to release an “AI action plan” that reflects the White House’s priorities for expanding the…

“AI in higher education is more than an issue of tech deployment—it highlights the need to foster solidarity across sectors, job categories, and institutions to fight the devaluation of human work and lives.” Read @aaup.org‬’s new report on AI & academic professions. academeblog.org/2025/07/22/f...

Thanks! Missed you all at SMB too!

Thanks. It wasn't a straightforward journey for me either! Whew!

Thanks, Jeremy!

These.gifs and your excitement make my day!!

Off to AIM for OER and Math workshop. Feels like time for an #AwkwardBoardingSelfie

You may notice my arm. I sprained it badly about 4 months ago. It's 90 percent back, but full days of typing or writing are not happening. Perpetually behind as a result, but I'm trying!

Thanks, Luis!

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The limitation to children at high risk for severe COVID is particularly problematic for the youngest children eligible for vax where HALF of the ICU admittances were for those with NO underlying condition, per CDC data.

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

‘It’s just devastating,’ Chicago State president says of federal cuts As schools like Harvard, Columbia and Northwestern have gotten most of the attention, regional public universities are losing grants and feeling the pain too.

Chicago State University is the only university in the state with a predominantly Black student body, and it has far less money than places like Northwestern University. So far, the school has lost about $5 million in federal grants.

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

Knowledge Unbound | Season 2 Episode 9 - Jenny Mercado and Rebekah Greenwald | Solving community problems with the community This week we are joined by members of Nuevas Voces, here to talk about an incredible partnership between them and mathematics researchers to develop a real time climate change resource tool for the...

New podcast dropped on @rioscommunity.bsky.social #KnowledgeUnbound hosted by @dewsbury.bsky.social
This episode highlights WRWC Nuevas Voces and our passion project, VECINA. Lots of shoutouts to the #DAAAAMN group, including @victorpiercey.bsky.social knowledgeunbound.transistor.fm/episodes/sea...

“… we're preserving Medicaid for those that meet eligibility requirements. We don't need to see illegal immigrants receiving benefits that should be going to Iowans,” Ernst lied.

"Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federally funded benefits such as Medicaid,” the report states.

Hey #MathSky, does anyone know more information about who the Twitter user @mathematicsprof is? I'd love to contact them, but don't have any contact information for them. I'm trying to get some more information about the Carnation letter that I found here: x.com/mathematicsp.... Any help is welcome!

Here is the NSF budget proposal for F26. Taking a big bite out of MPS. And practically killing EDU and OISE. Completely killing CHIPS act funding.

(1) Definitions. As used in this term and condition – (a) DEI means “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” (b) Discriminatory equity ideology has the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) of Executive Order 14190 of January 29, 2025. (c) Discriminatory prohibited boycott means refusing to deal, cutting commercial relations, or otherwise limiting commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies or with companies doing business in or with Israel or authorized by, licensed by, or organized under the laws of Israel to do business. The term discriminatory prohibited boycott also includes an academic boycott of Israel in which an educational or research institution enacts or implements restrictive policies, or otherwise participates in activities having the object or effect of restricting ongoing or potential academic, educational, or research institutions. Notwithstanding any restriction on the applicability of other NSF rules and regulations, the requirements in paragraph (c) applies to both foreign and domestic institutions receiving funding from the NSF. (d) Federal anti-discrimination laws means Federal civil rights law that protect individual Americans from discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, and national origin. (2) Award certification. (a) By accepting the award, recipients are certifying that: (i) They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws; and (ii) They do not engage in and will not during the term of this award engage in, a discriminatory prohibited boycott. (3) NSF reserves the right to terminate financial assistance awards and recover all funds if recipients, during the term of this award, operate any program in violation of Federal anti- discriminatory laws or engage in a prohibited boycott.

Direct link to pdf here.... scroll down to #35
nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma...

Of course, no one actually knows the consequences, but that's the current "chaos by design" strategy.

Award Terms and Conditions Award Terms and Conditions for its grants and cooperative agreements. Topics covered in these documents include awardee responsibilities, federal requirements, pre-award costs, no-cost extensions, sig...

☢️ Attn NSF PIs‼️
See NSF’s newly published Award Terms and Conditions, available at nsf.gov/awards/terms-conditions. Pay special attention to 35-Non-Discrimination Statutes. Some POs are concerned that being found ‘in violation,’ would set an institution up for ALL federal funds to be withdrawn.

I bet @drew-lewis.com @sam.mathcomms.com and other #metamath peeps might like this

FYI, I did generate a quick workbook and figure in colab/gemini for a paper and I explicitly mentioned I did so in the methods. I had to clean up the code though to be useful, but it was a huge time saver & handled cases that I would have been to lazy to build in TBH.

Writing hasn't come up as much in lab research yet. The awkwardness is stuff like @overleaf.com which I've been using for years to manage collaborative papers, including student papers and thesis, now has an AI tool integrated. I don't know that I can turn it off - so the lines are getting blurry.

This is interesting. I have been okay with using copilot or whatever to help start up code, understand it or find errors in lab and upper level classes.

In early classroom experiences, we create a policy but also each bullet point comes with a "why" and examples of where it is/is not allowed.