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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rethinking Number Theory 6 workshop announcement! This will be a remote collaborative research experience June 16 - 27. Applications are due May 1. More info is on our website. Please share widely! sites.google.com/view/rethink...

Trump backs off on deadline to end NYC congestion pricing Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy restated the administration’s demand for Gov. Hochul to end the tolling program, which charges most motorists $9 a day to drive south of 60th St. in Man…

Trump blinks.

With less than one day to go before the feds' arbitrary deadline to end congestion pricing, DOT Sec. Duffy issues a 30-day extension as NYC electeds and MTA officials refuse to turn the toll off absent a court order.

Funder Axes Queens College Diversity Initiative Amid Trump DEI Purge The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is terminating a $505,000 STEM grant that was supposed to support an ‘Inclusive Excellence initiative’running through 2028.

“Nobody’s forcing you to take all this preemptive complicity,”

Funder Axes Queens College Diversity Initiative Amid Trump DEI Purge www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/18/f...

Grande in gown with skirt best described as a hexapod saddle.

Plot of z=1−exp(x⁶−15x⁴y²+15x²y⁴−y⁶) with x,y inside the unit disk; made in desmos.

Ariana Grande's Oscars gown as the graph of f(x,y) = 1−exp(x⁶−15x⁴y²+15x²y⁴−y⁶): www.desmos.com/3d/ktg4co3cpm

YouTube video by MSNBC Chris Hayes: Trump ‘irreparably destroyed’ world order with Zelenskyy blowup

Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThL...

Thank you for organizing this! I will share with my department and research buddies.

Disruption in DC & What it Means for the Mathematical Sciences Feb 2/28, 3pm ET Panelists: Karen Saxe, AMS Scott Palmer, EdCounsel Peter March, Rutgers University & former head of DMS at NSF

Wondering what the disruption in DC means for the higher ed math community? TPSE has you covered. Join us for a webinar, Friday, 2/28 at 3pm ET. Register here:
usmd-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

on approaching hard problems Friends, colleagues, and lovers of words, I usually use this space to talk about books, but today I want to tell you about my friend Adriana Salerno. Like...

My friend @mathyadriana.bsky.social lost her job last week, and I want you to know the story:

buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...

How to Contact ProPublica Securely — ProPublica ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

We're continuing to examine the Trump administration's purge and its effects, and we need your help.

If you work or have worked at a government agency, we want to hear from you.

You can reach me on Signal at 347-549-0332 or reach out to ProPublica's tip line:

www.propublica.org/tips/#signal

The American Mathematical Society has also started a page to coordinate support for professional mathematics, so far focusing on executive orders impacting the National Science Foundation: www.ams.org/government/g...

Opinion | Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To (Gift Article) What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?

Here ya go www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Faith - YouTube

Kendrick dropped again...good morning to music

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Had my first Linear Algebra computer lab tutorial last night. It mostly went well! But at one point I saw a student use the "ask AI" feature Google Colab and I'm like dudes it is literally my job to help you right now.

NSF terminates 170 probationary employees, experts amid mass federal firings The National Science Foundation terminated the employees Tuesday, the agency confirmed.

fedscoop.com/nsf-terminat...

Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

I'm so sorry to hear this, Adriana!

Who voted for this rookie anyway?

Mostly I think that questions about relative min and max and endpoints are designed to trick people. Like: "HAH! You forgot the precise statement of the definition." It's not interesting mathematically in my opinion! But I work over finite fields so take this with a grain of salt...

If we allow them to be, then aren't they always either relative min or relative max? Seems like it's just a confusing way to say "the function was decreasing near the endpoint".

Booing Google for lots of reasons! I just didn't realize their logo was above a Port Authority building.

Yikes what?

Reminds me of early COVID days when stores limited how much milk, eggs, and TP we could buy.

Baby born on W subway train traveling in Midtown Manhattan EMS was called to the 34th St. station of the M, N, Q, R, and W trains just before 11:40 a.m., an FDNY spokesperson told the Daily News, and brought mother and baby to a nearby hospital.

The most New York of stories happened this morning:

A baby was born on the subway.

Still working on getting more info, but. There's good news in the city.

(Broken by the New York Daily News, of course)

😂

Not to make it all about the local angle, but this could to a real number on the MTA Capital Program

Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

The completed standard $L$-function of modular forms on $G_2$ The goal of this paper is to provide a complete and refined study of the standard $L$-functions $L(π,\operatorname{Std},s)$ for certain non-generic cuspidal automorphic representations $π$ of $G_2(\ma...

👋 Trajan was a participant in the first Rethinking Number Theory workshop and co-authored this paper: arxiv.org/abs/2104.09448

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...