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 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.
“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...
Ariana Grande's Oscars gown as the graph of f(x,y) = 1−exp(x⁶−15x⁴y²+15x²y⁴−y⁶): www.desmos.com/3d/ktg4co3cpm
Thank you for organizing this! I will share with my department and research buddies.
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...
My friend @mathyadriana.bsky.social lost her job last week, and I want you to know the story:
buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...
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.
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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...
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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.
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.
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
From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
👋 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...
