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aliaisnonlinear.bsky.social
Alia Valentine
@aliaisnonlinear.bsky.social
850 followers 260 following 14 posts
applied math PhD student @ cornell; dynamical systems, amateur musician & photographer, she/her
https://valentine-alia.github.io/
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kaiserneko.bsky.social
It doesn't matter how despicable a person is, mocking their innate physical appearance is always wrong.

Not because it's cruel to them, but because it perpetuates the harmful idea that innate physical appearance has anything to do with one's character / beliefs / actions.
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 24d
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
It's that time again :>
A three panel comic. In panel 1, two people are facing each other. The first person asks "Hey, do you want to drive really far and spend hours staring at distant, rapidly moving gray-brown objects while trying to find subtle differences between them?" and the second says "No." In panel 2, the first person says "What if they're bird-shaped?" and the second person says "Then absolutely, yes." In panel 3, the two people are standing and looking through binoculars at distant shorebirds on a beach. The first person says "Yay shorebirds season!" and the second says "Woo!"
August 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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kareemcarr.bsky.social
people more pro-AI than me? gullible nerds. people more anti-AI than me? fear-addled clowns. and me? perfect, as per usual
June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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ilanahorn.bsky.social
one of the most heartbreaking things i have learned in my career as an educator is that our country's disinvestment in children is not just neglect -- it crosses over to antipathy
swordsjew.bsky.social Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Jul 29
the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this
July 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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emanabdelhadi.bsky.social
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
July 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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manlius.bsky.social
How far can you compress a complex system?

🚨 In our latest paper we collapse high-dim compartmental models (from epidemics to ecosystems) into a single 1-D equation using quantum-inspired math, exposing universal phase transitions #ComplexSystems ‪👇👇👇

journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
July 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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hannahoish.bsky.social
When using computer vision to identify organisms in a image, it helps to know what the model was trained on. To a shark ID AI, everything is a shark.
July 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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ivetasaviary.bsky.social
The Red Avadavat, also called Red Munia or Strawberry Finch 🪶
#BirdArt #AnimalArt #SciArt #Sketchbook
An ink and watercolor illustration of a strawberry finch, seen from a side.
July 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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anastasiabzv.bsky.social
My research group at Cornell finally has a dedicated website ☺️ Still very minimal, but we will populate it soon with the cool projects we are getting off the ground! Stay tuned! sites.google.com/cornell.edu/...
C³ Group @ Cornell
We are a team of interdisciplinary researchers at Cornell University. We study how nonlinear dynamics and distributed control shape collective intelligence in natural and engineered systems, drawing o...
sites.google.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
aliaisnonlinear.bsky.social
I got my passport in the mail today and despite this ruling it has incorrect information

www.aclu.org/press-releas...
Transgender US Passport Holders Granted Temporary Relief in Challenge to Trump Gender Marker Policy | American Civil Liberties Union
BOSTON – A federal judge today expanded a preliminary injunction to two newly certified classes of passport holders in Orr v. Trump, a challenge to...
www.aclu.org
June 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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motivickyle.bsky.social
Just discovered the motherlode of wildly incomprehensible unhinged mathematical diagrams.
some kind of flow chart of mathematicians and theorems in non-metrizable manifold theory diagrams of weird non-paracompact manifolds decorate the boundary; a terrifying and impenetrable Venn diagram inhabits the middle words cannot capture how busy and overlapping this diagram is What if a diagram contained multiple periodic table-ish things and a bunch of beach balls and there's one spot near the middle of the figure that says "10 big eggs".
June 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
6 beers deep, vehemently nodding along to my friend’s story, yelling “exaaaactly” at every point they make.
June 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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eliotmiller.bsky.social
*** Academic BFD alert ***

We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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autumnwolff.bsky.social
"Most say gender is determined at birth"

New poll determines that most of society is incorrect.

apnorc.org/projects/mos...

This poll is fucking horrifying.
Most say gender is determined at birth - AP-NORC
More people approve of Trump’s handling of transgender issues than his job performance overall. People are more likely to oppose than support public health insurance programs like Medicare or Medicaid...
apnorc.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
aliaisnonlinear.bsky.social
hey thats me!
hirokisayama.bsky.social Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · May 8
SFI Adaptive Network workshop Day 3 featured cool presentations by junior researchers
May 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
aliaisnonlinear.bsky.social
Movies you’ve watched more than 6 times, gifs only.

(No Star Wars, LoTR, Star Trek)
Mal reynolds from the movie serenity saying "i aim to misbehave"
April 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social
happy Emmy Noether's birthday to all who celebrate
March 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
In abstract algebra, a rng is an algebraic structure satisfying the same properties as a ring, but without assuming the existence of a multiplicative identity. The term rng, pronounced like rung), is meant to suggest that it is a ring without i, that is, without the requirement for an identity element
March 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
aliaisnonlinear.bsky.social
democrats talking to trans people always sounds like "we're totally not throwing you under the bus but could you crawl down there pretty please"
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Mar 6
Elissa Slotkin told Tim Alberta why her response to Trump's joint address did not touch on a laundry list of priorities from various advocacy groups.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
None of this would seem a revolutionary approach to rhetoric. Still, it was fraught with risk all the same: Democrats “have been on their heels since the election,” Slotkin told me, and the party faithful have been agitating since January 20 for someone, anyone, to stand up to Trump. The announcement of Slotkin had already been met with grumbling from progressives online; anything short of oratorical firebolts would confirm the complacent, feckless approach of the D.C. governing class. Slotkin viewed the stakes somewhat differently: This speech could, at least symbolically, commence a new chapter of Democratic Party opposition to a president whose success is inextricable from the tone-deaf ineptitude of Democratic Party opposition. If her team’s resistance to Trump’s first term was marked by hysteria and hashtags—all the land acknowledgments and pronoun policing and intersectionality initiatives—Slotkin saw last night the opportunity to set a different tone.
March 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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maxplanck.de
#Swarm science just got a shake-up! 🦗🦗🦗For decades, #locusts were thought to move like particles but new research indicates they actually use sensory & cognitive mechanisms, not simple alignment @icouzin.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @sercansayin.bsky.social
Rewriting the rules of locust swarms
Classical models of collective behavior fail to explain the mechanisms driving desert locust swarms
www.mpg.de
March 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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danny.hellmo.space
In which I argue we need to do:
BIG. PUBLIC. SHIT.

danny.hellmo.space/posts/doing-...

#academia #edusky #organizing #highereducation #astrosky #physicssky #solidarity
doing big public shit
This post is inspired by conversations with my colleagues and our students at MSU. The American president and his enablers continue their attacks on higher education. University leaders have been most...
danny.hellmo.space
February 21, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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bowlerhatscience.org
WHEEL OF CRAB
jopabinia.bsky.social Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Aug 1
Our paper on convergent evolution of land crabs is out in its final final form. The journal didn't pick my image as the cover, so I'm sharing it here because it must be seen!

academic.oup.com/sysbio/artic...

🦀🦑🧪
Circular timetree of crabs with pie slices colored by superfamily (Figure 2 in the paper). Simplified version with no text/labels. Line drawings of crabs arranged around the perimeter like a zodiac, with colors matching the superfamily pie slice. Figure by me, drawings by Harrison Mancke and Javi Luque
February 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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audhdylan.bsky.social
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unbearable Headlines
February 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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acidlich.bsky.social
A portrait of an Alexander Horned Sphere I drew for a professor’s birthday
Illustration on a hard to photograph orange paper of an Alexander horned sphere (a pathological topological space, where a torus keeps getting dividing into interlocking links) in front a night sky with stars and the moon surrounded by flowing water with finger waves. Black and white with hatch shading
June 23, 2024 at 2:30 PM