Manuchehr Aminian
@maminian.bsky.social
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as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,
I get mixed feelings when google scholar periodically passes on new articles of basically one academic who I kind of see as "bizarro me" who continued in the same research area as I did for my PhD for the past 10 years.
September 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I get mixed feelings when google scholar periodically passes on new articles of basically one academic who I kind of see as "bizarro me" who continued in the same research area as I did for my PhD for the past 10 years.
Came across a 14-year old street view of a Blockbuster in a suburb of Vancouver maps.app.goo.gl/XX2xKQ3tUgA4... do I win a prize?
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September 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Came across a 14-year old street view of a Blockbuster in a suburb of Vancouver maps.app.goo.gl/XX2xKQ3tUgA4... do I win a prize?
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August 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Working on an article for SIAM News covering Courtney Paquette's plenary at AN25. Something for the precalc/calc students: horizontal asymp. here show you that more effort (flops) training a model yields no improvement.
Another data sci overtones one could sneak into the existing math curriculum.
Another data sci overtones one could sneak into the existing math curriculum.
August 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Working on an article for SIAM News covering Courtney Paquette's plenary at AN25. Something for the precalc/calc students: horizontal asymp. here show you that more effort (flops) training a model yields no improvement.
Another data sci overtones one could sneak into the existing math curriculum.
Another data sci overtones one could sneak into the existing math curriculum.
turning into a daily games junkie
August 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
turning into a daily games junkie
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🚨 Speaking of FedSoc judges... Today, my work on the Federalist Society is finally officially published!! Plz enjoy what I still believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. I hope folx can use. #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky
July 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🚨 Speaking of FedSoc judges... Today, my work on the Federalist Society is finally officially published!! Plz enjoy what I still believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. I hope folx can use. #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky
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Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
May 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
Does it count as a compliment that airport ecurity checked my curly hair to make sure I wasn't anything in it
May 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Does it count as a compliment that airport ecurity checked my curly hair to make sure I wasn't anything in it
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Save the Date!
SIAG/DATA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new webinar series: Webinar on the Mathematics of Data Science (WebMDS)!
Join us for the inaugural event – a panel on:
Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
SIAG/DATA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new webinar series: Webinar on the Mathematics of Data Science (WebMDS)!
Join us for the inaugural event – a panel on:
Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
April 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Save the Date!
SIAG/DATA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new webinar series: Webinar on the Mathematics of Data Science (WebMDS)!
Join us for the inaugural event – a panel on:
Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
SIAG/DATA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new webinar series: Webinar on the Mathematics of Data Science (WebMDS)!
Join us for the inaugural event – a panel on:
Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
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Are you interested in both building data science skills and social justice? Consider registering for the @qside.bsky.social Data4Justice Accelerator! This 10 week program will build basic data, AI, and social justice research skills. No quant background needed.
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QSIDE Data4Justice Accelerator - QSIDE
The QSIDE Institute Data4Justice Accelerator is back and better than ever! A 10-week professional development program aimed at equipping activists interested in data-driven social justice research wit...
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April 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Are you interested in both building data science skills and social justice? Consider registering for the @qside.bsky.social Data4Justice Accelerator! This 10 week program will build basic data, AI, and social justice research skills. No quant background needed.
qsideinstitute.org/2025/03/10/q...
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Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
NEW YORK—Stressing that the memory seemed so fresh and vivid in their minds, the confused nation announced Monday that they could have sworn British entertainer Russell Brand was already a convicted s...
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April 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender
You know how you know it's bad? I'm not getting the usual brokerage firm emails of "stay the course! Don't try to time the market!" I would get with other downturn days.
April 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
You know how you know it's bad? I'm not getting the usual brokerage firm emails of "stay the course! Don't try to time the market!" I would get with other downturn days.
Continuing an old joke,
I did win the teacher/scholar (and not the other way around) award this past year. Too bad it will be on pause because of the budget next year.
I did win the teacher/scholar (and not the other way around) award this past year. Too bad it will be on pause because of the budget next year.
March 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Continuing an old joke,
I did win the teacher/scholar (and not the other way around) award this past year. Too bad it will be on pause because of the budget next year.
I did win the teacher/scholar (and not the other way around) award this past year. Too bad it will be on pause because of the budget next year.
New Year 2: Electric Boogaloo
March 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
New Year 2: Electric Boogaloo
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The French minister for higher edication and reaearch says that a French scientist traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the U.S. because a border agent found messages on his phone criticizing Trump administration science research policies.
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant q...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The French minister for higher edication and reaearch says that a French scientist traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the U.S. because a border agent found messages on his phone criticizing Trump administration science research policies.
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Calculus student comes to office hours with issue about online homework system. "Let me pull up the problem..." (I open up the back-end to diagnose the technical issue)
"You know how to code?!" exclaims the student, as if I accidentally revealed I'm a jedi knight
"You know how to code?!" exclaims the student, as if I accidentally revealed I'm a jedi knight
March 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Calculus student comes to office hours with issue about online homework system. "Let me pull up the problem..." (I open up the back-end to diagnose the technical issue)
"You know how to code?!" exclaims the student, as if I accidentally revealed I'm a jedi knight
"You know how to code?!" exclaims the student, as if I accidentally revealed I'm a jedi knight
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“NIH has also requested lists of projects involving…mRNA vaccines, which some vaccine skeptics think are unsafe because they believe, without evidence, that the vaccines could modify DNA or cause various health issues.”
this may derail one of the biggest advances in oncology — cancer vaccines
this may derail one of the biggest advances in oncology — cancer vaccines
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines
Move reflects vaccine skepticism of health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.science.org
March 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“NIH has also requested lists of projects involving…mRNA vaccines, which some vaccine skeptics think are unsafe because they believe, without evidence, that the vaccines could modify DNA or cause various health issues.”
this may derail one of the biggest advances in oncology — cancer vaccines
this may derail one of the biggest advances in oncology — cancer vaccines
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UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
March 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there.
They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
let's dynamically define/update time such that 6:00am is the time sunrise occurs every day; and have this update once per day, all year long.
March 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
let's dynamically define/update time such that 6:00am is the time sunrise occurs every day; and have this update once per day, all year long.
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Remember when philantrhropic foundations (their motives aside) actually funded some things we cared about? Want to figure out who is bending a knee to Musk/Trump and who is not? An action-driven 🧵 for data science / digital humanities folx, Inspired by my org getting its funding renewal pulled.
QSIDE in Action - QSIDE
Social Justice Curricula Forum We've heard from many in the higher education space searching for advice, feedback, and a place to brainstorm how to incorporate social justice into their current lesson...
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March 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Remember when philantrhropic foundations (their motives aside) actually funded some things we cared about? Want to figure out who is bending a knee to Musk/Trump and who is not? An action-driven 🧵 for data science / digital humanities folx, Inspired by my org getting its funding renewal pulled.