Nelson Niu
@nelsonniu.bsky.social
he/they • math phd student at uw • uaw4121 unit chair • actor • uw ms ’23 • mit sb ’21 • http://nelsonniu.com
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👏 CHECK 👏 YOUR 👏 BALLOT 👏
November 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
👏 CHECK 👏 YOUR 👏 BALLOT 👏
Registration for the SUBgroups program for first-year math grad students is now open!
Find out more and register here: gradsubgroups.org
Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!
Find out more and register here: gradsubgroups.org
Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!
SUBgroups
Online peer groups for first-year math graduate students.
gradsubgroups.org
August 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Registration for the SUBgroups program for first-year math grad students is now open!
Find out more and register here: gradsubgroups.org
Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!
Find out more and register here: gradsubgroups.org
Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!
In NYC, @uaw.org was the first union to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to his primary victory last month.
Here in Seattle, we at @uaw.org were the first union to endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to her primary victory last night.
We pick winners ✊
Here in Seattle, we at @uaw.org were the first union to endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to her primary victory last night.
We pick winners ✊
August 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
In NYC, @uaw.org was the first union to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to his primary victory last month.
Here in Seattle, we at @uaw.org were the first union to endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to her primary victory last night.
We pick winners ✊
Here in Seattle, we at @uaw.org were the first union to endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to her primary victory last night.
We pick winners ✊
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The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.
August 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.
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Scientific American thinks mathematicians are being quiet about the devastating NSF funds to our field. We need to be LOUDER.
www.facebook.com/share/r/1J3Z...
www.facebook.com/share/r/1J3Z...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Scientific American thinks mathematicians are being quiet about the devastating NSF funds to our field. We need to be LOUDER.
www.facebook.com/share/r/1J3Z...
www.facebook.com/share/r/1J3Z...
I love when I tell people I study category theory and their first reaction is “oh, no!”
June 13, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I love when I tell people I study category theory and their first reaction is “oh, no!”
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Incredibly bad (changes to N.S.F. funding for math):
May 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Incredibly bad (changes to N.S.F. funding for math):
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Today was a big win for workers in Washington state as unemployment insurance for striking workers was signed into law! UAW members joined @wslc.bsky.social, fellow union members from across the state, and bill sponsor (and former
@uaw4121.bsky.social member) Sen. Riccelli for the signing.
@uaw4121.bsky.social member) Sen. Riccelli for the signing.
May 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Today was a big win for workers in Washington state as unemployment insurance for striking workers was signed into law! UAW members joined @wslc.bsky.social, fellow union members from across the state, and bill sponsor (and former
@uaw4121.bsky.social member) Sen. Riccelli for the signing.
@uaw4121.bsky.social member) Sen. Riccelli for the signing.
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UW changed its layoff policy without bargaining- risking the job security of 1000s of UW research workers 👎
1,200+ have signed the open letter demanding they reverse this policy. Join us next Monday @ noon in UW's Red Square to deliver the letter and tell admin to follow our contracts! 💥💥💥
1,200+ have signed the open letter demanding they reverse this policy. Join us next Monday @ noon in UW's Red Square to deliver the letter and tell admin to follow our contracts! 💥💥💥
May 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
UW changed its layoff policy without bargaining- risking the job security of 1000s of UW research workers 👎
1,200+ have signed the open letter demanding they reverse this policy. Join us next Monday @ noon in UW's Red Square to deliver the letter and tell admin to follow our contracts! 💥💥💥
1,200+ have signed the open letter demanding they reverse this policy. Join us next Monday @ noon in UW's Red Square to deliver the letter and tell admin to follow our contracts! 💥💥💥
I’m in this article along with other @uaw4121.bsky.social members to explain what’s happening to grad student researchers in the US right now.
It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America.
It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America.
The Trump administration’s slowdown in science funding has left U.S.-based scientists and researchers scrambling to find homes for promising work that could lead to medical treatments and cures.
Now, many are looking abroad.
Now, many are looking abroad.
The best and brightest young scientists are looking beyond the U.S. as cuts hit home
Top scientists are cutting staff at their labs. Postdocs are leaving the country. Here's how the Trump cuts are playing out at the University of Washington.
nbcnews.to
May 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I’m in this article along with other @uaw4121.bsky.social members to explain what’s happening to grad student researchers in the US right now.
It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America.
It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America.
It sure is encouraging when the Trump administration personally praises the way my university deployed riot police on a student protest 🫠
Same cops that our university called on me and my union siblings during our peaceful labor action last year, by the way!
Same cops that our university called on me and my union siblings during our peaceful labor action last year, by the way!
US reviews occupation of University of Washington building by pro-Palestinian protesters reut.rs/4k2c7ZH
US reviews occupation of University of Washington building by pro-Palestinian protesters
The U.S. government said on Tuesday it will review an incident at the University of Washington in which pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a university building while demanding the school cut ties with Boeing over its contracts with the Israeli military.
reut.rs
May 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
It sure is encouraging when the Trump administration personally praises the way my university deployed riot police on a student protest 🫠
Same cops that our university called on me and my union siblings during our peaceful labor action last year, by the way!
Same cops that our university called on me and my union siblings during our peaceful labor action last year, by the way!
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A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. @ericaklarreich.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-12...
Dimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta Magazine
A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. @ericaklarreich.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-12...
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URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.
For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.
We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.
We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
April 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.
For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.
We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.
We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
sometimes i see blackboard bold out in the wild and remember that mathematicians do not have a monopoly on fonts
March 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
sometimes i see blackboard bold out in the wild and remember that mathematicians do not have a monopoly on fonts
okay bear with me here but if you count
(a) live staged play readings,
(b) video games, and
(c) papers that will be published later this year
my erdős-bacon number is 6
(a) live staged play readings,
(b) video games, and
(c) papers that will be published later this year
my erdős-bacon number is 6
March 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
okay bear with me here but if you count
(a) live staged play readings,
(b) video games, and
(c) papers that will be published later this year
my erdős-bacon number is 6
(a) live staged play readings,
(b) video games, and
(c) papers that will be published later this year
my erdős-bacon number is 6
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Solidarity with our @uaw4121.bsky.social researchers ✊!!!
February 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Solidarity with our @uaw4121.bsky.social researchers ✊!!!
Some photos from @jayapal.house.gov’s Town Hall last night and today’s @uaw4121.bsky.social rally to defend federal funding for our scientists and researchers!
February 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Some photos from @jayapal.house.gov’s Town Hall last night and today’s @uaw4121.bsky.social rally to defend federal funding for our scientists and researchers!
lol it me
February 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
lol it me
as a sophie germain fan seeing chladni plates show up on severance was kinda sick
January 31, 2025 at 5:03 AM
as a sophie germain fan seeing chladni plates show up on severance was kinda sick
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To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
January 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent.
Should be coming out this year!
January 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Should be coming out this year!