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Mike Hill
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Mathematician at UMN.
President of Spectra, the association for LGBT+ mathematicians.
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sculdiva.bsky.social
Preserving these data sets is critical. I applaud her work. And it's unfortunate that the current regime has made her work necessary @cdelawalla.bsky.social
@altnoaa.bsky.social @rebelfema.altgov.info @altnoaaclimate.bsky.social @roguenoaa.bsky.social @efisherwx.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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llarisah.bsky.social
“An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train.”
September 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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oscarlevin.com
New PreTeXt feature: Handouts!

If you use guided notes in your teaching, or just want to make accessible versions of the printouts you bring to class, you can now author these in #PreTeXt and print directly from the browser (or save as PDF to annotate on a tablet).
mathtech.org/2025/08/17/h...
Handouts and Worksheets in PreTeXt
We all know that PreTeXt is great for writing textbooks. But did you know that it can also be used to create small, standalone course materials? Perhaps you want to create an in-class activity to en...
mathtech.org
August 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
Surround yourself with the kind of people who are proud to have a library card.
August 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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esqueer.net
This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!
Screenshot of text discussing draft guidance on excluding trans people from certain services. It states that, in some cases, a trans person could be excluded even if their biological sex matches the service. The text explains that exclusion might be justified to prevent alarm or distress to others, giving the example that a trans man could be excluded from a women-only service if he presents as a man and others might reasonably object, making exclusion a proportionate means to a legitimate aim.
August 8, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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nucleosomepolice.bsky.social
Please share widely with friends, family, and foes. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
U.S. Scientists Warn That Trump’s Cuts Will Set Off a Brain Drain
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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johnmoralestv.bsky.social
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
fuck homophobia
aubreyjones.bsky.social Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · Jun 2
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.
Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales
June 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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seantaclaus.bsky.social
#FACTS
May 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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lahistory.bsky.social
“Come and Cavort!" The first Gay-In at Griffith Park was held #OTD in 1968. #LGBTQhistory

Photos of the 1970 #GriffithPark Gay-in, via ONE Archives at @usclibraries.bsky.social:
May 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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spectacledlion.bsky.social
Time to post it again.
A meme from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the top panel, one man labeled "literally every company" hands a plate labeled "AI" to a man labeled "me." In the bottom panel, the man labeled "me" nonchalantly tosses the plate down the hallway, discarding it with casual disdain while the first man watches.
May 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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ellamchawk.bsky.social
Almost done! I couldn’t leave out this edible assortment of medieval tiles from the British Museum.

The biscuit recipe was inspired by flavours from the same period: honey, ginger, and clove.
A collection of biscuits painted in shades of brown, yellow, and red. The designs are medieval depictions of people, buildings, text, and symbols. Some designs are 3D, with shields, insignia, or symmetrical patterns raised above the royal icing base. Many of the biscuits look as though they are chipped or cracked. All appear old and dirty.
May 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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ellamchawk.bsky.social
Have you ever had the urge to eat a Roman mosaic? This one (the real one, not the biscuit) was found in London by MOLA archaeologists, and dates from the late 2nd to 3rd century CE.
A square biscuit decorated with tiny rough squares of royal icing, creating a mosaic effect. In the centre of the design is a four-leaf flower in shades of red, yellow, and cream. Around the edge of the design is an intertwining strand motif, in shades of red, yellow, and grey. The surface of the biscuit is dirty to create the effect of an excavated mosaic.
May 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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erininthemorning.com
Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.

Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.

This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.

Take it here:
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
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May 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 7!!

SAVE THE FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE! MAKE A COMMENT TODAY!!!

news.chanda.science/archive/urge...
Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services
Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash MAY 23 UPDATE: The comment period has been extended until June 7. Please keep submitting comments! (Thanks to the reader...
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May 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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cdelawalla.bsky.social
Are YOU sitting around, reading the headlines, feeling powerless and scared?

Wish there was a way to just DO SOMETHING????

Boy, have I got the thing for you!

@standupforscience.bsky.social has an ambitious goal of hosting 1000 teach-ins across the nation between now and 9/30

#standupforscience
May 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
All this time spent arguing that you are entitled to compare the loss of your research funding with an ongoing genocide when you could just be talking about how the genocide is bad and your funding is important
May 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
🚨 EASY-TO-TAKE ACTION ALERT! 🚨
Want to do something to protect the integrity of the federal civil service? Submit a public comment! Not sure how to do that and what to say? I have a comment you can submit! 🧪🔭⚛️

Details here:
news.chanda.science/archive/urge...
Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services
Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...
news.chanda.science
May 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):
A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.
May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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karenattiah.bsky.social
“But Hutchins had good reason to protect his data, based on a different principle of fairness: the right of Indigenous people to control how data about them, their lands, and their cultures are collected and used.”
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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meetamathematician.bsky.social
MEET Dr. Adriana Salerno! 🥰
youtu.be/z3T8A2DpXCY

Alt text: this is an image of Dr. Adriana Salerno holding the Meet a Mathematician sign
MEET a Mathematician! - Dr. Adriana Salerno
YouTube video by Meet a Mathematician
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May 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.

Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
May 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
May 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
if you teach, you are engaged in an inherently political--but not necessarily partisan--act

the political vs partisan distinction stays kicking people's ass

this old @asociologist.bsky.social is very helpful on this
scatter.wordpress.com/2020/11/10/p...
partisans, not scientists, decide if science is partisan
Last month, Audra Wolfe wrote a fantastic post about how science is and always has been political. In the post, she analyzes statements from Nature and Scientific American, both of which endorsed J…
scatter.wordpress.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...

Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM