Matthew Moynihan
patternavoider.bsky.social
Matthew Moynihan
@patternavoider.bsky.social
Massachusetts Mathematician from Minnesota
I put it on the list.
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
As a fellow Massachusetts math prof, this would help. Placement is so hard and getting harder.

We could all work together! Except then we get into the frenemies of it all.
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The more I’m exposed to it, the more I love the relegation system of the Premier League (and associated leagues).
November 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Our students absolutely do! I really hope we don’t get this one wrong.

In case you didn’t see it, this piece does a great job of highlighting how donor-funded interdisciplinary AI institutes evade shared governance.

defector.com/higher-eds-r...
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Let me know if you find out!
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It looks like one of the fifteen is the state’s Chief Medical Examiner so not UMASS. But the article claims all fifteen too so I’m confused.
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Oh they absolutely are recreating phrenology.

With a dash of the extremely racist “historically white men have paid back lots of loans so let’s lock that system in and call it ‘math’ so no one questions it”
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM