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Allison Henrich

@allisonhenrich1.bsky.social
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Math, knots, games, stories, kids

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500 Women Scientists @500womensci.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
We are happy to see folks in Congress stepping up, but we need more than sternly worded letters. We need action. The US scientific enterprise is at stake #resist
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Major news from the NSF! This is very bad, folks. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This is bad, friends. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Jussi T. Eronen @jussiteronen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
More grant freezes. This is not ok. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants
The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
So what should NSF grantees, worried by terminated grants, do? That's something I've been thinking a lot about, given my own NSF grants. First, I'd encourage to read this AAUP guide focused squarely on NSF grant termination policies: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
Action Report #6 Understanding the Law and Policies for Grant Terminations for the National Science Foundation March 25, 2025 This informational guide is primarily intended for National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded principal investigators if NSF requests a change in your work. The level of detail assumes the reader has basic familiarity with the NSF’s two main review criteria (intellectual merit and broader impacts), in addition to the NSF’s Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). However, this guide may also be relevant to research administrators, legal experts, or awards from other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), given that the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) applies to all agencies, not just the NSF.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Also, “one source told Science the agency’s $1.1 billion education directorate may have canceled as many as 200 grants just today.” www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts
Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
What?! “NSF announced it was returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff... In the meantime, according to sources, NSF will not make any new awards.” www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Fascism doesn’t fly in Philly — or anywhere in America. Hey, Trump! Hey, Musk! Hey, GOP! Hands Off! HANDS OFF! HANDS OFF! HANDS OFF! (Vid via @seankitchen)
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/04/2025
Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff
Portland OR Hands Off Rally
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off Pittsburgh
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Dylan Lion @lionshue.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common
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Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway @satyaformadison.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off Madison Wisconsin! Hands off our democracy!
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands off Madison, Wisconsin
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
100K! www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
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"Hands Off!" protest in Boston draws nearly 100,000 people rallying against Trump, Musk
Nearly 100,000 of angry demonstrators gathered in Boston and other Massachusetts locations on Saturday for the so-called "Hands Off" protest​.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Recommended reading
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out t.co/LeABrGqDei
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Felix Riede @felixthehauskat.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The amazing @roope.bsky.social dug deep on this and teaming up with topologist extraordinaire @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social we devised a first-ever tidy way of turning knot patterns into string code, which can then be analysed readily for patterns. We natch also have the coordinates.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NSA cancelled its MSP (Math Sciences Program) -- meaning all current grants (conferences, REUs, summer workshops, etc.) are cut effectively immediately. www.nsa.gov/Research/Mat...
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Trump suggests ‘methods’ exist for bid for unconstitutional third term One of the most terrifying intentions I’ve heard.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Required viewing. schiffnotes.substack.com/p/a-dark-day...
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A Dark Day for Our Country
I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Today was a bad day for our country – and for the Democratic Party.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it. “We liked it over here,” one said.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution wapo.st/4i7891y
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Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“It is clear that now and for the next several weeks it will be critically important that the AMS and the mathematical community as a whole advocate to ensure that funding for science, and mathematics in particular, is both sufficient and stable.” www.ams.org/news?class_i...
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News from the AMS
Advancing research. Creating connections.
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Tom Edgar @tedgar7.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It’s already Pi day in some parts of the world. Here’s a cool visualization of the Madhava-Gregory-Leibniz formula for pi/4 due to Viggo Brun (and written about by Mitsuo Kobayashi). Hope you like it and share with all your math enthusiast friends! youtu.be/rzZ2JTFVDdw
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Leibniz Formula for Pi/4 - A Pi Day Visualization/Dissection
YouTube video by Mathematical Visual Proofs
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/p... via @statnews.com
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Federal research instability risks postdoc careers, American leadership
In a new National Postdoctoral Association report, 43% of postdocs said Trump administration policies have threatened their positions, while more than one-third said their research is delayed or in je...
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Joe Allen @joeallenjoe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In fiscal year 2024, the report found, NIH awarded more than $36.9 billion to researchers, supporting more than 408,000 jobs and generating over $94.5 billion in new economic activity nationwide. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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NIH funding delivers exponential economic returns — Harvard Gazette
Report finds all 50 states reap gains in patient health, job creation, research resources, business development.
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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 13/03/2025
Tying the thread to a close: a warm thanks to co-authors @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, @jussiteronen.bsky.social, @izzywisher.bsky.social, Matt Walsh, @mamanninen.bsky.social, @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social. & to @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social & reviewers. What a fun interdisciplinary project.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Our paper investigating the structures of knots found in civilizations across the globe and throughout history is out! This is open access, so please check it out! Thank you to the amazing team that made this project happen, especially @roope.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
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MAA @joinmaa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Celebrate #PiDay tomorrow with a playful twist! Check out our latest MathValues post featuring nearly 100 Pi-kus, poems inspired by π! Read here: maa.org/math-values/playful-math-sm… Can you write one? Drop yours below! ⬇️
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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
"If the state can deprive an individual of his freedom just because of his politics... then no one is safe. You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do you. Neither do I." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run
The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here’s what is happening to REUs (funded by the National Science Foundation); this administration is intentionally breaking the pipeline of scientists and mathematicians at each connection point. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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Trump’s cuts threaten key NSF undergrad research program
For decades, Research Experience for Undergraduates has been a golden ticket for students, funding summer research projects at top institutions. Now, at least a dozen are canceled.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
American mathematicians and scientists! Here is the list of representatives on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. If any are your reps, please call and advocate to protect NSF/NIH funding! republicans-science.house.gov/_cache/files...
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
You know what to do, Americans!
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
US citizens, I’m urging you to call your reps in congress to advocate for funding for the NSF & NIH not to be cut! www.ams.org/government/g...
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AMS :: Take Action
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
www.wired.com/story/nation... 🤬🤯
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation issued a press release regarding Sen. Ted Cruz's investigation into NSF funding that was "diverted toward questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda."
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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This has to be one of my favorite issues of MAA FOCUS. We have a beautiful feature on math and travel. Check it out! digitaleditions.walsworthprintgroup.com/publication/...
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MAA Focus February/March 2025
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/02/2025
Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This by M. Gessen is clarifying: “There are many good reasons to accommodate budding dictators, and only one reason not to: Anticipatory obedience is a key building block of their power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
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Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey (Gift Article)
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Can’t believe I’m typing this but… FUCK IT IM PLANNING A STAND UP FOR SCIENCE PROTEST IN DC. If you want to be involved, be dm me. I’m nervous, I’ve never done this before, but we gotta be the change we want to see in the world.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Math peeps: Tell your students!
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Allison Henrich @allisonhenrich1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Topology and cosmology! Fascinating to hear about how scientists might infer the shape of the universe!
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖
A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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Brian Moore @brianmoore.com · 06/02/2025
made this little tool, govwayback.com. add “wayback.com” to “.gov” on any US gov website and it’ll redirect you to that page on @archive.org … from before January 20th 2025
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Dr. Marissa Kawehi Loving @marissakawehi.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I printed these out and put them all around our departmental common room today. Hoping to spark some conversations about the current state of things.
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John Golden @johngolden.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
3 days! sites.google.com/view/ourfa2m...
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