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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 5h

This is one of those soups that even tastier the next day 😊 #Food #Fall #Soup #Pumpkin

Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

[Vegetarian food pic] You know that fall has arrived when you're cooking with pumpkin 😋 Recipe by Yotam Ottolenghi: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/20… #Food #Fall #Soup #Pumpkin

A plate of clear soup with chunks of roasted pumpkin, chickpeas and strips of lemon peel. Garnished with yoghurt, crispy chickpeas and fresh coriander. Plate sits on a placemat with a spoon next to it. Reflect can be seen in a big soup pot.

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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

One of the hardest things when running (remote) scienrific group meetings: asking "who else has updates?" and then shutting up for half a minute until someone speaks up. I've seen a much more senior colleague do this and it's amazing how much patience matters. But gosh, is this hard.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I didn’t know that I needed a Shimshamarena in my life, but now that I have it, my brain can think of little else. youtu.be/y2Yw7lEd0Z4 #ShimSham #SoloJazz #Macarena #TaintWhatYouDo #Jazz #Mashup #Music #ToulouseHotClub #ShimShamarena #SwingDance #LindyHop

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@rieder I want to say that in regret to inform you that I’m still still very intense about grammar, but I guess I wouldn’t be me if I weren’t so now I’m not sure if I would regret it

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@Talia ugh, that sucks. Did they at least accept your work after all that?

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I have been invited to a ‘homo momo’ gay dumpling class

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@Talia LOL! I guess one of the reasons I'm nervous is that, when you've presented $n$ experiments, the reviewers are always going to want $n+1$. Since we have the space, and actually have more results that we *could* add, it makes me feel like we're being lazy by choosing not to. Still, I don't […]

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'm writing a paper and it seems like I'm not even going to hit the page limit? One of my mentors insisted that, if you have a truly good idea, it should not take more than three pages to convince a reader of its merits. I guess part of why I'm not hitting the page limit, is that I have 2 more […]

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Vandaag is het alweer 11 jaar geleden dat Mattia overleed. Toen was 1 oktober ook een donderdag. Ik blijf vannacht bij iemand slapen. Douwe Eisenga maakte een pianostuk ter nagedachtenis aan Mattia. Freek de Jonge maakte daar dan weer een gedicht bij. youtu.be/2PFeNWlmapQ Geef elkaar […]

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École des Bro-Arts @aphyr.woof.group.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Just heard a bank ad on the radio whose entire thesis is that they have real customer support people and won't make you talk to an AI chatbot

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

[Cornell gang rape case] Just me screaming into the void here. Throughout the years, so many people have sworn to me that they'd say something if they witnessed friends or colleagues say something inappropriate. Why, then, do I hardly ever experience that? Why am I so often the only one who […]

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julesh @julesh.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I noticed a small sign on a platform in Glasgow central station saying cctv footage is used to train AI models I guess you can opt out of it by walking to London

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

[Tits (not real, not birds)] Someone left a pair of tits at Santa Lucia’s altar and I’m confused. #LatourOnTour #Porto #Portugal

A pair of tits leaning against a rococo, guilded decoration, on a white tablecloth on an Asia that also had two yellow candles lying on it.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Today is a good day! My dad and I collect depictions of “Virgin and Child with Saint Anne” (or “Anna te drieën” in Dutch). There aren’t that many of them, so imagine my delight when I found one in the museum at St. Francisco’s church in Porto! #Art #LatourOnTour #Porto #Portugal

Close-up of a wood-carved polychrome sculpture of Saint Anne holding the Virgin Mary in her left hand and the baby JC in her right. Saint Anne wears an elaborate crown and stares into the distance

The full sculpture, almost entirely covered in gold.

The sign saying: Holy mothers (Saint Anne, Our Lady and the Child Jesus) polychrome, gilded, “estofado” wood. Portugal, 16th century, 160 x 56 x 42 cm

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

[Vegetarian food pic] @Sobex I find this funnier than I should. We definitely had deadlock situations where ppl either avoided eating the last “bit” of a sharing dish out of politeness, or because nobody actually liked it that much. Nobody wanted to order more food until all the current food […]

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

[Vegetarian food pic] @Sobex our best guess is that the waiter gave us the opportunity to share the soup? We were six ppl and it’s not a very big soup so I guess he figured that we would not want to split it between all of us?

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

[Vegetarian food pic] I got three spoons with my soup? More incredibly: the guy opposite of me teaches spoon carving workshops and *did not mention this* as we were discussing the three spoon logic‽ #Food #Soup #Spoons #Porto #latourontour

My hand holding up the soup spoons in front of a bowl of soup, with in the background a table with a bunch of finished dishes.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

[More explicit lewdness] Porto’s balconies are so far showing a much more feminine side than Lisbon’s did… #LatourOnTour #Portugal #Lisbon #Porto

A female mannequin (white with dark hair, makeup and rather prominent tits, with clearly visible nipples) sits naked on an ornate iron balcony, of a building clad in white and blue azulejos.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

[Mild lewdness] Yesterday’s train journey 🥲 #LatourOnTour #Lisbon #Portugal

A balcony with decoration that looks remarkably like five erect penises. The bit of building around the balcony is clad in white-and-blue azulejos, and there’s a washing line and the balcony.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I guess the inventor of the citrus press repurposed their early prototypes as decorations for the Jerónimos Monastery. #LatourOnTour #Upcycling #Lisbon

A stone decoration on the inside of a stone arch. Is vaguely floral, with the “flower” in the centre looking much like a citrus press.

A similar decoration, but with larger “ridges” for the citrus press part

A third decoration, but now with the citrus press part having many more ridges.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

[Mild lewdness] @christianp not sure how to interpret this 🫣

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I guess the inventor of the citrus press repurposed their early prototypes as decorations for the Jerónimos Monastery. #LatourOnTour #Upcycling #Lisbon

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@venite volgens de museumwinkel heet ze Carlota ❤️

Blue wooden pin in the shape of a walking cat. The packaging says “there’s a cat there! Her name is Carlota and she lives in the museum!”

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Aww they even showed a cartoon of the cat at the end of the video about the museum (but I was too late to take a pic)

Chapel where a video is perched on the wall. It is showing the end credits and we see silhouettes of ppl getting up after the show is over.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Another stop, many ppl got in. Rubbish minding their own business.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Oh for the love of lesbians. At the next stop one man (another one) got into “my” carriage, sat down opposite of me, then moved two seats over when he caught my dirty look 🫠 #LatourOnTour #Trains

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

It’s this empty. (I got up and moved to another carriage) #Trains #LatourOnTour

Pic of an empty train carriage with very colourful seats.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I’m in the front of the train. Walked quite a bit to get to the part where there’s literally nobody. Like: 4 empty carriages in a row. The man who walked behind me on the platform got in, and sat down next to me. Men… why? #Trains #LatourOnTour

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mathstodon.xyz/@anna/11726797080518… I just realised that my autocorrect had "corrected" my "recursion" to "revision", so I edited this toot to correct that incorrect "revision" correction and I feel like somewhere there's a metaphor for life in here... My dad always says that […]

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Today at a family reunion, we wanted to take a group picture. We asked a passerby to be our photographer. As she was taking our picture, another passerby approached her and went: “shall I take it, so you can be in the picture, too?” She went: “Oh no, thanks […] [Original post on mathstodon.xyz]

Still from Six Feet Under. Nate (White man in his forties) leans over the shoulder of Claire (young ginger) as she takes a picture of the view, with the camera in fright of her face. Nate whispers “You can’t take a picture of this. It’s already gone.” In her ear.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

In related news: today marks 4 yrs since I got my doctorate, and I can’t say that my mental health has improved much since. @vicgrinberg

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Was at a reunion yesterday. One of my friends was bigging me up, encouraging me to tell ppl that I’m a professor, and to be proud of that. When I did, I was met with mostly concerns for my wellbeing, with ppl positing that academia in general and CS in particular is too misogynistic for me to […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

A Singapore newspaper asked ‘are Singaporeans psychologically prepared for a terror attack’ The top voted answer was ‘we are hardly psychologically prepared for a train breakdown!’ That made me laugh. But also, I’ve been thinking about how growing up in a place where (external) things mostly […]

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

As my friend just pointed out: at least that means that YouTube doesn’t believe that *I* am gonna die anytime soon.

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Dr. Anna Latour @anna.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

My YouTube algorithm knows me quite well. Which is why the fact that I’ve stumbled upon headstone and grave maintenance YouTube, worries me.

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