Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026IAS has an AI advisory group soliciting our comments on how to advise AI companies around sharing math results. agmai.orgagmai.orgagmai.orgVisit the post for more. 000
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tech sector pretty explicitly saying that they intend to do the thinking for us 010
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ask arXiv to add a toggle to state whether chatbots can train on your work: math.mit.edu/~elmos/petit...math.mit.eduGive Authors Control — A Petition to arXiv 011
Reposted by Ben Blum-SmithTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 422052926
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I'm just glad that Furiosa relinquished Jason Bourne in time for him to stop Batman from killing Spider-Man 000
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 25/05/2026This feels weirdly anachronistic but um... new research?! We figured out something awesome about how the degrees of polynomials required to span the rational functions over the field of invariants is related to the degrees needed to generate the invariants. authors.elsevier.com/a/1n9jzRELwrZHauthors.elsevier.comPlease wait whilst we redirect youAll content on this site: Copyright © 2026 Elsevier B.V., its licensors, and contributors. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies. For all open access content, the relevant licensing terms apply. 081
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Sister's album dropped mitpress.mit.edu/978026205146...mitpress.mit.eduStart with QuestionsWhat if classrooms were places where all learners have opportunities to work on projects and explore ideas that feel important to them? To have their voice a... 010
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Tomorrow in the NYU Center for Data Science Math & Democracy Seminar, Zarina Dhillon will be speaking on approaches to quantifying racial segregation. 5:30pm ET. Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...researchseminars.orgresearchseminars.org - View talk Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 031
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Tomorrow 5:30pm ET in the NYU Center for Data Science Math & Democracy Seminar: Dr. Daphne Skipper on geographic access to polling. Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...researchseminars.orgresearchseminars.org - View talk Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 000
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 02/06/2025This is a banger "And when students find these things difficult, we should remember that they very much are" - @sbagley.bsky.social 020
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Tonight at the NYU Math & Democracy Seminar, Bailey Passmore of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group on "Public Data & Human Rights". 5:30pm ET! Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...researchseminars.orgresearchseminars.org - View talk Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 020
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Math & Democracy Seminar at the NYU CDS in less than 90 minutes! Matthew Dahl, "Large Legal Fictions: Detecting Legal Hallucinations in Large Language Models". You can watch here (make a free account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...researchseminars.orgresearchseminars.org - View talk Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 000
Reposted by Ben Blum-SmithProf Christelle Vincent @xl772.bsky.social · 21/02/2025#MathSky the AMS survey is a good opportunity to point out the good things other societies are doing and ask for the same for math 0124
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 21/02/2025NYU CDS Math & Democracy Seminar is back in effect. First up: Lalitha Sankar, "Understanding Last Layer Retraining Methods for Fair Classification: Theory and Algorithms". This coming Monday, 5:30pm ET. Open to the public; sign up here (make a free account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...researchseminars.orgresearchseminars.org - View talk Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 010
Reposted by Ben Blum-SmithTrajan Hammonds @starlord37.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Last night I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n 501324490
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2024Getting a lot out of Chris Emdin and Sam Seidel's new podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...podcasts.apple.comFrom White Folks Who Teach in the Hood on Apple PodcastsEducation · 2024 020
Reposted by Ben Blum-SmithRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/07/2024Oh, a major loss. May her memory be for the revolution that brings us all to collective liberation. ❤️🔥npr.orgBernice Johnson Reagon, a founder of The Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock, has diedThe songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died at the age of 81. 018634
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 18/06/2024TIL that when a topologist / Hopf algebra person says that "this algebra is finite type over k", they mean something completely different than what a commutative algebraist means when they say the exact same thing 010
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 08/05/2024One more NYU CDS Math & Democracy Seminar this coming Monday (5/13) at 5:30pm ET: Cory McCartan, "Estimating Racial Disparities When Race is Not Observed". Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...researchseminars.orgresearchseminars.org - View talk Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 000
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 05/05/2024This is tomorrow! Open to the public <- that means you! 000
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 03/05/2024New NYU CDS Math & Democracy Seminar this coming Monday (5/6) at 5:30pm ET: Abigail Hickok and Mason Porter on using topological data analysis to study equity in access to polling places. Sign up here (requires a [free] account): researchseminars.org/talk/Mathand...researchseminars.orgresearchseminars.org - View talk Welcome to researchseminars.org, a list of research seminars and conferences! 055
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2024I am in a movie about math + democracy www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5a2... 321
Ben Blum-Smith @benblumsmith.bsky.social · 17/04/2024This is exciting: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 110
