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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I enjoyed the calculations in astrophysics which, within the same calculation, used both pi=1 and pi^2=10, in such a way that the final answer was accurate to 2 or 3 decimal places!

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If I remember correctly, this meme originated about 10 years ago, with the Gramsci via Žižek quote perhaps a bit earlier. It seems increasingly relevant for academia, if not the entire state of the world. Hopefully soon we will learn how to slay these monsters...

A colorful drawing of a smiling unicorn and crescent moon against a starry rainbow background, overlaid with text: “The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I taught myself to program as a child in order to help automate the design of maps and other game-like environments. Quite a lot of what you wrote resonates with the reason I became an academic in the first place. ❤️

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks for all the kind words! If you're interested in the kind of research mentioned in the blog, I wrote a book this year about procedural generation, game design and making things that make things. I talk a lot about culture, community and people, too: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/next-leve...

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i...

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"What are we even trying to do here?" Is what I have been asking many people in academia more widely lately. It is long past time for us, across *all* fields, to rethink the faux-meritocracy of numerical metrics (# of papers, citations, etc). We really should decide and reward what we truly value.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Much of it varies in different ways between fields/individuals, but it is often valuable to spend some time at least building an internal epistemology/set of terminology around "theory/model/heuristic/empirical..." etc. This is also very useful IMO, if long. plato.stanford.edu/entries/mode...

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Models in Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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MACSYS @macsys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📢Come work with us in sunny☀️Brisbane! We are looking for an applied mathematician to join our Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT. 👉 qut.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm... @smbmathbiology.bsky.social @mjsimpson.bsky.social

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@oneofmanychris.bsky.social could be worth seeing if people in the BSI are interested in this!

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James Briscoe @jamesbriscoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our latest paper on building models of cell fate decisions -with David Rand, Marine Fontaine & @joadelas.bsky.social- combines developmental biology, dynamical systems theory and bioinformatics. I wrote a short piece to summarise it & explain ideas behind the approach briscoelab.org/blog-quantif...

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Quantifying Waddington's Landscape | Briscoe Lab

I have written before about how two conceptual frameworks have shaped our thinking about cell fate, Waddington's epigenetic landscape and Davidson's gene...

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Chuliang Song @clsong.com · 21/09/2026

My PhD advisor Serguei Saavedra has assembled an amazing Editorial to launch a new free-to-read, free-to-publish journal in ecology!

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You may enjoy this really fun blog post by this random guy on the internet ( 😉 ) that involves some extraordinarily massive integers being the end of some finite pattern: johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2018/09/20/p...

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Patterns That Eventually Fail

Sometimes patterns can lead you astray. For example, it’s known that $latex \displaystyle{ \mathrm{li}(x) = \int_0^x \frac{dt}{\ln t} }$ is a good approximation to $latex \pi(x),$ the number …

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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM is awarded annually to women recently promoted to Associate Professor or ..equivalent.. in the mathematical sciences. It provides a fellowship to spend a semester in the Math Dept of Cornell University without teaching obligations 👇🏼

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VisualPDE @visualpde.com · 20/09/2026

We've made some new changes to VisualPDE.com that we hope you'll like. Check out the simulation below of a 5-component "rock paper scissors lizard Spock" model, and see the news post about the changes here: visualpde.com/news/2026-09...

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of my favorite weboages from one of the greatest Computer Scientists: www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email... Curious what he'd think about LLMs...

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Knuth versus Email

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Rota also has a similar paper, with different conclusions: web.williams.edu/Mathematics/...

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Liam Ryall-Friend @liamryall-friend.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Last week I attended the Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology symposium at Durham University, where I had the pleasure of presenting a poster summarising my work. I also wanted to thank the generous organisers, @blindmath.bsky.social , Denis Patterson, Giulia Laura Celora and Valeria Giunta.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You might wnjoy a visit to Durham; each year there is a large union gathering where choice words about Thatcher are spoken! She (and others) were responsible in this region for not only harming Universities, but leading to widespread suffering, especially here... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_...

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Durham Miners' Gala - Wikipedia

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Politicians, companies, and academics are not entirely without blame, but many of the issues have been directly caused by University leaders making very short-term plans nearly orthogonal to core missions of teaching and research.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The whole UK is in a weird position. Beyond a handful of English Universities, almost all UK Universities have been in similar conditions, though the details vary a lot. Edinburgh in particular has had more legible administrative issues, but the bureaucrats UK-wide have really broken things...

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A number of reddit posts seem to suggest he dropped out of it. Though who knows what is real anymore!

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Alain Goriely @alaingoriely.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It all started with the lecture I gave at Gresham!

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't anthropomorphize the computers. They hate when you do that.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lots of unease about the future, but stuff like this is just great! Great work.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Among them, some of these excellent science writers who have been discussing the use and abuse of metaphors in science for the last few years... 😉

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We need to stop personifying and then blaming the AI. It's a terribly complicated machine, but still a machine. Making it some sort of super-organism is simply the tech bros flattering themselves.

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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today is the final day of the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology. This has been a great meeting with support from @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social, @durham.ac.uk, L'Oréal-UNESCO, and @esmtbio.bsky.social.

Photo of co-organizers Andrew Krause and Denis Patterson introducing rhe final day of the workshop.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you're wondering what has been going on in this domain, please do read this.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

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Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As part of the @durham.ac.uk and @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social symposium, Philip Maini (@oxfordmathematics.bsky.social) will give a Pascal Lecture on "Using mathematics in biology, ecology, and medicine". This event is open to the public, and will be held at 6pm BST in Elvet Riverside ER201. 🧪

Poster advertising the Pascal Lecture, which contains the following text

"Pascal Lecture
Durham & ICMS Symposium

Using mathematics in biology, ecology and medicine

Philip Maini FRS

A public lecture for a general audience -- everyone welcome

Date: Wed 9 September 2026
Time: 6:00-7:00pm
Venue: Elvet Riverside ER201"

There is also a picture of Philip Maini over a background of an image with a Turing pattern and text mentioning Philip Maini's affiliation of "University of Oxford, Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology"

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Honestly Sridhar, you have made many of us (especially me!) smile, laugh, and think deeply on many occasions. Other than having direct impacts on human beings, what other legacy could one ask for? ❤️

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

And as an inverse to that, as I go on and so much of my job becomes primarily about nurturing talent in others rather than doing my own research, I am now just more inclined to try and look for potential in work and ideas rather than flaws; that's what I do now, that's my primary function.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My advice is to be resilient. I only had about 30 rejections for permanent positions before securing one. People have between 5-100 such rejections typically. The only winning strategy is to be resilient, and OK with moving etc. Of course, such flexibility/uncertainty is itself a cost to consider.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

..unless you are very restricted to prestige/location, there are many opportunities that are possible. Especially in theoretical areas (e.g. mathematics and physics departments), there is a lower bar of productivity which is needed. But beyond that, much of it is idiosyncratic, and persistence wins.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I suspect whoever told you this has a particular view of academia, and this reflects them more than it does most academics. You will absolutely not be ostracized. There is value in being generally productive. And the job market is awful, with productivity being a minor lever you can control. But..

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The last one he's posted before, but the second half was only visible to followers after the 100,000th.

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The future of Carbonara should be web-based @oneofmanychris.bsky.social! 😀

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mgualt.bsky.social @mgualt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A letter to the math community, to appear in the Notices. In response to what I view as irresponsible messaging and unfortunate decisions from some mathematical leaders influencing many in my department. www.math.toronto.edu/mgualt/math-...

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Mathematics and the LLM: 2026 – Coordinate Change

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is also more of a collaborative nature in his work (e.g. his "equations" were mostly worked out by others), whereas people like Tesla can have more of a "lone genius" image. Even Einstein was hardly a lone genius and yet...

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A colleague in Durham maths is hiring a 3.5-year postdoc to work on wind energy modelling. A strong candidate with scientific computing and mathematical modelling is needed, with familiarity in geophysical fluids a plus. durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=26000968&src=JB10200

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Andrew Krause @blindmath.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Slightly different framing, but you and @lastpositivist.bsky.social's comments remind me of this piece: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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The University After AI

The postwar bargain at the heart of higher education is coming undone. What replaces it?

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