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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor

@chadtopaz.bsky.social
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Data science + math for social justice. Violist, yogi, husband, dad to human & dogs. 🏳️‍🌈 Views do not represent my employers. Author of Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change. Order at: bit.ly/4nT7qUh

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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 10h
And just to follow up on this… because I came to the social sciences through a weird route, I don’t have a Membership Card and this has been extremely challenging.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 10h
Seeking help from social scientists. I am despairing about what to do with one of my papers. If you edit a journal in sociology or adjacent (or even a multidisciplinary journal) and don’t have secret unstated journal rules and aren’t a dick and reply to emails in less than a year, ping me? 🙏🙏🙏
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 11h
Some of these practice questions are (literally) like "is hypoglycemia low blood sugar or high blood sugar?" And then some are like this. 👀
Which are eiconsanoids? (Select all that apply.)

- Prostglandins
- Leukotrienes
- Thymosin
- Thromboxanes
- Prostacyclins
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 13h
Giving myself $800,000. In Monopoly money.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know we hate Amazon. But... if you want to read my book and can't access/afford, for reasons I do not understand, the book is on BIG discount on Amazon now ($17 for hardcover, down from $28). It’s an optimistic and accessible book about data and justice and it’ll make you feel good. Justifiably.
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Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: Topaz, Chad M.: 9780691276151: Amazon.com: Books
Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change [Topaz, Chad M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequ...
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hi all! Here is my most recent data + justice newsletter blast, out just now. You can learn about data shenanigans in the federal government and you can feel some hope about a new-ish law in California. And... you can learn about how my book has found its way to Europe. Read, share, subscribe!
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Unlocking Justice overseas, the U.S. census, and a California law
Dear friends, This month, I have news about Unlocking Justice in the European press, proposed changes to the U.S. census, and a California law that lets...
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My life is confusing because in one part of my life ACS = American Community Survey and yet in a different part of my life ACS = Acute Coronary Syndrome.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love this game ("Worst Interview"). Hard for me to choose between the school that insisted on referring to my (same sex) husband as my "friend," the one that was intent on knowing what kind of church I'd be attending (answer: none) and the one with the dean who thought insulting me was super fun.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I cannot. We are truly living in hell. feno.co
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The World’s First Connected Smartbrush: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Smarter, Insightful Brushing
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I hereby volunteer to guest lecture about racial justice (and data) for any UT classes that will have me.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Excited to share this interview I did with a Dutch news magazine! I have no idea what it says but the interviewer was genuinely completely delightful and awesome and was very kind about his interest in my book. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Een Amerikaanse wiskundige laat met databestanden zien hoe onrechtvaardig het rechtssysteem kan zijn
Discriminatie: De activistische wiskundige Chad Topaz gebruikt dataonderzoek „om ongelijkheid aan te pakken”. Hij hoopt dat juristen meer kennis opdoen over kansberekening en statistiek.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Proudly presenting my "100/30" rule: doing 100% of the strategies makes life 30% better. And is worth it. So, for sanity this week, I - Took social media off phone - Got rid of "Daily Reads" bookmarks - Re-started meditating - Re-started journaling - Quit 3 things - Cut 5 optional to-dos - Napped
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What if "academia" was just the friends we made along the way?
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am just dying inside about this. I mean hey, if this is how it's gonna be, maybe my former dept could just AI some Black folx up in there.
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Stanford Used A.I. to Swap Black Student for Hispanic Student in a Photo
Universities have been accused of doctoring photos to showcase diversity in the past. In this case, a Black woman replaced a Hispanic young man, who said it was upsetting to be “erased.”
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just explained to a class of first years how academic publishing works and they were appropriately incredulous. "HOW much money do you make from publishing an article? Wait, you PAY money to publish an article??" From the mouths of babes.
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Huck Bennett @huckbennett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow does the post title bury the lede! I particularly like the pictured comment.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My child inexplicably loves living things, which is why over the course of his childhood there have been 3 dogs, 4 mice, a giant African millipede, etc. Today, he went to a reptile convention and came home with some type of snake. "What's its name" I asked. "Trouser." Trouser snake. I'm moving out.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I emailed a textbook author to point out some outdated material about sex and gender in his book. Now we’re pals, and he’s asked his publisher for an update. A small, happy story about some decent people still left out there.🧵
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I must be honest that I have been MASSIVELY struggling to figure out how to react to mathematicians who now very suddenly care about the human element of math, only in light of genAI stealing everyone’s work. The best response I have, meant sincerely, is welcome to the party.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
That time your "philanthropic" foundation quietly scrubbed "racial justice" from its website? Yeah, I tabulated that. Foundations weren't even direct targets of Trump's anti-DEI orders — yet many cut DEI language anyway. The Wayback Machine remembers. Updated preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
The Retreat from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Language Change on Large U.S. Foundation Websites, 2019–2025

Chad M. Topaz,
Benham Cobb,
Frances Lu,
Aniya Smith,
Nathan Zekarias

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, many US organizations, including large private foundations, publicly foregrounded language related to DEI. Beginning in 2023, a series of legal and political developments shifted the institutional environment: the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023), state-level anti-DEI legislation, and Executive Order 14151 (2025). Using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we construct a longitudinal corpus of archived web pages from thirteen large U.S. private foundations with established DEI vocabulary and track the frequency of sixty-seven DEI-related terms from 2019 to 2025. Among eight foundations with paired 2023 and 2025 data, six reduced their DEI word intensity; most terms present in the paired corpus declined, with race-related terms contributing the largest share of the drop. The aggregate decline on the full sixty-seven-term index is marginal (exact Wilcoxon p = .074, one-sided); evidence is stronger on the dictionary’s definitional core, the diversity-equity-inclusion triad and its variants (p = .031). The decline concentrates in the 2024–2025 window containing the January 2025 executive orders: eight of nine foundations fell (p = .020), with scattered movement earlier. Qualitative comparison of archived pages illustrates three pathways of retreat: elimination of equity framing, substitution of technical for justice-oriented vocabulary, and reduced prominence through site redesign. These patterns suggest institutional isomorphism operating in reverse—convergent abandonment amid shared political pressure—though our descriptive design cannot identify the mechanism. The findings establish an empirical baseline for tracking organizational communication about equity under political pressure.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Whoa my book just got a glowing review in a math journal, and the best part is the reviewer’s main complaint: she kept wanting more math, then remembered it isn’t written for mathematicians. Correct! It’s for EVERYONE—no formulas, just stories of data fighting injustice. I hope you will read it.
Screenshot of a book review from The American Mathematical Monthly. Header: "Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change. By Chad M. Topaz, Princeton University Press, 2026. 232 pp., ISBN 978-0691276151, $27.95. Reviewed by Kimberly Spayd." Section 1 is titled "YOUR INVITATION TO BE A MATH ACTIVIST." Spayd writes that the writing and publishing of Unlocking Justice is a political act in today's world: a proud invitation to work towards justice and equity in the criminal justice system using math and statistics, made accessible for a wide audience. She says it would be irresponsible and disingenuous to ignore the advocacy and resistance the book boldly encourages; instead she wants to amplify Topaz's activism and echo his invitation to readers to join the fight. To the question "why do they have to make math political?" she responds that math has been political far longer than Topaz or she have been around: the discipline's politics have promoted certain ideas and people while demoting and minoritizing others. Examples: infinite series, discovered by Madhava and Nilakantha three centuries before Newton and Leibniz but widely attributed to the western greats, and regression, developed by Galton for his still-reverberating eugenics agenda. On the other end of the spectrum, Topaz highlights data analysis and visualizations by Ida B. Wells and W.E.B. Du Bois that raised awareness of racial violence and countered racial stereotypes. Humans do math and bring their identities to their work; nearly everything is political now, including books, data, and knowledge. She argues that becoming a math activist is not accepting the slanderous accusation that higher education is liberal indoctrination; rather, it is academics' professional responsibility to enter political spheres and pursue answers with a critical lens, guiding students to draw their own conclusions—which, she concludes, is what Topaz does for readers of Unlocking Justice.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Making sure I don't wake up and accidentally drink a latte in the morning.
Sticky note on Mac computer desktop stating: Fasting bloodwork, bitch.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🧵🚨: Remember the recent #genAI cheating scandal at Brown? Everyone talks about the average score drop from take-home midterm to proctored final: 95.7 → 48.8. That number alone can't settle anything. But the released data can, and almost nobody has looked at it. So we did! Read on. #AcademicSky
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What exam scores can and cannot prove about unauthorized AI assistance: Evidence from a highly public classroom episode
In spring 2026, an economics professor at Brown University gave a take-home midterm and, after unusually high scores, made the final exam proctored. Among the 59 students who completed the course, ave...
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Oh, you'd like a thorough, scientific debunking of this terrible WSJ piece about alleged rises in allegedly destructive estrangement from parents? HOLD MY FREAKIN' BEER.
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The Number the Journal Doesn't Substantiate: A Response to the Wall Street Journal on Therapy and Estrangement — Chad M. Topaz
The Journal says a survey of some 7,000 estranged parents found a third who believed their child's therapist had influenced the cutoff. The nearest public survey can't be reconciled with that number, ...
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Starting EMT training today and I have a *very* slight case of first-day-of-school jitters. At age almost-52.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Researchers: ever had a journal critique your writing as "too direct"? Sit on your paper for 519 days? Lie to you about process? Tenured-and-promoted me can laugh this stuff off. More vulnerable scholars cannot. Hooboy am I pleased to have this piece out today in @insidehighered.com. #AcademicSky
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5 Bewildering Dispatches From Academic Publishing (opinion)
The journals are fine. Everything is fine.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Well I’m at band camp.* *Technically, it’s a chamber music festival and I’m a string player. But spiritually, it’s band camp.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.
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Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second — Chad M. Topaz
Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Dog #2 is unable to activate “down” mode for the steep stairs in our townhome. He stands at the top and whines to be carried. Helpless. Or so I believed, until I just caught him bounding down. Then he saw me, stopped midway, and whined. I actually admire the laziness + deception here. Impressive.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Confession. @katelynburns.com, every time I see you here, the first thing my brain does is
Lisa Simpson holding burning Ace of Spades card (Twin Peaks reference) with caption Burns' suit! Burns' suit!
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I want to thank everyone here for the amazing support and good cheer yesterday, my book's publication day. The kind words and pix of y'all with the book are deeply appreciated. I sincerely hope that it's a worthwhile read for you, and that it spreads some knowledge, humor, inspiration, and hope.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Today is — at long last — official launch day for my book, "Unlocking Justice." I wrote it to help and to be hopeful. Tradition says I post a pic of me with the book. 🤷‍♂️I'm overthrowing tradition and posting (abbreviated) acknowledgments. This book exists only because of so many people. I feel moved.
Acknowledgments page from the book Unlocking Justice by Chad M. Topaz. Text: My brilliant and magnanimous pre-submission editor, Nancy Rawlinson, made this book — to provide some data — 10 million times better than it otherwise would have been. I also received invaluable advice from two seasoned authors: Joel Derfner, who wrote Swish, Lawfully Wedded Husband, and other gems, and Sarah Rose, who penned the riveting D-Day Girls and For All the Tea in China. If not for Nancy, Joel, and Sarah, you would not be reading this book. I am equally grateful to the remarkable team at Princeton University Press, who believed in this book from the very beginning. My editor, Diana Gillooly, brought deep insight and rigor, strengthening the manuscript in countless ways. I also owe thanks to Whitney Rauenhorst, Molly Grote, Sydney Bartlett, Matt Taylor, Barbara Tonetti, and Terri O'Prey for their steadfast support, and to Maia Vaswani, my meticulous copy editor.cknowledgments, continued. Text: I owe much of my understanding of the world, particularly regarding race, mathematics, and the intersection of the two, to Dr. Piper Harris. Her generosity and clear-headed insights have helped me write a better book and become a better person. I often find reality confusing, and Piper has been an invaluable interpreter, making it make sense or explaining why it never will. I frequently tell her, "Stop being so wise," but quickly follow it up with, "No, wait — don't." Emily Meyer provided essential guidance during the early stages of my writing. Phi Su offered invaluable advice on navigating publishing. Fred Vars was instrumental as a writing accountability partner. Further feedback came from Spencer Brooks, Ana Ros Camacho, Darren Glass, Anna Haensch, Amy Kimpel, Elizabeth Kregor, Brittany Meché, Alex Montgomery, Oded Oren, and Rachel Roca. I am grateful to Isabel Chenoweth, who photographed me for this book and turned the experience into a joyful and affirming one. Cait Kirby and Régan Schwartz have been vibrant intellectual partners who helped me think more carefully about data.Acknowledgments, continued. Text: I'm indebted to my dear friends and family, Phoebe Cohen, Mea Cook, Meg Gibson, Gina Jae, Salley Koo, Elizabeth Kregor, Amanda Topaz, Jason Topaz, and Christelle Vincent for their constant wisdom, inspiration, and support. My colleagues Andrew Bernoff, Ron Buckmire, and Rustum Choksi are my benevolent professional-world uncles who have given me boundless support and mentorship. Victor Piercey's insights into quantitative reasoning within the legal domain greatly enriched chapter 4. I'm grateful to Andrew Robinson for advice on the chemistry example in chapter 8. I wrote much of this book at Williams College's Oakley Center, whose staff I thank for their support. The line between teacher and student often blurs in the exchange of knowledge. I am deeply grateful to all the students who have taught me. I especially want to acknowledge Utsav Bahl, Nicholas Goldrosen, and Christian Michael Smith, from whom I have learned so much.Acknowledgments, continued. Text: The research on art museum diversity in chapter 1 was a collaborative effort with Bernhard Klingenberg, Daniel Turek, Brianna Heggeseth, Pamela Harris, Julie Blackwood, C. Ondine Chavoya, Steven Nelson, and Kevin Murphy. My work on mathematics journal editorial boards in chapter 2 was joint with Shilad Sen. The research on police call rates in chapter 5, growing out of my organization QSIDE, was conducted by Anna Haensch, Daanika Gordon, Karin Knudson, and Justina Cheng. The bail research in chapter 4 was with Oded Oren and Courtney Oliva. Eli Miller and Bryan Martin joined me on the Rikers Island research in chapter 6. In chapter 7, Maria-Veronica Ciocanel, Rebecca Santorella, Shilad Sen, Christian Michael Smith, Adam Hufstetler, Nick Goldrosen, Shawn Bushway, and Shaoyang Ning explored federal sentencing with me. Utsav Bahl, Lea Obermüller, Sophie Goldstein, and Mira Sneirson were my coauthors on the COMPAS investigation in chapter 9. The chapter 8 analysis was carried out with James Cart, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Anelise Hanson Shrout, Jude Higdon, Kenan Ence (whose loss we mourn), Brian Katz, Drew Lewis, Jessica Libertini, and Christian Michael Smith. My QSIDE collaborators Christian Adams, Tyrone Bass, Alisa Malone, Zofia Stanley, and Karen Walker are the organization's mighty backbone. Finally, my deepest gratitude to Jude Higdon-Topaz and our son.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Harvard has just voted to cap grades: instructors may assign A's to a max of 20% of students (plus four) per course. The outcome will unfairly harm racially minoritized students and, through course evals, gender minoritized instructors. My new piece in Inside Higher Ed. #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Don’t Follow Harvard on Grade Caps (opinion)
The evidence suggests that limiting the number of A grades is not the way to go.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A federal judge had sex with a police officer in chambers, lied about it in writing twice, and got a private reprimand. The public can't learn the judge's name. The system worked, judges say, because no conflict of interest landed on the docket. I am not having it. Read and share. #LawSky
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The reprimand is sealed — Chad M. Topaz
A close reading of the Eleventh Circuit misconduct order affirmed in May 2026, and what it asks the public not to notice.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Since I was feeling a bit salty about math world over the last few days I decided to punish us all with this literal hell. You're welcome.
CAPTCHA-style puzzle asks “Select all images with sandwiches” and shows a 3×3 grid of foods, including a deli sandwich, hoagie, grilled cheese, hot dog, taco, pizza slice, hamburger, burrito, and ice cream sandwich.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I promise not to post every positive thing someone says about my book but since it's my first one and I am unreasonably excited I hope you will indulge me a little. I am so moved that people are getting something out of it. If you decide to read it I hope you do too: www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...
Professor Topaz's book, Unlocking Justice, uses lively writing and concrete data to illustrate how we can learn from data to make our society more just and equitable. He shares engaging stories and offers context for interpreting information to show how the sum of individual experiences is really the story of the structural application of our legal system. Only after understanding who we are and how we got here can we transform our criminal legal system
into a criminal *justice* system. Unlocking Justice is hopeful and galvanizing. It is fun to read and I'm filled with hope! I think it is particularly important to mention this as we grapple with the book's serious subject during a precarious moment in American history when we are collectively asking big questions about
how committed we are to democracy and justice.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
So, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes a brilliant (as usual) op-ed about genAI and some tech bro attempts to ridicule it. The guy, Mike Solana, is probably not worth my time but it seems he's gay and as a Gay, I am unduly annoyed by evil gays. Also, I'm bored. So here's my debunking of this guy.
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Receipts are receipts — Chad M. Topaz
A response to Pirate Wires on Tressie McMillan Cottom. Solana mocked her NYT column on celebrity AI promotion without disclosing that his employer Founders Fund is invested in the companies she critiq...
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I am very pleased to have this op-ed about the Federalist Society out as of just now. Except that I would be more pleased if FedSoc did not exist. #LawSky
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What 20,000 Federalist Society Events Reveal About the Conservative Legal Machine
On April 29, in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court rendered Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, in Justice Kagan’s words, “all but a dead letter.” The 6-3 decision reset the rules for challenging...
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Many of us are livid about Kickstarter's new "mature content" rules. Over the past day, I have looked at a decade of data to see who may be harmed. Comic artists. Gender minorities. Disabled, deaf, blind, queer, and chronically ill users. Sex workers. International creators. A data-driven look:
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Valued, then erased — Chad M. Topaz
Who Kickstarter's May 2026 mature-content rules quietly forbid, drawn from a decade of Kickstarter project listings.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Hey queers and our allies, you know how we've all been EXTREMELY BUSY for the past year ostentatiously not-shopping at Target? Please keep it up.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Goddess help me, I'm diving into the AI-in-math convo. Tim Gowers says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro did "PhD-level" math in an hour with no input from him. Terence Tao tells Nature the job description is changing. I wrote up what I think, including what could be lost: people, training, equity... #MathSky
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Cheap production, scarce judgment — Chad M. Topaz
A response to Tim Gowers on ChatGPT 5.5 Pro and AI in mathematics. On case selection, the jagged frontier, workflow, equity, pedagogy, and institutional governance.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Obviously. It's only legal when Republicans do it.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
If an op-ed is trying to come off as data driven, it really helps when the data says what the author claims it says. Annotated edition of an NYT op-ed that defends school phone bans, but with the actual findings from every paper cited. chadtopaz.com/rebuttals/os... #AcademicSky #EconSky
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Annotated Edition: Oster on Phone Bans (2026)
Critical analysis of Emily Oster's NYT op-ed on school phone bans. Annotated by Chad M. Topaz.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I am completely gobsmacked and honestly kind of emotional to hold a physical copy of my book in my hand for the first time. Just now. Available June 2 but you can preorder: www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...
Me holding a physical copy of my book for the first time
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
News: I am very honored and extremely delighted to be giving the Dr Mandawuy Yunupingu Lecture at the 2026 meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society this December. This lecture is dedicated to celebrating Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in math. 😍 Hope to see you in Perth! #MathSky
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Home - Australian Mathematical Society Inc. Conference 2026
Connecting Minds. Transforming Mathematics. The 70th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society, hosted by The University of Western Australia, Perth. About the Conference Welcome to the 70...
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🧵Here's a story of people doing things RIGHT in academia. Why? Well, I am not shy about critiquing higher ed and associated industries, so I figure it might be useful to share examples of good behavior. This is the story of the best rejection I ever got. It was from McGill University. #AcademicSky
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
@yale.edu released a report on why the public (allegedly) doesn't trust higher education. The @nytimes.com covered it uncritically. So... I'm "pleased" to unveil my next debunking: an interactive annotated doc that points out factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Enjoy! #AcademicSky
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Annotated Edition: Yale Trust Report (2026)
Critical analysis of the Committee on Trust in Higher Education report. Annotated by Chad M. Topaz.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Another professor wrote a campus paper piece arguing that the economics gender gap is mostly biology. This... did not survive close reading. So because I am this way, I made an interactive annotated edition cataloging the factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Wheee... Enjoy! #EconSky #AcademicSky
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Annotated Edition: "Why sex-ratios in majors might be more than just bias"
Line-by-line notes on factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Annotated by Chad M. Topaz.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Dear University of Iowa, I am, uh, a lot more qualified than Chris Rufo and would gladly come speak for LESS than $34,000, call me. Also, the actual conceit of my platform will NOT be that you should cease to exist.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Disclosing for first time: I’m thinking of how I resigned from the SBE Committee of Visitors (basically, external review) a year ago because I wanted our report to address Trump’s cuts/directives and NSF leadership’s compliance and I got told no, I was being too political. 🤷🏻‍♂️😭
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