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David Meyer

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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 52m
Began lecturing on Kelvin waves in my Intro to Math Modeling class @ucsdphysci.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social today.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Galway Kinnell, BlackBerry eating ⋮ the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making; … poets.org/poem/blackbe...
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Blackberry Eating
I love to go out in late September
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
6 year old Lian Yunzhi sets the women's world record for solving the 3x3x3 Rubik's cube: youtu.be/3taKdfnbU3M?...
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4.52 3x3 FWR/WR10 Avg Yunzhi Lian🇨🇳| 3.54 PR/WR17 Single | Wuhan Crimson Autumn 2026
YouTube video by CubeRoot
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@karinfischer.bsky.social, "There’s no shortage of fictional characters — think Elle Woods and Will Hunting — who can be found roaming Harvard Yard." www.chronicle.com/article/high... I don't think either _Legally Blonde_ or _Good Will Hunting_ ever places its main character in Harvard Yard.
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Higher Ed’s Harvard Problem
An exclusive club of colleges commands the public narrative. Does that come at a cost?
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1/ @nhannahjones.bsky.social, In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m... Short answer, yes. “Because these public schools admit students based on a single entrance test, Faraji and I have long opposed them”
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just read this paragraph in @philippullmanreal.bsky.social’s _The Secret Commonwealth_ and realized that captchas are a kind of catechism.
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Claudine Monteil @claudinemonteil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hier 15 septembre 2026, nous avons célèbre les 100ans de mon père le #mathématicien JeanPierreSerre, #médailleFields 1954, qui est passé au tableau et a raconté ses souvenirs mathématiques. www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
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Jean-Pierre Serre, un monument des mathématiques qui fête son centenaire
Le « Mozart des maths » a été mis à l’honneur d’un colloque organisé mardi à l’Institut Henri-Poincaré, à Paris. Ses travaux ont nourri plusieurs générations de mathématiciens et lui ont notamment val...
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heading home after a fortnight+ in England. It’s still sunny; I haven’t worn my rain jacket once!
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@perimeterinstitute.bsky.social remembers eminent physicist Rafael Sorkin, 1945-2026 perimeterinstitute.ca/news/perimet... “The extraordinary depth and breadth of his foundational work – and his refusal to be confined by disciplinary boundaries – perfectly embodied the spirit of Perimeter.”
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Perimeter remembers eminent physicist Rafael Sorkin, 1945-2026 | PI News
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Catherine Lovegrove mural, “Platform One” of Paddington Station.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
World Wars memorial for Great Western Railway workers, in Paddington Station.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, first engineer of the Great Western Railway, and designer of Paddington Station.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Nick Drake poem “Message from the unseen world” installed under Bishop’s Bridge Road in Paddington Central, for Alan Turing, born near here in 1912.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Marmite & toasties at StarbucksUK (which is not Starbucks since my app doesn’t work).
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This book, edited by Grybauskas, includes Tolkien’s alliterative poetic drama, _The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth_, the leader of the defeated Anglo-Saxon defenders. There is a statue of him, at age 68 (so I should have a few more good years!), at the end of the #Maldon Promenade.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Maldon is perhaps best known for Maldon Salt Co., but long before that company was formed, it was the site of the defeat of the Anglo-Saxons by the Vikings in August 991, described in _The Battle of Maldon_. I found this translation by Tolkien in a bookstore there on High Street.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ebbing tide in the River Chelmer estuary, from the #Maldon Promenade:
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Maldon Moot Hall was built in 1420 by Sir Robert D’Arcy. Coincidentally, yesterday in @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social Chapel I noticed the memorial floor slab of Sir Thomas Darcy, his great-great-great-great-great grandson.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Visited Maldon in Essex today. This is the 15th century Moot Hall, where the town council met for centuries. Having tea at Mrs. Salisbury’s we ran into Sue from this video: youtu.be/X3TnTVaBPbU?...
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My PhD advisor and dear friend, Rafael Sorkin, passed away Saturday night. I was thinking of him Sunday afternoon in the @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social Chapel while the organist was practicing. Rafael was not particularly religious, but he would have appreciated the music.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A quieter part of #Cambridge, the Coe Fen:
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Corpus Christi Chronophage Clock, designed by alumnus and horologist John C. Taylor www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/sec...
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Plaque memorializing Edward FitzGerald’s lodgings on King’s Parade when he was a student at Trinity College Cambridge 1826-30. His “translation”, _The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam_, was published in several different versions, in 1859, 1868, 1872, and 1879 (and posthumously, 1889).
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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m looking forward to visiting Washington State University Department of History and WSU Libraries on Monday September 14! See you there if you’re in the area 🗃️ Excited to share Alaska Native history! libraries.wsu.edu/blog/2026/08...
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September 14 Pettyjohn Lecture Describes Alaska Native History during World War II – WSU Libraries
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naviyuk @naviyuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Carolyn Forché Once Got the O.E.D. for Valentine’s Day www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/b...
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Carolyn Forché Once Got the O.E.D. for Valentine’s Day
“I haven’t finished it yet,” she says of the 20-volume gift from her husband. A new book, “Otherwhere,” collects 50 years of her poetry.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Chapel @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social where he studied w/o graduating, and wrote, “A mathematical problem” archive.org/details/cu31... ⋮ In which the circles make a pother Cutting and slashing one another, Bid the straight lines a journeying go. ⋮
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some of the sculptures @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social Barry Flanagan, _Bronze Horse_ Keir Smith, _Coastal Path_ Geoffrey Clarke, _Call it Hadrian’s Wall_ Danny Lane, _Empress_
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We started our very English day by visiting Flatford, where John Constable painted his most famous landscape, _The Hay Wain_. There is a lot of duckweed because the summer has been so hot. The model of the hay wain is at #Colchester Castle @colmuseums.bsky.social.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Memorial to the victims of the Essex Witch Hunts, imprisoned in the dungeons of #Colchester Castle in the 16th & 17th centuries.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Finishing off the most British of days w/the last night at the Proms (just on TV):
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My favorite part of the @ColMuseums at #Colchester Castle: a chainmail hauberk. It is very heavy!
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The #Colchester Vase at the Colchester Castle @colmuseums.bsky.social
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here’s the Sheepen Cauldron, on display at #Colchester Castle @colmuseums.bsky.social the oldest known bronze cauldron. It reminded me, of course, of Lloyd Alexander, _The Black Cauldron_.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Visited #Colchester Castle @colmuseums.bsky.social. Tombstone is of Longinus, born in what is now Bulgaria, duplicarius in the Roman army.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We even got to watch England international John Terry’s nephew, Frankie, play center back for @colu-official.bsky.social the last few minutes of the game.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
To get the full English experience* we joined the Blue White Army to watch @colu-official.bsky.social vs @crewealexandra.bsky.social. The U’s were leading 1-0 until a tying goal in the 94th minute! *Possibly the beautiful weather prevented an authentic English experience!
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jumbo Water Tower (1883), #Colchester.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Quaker Meeting House in #Colchester:
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Dutch Quarter in #Colchester has centuries of different architectures: here are a 17th century cottage, two 16th century timber-framed buildings, and the former Nelson’s Head pub rebuilt in 1891.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This trailing geranium is trying to escape!
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The recent shift in #Colchester politics (away from @conservatives.bsky.social, not towards Reform UK (~MAGA) like rest of Essex, but @labouruk.bsky.social) is anticipated by street names memorializing heroes of the Peasants’ Revolt: Wat Tyler & John Ball.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Zooming in from England to hear Javier Gómez-Serrano speak about "New Math + #AI Developments in Fluid Mechanics" cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/navier... "Please rewrite the paper!"
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Home of Jane and Ann Taylor, authors of “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” (1806) in #Colchester, England.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@jrothst.bsky.social, "There are fewer highly prepared students than there used to be." A completely ludicrous take. Read @ucsandiego.bsky.social report senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347... to understand why 2 students I know were rejected @ucsdadmissions.bsky.social & accepted at Ivies this year.
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A Researcher Adds What’s Been Missing From the UC Testing Debate: Nuance
A new brief by a prominent scholar argues that some criticisms of the University of California’s test-free policy are predicated on assertions that simply aren’t true.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Completely reasonable take on response to #AI in the context of college education by @harvard.edu Dean David Deming, interviewed by @bethmcmurtrie.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/harv...
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Harvard College’s Dean: ‘Everyone Is Using AI All the Time for Everything’
David J. Deming regards his approach as realistic. Others see it as defeatist.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m told that early holly berries presage a harsh winter here in England.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Flor Kent statue _Für das Kind / For the Child / Pro Dítě_ at Liverpool Street Station.
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I unearthed 😄 the reason for the statue of Captain Matthew Flinders at Euston Station: www.theguardian.com/science/2019...
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Lancashire cheese & onion pie with mushy peas for dinner at Great North Pie Co. in #Manchester:
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David Meyer @dajmeyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Two of the ubiquitous #Manchester bees:
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