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Emma R. Hasson

@dodecalemma.bsky.social
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Mathematician and Math Communicator I mainly study knots and braids, and mainly write for Scientific American Check out my articles: www.scientificamerican.com/author/e… And my seminar: sites.google.com/view/cuny-math-edc…

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h
this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I deeply enjoyed taking a break from AI news this morning to read about the mathematics of knitting! 🧶 (Incidentally written by a different Emma—@emmalgometz.bsky.social)
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Mathematicians invented a knitting stitch that stops mistakes from spreading
With a little help from knot theory, scientists have invented a “robust knit” to fight laddering
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just had a WineCrisp for the first time From my local farmers market🧺! It was delightful! Possibly my new favorite apple. 🍎🍏
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Buckets of Fish! I love Buckets of Fish!!! So nostalgia. It was the first game we ever played in intro to proofs in undergrad <3 <3 <3 (My professor presumably learned it directly from JDH who was his advisor)
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(More detailed info to come on the email list. Link in bio!)
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥 Chaim Goodman-Strauss will be speaking further on this at the NYC Math Ed/Comm seminar on Oct. 6! 🔥🔥🔥 #mathsky
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yummmm—what a delicious way to start the new year. We had leftover onion mechshi (stuffed onions) in pomegranate molasses sauce.
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So real. I say “oh I’ve been busy from the holidays” and people go “Labor Day?” Or “not until after the holidays.” “So like, in January???”
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Highly recommend PRIDE (2014) as a Labor Day watch (or anytime⁠—it's one of my favorite films of all time) as well.
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And, tickle your brain with my accompanying math puzzle: www.scientificamerican.com/game/math-pu... 🧮 🪢 (By me for @sciam.bsky.social)
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Math Puzzle: A puzzling picture
Flex your math muscles with this weekend’s brain teaser. Play now
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Bring some math into your holiday weekend and learn about some ridiculous, fascinating, and absolutely terrible ways to hang a picture. www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
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Mathematicians discover the worst way to hang a painting
New solutions found to picture-hanging problems
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This. It’s the only kind of people that have ever or will ever be available. Waiting for perfect people to make positive change in the world or refusing to acknowledge the positive impact anyone who isn’t perfect is a great road to nowhere good.
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Very similar issues in mathematics. I've taught juniors and seniors in applied math who had never before been asked to solve a problem they hadn't been told how to solve.
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We've crossed paths with you a couple of times and I'm a big fan of your work⁠—I'll gladly endorse it <3 Ayliean brings a pure joy and levity to mathematics which is virtually unrivaled (and one I aspire to). Plus, she has impeccable style. ✨
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We're also looking for speakers for Fall 2026! You can email me or propose a talk in the google form if interested. (We welcome creative formats like workshops and discussion sessions.) 🧮
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CUNY Math Education and Communication Seminar
Sign up to the email list and/or propose a talk, workshop, or guided discussion
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This semester the CUNY Math Ed-Comm Seminar is becoming the NYC Math Ed-Comm Seminar!!! If you're in the greater NYC area and interested in creative ways to communicate about mathematics, recreational math and/or math art, check us out! sites.google.com/view/cuny-ma...
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CUNY Math Ed/Comm
We meet on Tuesdays from 12:15-1:15pm to learn about, discuss, and practice all forms of math education and communication Sign up for the email list or to propose a talk!
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is the best Bluesky post I have yet seen I decided
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Birman is a true icon (and a fellow Jewish woman mathematician from NYC). Her work inspired me to study braids, and continues to inspire me almost daily. This is my favorite clip of her: youtu.be/SKcx7T0VjgY An incredibly accomplished mathematician and a brilliant expositor 🪢 🧮
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Do people still use this reaction image?
I'm in this photo and I don't like it
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SciAm Union @sciamunion.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Sign the open letter to support Scientific American workers against devastating cuts and union-busting wgaea.st/sciam-letter
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Crushing. So many true losses for SciAm. I love your work and hope to see it up elsewhere very soon <3
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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Welp. I don't know what this means for the magazine's future, all the people involved, or my own writing personally. I'll let y'all know when I find out more.
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Actually just found out the Knicks won from the people screaming a few blocks away lol go sports! <3
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
P.S. Did you see WhatsApp changed their soccer ball emoji to the Trionda??? Delightful!
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Check out this awesome collection featuring one of my favorites! (A year ago it required quite a bit of investigative work to piece together what the panels would look like from a few leaked photos. Now you can see the ball in play on the world stage!!!🏟️🧮)
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The Surprising Math and Physics behind the 2026 World Cup Soccer Ball
Here’s how the new tetrahedron-based design for the “Trionda” soccer ball may affect next year’s big game
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Non-Euclidean Dreamer @noneucldreamer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Drawing Links! Isometric Paper is fun. 😁 #mathart
Links of 1 to 3 rings only using straight sections with right angles
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
And another article by me for @sciam.bsky.social up this morning! Featuring linguistic puzzles, a high-stakes competition and the story of the unendingly passionate and enthusiastic people behind them! 📖
scientificamerican.com
Can you solve these language puzzles? Test your skills with these problems from North America’s biggest linguistics competition
For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Read about some cool new math results about tournament brackets in this super-short-turnaround piece I did for @sciam.bsky.social Featuring March Madness!!!🏀🏀🏀 (and a “presidential fighting tournament”👨🏼‍⚖️???) www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧮🧪
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The math of March Madness brackets
Or When can mathematicians reverse engineer basketball tournament results from your friends’ brackets?
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Let's just say I referred to basketball games as "matches" throughout an entire article without a second thought. Apparently people don't call them that. Thank goodness for editors.
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Anyone know anything about basketball? If I'm gonna be a person who has written multiple articles about the math of sports, I'd better start learning something about sports.... 🏀
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#mathsky
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Happy Pi Day everyone!!!
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Sarah Lewin Frasier @sarahexplains.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Thanks @dodecalemma.bsky.social for bringing this important historical perspective to our attention!
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Obsessed with this article, all past and future math puzzles I write are officially dedicated to the raccoons. 🦝
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
And, check out the @sciam.bsky.social Pi Day landing page to help you prep for Pi Day this Saturday 3/14 and bring some mathematical joy into your life!!! 🧮🧪🥧 www.scientificamerican.com/report/the-s...
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The Science of Pi
The number pi emerges from one of the simplest, most symmetric shapes, yet it gives rise to endless complexity. This Pi Day, find out about some of the fascinating places pi pops up and the burning qu...
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Pi Day content begins! 🥧 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... I had a lot of fun working on this piece for @sciam.bsky.social about the wacky places that pi arises in random values. And as always, so grateful to @unamandita.bsky.social for her gorgeous graphics. I hope you all enjoy it!
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Find pi today just by flipping coins
Random coin flips, floppy needles and mathematical mysteries reveal pi in new ways
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Transitioning from academic to journalistic writing takes practice but it's a lot of fun!!!
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
And, keep an eye out for some awesome Scientific American Pi Day coverage coming soon!!! 👀 🥧
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
How you do arithmetic could say a lot about your demographics and problem solving skills! Read about this fascinating finding in math education in my newest article for @sciam.bsky.social 🧮✨ And build your skills with my accompanying math puzzle! www.scientificamerican.com/game/math-pu... #mathsky
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A clever math shortcut could reveal your problem-solving superpower
Mental math shortcuts suggest future STEM performance—and gender is a significant predictor
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Ayliean @ayliean.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Small Rhombicosidodecahedron if u even care. I know it can be made with a single (incredibly long) modelling balloon because every vertex only has four lines coming from it, so it has an ✨Eulerian path✨
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Amanda Montañez @unamandita.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🚨new shape just dropped🚨 (by @dodecalemma.bsky.social with graphics by me) www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...
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This New Shape Breaks an ‘Unbreakable’ 3D Geometry Rule
The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer
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Want to See the Best Fall Colors This Year? Science Has the Answer
If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#mathsky 🧮
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Wanna dive into a delightfully nerdy corner of math? 🧵🪢⭕ Knot theory is a growing field with deep ideas and surprising connections—and in my new piece for @sciam.bsky.social, you can try it out yourself through interactive puzzles! I had so much fun with this new format. Hope you enjoy it too!
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Can You Solve Math’s Knottiest Puzzles?
Learn the fundamentals of the burgeoning field of knot theory while solving some puzzles along the way
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
My new favorite quote about AI: “The entire paradigm makes no guarantees about what it will do in novel contexts. [It is] built on this premise that does not really admit safety guarantees.” -Alex Cloud
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/subl... Funky fact about the way that AI learns. I had a lot of fun writing this piece for @sciam.bsky.social
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Why Does This AI Love Owls? Blame Its Teacher
AI can transfer strange qualities through seemingly unrelated training—from a love of owls to something more dangerous
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Writing stories like this for @sciam.bsky.social, and getting to speak to all the people involved who are brilliant and so committed to making other people's lives better always gives me hope. I hope you all enjoy! 🧪🧠
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This Brain Implant Can Read Out Your Inner Monologue
A new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping people with ALS and brain stem stroke communicate fast and comfortably
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It's a weekly seminar held at the CUNY Graduate Center. We have talks, workshops, discussions, etc. all about topics in math education and communication. Some sessions are focused on prepping for teaching or talks, others are aspirational, and some are just fun, like our math art show-and-tell!
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#mathsky
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Emma R. Hasson @dodecalemma.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
If you are or know any compelling math educators (especially undergrad) or communicators in the NYC area who might be willing to speak, please contact me or send them my way. It's so crucial we know how to effectively educate and share the beauty and importance of our work, especially these days!!!
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