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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For those that have been following the recent MSU news....

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Today's random thought. The Ewok line is 1973. When is the Wingdings line?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/03/2026

I have spent my entire adult life watching women and trans folks quit pathways in STEM because they were assaulted and made to feel unwelcome Those were my friends. My study buddies. My classmates. Gone. Leaving me alone. It is hard on those of us who stay, too. A loss.

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Friends don't let friends make a college wide calendar event for their colloquium.

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Grant writing is 20% perspiration, and 80% WTF RESEARCH.GOV WHY WILL YOU NOT LISTEN TO ME!

A screenshot of research.gov stating that the uploaded file contains "no machine-readable text or images"

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Save the Date! ATMCS 12 is coming up fast, January 26-30, 2026, in Leipzig. More info at the link below, call for contributions coming soon! www.mis.mpg.de/events/serie...

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Bastian Grossenbacher-Rieck @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks · 22/07/2025

#MachineLearning loves data. #Topology loves shape. Let's bring them together! 👉The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) bridges both worlds, as I outline in a recent article in the Notices of the @amermathsoc.bsky.social Engage! 🧵1/n

An overview of the Euler Characteristic Transform, illustrated for a single Euler Characteristic Curve, i.e., the calculation of Euler characteristics along a single direction.

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Oh, right, that's why I never fly United.....

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Hahaha ok so first off, I was tipped off at the answer, and second, it's because the answer was my last name 😜

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I had given up on wordle for a while, but a friend gave me a heads up that my usual starter word was FINALLY the answer 😜😂😂🤣 Wordle 1,460 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Math professors for trans rights

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends: ℝ, ℂ, and ℍ.

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends.

Three kinds of planar geometry: hyperbolic, Euclidean, and elliptic

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The average American has three friends.

The Roman surface visualization of the real projective plane, RP^2.

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

the function of ChatGPT isn't *being* correct it's *looking* correct. often the two line up surprisingly well! but sometimes they don't!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · 22/04/2025

This feels existential for US science: To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work (e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.) No institution could *ever* comply.

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New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I am still in research and in academia because I found community in the WinCompTop research network. Beautiful work in the April Notices putting numbers behind the impact of these important networks. www.ams.org/journals/not...

Picture of women researchers from the WinCompTop workshop in 2016 at the IMA in Minnesota.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx

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Patrick Frawley @geisty.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart." - Haruki Murakami

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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

lmao Timothy Gowers made an April Fools joke that Grok had solved an open problem in graph theory and now Google is saying that it's a real problem and that Grok has actually solved it (Dubnový Blázen is Czech for April Fools)

Gowers' April Fools tweet:

It's finally happened: after several unsuccessful attempts, I found a prompt that got Grok to solve a maths problem (the well-known Dubnovy Blazen problem in graph theory) I've been working on for over a year. How long till it's better than human mathematicians across the board?

Google search result for Dubnovy Blazen problem in graph theory

The AI overview calls it a well-known problem that the AI model Grok solved after several attempts

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It is impossible to put into words what a force of nature Sayan Mukherjee was. The field of TDA is better for having him as a part of it. The world lost a wonderful person this week.

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Leipzig University and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences mourn the passing of Sayan Mukherjee

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Dr. Kimberly Ayers @kdayers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Today marks Equal Pay Day, how far into the next year women would have to work to make the same amount as a man in 365 days. But not all unequal pay is equal. For each $1 a white man makes: Asian American women make 93c White women make 80c Black women make 66c Latina and Indigenous women make 58c

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/03/2025

Circling back on this…

Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

So it honestly took longer to frame than to actually make, but I finally finished stitching Federico Ardila's axioms for my office! #mathsky

A cross stitch sampler with flowers that reads:
Axiom 1. Mathematical potential is equally present in different groups irrespective of geographic, demographic, and economic boundaries.

A cross stitch sampler with flowers that reads:
Axiom 2. Everyone can have joyful, meaningful, and empowering mathematical experiences.

A cross stitch sampler with flowers that reads:
Axiom 3. Mathematics is a powerful, malleable tool that can be shaped and used differently by various communities to serve their needs.

A cross stitch sampler with flowers that reads:
Axiom 4. Every student deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Congratulations to Dr Elena Xinyi Wang ( @elenawang.bsky.social ) for a fabulous and successful PhD defense yesterday! 🎉🎉🎉

Dr Elena Wang and her advisor Liz Munch standing in front of Elena's PhD defense slide

Dr Elena Wang presenting a slide from her PhD defense.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 11/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

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Dr. Courtney Gibbons (she/her/xlookup) @courtneygibbons.phd · 11/03/2025

We have got to stand against tyranny. None of what is happening to Mahmoud Khalil is moral, ethical, or legal.

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Ok, I know the world is burning, but my Escape Room team from the Spring Topology and Dynamics Conference got out so quickly we made it on the wall!

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Six Eyes Stitches @sixeyesstitches.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

#art #BluSkyArtShow #artyear Reading By Moonlight This is my biggest piece so far at 13”, it took a little over a month to complete. I love the details the most. Especially Frida’s scissors. All hand stitched with a double hoop. #handembroidery #spotlightart #doublehoop

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/02/2025

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

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