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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1/4🧵 “Don’t compete against people in your head.” You can prepare for an Olympiad for years, but it all comes down to a few hours.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/4 ❓ Arjun Gupta 🇮🇳 #India spent years learning to stay with problems that could take hours to crack. He says Olympiads also strengthened something more fundamental. “My Olympiad journey has helped me nurture my inner ‘why?’”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1/2 🧵 All countries can benefit from a national policy to develop exceptional talent. This includes countries like Belgium, as explained here in the country’s main business news outlet: www.tijd.be/opinie/colum... Article in Dutch. Browser translation works well.

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Frederik Anseel | De andere 1 procent

Vroegere identificatie en voorbereiding van toptalent is cruciaal. We doen het in voetbal, maar niet voor cognitief toptalent.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1/4 🧱 For Yunxin Hu 🇧🇬 #Bulgaria, physics is at its best in the “aha” moments when an idea suddenly explains the world around her. “I think breakthroughs need a strong theoretical foundation.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/4 🔢 Before starting university, Istvan Adam Molnar 🇭🇺 #Hungary had already begun teaching himself about ordinals, simply because he was interested. “If I’m excited about something, I don’t wait—I explore it.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/4 🧩 For Boris Mihov 🇧🇬 #Bulgaria, confusion is just the first stop on the road to fun. “Math and computer science feel like a huge puzzle or a painting.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

1/4 🧮 Stepan Semyrenskyi 🇺🇦 #Ukraine enjoys seeing how different parts of mathematics can work together. He saw this firsthand when a combinatorics problem required linear algebra he had not yet studied. “It’s important to keep all branches in mind to see their connections.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/2 🧵 Do you help students prepare for Olympiads, especially the International Mathematical Olympiad #IMO or the International Olympiad in Informatics #IOI? Or do you know someone who does?

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/4 🧪 Ask Janko Popovic 🇷🇸 #Serbia whether he prefers physics or chemistry, and his answer may depend on when you ask. “I use one field of study to rest from the other.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/4 💻 Ihnat Zharikhin 🇺🇦 #Ukraine finished competing in Olympiads, but felt his story with the community wasn’t finished. “I think that’s how it should be: older students inspiring and helping younger ones.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1/4 ⚙️ Winning IMO gold was Mikhail Raikhman 🇧🇾 #Belarus’s main goal for two years. Now he is thinking about a problem no one has solved. “I’d be very happy if I could solve a famous open problem in an area I’m good at, like the Riemann Hypothesis in number theory.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The full program for the upcoming Talent Economics Conference organized by GTF and EIEF is now live. It brings together researchers across economics and related disciplines working at the frontier of the economics of talent.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

1/4 🧠 Mateusz Wawrzyniak 🇵🇱 #Poland has used AI to benchmark Olympiad problems, but for him, that’s barely scratching the surface. “I’m really excited to learn about artificial intelligence. It’s a very popular topic, and it’s hard to understand how it works.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

1/4 Congratulations to Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman, the 2026 Fields medalists.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1/4 A WhatsApp group. One big idea. Less than two years later, Africa now is hosting its second continental informatics Olympiad, bringing together students from across the continent. Here's the story behind the Pan-African Informatics Olympiad (PAIO). 🧵

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

1/5 💻 Andy Wu 🇦🇺 #Australia moved from solving programming problems to creating them. “I can come up with harder problems than I could ever solve in a timed contest because I have time to explore ideas from different angles.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

1/4 Five students, five 🥇 gold medals for 🇰🇿 #Kazakhstan at #IPhO2026 -- the world's top high school physics competition. Earning all gold is a remarkable achievement for any country, let alone a middle-income country of 21 million people.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1/4 #IMO2026 has come to a close in Shanghai 🇨🇳, with 117 teams taking part in this year’s competition. Top 5 teams: 🇨🇳 #China 🇺🇸 #UnitedStates 🇷🇺 #Russia 🇸🇬 #Singapore 🇻🇳 #VietNam

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

1/3 Participation in the first stage of Kyiv’s National Mathematics Olympiad rose from 2,725 students in 2024 to 6,800 in 2025, following changes that allowed students to register directly for regional competitions.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

1/3 Congratulations to all IMO 2026 contestants on completing both contest days in #Shanghai 🇨🇳. After months and years of preparation, it all came down to two days of mathematical problem-solving at the highest international level for pre-university students.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

1/4 Hundreds of students with exceptional mathematical talent are gathering for International Mathematical Olympiad 2026 in #Shanghai 🇨🇳. Yet their preparation began long before they arrived.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1/4 The International Mathematical Olympiad – the world’s top math contest for high school students – is underway in Shanghai. #Ukraine has won 182 International Mathematical Olympiad medals since 1993, building one of the world's strongest traditions of mathematical excellence.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

1/4 🧠 Daniil Shvaiko 🇺🇦 #Ukraine says difficult math becomes easier to work through when it shows up in problems. “I try to make it interesting for myself. For me, solving problems is the most fun part of math, and through problems, you naturally learn the concepts.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

1/4 🔍 Alp Terliksiz 🇹🇷 #Turkey says the hardest physics problems are often the most rewarding. “If I can solve a problem in three hours, it probably means I already knew how. But the problems that take days are the ones that teach you something new.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

1/3 🏛️ 🚨Call for papers🚨: Talent Economics Conference Global Talent Fund and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance invite submissions. #Rome 🇮🇹 📍22–23 October 2026

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

1/4 🧮 Aleksij Tasikj 🇲🇰 #NorthMacedonia, says becoming national champion for the first time remains his most thrilling math contest memory. “Compared to becoming national champion, obtaining the IMO gold feels more reserved, given how much longer the journey to it is.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1/5 🧬 Vedant Sakre 🇮🇳 #India first became interested in biology through a school project on immunity boosters and what it revealed about how the body works.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

1/4 🧠 Math took up most of Casper Heimel 🇳🇱 #Netherlands’s time in school, but Olympiads kept showing him how the same style of thinking could be used across a wide range of disciplines. “In school tests, you usually go directly from problem to answer. Olympiads make you bridge a much bigger gap.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

1/4 🧬 Emily Wong 🇬🇧 #UnitedKingdom was leaning toward physics. But a decision to sign up for a biology competition “for fun” revealed the problem-solving side of that field. She was hooked. “It's directly applying science to improve people's quality of life. That really spoke to me.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

1/5 🧠 Oles Hordiichuk 🇺🇦 #Ukraine is excited to finally explore Galois theory, and more, in depth at university.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

1/4 🧠 After two years of military service, Xing Yang Shen 🇸🇬 #Singapore came to university eager to return to math and finally dive into the proof-based side of the subject.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

1/5 🧭 For Parsa Saberi 🇮🇷 #Iran, Olympiad math was most exciting when it pushed him beyond familiar methods and into new ways of thinking.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

1/4 📘 For Leonardo Henrique Fakhreddine Maldonado 🇧🇷 #Brazil, one of the rewards of university math is getting past competition problems and into the deeper structures behind them.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

1/7 🧮 Regional Olympiads are a great way to include more students in competitive math, and it is always exciting to see a new one begin.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

1/4 ♟️ For Filippos Athos Chatzichristofi 🇨🇾 #Cyprus, the appeal of a hard problem is not just solving it, but finding a better way through it.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

1/4 🎹 Hanks Chong 🇭🇰 #HongKong was pulled into informatics through a school computer club, but his tastes include math and music as well.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

1/2 ✨ May the Fourth is a good moment to celebrate the students, mentors, & communities tackling hard problems around the world — and perhaps some day in galaxies far, far away. At Global Talent Fund, we identify extraordinary young people & connect them to opportunities that help talent thrive.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

1/3 🌐 Sometimes the first math community is online. For Archit 🇮🇳 #India, #ArtOfProblemSolving was that first place to find people who cared about the same problems. Archit is a GTF BIG Talent Scholar (starting 2025) studying Mathematics and Computer Science at @stjohnsox.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

1/4 🎤 Some Olympiad memories happen far from the exam room. For William Harwood 🇬🇧 #UnitedKingdom, it was the bus rides. “We’d connect someone’s phone to the speaker and sing karaoke all the way to the exams and museums.”

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

1/3 ⚛️ For Amir 🇰🇿 #Kazakhstan, the hardest part of #Olympiad physics was training for the experimental round. Amir is a GTF BIG Talent Scholar (starting 2025) studying Physics at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

1/4 📚 For Magdalena 🇵🇱 #Poland, mathematics was part of her world from a young age, shaped by parents who are both mathematicians and teachers. Magdalena is a GTF BIG Talent Scholar (starting 2025) studying Mathematics at #TrinityCollege, @cam.ac.uk

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

What can one person build with a clear idea and persistence? During #EGMO week, we’re highlighting one coach and #womaninmaths who GTF is proud to support: Maya Chouikrat. Maya is a driving force behind Algeria’s mathematics and informatics Olympiad programs — and a medical student. Thread 👇

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

1/3 🏁 #EGMO2026 is complete. Congratulations to all contestants, and thank you to the organizer Animath, team leaders, deputy leaders, coordinators, guides, and volunteers who made this year’s Olympiad possible. Across two exam sessions, contestants worked on 6 problems over a total of 9 hours.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

1/2 🏆 Both exam days of the 15th European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad 2026 are now complete. Congratulations to all contestants. Two days of tackling problems spanning combinatorics, number games, functional equations, sequences and inequalities, geometry, and number theory. #womeninmaths

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

1/2 🏆 The 15th European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad 2026 is now underway in Bordeaux, 🇫🇷 #France. As a sponsor of #EGMO2026, GTF is glad to see this year’s competition begin and wishes all contestants, coaches, and local organizer Animath a great week. Bonne chance!

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

1/4 🤝 For Laszlo Bence Simon 🇭🇺 #Hungary, the best part of competitions was never only the score. It was the friendships and the time spent thinking through problems together. Laszlo is a GTF BIG Talent Scholar studying Mathematics at #TrinityCollege @cam.ac.uk (since 2024).

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

1/4 Announcing: A $40M commitment from #XTXMarkets to @globaltalentfund.bsky.social Many exceptionally gifted young mathematicians and scientists never get the chance to develop their talents. We are working to change that.

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

1/3 👩‍🏫 Some students finish Olympiads and stop competing. Kevin kept going by teaching and creating new problems for other students. Kevin Adi Senjaya 🇮🇩 #Indonesia is a GTF BIG Talent Scholar (starting 2025) and studies Mathematics at @stjohnsox.bsky.social

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Global Talent Fund @globaltalentfund.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

1/3 📐 For Sida Li, geometry was the starting point that stayed with him. Sida 🇬🇧 #UnitedKingdom is a GTF BIG Talent Scholar (starting 2024) and International Mathematical Olympiad Bronze medalist (#IMO 2022, 2023), studying Mathematics at #TrinityCollege, @cam.ac.uk

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