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heidi goodson

@goodsiephd.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Mathematics at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. I like bikes, powerlifting, and dessert.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've been thinking/wondering recently if it will start to be risky to apply for grants like NSF where you have to describe your research plans. If they're being fed into AI, could the problems then just be solved by them?
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the whole "AI slowdown" thing reminds me of something that I saw outside of a party in college. i was smoking a cigarette and watching a group of drunk fratboys try to slowly drive an SUV down a flight of stairs and into a courtyard.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of your best stories imo
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Hendrik De Bie @debiehendrik.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Emailed all (17) submissions in classical analysis today with the mail below. 8 papers already had a statement (1 of them that no AI was used). The AI statements I read were varying from rather imprecise tot very precise (1 of them).
Dear colleagues

I have seen that you have put a new preprint today on the classical analysis section of arxiv.
Congratulations on your new work!

I am sure you are aware of the tremendous, accelerating and complicated impact LLMs and AI have on our field (culminating so far in the news on Navier-Stokes last week).

For that reason, I plan to contact all authors in the classical analysis section (closest to my own mathematical niche) this week with the request to add an AI usage statement in their paper.
Such a statement could be:
-	No AI was used at all (e.g. see https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19207)
-	AI was only used for typesetting and language clean-up
-	AI was used in a research capacity (be explicit, see e.g. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.03651 or https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.18024 for some examples)
-	Funding received from AI companies, or early access to new models should be disclosed as well. Also be explicit about precisely which models you have used.

I think it is crucial for our community of mathematicians to know how new results have been obtained, and I strongly believe such a statement will be beneficial for us all.

All the best
Hendrik
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just want to do fun math with my friends, but I here to share an open letter about Mathathon, which is an AI and Math event being hosted at Caltech: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter about the Mathathon
The full text of the open letter is below. By signing this open letter, you consent to your name, title, and institutional affiliation being publicly displayed beneath this open letter. You can access...
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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Goodness. I've know Sasha Borisov since my PhD days and have a deep respect for his work. To hear that it's been used by the all-consuming #LLM machine in this way without credit upsets me a lot. #MathSky I presume this is the relevant arXiv paper? arxiv.org/abs/2609.05746
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On endomorphisms of affine spaces and the Jacobian problem
Let $p$ be a prime. We provide examples which show that étale endomorphisms of affine planes over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p$ can have fibers of arbitrary finite cardinal. ...
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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So it's getting clear that some of the math abilities AI models have become ❝superhuman❞ at is “not giving credit where credit is due”, like “failing to cite previous work on the subject that inspired you” and, worse, “stealing colleagues' ideas”. 🧵⤵️
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm not sure! If it's not being used "in a research capacity" then it doesn't seem to go against #3 (which is optional), but you would know best.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's important that we ensure that we have a next generation of mathematicians who can continue to build our field and have thriving careers. I am relieved that there seem to be many people who also feel this way and are willing to put in the work to take care of our community and profession.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I joined for a lot of reasons (even before the Navier-Stokes situation). For the past several months, it has felt like the only voices we have heard are those saying that it is inevitable that AI will become a major part of the math community. But it doesn't have to be that way!
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Louigi Addario-Berry @louigi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm proud to announce the creation of the Association for Human Mathematics. We aim to protect mathematics as a human endeavour against the threat of AI and to maintain the independence of the mathematical community from corporate interests. www.ahmath.org
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AHM
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Juliette Bruce @juliettebruce.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do not wade into discussions often, but I find the math community rallying around Alpöge, Buckmaster, and Coiculesco troubling. Like it or not by collaborating with Alpöge and using LLMs I think you are stepping outside of academic mathematics and into a PR war between Anthropic and openAI. (1/8)
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thanks for raising these points. It's hard to know what the reaction would have been had OpenAI not gone after the problem and it had been the original team (+Anthropic PR) putting out the solution.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I assume the OpenAI website wouldn't be considered a "Qualifying Outlet" for publication and so they won't be awarded the Millennium Prize. CMI and other orgs should probably revisit criteria for prizes asap to ensure community values are upheld. www.claymath.org/millennium-p...
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Rules for the Millennium Prize Problems - Clay Mathematics Institute
The revised rules for the Millennium Prize Problems were adopted by the Board of Directors of the Clay Mathematics Institute on 26 September, 2018.  Please read this document carefully before contacti...
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is not what our community values and they should be called out for it.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Even if you don't think there was plagiarism involved with the OpenAI solution of the Navier-Stokes problem, they admit they began working on the problem "after hearing a rumor" that others were close to a solution. The threw $22mil at the problem to scoop mathematicians.
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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And you have to ask yourself: why was it worth $22M to them? Because to them math is just their most successful PR bid, (since the claims of AGI aren't sticking). They are betting that the (false) claim "We solved math, so we can solve everything" will gain them way more than $22M in market share.
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Aaaaaand, the Health Department has published an evaluation of congestion pricing's effect on air quality. No major surprise that it didn't have a huge effect, but importantly it didn't INCREASE air quality in surrounding neighbs of concern a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPub...
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NYC congestion pricing report – Environment & Health Data Portal
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Micah Warren @micah541.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An under-appreciated advantage of paper maps/physical media is resistance to the will of a mad king
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
lol what is this a subtweet of
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020
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‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN
The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...
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Haydee, PhD @haydeelindo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Slides from Terry Tao Public lecture at #ICM2026 on "Mathematics in the age of AI" teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid...
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Greatest city on earth
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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Heidi on basketball: "I like the squeaks."
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Michael Barany @mjb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
Since September I've been working with an international group to develop what we hope can be a response from the mathematics community to artificial intelligence in maths. The Leiden Declaration is now posted and open for signatures: leidendeclaration.ai #LeidenDeclaration
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Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I support the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. Read and sign the declaration: leidendeclaration.ai
leidendeclaration.ai
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026
We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Also I have been using the same road bike since 2007 and I do not have electronic shifting lol
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Ah sorry I missed this earlier! I'm team Shimano, but I think it's all what you get used to.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Excited to announce that the application for Rethinking Number Theory 7 is open! This is a virtual research workshop with 6 excellent number theoretic projects. June 22 - July 3. Application on our website. Please share widely and DM me if you have questions! sites.google.com/view/rethink...
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Rethinking Number Theory 6 workshop announcement! This will be a remote collaborative research experience June 16 - 27. Applications are due May 1. More info is on our website. Please share widely! sites.google.com/view/rethink...
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Trump blinks. With less than one day to go before the feds' arbitrary deadline to end congestion pricing, DOT Sec. Duffy issues a 30-day extension as NYC electeds and MTA officials refuse to turn the toll off absent a court order.
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Trump backs off on deadline to end NYC congestion pricing
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy restated the administration’s demand for Gov. Hochul to end the tolling program, which charges most motorists $9 a day to drive south of 60th St. in Man…
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oinonio @oinonio.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“Nobody’s forcing you to take all this preemptive complicity,” Funder Axes Queens College Diversity Initiative Amid Trump DEI Purge www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/18/f...
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Funder Axes Queens College Diversity Initiative Amid Trump DEI Purge
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is terminating a $505,000 STEM grant that was supposed to support an ‘Inclusive Excellence initiative’running through 2028.
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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 03/03/2025
Ariana Grande's Oscars gown as the graph of f(x,y) = 1−exp(x⁶−15x⁴y²+15x²y⁴−y⁶): www.desmos.com/3d/ktg4co3cpm
Grande in gown with skirt best described as a hexapod saddle.Plot of z=1−exp(x⁶−15x⁴y²+15x²y⁴−y⁶) with x,y inside the unit disk; made in desmos.
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThL...
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Chris Hayes: Trump ‘irreparably destroyed’ world order with Zelenskyy blowup
YouTube video by MSNBC
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Thank you for organizing this! I will share with my department and research buddies.
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Dave Kung @dtkung.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Wondering what the disruption in DC means for the higher ed math community? TPSE has you covered. Join us for a webinar, Friday, 2/28 at 3pm ET. Register here: usmd-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Disruption in DC & What it Means for the Mathematical Sciences
Feb 2/28, 3pm ET
Panelists:
Karen Saxe, AMS
Scott Palmer, EdCounsel
Peter March, Rutgers University & former head of DMS at NSF
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Dr. U. Whitcher (U. is for Bear) @yarntheory.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
My friend @mathyadriana.bsky.social lost her job last week, and I want you to know the story: buttondown.com/yarntheory/a...
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on approaching hard problems
Friends, colleagues, and lovers of words, I usually use this space to talk about books, but today I want to tell you about my friend Adriana Salerno. Like...
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We're continuing to examine the Trump administration's purge and its effects, and we need your help. If you work or have worked at a government agency, we want to hear from you. You can reach me on Signal at 347-549-0332 or reach out to ProPublica's tip line: www.propublica.org/tips/#signal
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The American Mathematical Society has also started a page to coordinate support for professional mathematics, so far focusing on executive orders impacting the National Science Foundation: www.ams.org/government/g...
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AMS :: Take Action
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Here ya go www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
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Opinion | Here Are the Digital Clues to What Musk Is Really Up To (Gift Article)
What will DOGE do with access to personal data on almost all Americans?
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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DreaMissLady @dreamisslady.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Kendrick dropped again...good morning to music youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Faith - YouTube
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Had my first Linear Algebra computer lab tutorial last night. It mostly went well! But at one point I saw a student use the "ask AI" feature Google Colab and I'm like dudes it is literally my job to help you right now.
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Adriana Salerno Dominguez @mathyadriana.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
fedscoop.com/nsf-terminat...
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NSF terminates 170 probationary employees, experts amid mass federal firings
The National Science Foundation terminated the employees Tuesday, the agency confirmed.
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