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Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We're excited to announce 6 newly funded PhD positions at the intersection of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science through the National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Graduate Research Fellows Program. vermontcomplexsystems.org/engage/jobs/
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AIM PhD Fellowships
Six fully funded NSF PhD fellowships at the intersection of AI, Machine Learning and Data Science, each pairing a VCSI lab with an industry partner.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wondering if anyone is already, or is considering, incorporating a module on Lean into their Intro to Proofs class to be responsive to These Uncertain Times
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the mouse and cheese are symbolic of something, i'm sure of it warandpeas.com
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
With the double-tapping an elementary school in February, and this near-miss, it seems like the pattern is laziness and a lack of respect for human life. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I feel like gas station warming drawer food gets a bad rap
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the labs wanting to solve millenium problems tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
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The Worf Effect - TV Tropes
Want a quick way to show how dangerous one of your unknown characters is? Simple, make them do well or win in a fight with a character that the audience already knows is tough. This establishes them a...
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Advisor/grad student relationship in 2027. Or, researcher/language model relationship in 2027. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjsl...
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Picard asks the Doctor to run a simulation.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026
BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Interested in complex systems research in beautiful Vermont? Teams @vcsi.bsky.social hope to fill postdoctoral positions on very short notice. One position is at the intersection of cognitive and epidemiological modeling. DM for details or keep an eye out for postings on here.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/07/2026
Ken Burns Wants You To Watch America: Birth Of A Nation Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi_vTwwmU…
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026
BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
thinking about "everything evolves into a crab" as an analogy how we keep seeing the same ideas in computational and applied math redressed in different words
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
classic footy
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/06/2026
It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:
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Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/04/2026
McDonald’s Janitor Would Like To Thank Everyone Who Tossed Half-Full Cups Of Soda Into Trash theonion.com/mcdonald-s-janitor-wou…
McDonald’s Janitor Would Like To Thank Everyone Who Tossed Half-Full Cups Of Soda Into Trash
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/04/2026
Humanoid Robot Beats Human Half-Marathon Record theonion.com/humanoid-robot-beats-h…
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
apnews.com/photo-galler...
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Photos from Tehran, where daily life continues despite war
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Daily life unfolds across Tehran's cafes, parks and stores as people continue their everyday routines despite war. Some meet friends at cafes.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
cartoon hot dog on side of building
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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Absolutely heartbreaking. So many mathematicians I know studied there, men AND women. Maryam Mirzakhani studied there. If this isn't enough to cancel/relocate from the US the International Congress of Mathematicians #ICM2026, nothing will be.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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What Was Actually in the Mueller Report
There is an enormous amount of misinformation circulating about former Special Counsel Bob Mueller’s investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Some people may feel like there aren't any differences between Democrats and Republicans. I disagree -- Democrats are the fiscally conservative party.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Anyone in my very small bsky network familiar with geopandas/shapely/libpysal? I want the adjacency graph of tiled polygons. For example, this is a perfect tiling but I'm getting "these are overlapping objects" errors likely due to numerical roundoff. The one I show still connects corners.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A three panel meme of Moe Szyslack of Simpsons fame throwing a drunkard Barney out of his bar, only for the same drunkard to appear behind him two frames later. Moe is annotated with "USA" and Barney is annotated "Ayatollah Khamenei."
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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop
The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/02/2026
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Nicholas Landry @nwlandry.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨🚨🚨 NetSci Hackathon PSA!!! Are you at NetSci this year? Wanna come a day early and hack on a cool new dataset? Join our hackathon which will take place on May 31. We have limited space, so please indicate your interest through our application form by Mar 13: www.philchodrow.prof/higher-order...
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Join the Hackathon! – A Blue Start at Netsci 2026
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Me in my head, whenever I find something that unexpectedly trips up the large language models clip.cafe/independence...
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Watch 'Now we know howto take them out, General. Spread the word. Get on the wire to every...' | Independence Day Clip
Watch the clip 'Now we know howto take them out, General. Spread the word. Get on the wire to every...' from the movie Independence Day on Clip.Cafe. Now we know howto take them out, General. Spread t...
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
waiting for someone to use the "let's all just try to turn down the temperature" for the el paso news item
a man in a hot dog suit appealing to a crowd
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🚨 New research: FIRST EVER county-level study of racial disparities at the arrest-to-court transition in CA. In county after county, arrests of Black & Hispanic individuals reach court at far lower rates than those of white ones. People burdened with records for cases never worth filing. #LawSky
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A "before and after" of a photograph featuring Stalin and comrades, before and after alteration to remove a colleague turned rival from the photo.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.wired.com/story/people... hope if/when any calls for regulation of inpainting tools that result from this have protections for everyone, not just those in law enforcement
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People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
Online detectives are inaccurately claiming to have identified the federal agent who shot and killed a 37-year-old woman in Minnesota based on AI-manipulated images.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🚨 I’ve been keeping this under wraps until published and it’s out today. Do judges with background in law enforcement act differently at bail time? Our groundbreaking NYC study estimates that when they set bail, it is a full 32% higher on average compared to other judges. Check it out and share.
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Judicial Professional Background and Pretrial Detention Outcomes | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core
Judicial Professional Background and Pretrial Detention Outcomes
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
#AdventOfCode day 6: youtu.be/cjIvu7e6Wq8?...
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Missy Elliott - Work It [Official Music Video]
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Doing Advent of Code again this year! Wondering if it running for 12 days only means the difficulty will scale up faster, too. But, it's nice, I tend to burn out around 15 days anyway. github.com/maminian/aoc... #AdventOfCode
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GitHub - maminian/aoc2025
Contribute to maminian/aoc2025 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
If my Italian ex saw me mix the leftover rigatoni and macaroni for breakfast she'd break up with me all over again lmao
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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025
as a condition of funding, we were asked to affirm that we wouldn’t undertake any diversity, equity, and inclusion work, whether or not we used the government funds to do so. The PSF simply couldn’t agree to that statement,
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I get mixed feelings when google scholar periodically passes on new articles of basically one academic who I kind of see as "bizarro me" who continued in the same research area as I did for my PhD for the past 10 years.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Came across a 14-year old street view of a Blockbuster in a suburb of Vancouver maps.app.goo.gl/XX2xKQ3tUgA4... do I win a prize?
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
banger
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Working on an article for SIAM News covering Courtney Paquette's plenary at AN25. Something for the precalc/calc students: horizontal asymp. here show you that more effort (flops) training a model yields no improvement. Another data sci overtones one could sneak into the existing math curriculum.
A family of curves from plenary talk by C. Paquette (McGill) at SIAM Annual Meeting 2025. A collection of curves illustrating the loss function (error) for machine learning models are plotted in log-scale against floating point operation count. Universally, the curves horizontally asymptote, showing more flops (as a proxy for training iterations) show no additional benefit to training the model. A compute-optimal frontier is illustrated when taking the locus of turning points of these curves, as well as a vertical line illustrating a hypothetical fixed-compute boundary.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
turning into a daily games junkie
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
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Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🚨 Speaking of FedSoc judges... Today, my work on the Federalist Society is finally officially published!! Plz enjoy what I still believe to be (other than tax stuff) the first large scale empirical dataset about the Federalist Society. I hope folx can use. #LawSky #PoliSky #AcademicSky
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F1000Research Article: A structured dataset of the federalist society’s public engagements.
Read the latest article version by Chad M. Topaz, at F1000Research.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss killed in shooting aged 59
The actor, best know for voicing John Redcorn in the long-running animated series, was killed on Saturday in Texas
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
the madlad meetings.siam.org/sess/dsp_tal...
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Why An Anti-Dei Initiative Is Urgently Needed in the Mathematical Sciences. A Data-Driven Approach.
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Manuchehr Aminian @maminian.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Does it count as a compliment that airport ecurity checked my curly hair to make sure I wasn't anything in it
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siagdata.bsky.social @siagdata.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Save the Date! SIAG/DATA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new webinar series: Webinar on the Mathematics of Data Science (WebMDS)! Join us for the inaugural event – a panel on: Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
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