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Saramoira Shields

@mathematigal.bsky.social
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Math, maps, robots, various hyperfixations. Running through breast cancer.

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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hey Cornell faculty. Sweeties. Honeybunches. Y’all need a union. Because what the hell is this?!
Screenshot of an email message sent at 9:33am on Labor Day from Cornell University’s Dean of Faculty Office. It opens with “Dear Colleagues, Labor Day is today, which Cornell observes by cancelling classes, thereby giving the faculty a nearly uninterrupted day in which to work.”
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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
does anyone know how to learn slowly? does anyone know how to learn? does anyone know?
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Dr. Laci Brock 🪐 @stellerarts.com · 15/06/2026
I wanted my Cat’s Paw Nebula to capture the essence of image processing & how we study the universe in different wavelengths of light. Visible light painted using only black & white is combined with colorized infrared from JWST (the rectangles). Prints & the original available next week! #SciArt
24x24” oil painting on easel of a nebula in black and white with 5 vertical rectangles in colors of orange, light blue, and browns
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 13/06/2026
They built the scaffolding too high in an attempt to reach God Now God has made it impossible to communicate So they're just still going off their last orders and building more scaffolding The crowd is telling them to take the name down but tragically they don't understand anymore
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I love these so much
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ok I know search engines (and particularly google, which I am avoiding) have been deteriorating for a while now, but I feel like every platform I know has completely collapsed in that past week. Searches that worked a month ago return complete garbage now. Anyone else noticing this?
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Ellen Prager, PhD @elprager.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Excellent piece about second highest tsunami on record in Alaska fjord 2025, link to climate change, and increased risks to cruise ships and tourists in the region. Based on Science article led by Daniel Shugar, Univ. Calgary (DOI: 10.1126/science.aec3187). 🧪 eos.org/articles/the...
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The Forensics of a Skyscraper-Sized Tsunami - Eos
A landslide in Tracy Arm Fjord in Alaska created the second-largest tsunami on record. A new analysis links this abrupt event to the retreat of a glacier and, ultimately, to climate change.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/05/2026
For no reason at all the email for cornell alumni affairs is alumniaffairs@cornell.edu
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Yeah I’m coming out of social media retirement for this one. This man is an absolute monster. But so are some of the trustees who were/are his staunchest supporters. Cornell needs to clean house.
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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
What's amazing is that in the 80+ years since WW2, simply opposing every war, knowing nothing else about it, has shown it will become the correct, accepted position over time. It's the political stance equivalent of investing in the S&P 500: safe, a little boring maybe, but outlasts all others.
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Andy Rivkin @asrivkin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: We try to keep fresh fruit around, though it can be challenging out of season, yeah. CHOTNIER: So the icebox, obviously, would keep things from going bad as quickly. WCW: Exactly, yes. C: Is the food communal? Do you just grab whatever's in there? WCW: Isaac, look.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I shattered my left shoulder by tripping over my own left foot, trying to stumble and then tripping over my own RIGHT foot. Went airborne, landed on my outstretched arm. This happened in a state park, on father’s day. Soooo many people saw it all.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Reached one year cancer free. Went to Iceland, accidentally witnessed an erupting volcano. Learned to solder.
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Fen, moss goblin @fluidfyre.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
'Unfurl', 2023, acrylics on 20x24-inch canvas. Part of a small series of macro ostrich fern paintings. #ArtAdventCalendar
A large realistic acrylic painting of a macro look at an unfurling fern leaf. A large curving spine is dappled brilliant blue through turqoise to dark green, a reflective white teal highlighting the top to mimic light. The same colours are featured in the other spines that curve down from the main stem, each one covered in tiny leaf lobes. Darker shadows in navy greens give contrast, as do the stippling all over the stems to give the impression of fine hairs. The leaf stems on the right are less detailed and make it seem out of focus.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Men. Can. Get. Breast cancer.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/10/2025
Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise? Yeah.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Without planning on it at all, we caught part of the eruption in the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland a few days ago. Also saw some of the lava scars from last year. What an otherworldly place.
Volcanic eruption viewable from the road. Channels of lava cooling to the left of the active crater. Second vantage point of the active eruptionFirst vantage point of the eruption on our way back from the Blue Lagoon. Tongues of crumbly lava reaching across a destroyed road near the Blue Lagoon.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I met some puffins yesterday! They are much smaller than I expected, though just about as cute as I expected. They all had adult coloring, but many of them seemed to be rather new to adulthood :)
A tired looking puffin tucking its beak under a wing, but still keeping an eye on the sky. A puffin family just outside of a cave nest.A puffin family watching humans watch them. A moment of reassurance - two of the puffins seemed young and unsure despite having adult coloring.
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Brad Proctor @bdproctor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.
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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I’ve been watching all the videos out of Minneapolis and LA and at this point I’m wondering if the majority of armed dudes in masks wearing “ICE” gear are even employed by them. Like ICE should be abolished *and also* most of these guys are just claiming to be them in order to terrorize people.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Read my brilliant pal Matthew.
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Annalena Kofler @annalenakofler.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Two LIGO sites are essential for independently validating observed gravitational wave signals. Without the second site, we can't constrain the sky position well enough for electromagnetic follow-up searches of binary neutron star mergers. This would be devastating for the whole field ...
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 30/05/2025
it is quite literally not LIGO without two antennas
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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My people, we need two LIGO sites to prove sources are astrophysical and not, like, a rabbit hopping nearby. ⚛️
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
petition to call apps with unnecessary, intrusive, non-toggleable predictive tech "AI-infested apps"
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samjshah.bsky.social @samjshah.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
If anyone in my network knows any mathematical artists on blue sky… or artists who use math in their work on blue sky…. Can you let me know? I’d love to follow them. (I had a bunch on Twitter but I deleted that a while ago and want to see more in my feed.)
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/05/2025
Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
People need to stop following executive orders like they’re laws
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/03/2025
It’s even more offensive because they ASKED US FOR THIS POWER and they’re not using it! They’re shrinking away from responsibilities that they actively campaigned for! They’re spending more time trying to keep their jobs than to do their jobs!
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/03/2025
At this point, I don’t take seriously any elected official who doesn’t throw themselves into the gears of the machine because the machine is creating fascism
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/03/2025
No one likes this but it remains true that you can’t just oppose a message and expect people to pick it up; you have to actively, aggressively build an affirmative narrative for people to support in order to counter opponents. “You’re wrong” isn’t as powerful as “this is what right looks like”
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I… did not know about this. This is so bizarre and unsettling.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Oh wait there is one in NYC! And it costs $45 to get in! Are you fucking kidding me?! streicker.nyc/events/schumer
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Senator Chuck Schumer with Representative Ritchie Torres – The Temple Emanu-El Streicker Cultural Center
Special events and programs at the Streicker Center: our mission is to spark curiosity, engage the intellect and infuse our lives with rich Jewish culture.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m seriously asking myself this question. First stop is Monday in Baltimore. I just… beyond the crassness and abdication of responsibility that is doing a BOOK TOUR when an unelected billionaire is actively destroying critical government agencies, it’s notable he’s not scheduled to show up in NY.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 14/03/2025
between Eric Adams, Columbia, and Gillibrand and Schumer, New Yorkers are straight up not having a good time rn
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I don’t want to wait nearly four years to primary Schumer. I want every moment of his existence to be a struggle, right now. I want him to feel like he can’t go out in public without being reminded how much he has hurt people. No rest. No acceptance. Same for the rest of them.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
So I read the filing from Citibank re: Climate United, but apparently the FBI also requested freezing the accounts of the New York State Dept of Taxation and Finance last month? Did Citibank comply with that one too, or are they cherry-picking? I feel like it would have been a news item if so…
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“But Accu-Weather!!” They get their data from NWS. “But my local TV station has their own radar on a truck!” Sure, and they use it to fill small geographic gaps in the broader radar coverage that’s provided by NWS. “My weather app!” It’s getting its data from NWS.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/02/2025
I, a person who has taken and taught general relativity and passed a qualifying exam based on Wald (!), pointed out the earth is round in response to the suggestion that flight paths should be straight and a man who is a genomicist came into my mentions and told me I didn’t understand curvature
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Remember to keep joy in your revolution. Community justice is also about the right to have spaces that *aren't* just concerned with survival.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
If your revolution excludes developmentally and intellectually disabled people, your revolution sucks.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025
The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
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Saramoira Shields @mathematigal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
My heart is in a dark place. I just spent the past year in surgery, chemo and radiation for a rare and rather deadly form of cancer. The research output of even just the past 5 years has likely saved my life. This is so horrific.
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons
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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I think pushing a whole new type of technology so hard it is basically unavoidable should count as experimenting on people without consent.
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