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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Attending #MAAthFest today, tomorrow, and Friday!

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/02/2025

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Blast this out to every PTA in America

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I'm heart broken. The national parks are probably the most magical thing about the USA. And Yosemite is special all by itself.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation

“This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

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Carolyn Porco @carolynporco.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

RED ALERT! There's a silent coup underway now. Musk & his subs have hacked into the payment systems at Depts of Health/Human Servcs, Treasury, Labor, Ctrs for Disease Control/Preventn, & Veterans Affairs. They now have access to our SocSec#'s, confidential bank & medical info, etc. READ! 📰

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2025

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The disemboweling of a government agency *created by Congressional statute* by a private citizen is completely shocking

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The champions of Free Speech are now forcing scientists to retract submitted publications until they can be checked for the appearance of “forbidden terms.”

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Stuff like this is going to test the limits of the reality-distortion field.Just making things up can’t be a strategy forever.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The plane-crash president.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 28/01/2025

AI's computational efficiency is advancing faster than expected, proving yet again that the cheapest energy is the energy we don't use. These breakthroughs, along with leadership in clean energy and battery tech, are coming from China—not the US, where progress is being delayed. More below.

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How DeepSeek’s efficient AI could stall the nuclear renaissance | TechCrunch

The startups and power producers that are betting big on new nuclear are vulnerable to an energy efficient AI model.

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Sohini Sarah Pillai @sohinipillai.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

So happy to be in India again after 5 years with my husband @matthewsutter.bsky.social even if it is just for 6 more days!

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Takes $600bn for the market to realize mathematicians are a good investment. Or maybe it will never learn.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Remember that the increase of water holding capacity of our atmosphere is not linear: it increases exponentially with temperature. Physics 101: Clausius-Clapeyron law. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausiu...

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Clausius–Clapeyron relation - Wikipedia

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Yeah you’re right, there are financial interests all over the place. It’s a good reason to stay vigilant about facts, misleading statistical representation, and to check your sources.

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

That makes sense to me. Salt spray and high humidity were shown (in 2019 www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12...) to be a large failure mode of offshore wind. Not sure how much has improved since then. Luckily onshore wind doesn’t suffer from the same difficulties and has lower capital costs than coal to boot.

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Exploring the Causes of Power-Converter Failure in Wind Turbines based on Comprehensive Field-Data and Damage Analysis

Power converters are among the most frequently failing components of wind turbines. Despite their massive economic impact, the actual causes and mechanisms underlying these failures have remained in t...

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Hi Mark. The wind numbers look reasonable but slightly old. NREL 2024: www.nrel.gov/docs/fy25ost... & atb.nrel.gov/electricity/... Generally I like to avoid ChatGPT for numerical questions since it, like any LLM, doesn’t have deductive synthesis capabilities. Sourcing studies and still reigns king.

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Great books. MTW also excels exceptionally as a laptop stand!

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Ugh. This is probably illegal, but there's going to be so much of it I'm not sure it can be stamped out. After listening for sixty seconds I am mostly creeped out by the weird inappropriate laughter.

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Coldest take this week: this new thin-film membrane of AI content is going to drown us in misinformation faster than we’ve anticipated.

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This week’s hydra: how do you know when to move on from projects that never seem to find a conclusion?

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This year I am thankful for my family, for my health, and for the opportunity to do math every day. I’m starting to appreciate, more and more, that I cannot take these for granted. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Great algebra seminar from Satyan Devadoss on unfolding regular polytopes. The 24-cell is a neat object en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-cell

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

@seanmcarroll.bsky.social if only I could use pictures of my future self as well…

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Elements of vector spaces are called vectors. It follows that elements of Hilbert spaces are called Hilberts.

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Come as you are, let the math flow through you

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/09/2023

I am in a Deep South airport and the store sells what I can only describe as Christian children’s marine biology propaganda…?

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Matt @matthewsutter.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

down with X! hello bluesky! where’s my math family?

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