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Nalini Joshi

@monsoon0.bsky.social
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Mathematician, wife, mother, addicted to math

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 7h
ARC has given some details of how new Explore scheme will run ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... ❗️There's a lottery❗️ Peer review yields 3 categories: highly competitive, competitive, uncompetitive. After funding highly competitive apps, competitive ones enter a lottery for remaining $.
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A propos @astrokatie.com ‘s recent post on vulnerability of grad students to badly behaved senior researchers, I draw your attention to a very recent ruling by the Hebrew University Sexual Harassment Tribunal (use Google Translate if needed)👇🏼 www.ynet.co.il/news/article...
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הפרופ' שהטריד את הדוקטורנטית שלו בעברית המשיך בקריירה. היא מתה
ערעור שנדחה בבית הדין של האוניברסיטה העברית גולל סיפור קשה ועצוב: דוקטורנטית צעירה שהוטרדה שוב ושוב, התלוננה - ועד ההרשעה נמצאה ללא רוח חיים. המתמטיקאי, פרופ' קארים אדיפרסיטו, מכהן כיום בתפקידים בכירי...
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Preparing a lecture on the practice of research and was reminded of this lovely essay on the importance of being comfortable with feeling stupid: fermatslibrary.com/s/the-import...
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Fermat's Library | The importance of stupidity in scientific research annotated/explained version.
Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My University’s Code of Conduct contains the following section. Does your University have a similar policy?
A screenshot of the University of Sydney’s Staff and Affiliates Code of Conduct 2021, page 7 of 16, with the heading
“11 Relationships with students”
containing the following elements:
“(1) The University recognises that, within a community of adults, friendships may arise between staff, affiliates and students.
(2) The University expects staff and affiliates to be aware of the inherent power dynamics in their relations with students and to conduct themselves accordingly.
This includes:
(a)
recognising and maintaining professional boundaries; treating students respectfully, equitably and fairly; and
(c)
never engaging in favouritism, discrimination, bullying, sexual misconduct, sexual harassment or exploitation.
Note: See Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination Prevention Policy 2015; Student
Sexual Misconduct Policy 2018 and Staff Sexual Misconduct Policy 2020.
(3) If a staff member or affiliate is a student's:
(a)
(b)
(c)
current lecturer, tutor or demonstrator; research supervisor; or
has any responsibility for, or influence over, the student's academic outcomes, financial security, visa status, safety and wellbeing, or other interests;
sexual or romantic relationships are never appropriate.
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I will be giving the 2026 Moyal Medal Lecture today at 18:30 at the Macquarie University campus 👉🏼 www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-s...
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I collect first lines. Do you recognize this one? “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
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CNN @cnn.com · 28/09/2026
An 11-year-old chess prodigy has become the youngest woman grandmaster of all time, after a strong performance at the 46th Chess Olympiad. cnn.it/4d56dpY
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 28/09/2026
From our friends at the School of #Mathematics and Statistics at #USyd: positions as 'Magma Research Associates / Magma Research Fellows to develop and maintain the Magma computer #algebra system." 2 positions, each for 3 years: apply by October 20 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
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Magma Research Associate / Magma Research Fellow
2 x full time, 3-year fixed term positions, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Mathematics and Statistics Opportunity to drive research in computational pure mathematics through the dev...
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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer
Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Joan Mirò : The Garden, 1925 Oil on canvas 96 × 80 cm | 37.8 × 31.5 in Reflects Miró's poetic visual language, utilizing simplified organic shapes, biomorphic forms, and a dream or childlike sandbox approach to the subconscious mind.
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In my school days, it was the magpies who pecked the foil tops off milk bottles waiting for us at recess…
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 23/09/2026
Repeatedly subdividing a triangle using its centroids
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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 23/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/s...
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Mathematics Isn’t Just a Game to Let A.I. Solve. History Shows Why. (Gift Article)
In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is often what has led to progress.
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Prof Rachel Oliver @profrachelgan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the challenges of being a senior woman in academia is that our models for leadership are usually male & frequently achieve their goals by making rude demands. If women try that, it really doesn't go well for us. So a lot more emotional load is involved in formulating every request.
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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Public perception about the future of mathematics is an enormous challenge facing our community. We are currently not even remotely in control of the narrative. For example, the photo shows what’s on display in every newsagents and supermarket in the UK. Will future students be scared away? #MathSky
The latest issue of New Scientist magazine, with the front cover “How AI blew up maths”.
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Huck Bennett @huckbennett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow does the post title bury the lede! I particularly like the pictured comment.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Initial Members of the Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI⁠: Camillo De Lellis (IAS) Timothy Gowers (Cambridge) Martin Hairer (EPFL) Nikhil Srivastava (Berkeley) Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford) Ravi Vakil (Stanford) Edward Witten (IAS) Melanie Matchett Wood (Harvard) terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/a...
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Announcing the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
[This is a guest post by the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] We would …
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now, for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning.” - Vincent Van Gogh
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM is awarded annually to women recently promoted to Associate Professor or ..equivalent.. in the mathematical sciences. It provides a fellowship to spend a semester in the Math Dept of Cornell University without teaching obligations 👇🏼
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London Mathematical Society @londmathsoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🏅 Nominations are open for the 2027 LMA/@ima-maths.bsky.social Crighton Medal. The medal is named in honour of David George Crighton FRS and is awarded to an eminent mathematician for services both to mathematics and to the mathematical community. ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/crigh...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wild Flowers, 1995 by Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye #womensart
Colourful painting with canvas covered in tiny flower motifs
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Tim Chartier @timchartier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Pleased to have Weighted Voronoi stippling implemented. Cool look!
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London Mathematical Society @londmathsoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 2026-27 Round of LMS Early Career Fellowships are live, open to early career mathematicians in the transition between PhD and a postdoctoral position. Deadline is in TWO weeks (1 October 2026). For further details ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/grants/lms-e...
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ICYMI it says “The current version of the manuscript is complete mathematically, but it is not in the shape we wished to share in. We have chosen to do so due to rumors that surfaced around Friday, September 11th. We will work on a more complete version of the manuscript in the close future.”
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026
Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 08/09/2026
Mathematicians at OpenAI announced that a group of 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction proved that the Navier-Stokes equations can “blow up,” thus solving one of the six remaining Millennium Prize Problems. The result is not without controversy. www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve...
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AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.
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Margaret Low @megjlow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
TurtleStitch Discovery Day @ Warwick 22nd September, 10:00-15:00 (drop in) Explore #TurtleStitch, where coding meets digital embroidery! A drop-in day with links to Computing, Maths, Art & Design, and cross‑curricular projects. Register: www.warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch #WMGOutreach #TurtleStitch
A pattern being stitched by a digital embroidery machine. The pattern is semi circular and made up of zigzag stitches in curved rows.
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John Lyon @johnlyon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I tried to delete my Bluesky account but accidentally deleted my real life, so I only exist here now. Please feed me likes to keep me alive.
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 31/08/2026
Knight’s Distance Function (how many knight moves a square is from another)
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is an extremely worrying graph (via @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social ) from the report at www.cdc.gov.au/resources/pu...
A chart graph showing notifications of diphtheria cases in Australia from 01 Jan 2025 to 24 Aug 2026. The vertical axis is the count of notifications and goes from 0 to 140, while the horizontal axis is labelled by year and month in the period described. The bars rise dramatically after Feb 2026.
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Downgrade a movie The Lord of the Magmas
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026
To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution
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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Marco Gualtieri has come out and said some important things about AI and math that the "mathematical leaders" aren't saying. (1/2)
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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
algebraic geometry chair at nottingham called robin hood prince of sheaves
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David Astle (alias DA) @dontattempt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just learnt the Australian slang for a data centre is a thirsty shed
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Letter (1962) from Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists in response to Mosley's demands that they debate publicly.
22 January 1962
Sir Oswald Mosley,
5, Lowndes Court,
Lowndes Square,
London, S.W.1.

Dear Sir Oswald,

Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one’s own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism.

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.

Yours sincerely,

Bertrand Russell
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 22/08/2026
Filling Space
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me
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Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
Eddie Woo and the National Gallery of Australia have a new video series "charting the intersection between maths and art". The first one is about a sculpture called "Ouroboros", by Lindy Lee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJaRqLmmTQg #MathArt
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I just saw a #mathematics article, with an epigraph: “Mais elle refusait le nom de Madame Dame” J. Demy, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort. Can someone familiar with this reference explain why it appears in arxiv.org/abs/2608.17992 ?
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Combinatorics of the Fourier transform: Stokes data, Gale duality and frieze patterns
We study the action of the Fourier transform on the Stokes data of irregular connections on the complex affine line with symmetric irregular classes at infinity, both from the point of view of Stokes ...
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I’m sorry, does anyone else believe that we’re “pretty clearly [in] the last year of math and theoretical computer science research in the style we’ve known it“? From @scottaaronson.blog.web.brid.gy » Enough with all the world-historic milestones scottaaronson.blog?p=9979
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Enough with all the world-historic milestones
Whatever you’ve been writing to me to ask if I’m aware of: yeah, I’m aware of it. In particular: I’m aware that, as announced by my former student (and now superstar profess…
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“Most Australians will never apply for an ARC grant; yet, all of them directly or indirectly benefit from the knowledge generated through curiosity-led research.” Yes!!
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Some substantial changes announced by ARC for next (supposedly final) rounds of some schemes, esp. Discovery Projects👇 🔹CIs can only be on one DP28 app 🔹CIs on successful DP26 or DP27 apps cannot apply 🔹Rejoinder process “has been removed and replaced with more detailed feedback to applicants” ⁉️
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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
life in Auckland, what you gonna do 🤷 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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Woman dies, comes back to life, gets parking ticket
The 54-year-old received an $80 breach notice a few days after her resurrection thanks to the “truly remarkable” actions of a stranger.
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Nalini Joshi @monsoon0.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What do I do with all the paper reprints I’ve collected over my career?
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/08/2026
Drawing all 16,777,216 possible 12 bit RGB colours in one 2D image, each exactly once. Pixels are mapped from the 256³ colour cube, following a three dimensional Hilbert curve, to a two dimensional Hilbert curve filling the square. so nearby colours stay close.
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David Astle (alias DA) @dontattempt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
OXYMORONIC - to weld without goggles
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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
That noise you're hearing is all the cryptographers working on PQC (and particularly lattices, but a breakthrough like that would have likely had far reaching consequences beyond just lattices) collectively breathing out after holding their breath for a week. eprint.iacr.org/2026/1693
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