Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026god i hate the blue angels. one thing i will not miss about seattle 010
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026life hack for an american traveling in europe: treating everything like usd prices but pretend you’re tipping 120
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Um, actually, MIT stopped using the word “freshmen” on anything official around 2019, so this banner would say “first-year” 000
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 16/04/2026when your math department is so broke it resorts to selling summer research projects to undergrads for $2500 apiece 030
Reposted by Nelson NiuYour City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 08/11/2025👏 CHECK 👏 YOUR 👏 BALLOT 👏 821369
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Registration for the SUBgroups program for first-year math grad students is now open! Find out more and register here: gradsubgroups.org Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!gradsubgroups.orgSUBgroupsOnline peer groups for first-year math graduate students. 195
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 06/08/2025In NYC, @uaw.org was the first union to endorse @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to his primary victory last month. Here in Seattle, we at @uaw.org were the first union to endorse @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social for Mayor, leading to her primary victory last night. We pick winners ✊ 010
Reposted by Nelson NiuThe Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 06/08/2025The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results. 741553
Reposted by Nelson NiuÁlvaro Lozano-Robledo @mathandcobb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Scientific American thinks mathematicians are being quiet about the devastating NSF funds to our field. We need to be LOUDER. www.facebook.com/share/r/1J3Z...facebook.comRedirecting... 3173
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I love when I tell people I study category theory and their first reaction is “oh, no!” 000
Reposted by Nelson NiuDaniel Litt @littmath.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Incredibly bad (changes to N.S.F. funding for math): 613735
Reposted by Nelson NiuUAW Region 6 @uawregion6.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Today was a big win for workers in Washington state as unemployment insurance for striking workers was signed into law! UAW members joined @wslc.bsky.social, fellow union members from across the state, and bill sponsor (and former @uaw4121.bsky.social member) Sen. Riccelli for the signing. 062
Reposted by Nelson NiuUAW Local 4121 @uaw4121.bsky.social · 16/05/2025UW changed its layoff policy without bargaining- risking the job security of 1000s of UW research workers 👎 1,200+ have signed the open letter demanding they reverse this policy. Join us next Monday @ noon in UW's Red Square to deliver the letter and tell admin to follow our contracts! 💥💥💥 042
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 08/05/2025I’m in this article along with other @uaw4121.bsky.social members to explain what’s happening to grad student researchers in the US right now. It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America. 032
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025It sure is encouraging when the Trump administration personally praises the way my university deployed riot police on a student protest 🫠 Same cops that our university called on me and my union siblings during our peaceful labor action last year, by the way! 020
Reposted by Nelson NiuQuanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 05/05/2025A new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. @ericaklarreich.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-12...quantamagazine.orgDimension 126 Contains Strangely Twisted Shapes, Mathematicians Prove | Quanta MagazineA new proof represents the culmination of a 65-year-old story about anomalous shapes in special dimensions. 0256
Reposted by Nelson NiuLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)research.govResearch.gov - HomepageResearch.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amon... 1315324
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 26/03/2025sometimes i see blackboard bold out in the wild and remember that mathematicians do not have a monopoly on fonts 010
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025okay bear with me here but if you count (a) live staged play readings, (b) video games, and (c) papers that will be published later this year my erdős-bacon number is 6 010
Reposted by Nelson NiuWashington State Labor Council AFL-CIO @wslc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Solidarity with our @uaw4121.bsky.social researchers ✊!!! 2115
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Some photos from @jayapal.house.gov’s Town Hall last night and today’s @uaw4121.bsky.social rally to defend federal funding for our scientists and researchers! 044
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 31/01/2025as a sophie germain fan seeing chladni plates show up on severance was kinda sick 010
Reposted by Nelson NiuJulia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025To update people on the NSF PRFB situation: despite the court challenge and rescinding the original memo, the NSF has continued to comply with the executive order. They have not communicated with us at all and our paychecks are still canceled indefinitely. I know people who cannot pay their rent. 19924516
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Have any mathematicians watched this “Prime Target” show? I just saw the trailer and it’s managed to accidentally be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen 000
Reposted by Nelson Niuꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 22/01/2025Thinking about my trans friends and students this morning, who are some of the most real, brilliant, vibrant, and strong people I know. 0121
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Really disorienting to watch a homotopy theory talk where “Cat” stands not for “Category” but for *squints* “Catalan” 010
Reposted by Nelson NiuStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 20/12/2024🔥 TWAS THE STRIKE BEFORE CHRISTMAS! 🔥✊ Starbucks baristas are going on five days of escalating ULP strikes in response to the company backtracking on our promised path forward, starting tomorrow in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle... and soon, from coast-to-coast. 🧵 11157691941
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024I’m ashamed to admit that I still have to look up which one’s zeta and which one’s xi 100
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Few things have delighted me more lately than this thread of Roxane Gay discovering the show How to Get Away with Murder 010
Reposted by Nelson NiuMaggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 04/11/2024As of this morning, @nytguildtech.bsky.social, which represents NYT tech workers, is on strike. Unless it's resolved while today's Wordle is still live, this streak is gone. Here's a 🧵 with info on the picket line and how you can help. PLEASE READ — the rules may not be what you think! 251351826
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 21/08/2024This was incredibly depressing to wake up to. I pushed to make both math and theater racially diverse and equitable while I was an undergrad at MIT, but none of that works if you don’t have a diverse student body to begin with news.mit.edu/2024/qa-unde... 010
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 19/08/2024Registration for SUBgroups is now open! Register here: gradsubgroups.org Please share with any first-year math grad students you know who are looking for some regular peer support!gradsubgroups.orgSUBgroupsWelcome! Registration for our September 2024 cohort is open until August 30!All registration details can be found here.Registration for the October cohort will open in a few weeks:for a reminder email... 01410
Reposted by Nelson NiuDex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 18/03/2024this story from today's Ask A Manager is killing me 9166162181
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 04/11/2023Here’s a recording of my 20 minute ACT 2023 talk on categories of polynomials! (This was also pretty much the talk I gave at JMM earlier this year.) youtu.be/q2b_z-ewo-kyoutu.beNelson Niu - Monoidal structures on generalised polynomial categoriesTalk at Applied Category Theory 2023Recently, there has been renewed interest in the theory and applications of de Paiva’s dialectica categories and their re... 030
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 09/10/2023can’t believe connections knew it was my birthday yesterday 210
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 03/10/2023yesterday i asked my professor what i should be doing now that i'm in my third year of grad school and he spent an hour basically telling me to make more category theory friends so please, be my category theory friend 050
Nelson Niu @nelsonniu.bsky.social · 03/10/2023ok i think i followed all the math folks on here that i recognize, hi 👋 050