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Jessamyn Dukes

@rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social
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retired mathematician, some finite number of feral raccoons in a trenchcoat. they/he/any pronoun that makes the bit funny

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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
let the record show I love algebra
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this but unironically
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🥀 𝐋𝐨𝐫 ⛓️ @gothdess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Image of me sitting at my desk
An illustration of a prawn sitting on a chair looking at its computer on a desk
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can't believe they're teaching advanced latin squares to fourth graders. ridiculous
a worksheet with six 3x3 killer sudoku-esque puzzles, each solved in pencil
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I am having a bad time. please send creatures
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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Let's watch birds
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
rip annie dillard
One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
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Peter Keep @mathprofpeter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My position on ed tech is becoming more and more aggressive. Stop trusting these companies to handle our educational data! They consistently fail to meet basic standards of privacy for students! We're way too quick to just turn over our data to these vultures.
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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s easy to forget that mathematics is play
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
he seems rather unimpressed with me
orange cat on a blanket, reclining against a pillow
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A thread of Rosh Hashana things to read, if you would like to: Some thoughts on what prayer is, might be, even if you don't "believe in God" - and why maybe that's not always what matters-
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seasonal goodies
permission, inspiration, and more
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heidi goodson @goodsiephd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just want to do fun math with my friends, but I here to share an open letter about Mathathon, which is an AI and Math event being hosted at Caltech: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open Letter about the Mathathon
The full text of the open letter is below. By signing this open letter, you consent to your name, title, and institutional affiliation being publicly displayed beneath this open letter. You can access...
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
the thing about Noodle is that she is the worst
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Dr. Marissa Kawehi Loving @marissakawehi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An interesting read (aimed at graduate students) from one of my closest collaborators. arxiv.org/abs/2609.06889
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Navigating the AI crisis: a humble guide for students
We present some basic recommendations for (mostly graduate) students when it comes to choosing to use, or avoid, AI in their mathematical research and education. These include: maintaining a connectio...
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Matt Zucker @mattz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This fall I am co-teaching a brand-new class – ENGR 009: Fabricating Tessellations and Tilings. It's roughly equal parts math and design, filtered thru an engineering perspective. The syllabus and all assignments are freely available to the public at mzucker.github.io/e9_f2026/
A hexagonal tile with a chamfered edge and an interacting sawtooth pattern.A 9-triangle polyiamond shown tiling with symmetries *x, 22x, 632, 22x (again), and 2222.A snippet of decorative tiles from the Alhambra.GRT Architects "flutes and reeds" tile system
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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this proposition that this profit margin is too narrow to contain sufficient tokens to complete a lean formalization
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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i never thought the machine would plagiarize my ideas, sobs discipline who gleefully voted for using the plagiarism machine
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 09/09/2026
United Airlines flies fighter jet and tank components on domestic US flights to Newark from all over the country and then consolidates them onto two specific regular passenger flights to Israel. Tl;dr: Boycott United Airlines. theintercept.com/2026/09/09/u...
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United Airlines Ships War Materiel to Israel Aboard Passenger Flights
Unfriendly skies: On United, checked bags might ride next to tank parts bound for Israel. Direct flights to Israel are set to resume tonight.
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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 09/09/2026
Call for applications: Open Interval, Turbulence #MathSky #MathArt www.simonsfoundation.org/2026/09/09/o...
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Open Interval Invites Art-Science Collaborations on ‘Turbulence’
This year’s Open Interval program will fund trios collaborating on projects exploring the theme of turbulence.
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
struggling with quantum superposition? don't worry! just follow this helpful diagram drawn by my kiddo
a person's hand is holding a folded up piece of printer paper on which there is a pencil drawing, ostensibly of Schrodinger's cat
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 09/09/2026
communiqué from bitdizzy
screenshot of texts reading:

back of the napkin openai spending 20 million on compute to solve the navier stokes problem in 3 days would have bought 26,000 postdocs time to work on it. do you think 26,000 people could steal the proof from the guys who got close enough to finish it?
these ai people are really, really repulsive
enjoy your heat engine civilization ig you holocaust hylics

with caption “i need to post so bad”
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Grant @syncingsinking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The picture of all 12
A genus 2 surface with 12 simple closed curves drawn on it in various bright colors. Two go around the respective donut holes, three cut the handles, and one goes all the way around the outside. The other six all meet those at two of their intersection points, and none of them intersect outside those points
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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
22 million dollars for 1 million dollar prize lmao
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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There's 3 days left to pick these moon designs up! They're preorder only! Once preorders end I can't guarantee you can get them again. Prints will stay up in my shop though :) both tees are here: ☄️ store.dftba.com/collections/hank-green prints from my inprnt here: 🌙 inprnt.com/gallery/miski/
abstract saturn and moon shirt with lots of flowing swooping shapes and colors. Each section represents the climate or surface of a different moon #art #space #spaceart #artshopjupiter moon shirt design, separated into 5 abstract painterly segments, representing surface textures of jupiter's moons
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
when an ai company announces a big mathematical result
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
sandwiches go on the bookshelf
an orange and brown striped cat with white splotches is standing on one of the shelves of a bookcase that is otherwise filled with books and board games
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ada @etzhi.com · 08/09/2026
never a better day to reread "on proof and progress in mathematics" arxiv.org/abs/math/940...
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On proof and progress in mathematics
In response to Jaffe and Quinn [math.HO/9307227], the author discusses forms of progress in mathematics that are not captured by formal proofs of theorems, especially in his own work in the theory of ...
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
unpacking 🙄 assembling the cat tower 🥰
a tuxedo cat is sitting on a grey cat tower next to a large stack of moving boxes
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ll have more to post on this later but a) please feel free to subscribe to read the whole thing (there’s quite a bit), & b) my thesis is simple: Right now, the most urgent moral test for this nation today is happening in Springfield, Ohio We as a country are currently failing this test miserably
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!
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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season
This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...
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leotrs @leotrs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
1/ A math paper doesn't have to show every reader the same thing. My exposition of Turán's theorem keeps the argument fixed but the presentation is yours: you choose the order, the level of detail, and the notation, and none of it changes the content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nkp...
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Turán's theorem, from edges to eigenvalues: an interactive paper
YouTube video by Leo Torres
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Applications will open to Canadian master's, PhD, and MD/PhD trainees Monday, September 21 but important information is up right now! Familiarize yourself with the dataset, learn about the FOA, and bookmark so you can be ready to apply when the time comes: www.meaction.net/scholars-pro... 🧪
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IACC SCHOLARS PROGRAM | #MEAction
The NextGen IACC Scholars Program is a funded research training and mentorship opportunity for graduate students at Canadian universities. Trainees will develop and lead an original research project u...
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm pleased to announce the NextGen IACC Scholars Program, a new opportunity for four early-career Canadian researchers to develop and lead studies using data from Symptom Cluster Characterization in Complex Chronic Disease (SC4D), an #MEAction project.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Ooh! Nifty physics/music visualization toy: eigendrum.com#p=circle
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Eigendrum - draw a shape and hear it as a real drum
Draw any shape and hear it as a drum. Every frequency is solved from your outline with finite elements, never sampled. Includes the two drums that sound identical but are not the same shape.
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AllyMcK @allymck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm fostering 7 kittens who are now 6 weeks old. I swear trying to control these chaos goblins for 10 minutes feels like an hour at the gym
A cahoot of chaos gremlins (two tabby and three tuxedo kittens) plotting shenanigans
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Alison Martin @alisonmartin57.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
after a migraine
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Rochelle @uberwensch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
has anyone noticed that doing math is hard
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 01/09/2026
in the 90s it was nearly impossible for an out trans woman to have a career in academia. thank god we have equality now (it is nearly impossible for anyone to have a career in academia)
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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The relentless work of being sick
A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.
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SpatialKimtamine @kimmalien.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have discovered quantum mechanics and intend to use it irresponsibly
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
V important chobani content
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 30/08/2026
1, 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 11, 13, 16, 15, 14, 17, -1, 18, 24, 20, 19, 21, 23, 22, 30, 32, 25, 36, 28, 31, 29, 27, 26, 37, 40, 35, 42, 48, 33, 34, 41, 64, 60, 43, 45, 56, 44, 47… The most common numbers in the Online Encyclopaedia of Integer Sequences, sorted by frequency
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/08/2026
come on outlier, why is "eigenvalues" not a word????
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 30/08/2026
no ethical matrix multiplication under capitalism
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
everybody wish this deranged creature a happy 2nd birthday
a tuxedo cat is peeking her face out of a grey cat tower
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
just dropped kiddo off for his first day of school so if anyone needs me* I'll be cuddling the cat in blessed silence for the next six hours *please do not
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
THIS IS A MUPPET OK, actually it’s a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron. But it’s so muppety! #birds 🌿
A chunky brown and white streaked bird with yellow legs and a chunky beak stands in a tangle of green shrubbery. It looks very serious in a muppet-like way.
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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I assembled my bed in the corner intending to move it to a real location but now I think Noodle might riot if she loses her bird watching spot
a tuxedo cat with a very long tail is sitting on a bed with her front paws on a nearby windowsill
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