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PhD student in math at UConn. Interested in category theory, quiver mutations & cluster algebras, representations of finite-dimensional algebras, knot theory, and logic. he/him/his
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I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that I had once resolved that combinatorics wasn’t “abstract enough” for me. I was extremely “undergrad category theorist”-brained, to say the least

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You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

submitted 15 days ago • 1535 comments

It Only Tuesday theonion.com/it-only...

submitted 27 days ago • 96 comments

Slightly annoying how many of the comments are like, "This is written so broadly it's going to even affect ME over here in chemistry" or whatever. We need to (always) stand together as scientists whether you're the target or the collateral damage.

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

NSF director named as defendant in this order from RI federal judge. Seems like the agency can’t keep freezing funds (legally.) fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

I'm begging a major news org to cover the fact NSF is defying the courts to enact Trump's unconstitutional executive order

submitted 32 days ago • 41 comments

🚨 Data.gov appears to be dropping datasets 🚨 Almost 2,300 datasets have disappeared since Jan 21. Data scrubbing at this rate is concerning- download and archive what you think you’ll need.

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

Question as an early-career researcher about the NSF funding freeze. Even though decisions aren’t supposed to be released until April(-ish), this will probably impact the GRFP awarding timeline, correct? Not that the GRFP is nearly the worst part of all of this, but it would be good for me to know.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

If only I knew how to determine if a module over a cluster-tilted algebra were in the transjective component of its AR quiver. Life would be great if I knew how to determine if a module over a cluster-tilted algebra were in the transjective component of its AR quiver

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Funny Papers by Mac Miller has long been one of my favorites of his unreleased work. Not sure how I feel about his music being posthumously released in general but if it has to happen, I’m glad Funny Papers finally made its way into a release

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That’s that, I suppose.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

“Let him cook,” I say to myself for the seven-hundred-fourth time this week, having made only the most marginal of progress on a problem

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I would like to see a Pinegrove & Novo Amor collab someday, or at least a cover of one by the other

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Big Combinatorics doesn’t want you to know that sometimes categorification is inevitable, and occasionally even useful

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I am becoming more and more of a topologist by the hour

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Been really enjoying working on a certain problem about quivers recently— what started as an algorithmic question about mutation-invariant properties of quivers turned into a topological dynamics & (effective) descriptive set theory one. Definitely in over my head, which is unironically very fun

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A couple of resolutions as the semester comes to a close & break approaches: 1. Going to try to actively post about math on here— thinking of this as a “living journal” of sorts to document ideas/learning/progress 2. More formally, I finally want to get a blog off the ground. A break project!

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

The skies are bluer.

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