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Mathematician @ Ruhr University Bochum. Antifascist. Quickly getting bored with social media, let's see how it goes. Homepage: https://homepage.rub.de/christian.stump
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Democracies stand with Ukraine.

Since I """co-authored""" [biggest possible quotation marks] the paper "Humanity's Last Exam" (arxiv.org/abs/2501.14249), I get notified of new citations on Google Scholar *every single day*. #CitationsThroughTheRoof #GoogleScholar

If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

Eine Mischung aus falsch verstandenem Neutralitätsgebot, Normalcy Bias, intellektueller Kapitulation vor rechtsextrem-toxischer Rhetorik plus eine Prise vorauseilender Gehorsam: Das wäre meine wohlwollende, weil unideologische Deutung des aktuellen öffentlich-rechtlichen Kuschens vor der AfD.

A federal judge in Washington said that the way the Trump administration set up and has been running Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency could violate the Constitution.

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

Spotted in Oaxaca, Mexico. #3E #EndOligarchy

Die ausgestreckte Hand von Alice #Weidel (Symbolbild). #BerlinerRunde

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

Hey #MathSky, the AMS has built a handy form letter thing where you can email your reps and senators about NSF. I took a few minutes to use it, and I encourage you to do so too - it both sends our message to Washington and lets AMS know we would love it to be more active in defending mathematics!

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

The American Mathematical Society has also started a page to coordinate support for professional mathematics, so far focusing on executive orders impacting the National Science Foundation: www.ams.org/government/g...

He nails it.

"Nothing is more unworthy of a civilized people than allowing themselves, without resistance, to be ‘governed’ by a ruling clique that has surrendered to irresponsible and dark impulses." Sophie Scholl 9. Mai 1921 - 22. Februar 1943

Sophie Scholl on the day she was executed: "What a wonderful day, and I have to leave. But what does our lifes matter if, by doing this, we can shake thousands of people awake?"

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

What Donald Trump is allowing Elon Musk and his DOGE team to do is not an audit. It is a coup. This an incredibly dangerous moment—and it is all the more dangerous if people don’t understand what is happening. https://youtu.be/jrE0DOEcbRE

The outside of the US Department of Justice vs. the inside of the White House.

"I am the law." Hitler, 1942 "There is no law but the law of the people & the people are me." Gaddafi, 1975 "We have a constitution, but we must address the problems of the country first. The law is always behind when it comes to national survival." Bashar Al-Assad, 2011 Trump, 2025:

Anyone else concerned about Trump quoting a dictator? This comes right after he fired 20 immigration judges without explanation.

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Hey JD - you can’t go visit the sacred ground where so many were gassed at Dachau & then give a speech supporting Germanys right wing extremist party. Those two things do not go together.

Bochum bleibt stabil.💪

I interview a lot of international scientists. Without fail, every single conversation starts with some version of: "We are watching in horror. How can this be happening in the US?"

Europe needs to back Ukraine with everything then freeze Trump out. Make him absolutely unimportant

I would really appreciate not to read about "wake up calls" here anymore. Either the EU has woken up by now and gets its act together in Munich or it's too late anyway. Winter is here.

Seit heute unterstütze ich die @taz.de, auch wenn ich sie nicht wirklich lese. Grund 1: Top Titelseiten, die hier in meine TL gespült werden. Grund 2: Die AfD hat einen braunen Balken, die einzig richtige Farbe. #GutenJournalismusStärken

I know people often make fun of German combination words and „is there a German word for it“ is a running joke but watching the US administrations fall in line, the German word for it is Selbstgleichschaltung. You can guess why German has a word for that.

Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

Do you or your colleagues have grants in Cruz's database of "woke DEI grants"? This would be a great time to write leadership at your school and ask how they'll be protecting scientific research (and higher ed more broadly) from attacks on academic freedom. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

There There is There is only There is only one There is only one way There is only one way to There is only one way to clean There is only one way to clean a There is not only one way to clean a chalkboard. #MathSky

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

During his visit to a US base in Germany, Def Secretary and rapist racist, Pete Hegseth, was booed by military families. #3E

My detachment from google started (and yes, several people told me for years): search -> duckduckgo (starting today) gmail -> posteo.de (account created, moving planned) calendar -> to be decided tasks -> don't know yet maps -> not planned yet There are more, but I can only do one step at a time.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Every university in the US has to fight back in this war on science and everything. Tell that to your university administration, there are zillions of ways to sabotage or slow down the process.