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Mathematician, professor, puzzler Pronouns he/him Website clontz.org Puzzle PBaiReGOVANeLpNFrFGBfVkyRgGREf https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4938-4274
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Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. 30-something Mutant Ninja Turtles

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submitted feedback on all my students' late submissions, please clap

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0th world problem: I didn't make an account for my lunch delivery so I cannot track my order 😭

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MEET Dr. Adriana Salerno! 🥰 youtu.be/z3T8A2DpXCY Alt text: this is an image of Dr. Adriana Salerno holding the Meet a Mathematician sign

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"are you on the phone with us" when it should say "we want to verify it's you who called us"

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🎵 you are smart 🎵

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Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march). Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs. That is one 3-year NSF grant per day. Waste and abuse, my ass. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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And what better place to talk about alternative grading than at the Grading Conference, June 11--13? 😄

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It's really cool that my honors thesis student delivered evidence of what I've always expected: mathematicians utilize open source more frequently than general reseachers.

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That same week, TBIL.org is hosting its biannual virtual edit-a-thon. Great opportunities to learn how to author and collaborate on open course materials! Ask me anything if you want to learn more.

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@aimathematics.bsky.social is awesome, exhibit 52531

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Accessible Course Materials with PreTeXT Virtual Workshop: Monday, May 19 to Thursday, May 22, 2025; 12-2pm EDT Not only free, but limited participant stipends are available! Info at mathtech.org/workshops/ma...

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Me conjecturing: Haha $#@! yeah!!! Yes!! Me finding the simple counterexample: Well this $#@!ing sucks. What the $@#!.

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The word 'clue' was originally a variant spelling of 'clew,' meaning “ball of thread or yarn.” Our modern sense of clue, “guide to the solution of a mystery,” grows out of a motif in myth and folklore, the ball of thread that helps in finding one’s way out of a maze.

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graduating math senior just informed me she's keeping her wait staff restaurant job and not taking the federal government adjacent STEM job because it has more job security 🤬

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This is just one module of a nice collection of evolution teaching resources being shared by the Resources for Inclusive Evolution Education group. qubeshub.org/community/gr... @bioquest.bsky.social

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Today in class I spontaneously did the youth pastor squat and said "you know who else used eigenvectors? Google when building its search engine in the 90s" Got a good laugh at 9:05am, but fell flat at 11:15. Sometimes you can't put the genie back in the bottle. 🥲

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Any other #MathSky research journal editors have any insight on how you're handling suspicion of gen AI submissions?

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Jon Keating giving the first talk in this week's workshop "Moments in families of L-functions over function fields" likens AIM to Dr. Who, regenerating in a new physical form when necessary. I hope we are the Ncuti Gatwa version...

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Biden, 52%: “low end approval” Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”

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