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Things that are even scarier than clicking on "submit" for a paper - clicking on "send" for a book manuscript! 🥹

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

My morning started early today, with a 7.45am meeting, following by a series of several other administrative meetings. However, I am looking forward to heading over to the University of Liverpool Maths School (https://liverpoolmathsschool.org) for my Link Trustee meeting with the Head of Maths […]

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Poorly child today, which means an unscheduled day off for me — or it would, if I didn’t have a funding deadline tomorrow… #LifeOfPI #academiclife

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UK universities educate the most national leaders globally, analysis shows | Universities | The Guardian Soft power, innit. Maybe we should fund unis properly 🤷 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/feb/24/uk-universities-educate-the-most-national-leaders-globally-analysis-shows

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Random discovery of the day: long hosepipes are ridiculously expensive. I needed a new hosepipe (garden hose for my non-UK followers) and, because our rear garden is rather big and the outdoor tap is at the front of the house, I needed a really long hose.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It was good to get out with the family this afternoon and touch grass :land:. Now the kids are bonkers, but I need a lie down.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is nightmare fuel… https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114043960428257423

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Because of the state of the world at the moment, I feel that I need to flag this explicitly as satire. 🙃 https://mastodon.social/@savetheAI/113971201360751126

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I've figured it out. For those interested/affected: Previously I was routing my images through the S3 front end, e.g., `s3.eu-central-000.backblazeb2.com`, but it looks like Backblaze made a change to the hostname so that it is `<BUCKET NAME>s3.eu-central-000.backblazeb2.com`. I've changed my […]

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Looks like Backblaze b2 buckets are borked at the moment (INVALID_HOST 400 errors), which means that my @Mastodon media cache isn't working. Anyone else seeing similar? Seems to be not only me (https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1iui70f/invalid_host_header_anyone_help_me_about_this/) […]

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“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

submitted 8 days ago • 477 comments

I’ve had a day of back-to-back meetings, so I haven’t had time to check on the news until now…

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not sure how I feel about @Mastodon accepting sponsorship from essay mills: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#supported_by 😕 #mastoadmin

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know of any resources about mathematicians who are single parents? I'm in an EDI committee where this came up and they want to spend money on things like posters.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Although these vulnerabilities are not show-stoppers (particularly if you haven’t enabled SSHFP on your clients), it’s probably still a good idea to patch your systems ASAP. #sysadmin #mastoadmin https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/114025987596200107

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

When I was setting up my data storage & backup framework, I felt a little bit like I was joining the tinfoil hat brigade. However, after seeing how quickly data can vanish (by accident or intent), I think that I did the right thing. Primary data locations: 🇬🇧 + 🇫🇮 + 🇳🇱 Backup data […]

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I ditched Goodreads four years ago and never once looked back. I really like StoryGraph - it's simple, clean and refreshingly clutter-free. And behind it all? The brilliant Nadia Odunayo […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

This looks cool - I especially like the hidden Mickey :MickeyHeadOutline: What was the noise source, @kandid? https://chaos.social/@kandid/114014434162955625

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“It was a simple truth; the Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.” — Matt Cauthon As a father of daughters :play:, I can confirm that this is so. 😜 #books #reading #bookstodon #reading 📚📖🤲 https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0ffec2bd-8d7a-4361-a448-b99ae8e6bd59

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This week has been crazy busy, which means that it’s my first night off for over a week. I’m looking forward to settling down with a good #book. https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/0ffec2bd-8d7a-4361-a448-b99ae8e6bd59

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

submitted 13 days ago • 28 comments

Very happy to see the final version of our paper now online #Maths #physics #publication https://colquitt.xyz/@daniel/113911337262404383

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Kudos to #StephenCurry (@StephenCurry) for his open letter to the #RoyalSociety, asking it to revoke the Fellowship it awarded to Elon #Musk in in 2018, on the ground that Musk has violated the society's code of conduct […]

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019. It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight. They’re free for […]

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Eight research groups disbanded (and 46 people fired) at the University of Twente (NL). This include the Complex Photonic Systems group, where I did 3 years of postdoc. It is the end of an era 😢 https://www.utoday.nl/news/75196/dismissal-for-46-st-employees-complete-research-groups-disbanded

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight was water test & change night for my #aquarium :seas: and there’s something not quite right. After several weeks of being rock-solid stable, the water parameters are off. Small amounts of ammonia, pH 8.0, nitrites 1ppm, & nitrates at 40ppm. Nothing has changed as far as I can see. Fish […]

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Bravo 👏 https://mstdn.social/@StephenCurry/113985995273152859

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Happy #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience! One obvious thing institutions can do to help reduce the attrition of women in science is to stop hiring men who were fired from their previous institutions for sexual harassment. https://www.un.org/en/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences has published its response to HMRC’s spending review: https://www.acadmathsci.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AcadMathSci-Response-SpendingReview-FINAL.pdf Key points: • Develop a single strategy for Mathematical Sciences • Support the pipeline of […]

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Celebrating the women working on ESA/NASA #SolarOrbiter mission on this #WomenInScience day. ▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/02/Celebrating_Solar_Orbiter_and_the_women_behind_the_mission #esa #astrodon

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Just submitted my first pull request on a public repository to @Mastodon. Does this make me a proper dev now?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments