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Allan Donsig
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Math Prof, Nebraskan of Canadian origin,
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Six US intelligence sources told Reuters that Putin aims to seize all of Ukraine and restore control over former Soviet territories

This contradicts both the Kremlin's public denials and the Trump administration's insistence that Russia is interested in peace euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/20/u...
US intelligence say Putin wants Ukraine, Baltics, Poland, and more. Trump’s team says Russia wants peace
Meanwhile, the security guarantee proposal includes the deployment of European forces, potentially from countries Putin also wants.
euromaidanpress.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Denmark’s vaccine schedule is the most minimalist in the developed world. So why is HHS trying to adopt it?

My new piece in @statnews.com.

Huge thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social for the lightning-fast turnaround and sharp editing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...
Why Denmark's vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States
With its vaccine schedule, “Denmark has made a values choice to accept preventable hospitalizations and illnesses that other countries have chosen to prevent.”
www.statnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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On this day in 1924, Judy LaMarsh was born in Chatham, Ontario.
She served in Parliament from 1960 to 1968 and was instrumental in creating Medicare and the Canada Pension Plan.

Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
buff.ly/LyvBis6
December 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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It’s not just that Trump lied constantly during his speech tonight; I’m not sure he said a single thing that was factually correct.
December 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides.

The Coke cost more on the Black side.
Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Last call! Submit your MAA MathFest 2026 proposal by TOMORROW, Dec 15. Share your ideas and help make MAA MathFest unforgettable! 🔗Submit today: https://forms.gle/SG1rEsSdo75BMfoFA
December 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Need funding for undergrad research?

Join our MAA National Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (NREUP) info webinar on Dec 17 at 1 pm EST to learn about goals, eligibility, and tips for a strong proposal.

Register today: https://bit.ly/4pyMP90
December 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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NSF

- Forced reorg

- POs down ~ 40% (DRP, most rotators not renewed, retirements)

- Forced move (and we have to pack and clean) to a building with no furniture, little to no conference space for panels, inadequate 🛜, …)

I personally love the boxes they gave us for packing.
“Details matter” 🙃
December 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Hey - our new book, 'Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences - isn't officially published yet, but copies are shipping! What great timing - you can gift a copy to someone who'd like teaching writing to be easier. Even if that someone is you!
Our book is SHIPPING NOW! Here’s an easy stocking stuffer + 5 ideas for what to write on the gift tag ✨
After some paper supply chain issues that delayed the expected publication date* for Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences, we are THRILLED to confirm that any pre-orders made directly wit…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.

My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
for what it’s worth I got roped into helping out with my sixth grader’s extracurricular thing so I’ve had more recent contact with middle schoolers who aren’t mine than I usually do, and biased sample/biased reviewer/etc but my verdict is that the kids are all right
December 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented, but then you read. It was books that taught me that that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."
- James Baldwin
#BookWormSat #JamesBaldwin
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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12 million year old bone-crushing dog tracks!

New article on research we presented at the recent Vert Paleo conference in the UK.

Lots of on-going work at Ashfall Fossil Beds @unsmmorrillhall.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving for those in the states. 🦃

www.livescience.com/animals/exti...
Large, bone-crushing dogs stalked 'Rhino Pompeii' after Yellowstone eruption 12 million years ago, ancient footprints reveal
Researchers have found footprints of large, bone-crushing dogs in the 12 million-year-old Ashfall Fossil Beds in northeastern Nebraska, suggesting these large carnivores may have survived a cataclysmi...
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I seem to recall that one of the GOP's main criticisms of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal was that he betrayed the Afghan allies and didn't allow enough of them to come to the US. They shouldn't be allowed to forget that.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/...
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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On Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, mathematical professional societies are joining together on Capitol Hill to meet with congressional offices and communicate the importance of the mathematical sciences! Let's fill out the map! Sign up and have your state represented! #MathSciOnTheHill
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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If you stop all the vaccines tomorrow, in 10 years, the rates of autism would stay exactly the same but there would be about 30-40% less children in this country.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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📣📣📣 NEW: Conservative Poll: CLEAR majority of swing district Americans support preserving enhanced #ACA premium tax credits:

acasignups.net/25/11/18/con...
Conservative Poll: Clear majority of swing district Americans support preserving enhanced premium tax credits
Americans for a Balanced Budget is a conservative think tank. Earlier today they published the results of a poll taken by Trump/Republican pollster John McLaughlin which finds...well... Americans for ...
acasignups.net
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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This summer, we got to add new species to our weevil collection. The first step for finding weevils is finding their host plant.🌱 The fantastic-smelling, gray sagebrush is common in the Great Plains. From that, we got these two tiny gray weevil species, which were well hidden. #entomology
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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America’s universities (which Donald Trump’s policies are harming) are hard power
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education is currently accepting proposals for upcoming Special Issues -- and we want your ideas to lead the next big conversations in the field.

More info:
www.nctm.org/JRMESpeciali...
#iteachmath #AcademicSky
JRME Call for Special Issues Proposals - National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
“Strengths Based Research at the Intersection of Mathematics and Disability” Special Issue Editors Rachel Lambert and Jessica Hunt Neurodivergent, Deaf and or students with disabilities are mathemati...
www.nctm.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM