Moral of the story: if you catch someone saying "Trump has a 'majority' mandate," you can just tell them this. Okay. I promise I'm done now 😁

Also, to correct/specifiy my own math. If the tally error rate is applied only to the remaining, non-Trump votes you get ≈49.801%, but if you apply the rate to all the votes cast but miraculously say none of those are in Trump's votes you get ≈49.806%. Regardless, the point's still the same 😅

more than 50% of votes cast. A majority voted for someone else. Perhaps this individual was missing sufficient information on how to interpret properly what winning the majority of the electoral college votes means. But, either way, a "majority" mandate, Trump has not. (4/4)

the stops for Trump, he still lands with merely a plurality of votes. A large plurality albeit, but only a plurality nonetheless. He may have done better in this election than either of the previous two he ran in, but that doesn't make him something he's not, that being a candidate who won (3/4)

i.e. 1 out of every 10,000 votes counted is inaccurate, and say all those inaccuracies are in Trump's favor, that raises his total count to 77,310,374, putting his percentage at ≈49.801%. Assuming we're defining "majority" reasonably as winning 50%+1 of votes cast, even when pulling out all (2/4)

It's also funny because, according to the FEC's Official 2024 Presidential General Election Results, the total number of votes cast was 155,238,302; 77,302,580 of which were for Trump. Meaning he received ≈49.796% of the popular vote. Even if we use an exceptionally large tally error of 0.01%, (1/4)

Sooo, when are we gonna get a collaboration between Noah Kahan and Canada's Noah Kahan (i.e. Cameron Whitecomb)? #Canada #Music #CanadianMusic

Wishing a happy 83rd birthday to NASA mathematician and researcher Christine Darden, who specialized in the analysis of supersonic noise and research into its reduction. She was the first Black woman at NASA to reach Senior Executive Service status.

#WomenInSTEM #NASA #MathSky 🧪🚀

We published this on the @fancycomma.bsky.social blog and it feels very true right now, as it has always been, in my experience. Read: fancycomma.com/2025/06/07/f... #SciComm #SciPol

Poster images at Differential Geometry usually have underlying pedagogical content. This month I've been working on prospective poster designs that are mathematical but not necessarily pedagogical.

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#MathSky #MathArt #ITeachMath

Hmmm 🤔, do mathematicians count?

I forget where I originally saw this, but it's one of my absolute favorite memes. #MathSky #iTeachMath #MathMemes #ScienceMemes

This meme probably best describes my research life for the past three months. #MathSky #Science #MATLAB

🎻 96% of all classical music is heard on public radio. If Congress approves a proposal to strip public radio funding, on-air classical music would virtually cease to exist in the United States.

Take action today to #SavePublicRadio and the music you love at goACPR.org

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.

We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me"
– Martin Niemöller, Lutheran Pastor, Holocaust Survivor
(5/5)

with it.

"First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

(4/5)

faced the utmost scrutiny of the people that elected them. Call your local, state, and federal representatives and put all the pressure you can muster on them to stand against the zealous grab of power we're witnessing . People that do not live with virtue should never be expected to govern… (3/5)

baselessly as the outcome of a mother's choice who was swiftly and forcefully ejected out of this nation is one of the sorriest excuses for a deplorable act of this regime. Governments, regardless of the parties that steer them, are never owed the benefit of the doubt, and should ALWAYS be… (2/5)

There is no singular article that reflects the autocracy—and the rampant violations of the core rights and principles that go along with it—happening right now in the United States. However, stripping children away from a country they have a constitutional right to be in, and justifying it… (1/5)

The brain drain from the United States begins (as expected):

www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

I internalize posts like this as subtly encouraging us to not dispair and be optimistic about the future. Sometimes a calm meditative moment is enough to promote a proactive attitude for positive change. I for one WILL watch some birds this weekend. 😊 #Science 🌍🌎🌏

"Get up offa that thing,
And shake 'till you feel better,
Get up offa that thing,
And try to release that pressure!"

In other words, JOIN the #standupforscience2025 MOVEMENT!

And Happy Valentine's Day to all those cardiovascular scientists out there! 🫀(😘)

#AcademicSky 🧪

Thanks to the more than *1100* members of the scientific community who have signed the letter to insist that the Royal Society remains true to values that we all hold dear but that Musk FRS has ridden roughshod over.

Please keep signing & sharing.

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