Johanna Franklin
@johannamath.bsky.social
Math prof at Hofstra. Logician, fan of the laws of probability & randomness, & mathematical crafter. All opinions my own. She/her/hers.
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"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
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🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
**Women In Logic 2026, Lisbon, Portugal**
24-25 July 2026
The annual Women in Logic Workshop is returning in 2026 as a TWO-DAY workshop!
Get your abstracts in by May 5, 2026!
For more info: sites.google.com/view/wil2026...
**Women In Logic 2026, Lisbon, Portugal**
24-25 July 2026
The annual Women in Logic Workshop is returning in 2026 as a TWO-DAY workshop!
Get your abstracts in by May 5, 2026!
For more info: sites.google.com/view/wil2026...
Call for papers
Women in Logic 2026 is a satellite event of the FLoC 2026: The 9th Federated Logic Conference to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from July 13 to July 29, 2026.
The Women in Logic workshop (WiL) provides...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨
**Women In Logic 2026, Lisbon, Portugal**
24-25 July 2026
The annual Women in Logic Workshop is returning in 2026 as a TWO-DAY workshop!
Get your abstracts in by May 5, 2026!
For more info: sites.google.com/view/wil2026...
**Women In Logic 2026, Lisbon, Portugal**
24-25 July 2026
The annual Women in Logic Workshop is returning in 2026 as a TWO-DAY workshop!
Get your abstracts in by May 5, 2026!
For more info: sites.google.com/view/wil2026...
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Something we should all aspire to on a daily basis.
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Something we should all aspire to on a daily basis.
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Vending today at Eastworks for the Hyphae Community fundraiser market!
Here until 2pm.
Next market: December 13, also at Eastworks!
#KSQShop
Here until 2pm.
Next market: December 13, also at Eastworks!
#KSQShop
November 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Vending today at Eastworks for the Hyphae Community fundraiser market!
Here until 2pm.
Next market: December 13, also at Eastworks!
#KSQShop
Here until 2pm.
Next market: December 13, also at Eastworks!
#KSQShop
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Please help AWM congratulate the recipients of the 2026 AWM Dissertation Prize!
🏆 Naghmeh Akhavan: Dissertation written at @umbc
🏆 Tejasi Bhatnagar: Dissertation written at @uwmadison
Read the full press release here:
awm-math.org/wp-content/u....
#AWM #Awards #WomenInMath
🏆 Naghmeh Akhavan: Dissertation written at @umbc
🏆 Tejasi Bhatnagar: Dissertation written at @uwmadison
Read the full press release here:
awm-math.org/wp-content/u....
#AWM #Awards #WomenInMath
November 20, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Please help AWM congratulate the recipients of the 2026 AWM Dissertation Prize!
🏆 Naghmeh Akhavan: Dissertation written at @umbc
🏆 Tejasi Bhatnagar: Dissertation written at @uwmadison
Read the full press release here:
awm-math.org/wp-content/u....
#AWM #Awards #WomenInMath
🏆 Naghmeh Akhavan: Dissertation written at @umbc
🏆 Tejasi Bhatnagar: Dissertation written at @uwmadison
Read the full press release here:
awm-math.org/wp-content/u....
#AWM #Awards #WomenInMath
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Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
November 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭
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This just won Best Music Video by a Māori Artist and it is so good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNaZ...
(This was the largest march in Aotearoa New Zealand's history, Hīkoi mō te Tiriti, which happened at the same time as MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's world-famous haka in Parliament -- Nov 14, 2024.)
(This was the largest march in Aotearoa New Zealand's history, Hīkoi mō te Tiriti, which happened at the same time as MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's world-famous haka in Parliament -- Nov 14, 2024.)
Tipene - Tū (Feat. Hone Harawira)
YouTube video by Tipene Music
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
This just won Best Music Video by a Māori Artist and it is so good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNaZ...
(This was the largest march in Aotearoa New Zealand's history, Hīkoi mō te Tiriti, which happened at the same time as MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's world-famous haka in Parliament -- Nov 14, 2024.)
(This was the largest march in Aotearoa New Zealand's history, Hīkoi mō te Tiriti, which happened at the same time as MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's world-famous haka in Parliament -- Nov 14, 2024.)
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Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children?
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
FAQ: Underage Women
“Many of the headlines have read that [Jeffrey Epstein] is accused of ‘sex with underage women.’ Really? Why are we whitewashing? Why are we not ca...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children?
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...
Hi #MathSky, I know an Iowa State master's student who needs us! She's exploring how university researchers are/were using Bluesky and Twitter/X.
Her survey only takes 5-10 minutes with an optional follow-up interview. Please share!
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Her survey only takes 5-10 minutes with an optional follow-up interview. Please share!
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hi #MathSky, I know an Iowa State master's student who needs us! She's exploring how university researchers are/were using Bluesky and Twitter/X.
Her survey only takes 5-10 minutes with an optional follow-up interview. Please share!
uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Her survey only takes 5-10 minutes with an optional follow-up interview. Please share!
uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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We are excited to announce the next talk in the seminar series "Women in Logic Online" by @elainepimentel.bsky.social!
TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST
Venue: Zoom
You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST
Venue: Zoom
You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Women in Logic Online with Elaine Pimentel. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Classical versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
tuwien.zoom.us
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We are excited to announce the next talk in the seminar series "Women in Logic Online" by @elainepimentel.bsky.social!
TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST
Venue: Zoom
You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
TITLE: Classical Versus Constructive: An Ecumenical Approach
Date: Wed, November 26, 2025, 17:00 CEST
Venue: Zoom
You can register for free at tuwien.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Look what's got its own page on the Springer Monographs in Mathematics series website! #MathSky
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
Effective Metric Structure Theory
Book discusses the increasingly popular topic of computable metric structure theory which unifies methods from effective analysis and computable algebra.
link.springer.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Look what's got its own page on the Springer Monographs in Mathematics series website! #MathSky
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
link.springer.com/book/9783032...
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Hello, NYC, I am in you!
I will be at Knitty City tomorrow, Saturday the 8th, from 12-6pm. I’m so delighted to be doing a trunk show!!
#KSQShop
Knitty City is one of my favorite yarn stores anywhere—an amazing variety of yarns 🧶, and a helpful and knowledgeable staff!
I will be at Knitty City tomorrow, Saturday the 8th, from 12-6pm. I’m so delighted to be doing a trunk show!!
#KSQShop
Knitty City is one of my favorite yarn stores anywhere—an amazing variety of yarns 🧶, and a helpful and knowledgeable staff!
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Hello, NYC, I am in you!
I will be at Knitty City tomorrow, Saturday the 8th, from 12-6pm. I’m so delighted to be doing a trunk show!!
#KSQShop
Knitty City is one of my favorite yarn stores anywhere—an amazing variety of yarns 🧶, and a helpful and knowledgeable staff!
I will be at Knitty City tomorrow, Saturday the 8th, from 12-6pm. I’m so delighted to be doing a trunk show!!
#KSQShop
Knitty City is one of my favorite yarn stores anywhere—an amazing variety of yarns 🧶, and a helpful and knowledgeable staff!
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Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩🔬 🧪
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
July 25, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩🔬 🧪
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent.
Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive
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Jason Block, Russell Miller
Computability for tree presentations of continuum-size structures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04152
Computability for tree presentations of continuum-size structures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04152
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Jason Block, Russell Miller
Computability for tree presentations of continuum-size structures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04152
Computability for tree presentations of continuum-size structures
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04152
Happy My Car Clock Is Right Again Day to all who celebrate! 🚗 🕙
November 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Happy My Car Clock Is Right Again Day to all who celebrate! 🚗 🕙
Hey, #MathSky! We are already accepting essays for the AWM/MfA Essay Contest, so help the students you know participate!
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hey, #MathSky! We are already accepting essays for the AWM/MfA Essay Contest, so help the students you know participate!
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People three hops away in your social network are people you don't know
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 PM
People three hops away in your social network are people you don't know
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
- Your friends' friends' parents
- Your partner's parents' friends
- Your boss's kid's teachers
- Your friend's doctor's parents
- Your ex's partner's colleague
List goes on and on for why this is terrible criteria
A paper on Martin Davis's work has just been published in "Philosophia Mathematica":
Martin Davis: An Overview of his Work in Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy
By L De Mol, Y V Matiyasevich, E G Omodeo, A Policriti, W Sieg and E J Weyuker.
doi.org/10.1093/phil...
Martin Davis: An Overview of his Work in Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy
By L De Mol, Y V Matiyasevich, E G Omodeo, A Policriti, W Sieg and E J Weyuker.
doi.org/10.1093/phil...
Martin Davis: An Overview of his Work in Logic, Computer Science, and Philosophy
Abstract. In his autobiographical essay written in 1999, ‘From logic to computer science and back’, Martin David Davis (1928 3 8–2023 1 1) indicated that h
doi.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Got all my Vote Forward letters for Prop 50 in CA sent out! @votefwd.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Got all my Vote Forward letters for Prop 50 in CA sent out! @votefwd.bsky.social
Working on the TRIUMPHS project on Abel and Cauchy's approaches to infinite series with my real analysis honors student. We have decided that Abel is totally a hater. #MathSky
digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/triumphs_ana...
digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/triumphs_ana...
Abel and Cauchy on a Rigorous Approach to Infinite Series
By Dave Ruch, Published on 01/01/17
digitalcommons.ursinus.edu
October 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Working on the TRIUMPHS project on Abel and Cauchy's approaches to infinite series with my real analysis honors student. We have decided that Abel is totally a hater. #MathSky
digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/triumphs_ana...
digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/triumphs_ana...
I just found out that my undergrad advisor endowed a fund at my alma mater so the Activities Board can hold a petting zoo for the students every year. 😍
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Animal Encounters Ease Exam Anxiety
Carnegie Mellon University Emeritus Professor Russell Walker endowed a fund to the university for a yearly petting zoo.
www.cmu.edu
October 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I just found out that my undergrad advisor endowed a fund at my alma mater so the Activities Board can hold a petting zoo for the students every year. 😍
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Back up at UConn today for NERDS and a trip to the Dairy Bar!
October 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Back up at UConn today for NERDS and a trip to the Dairy Bar!