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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot tell you what it means to get this shout out from someone I have looked up to for my entire career. Thanks, Steve. 🙏

Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 6d

Mathematician Chad Topaz's new book looks at America's criminal legal system through the lens of data science. Pre-order at www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...

Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change

Amazon.com: Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: 9780691276151: Topaz, Chad M.: Books

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Sep 8

Grant writing is 20% perspiration, and 80% WTF RESEARCH.GOV WHY WILL YOU NOT LISTEN TO ME!

A screenshot of research.gov stating that the uploaded file contains "no machine-readable text or images"

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Aug 14

Save the Date! ATMCS 12 is coming up fast, January 26-30, 2026, in Leipzig. More info at the link below, call for contributions coming soon!

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Aug 6

a little girl is looking out of a window and says `` take my money '' .

Alt: a little girl is looking out of a window and says `` take my money '' .

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Aug 6

Oh how I have missed the brown sharpie!

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Bastian Grossenbacher-Rieck @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks · Jul 22

#MachineLearning loves data. #Topology loves shape.
Let's bring them together!

👉The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) bridges both worlds, as I outline in a recent article in the Notices of the
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Engage!

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An overview of the Euler Characteristic Transform, illustrated for a single Euler Characteristic Curve, i.e., the calculation of Euler characteristics along a single direction.

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Jun 28

Oh, right, that's why I never fly United.....

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Jun 24

Gah no spoilers but the end BLEW MY MIND!

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hahaha ok so first off, I was tipped off at the answer, and second, it's because the answer was my last name 😜

Score My Wordle @scoremywordle.bsky.social · Jun 19

The top scorer for Wed, Jun 18, 2025, UTC is: @elizabethmunch.bsky.social! They scored 420 points for #Wordle 1460 and solved it on row 1! That's better than 1,962 (~99%) other users. You’re unstoppable!

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Jun 18

I had given up on wordle for a while, but a friend gave me a heads up that my usual starter word was FINALLY the answer 😜😂😂🤣

Wordle 1,460 1/6*

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · May 22

Ooooooh, party in the Poincaré disk!

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · May 21

Math professors for trans rights

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Math teachers for trans rights

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · May 6

New personal best:

From revise and resubmit request email to resubmit in 12 hours 32 minutes.

a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · May 2

Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.

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χle Ormsby @motivickyle.bsky.social · May 2

The average American has three friends: ℝ, ℂ, and ℍ.

Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · May 2

The average American has three friends.

Three kinds of planar geometry: hyperbolic, Euclidean, and elliptic

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · May 2

The average American has three friends.

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · May 2

The average American has three friends.

The Roman surface visualization of the real projective plane, RP^2.

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · May 1

the function of ChatGPT isn't *being* correct it's *looking* correct. often the two line up surprisingly well! but sometimes they don't!

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Danny Caballero 🇲🇽💚🤍 @danny.hellmo.space · Apr 26

My colleagues and I draft a statement about the recent end of equal opportunities employment practices at @michiganstateu.bsky.social

It’s incredible that our community is standing up where our administrators aren’t.

#academicsky #edusky #highereducation #msu

Union of Tenure-System Faculty at MSU @utsfmsu.bsky.social · Apr 25

MSU administration announced the end of equal opportunity employment practices this week. In response, the UTSF Organizing Committee issued the following statement: 1/n

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Apr 25

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Anirvan Chatterjee @chatterjee.net · Apr 22

This feels existential for US science:

To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work

(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)

No institution could *ever* comply.

New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...

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Danny Caballero 🇲🇽💚🤍 @danny.hellmo.space · Apr 22

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK #MSU

So, we don't provide equal opportunities anymore?

>Per the guidance from MSU Human Resources, please remove the following language from all letterhead immediately: “MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer”.

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Liz Munch @elizabethmunch.bsky.social · Apr 22

I am still in research and in academia because I found community in the WinCompTop research network. Beautiful work in the April Notices putting numbers behind the impact of these important networks.
www.ams.org/journals/not...

Picture of women researchers from the WinCompTop workshop in 2016 at the IMA in Minnesota.

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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · Apr 18

Proud to stand with and for my colleagues. We’re just getting started.
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MSU students and faculty fight to protect education

MSU students and faculty came together Thursday, fighting to protect higher education. They're hoping to be heard by the federal government.

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