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Her Maths Story @hermathsstory.bsky.social · 20h

Join us for a special screening of #CountedOutDoc, a powerful documentary that explores how math shapes our everyday lives. Don’t miss this chance to be part of an important conversation.

Reserve your spot today, register at: watch.showandtell.film/watch/her-ma...

#CountedOut #ReImagineMath

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plus.maths.org @plusmaths.bsky.social · 22h

Topological data analysis which uses pure #maths techniques to analyse (big) #data is one of our favourite topics at the moment. In the latest episode of our #podcast Mike Hill explores it further, including applications in social justice plus.maths.org/content/topo...

Topological data analysis with Michael Hill

Find out how topology, traditionally part of pure maths, can help us understand big data, with applications in areas such as cancer research and social justice.

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RA Dr. Jannik Rienhoff @linksanwaelte.bsky.social · 3d

Ich wollte zu Halloween als aufkommender Faschismus gehen, aber offenbar findet das kaum jemand gruselig.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Counted Out Documentary @countedout.bsky.social · 7d

From #data to #AI, our world runs on math. #CountedOutDoc calls us to ensure everyone is prepared, empowered, and counted in. #FutureOfWork

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 4d

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

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Joana Grah @joanagrah.bsky.social · 8d

Re-watched Bo Burnham‘s Inside and I still think it‘s brilliant, on point & heartbreaking.

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Skype a Scientist @skypeascientist.bsky.social · 9d

Alrght everybody, get your Tin Can Telephones out. We need your help!

We reach new people by word of mouth. Send all your educator friends this pic! Teachers, librarians, scout troop leaders, etc! We offer our program for free, so we need help getting the word out without advertising $$.

A purple and red octopus talk to each other on the tin can telephone. Purple octopus says “want to connect your students with real
Scientists?” Then red octopus says “Skype a scientist matches groups with scientists for virtual q&as. It’s free!” And then an orange flapjack octopus says “get a match at skypeascientist.com”

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 9d

1/2 Dogs are capable of forming mental categories of objects, despite not having language or being trained in symbols.

The dogs (mostly border collies) categorized new toys based on their experience with them.

(paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10d

Podcast | "Medicine in Auschwitz"

Participation in selections of Jews became one of the deadly duties of the SS physicians in #Auschwitz. But it was not the only one.

Our podcast about medical crimes at Auschwitz: https://www.auschwitz.org/en/education/e-learning/podcast/medicine-in-auschwitz

Selection at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. An SS doctor in a uniform is standing in front of a line of people approaching him. A man with a walking stick is right in front of him. The SS man points him to the right. He would join a large group of maan standing in the corner of the frame in the distance. Those people will be murdered in a gas chamber. Railline and a building is visible in the background of the photo.

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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 11d

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

"Whoever forbids Antifa, wants fascism! Make Antifa Great Again!" - Banner held by Bayern Munich fans on Friday, right behind the goal, so guaranteed to be in the broadcast worldwide.

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Joana Grah @joanagrah.bsky.social · 12d

Ich muss schweren Herzens 2 Tickets für die Eröffnungsparty/-konzert (Fuffifufzich / Blond / Special Guests) im @hkw-berlin.bsky.social & 2 Tickets (HEUTE) für die Ausstellung „Die Möglichkeit der Unvernunft“ von @janboehm.bsky.social & Gruppe Royale) verkaufen. 😢

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Jan Böhmermann 🤨 @janboehm.bsky.social · 18d

wenigstens flaschenpost vermisst mich

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 19d

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · Aug 27

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem.

Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Screenshot of a reddit post: ChatGPT asked if I wanted a diagram of what's going on inside my pregnant belly.

A screenshot of ChatGPT's response. It is a side view of a foetus gestating in the uterus. The foetus is head-up with no umbilical cord or placenta. Behind the uterus is the rectum, which is unlabelled. Trailing down from between the rectum and spine, extending beneath the buttocks to the inner thigh is a yellow line labelled "pudendal nerve. At the front is an oval-shaped part labelled "cervix". And then we really struggle to image describe this bit. The uterus and the bladder are both attached to a single part which is long inside, then extends downwards into a penis with a single exist. This penis is labelled "rectum".

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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 20d

All of this to say: you can coach women for leadership all you want, but that won’t fix the structural problem. It mostly helps those who already “made it,” not the talents on the verge of leaving.

p.s. many men in those positions actually urgently need the coaching for these roles.

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Robert Koch-Institut @rki.de · 19d

Ready to shape the future of artificial intelligence #AI in #publichealth?

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Research at RKI is looking for a new Research Group Leader in AI Fundamentals.

⏳ Application deadline: 26. October 2025

➡️ www.interamt.de/koop/app/ste...

Apply as Research Group Leader in AI Fundamentals (d/f/m).

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Petra Schwer @petraschwer.bsky.social · 20d

What does it mean (to you) to do mathematics?

#math #mathsky #questionoftheday

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Her Maths Story @hermathsstory.bsky.social · 21d

@jessyrandall.bsky.social writes poems about #HistoricalWomeninSTEM–“Maybe not the most effective form of resistance, but the project staved off my feelings of helplessness & hopelessness“

➡️hermathsstory.eu/poetry-as-lens-two-historical-women-mathematicians

@goldsf.bsky.socia @mitpress.bsky.social

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plus.maths.org @plusmaths.bsky.social · 23d

We're having a great time at @hlforum.bsky.social as always! Our first vlog is out now, featuring young researchers from around the world, mathematical art, and two lovely science journalist friends youtu.be/c49WU053ZSg?... #HLF2025

VLOG@HLF25 PART ONE

YouTube video by Heidelberg Laureate Forum

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Ana Paula Gomes @anapaulagomes.me · 23d

pra quem tiver em Salvador nessa quinta e tiver afim de falar sobre Open Source, Python, vida na academia e na indústria, e como deixar seu projeto não apenas público mas no jeito pra outras pessoas usarem! 😀

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plus.maths.org @plusmaths.bsky.social · 25d

We're back in Heidelberg for the 12th @hlforum.bsky.social where young researchers get to meet laureates of the most prestigious #maths and #compsci prizes. We'll be filming a vlog throughout the week, watch this space to see the episodes as they go live

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 27d

In this episode of Polylogues, @lakshmic.bsky.social sits down with Moni Naor for a wide-ranging discussion of Naor’s path in the field, intersections of cryptography and complexity, the cryptographic technology behind CAPTCHA, and highlights of his own research.

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Moni Naor | Polylogues

On August 1, 2025, Simons Institute Science Communicator in Residence Lakshmi Chandrasekaran sat down with Moni Naor, one of the participants in this summer’s research program on cryptography, for a wide-ranging discussion of Naor’s path in the field, intersections of cryptography and complexity, the cryptographic technology behind CAPTCHA, and highlights of his own research.

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 26d

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!

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