Michael Tait

“I was in the period of my greatest success, I was publishing two books a year, and selling well. Reading and writing had become a career, and, like all careers, it began to burden me”

mon: tried to prove theorem tu: tried to prove theorem wed: tried to prove theorem th: tried to prove theorem fri: theorem false

@DonaldDiCicco @trajan317 he will get a good job, he is a much better applicant than the average phd. he explained very clearly why he didn’t apply to the open fellowship, which imo (I was an nsf postdoc and have reviewed multiple times for them) he would have also had a reasonable chance of winning

Tonight I found out that the NSF math postdoctoral fellowship I applied for is being deleted because it does not comply with Trump’s executive orders on DEI in the federal government. I’m going to answer some FAQs and share some thoughts about this ordeal in this thread 1/n

two pieces of miscellaneous info: in december the president of the ncaa testified to congress that there are under 10 transgender athletes in the ncaa; the department of education enforces title ix

2024 reading: the year of @JoyceCarolOates

“there’s no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them”

did the swarthmore crew paint the newly resurfaced paris track 🤔🤔

“His youth was like a Fourth of July rocket — consuming itself in its display” - @JoyceCarolOates

bednarek hates lyles lolol

This week at AIM: "High-dimensional phenomena in discrete analysis"

kate grace is an inspiration for a mid 30s parent #lagrandprix

prediction (c 2030): quincy wilson becomes the first human to run 400 meters in under 43 seconds

We strongly encourage you to submit your research papers to ELA, the Electronic Journal on Linear Algebra. ELA fits the category of "Diamond Open Access" since it is free of charge both for authors and readers. ilasic.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=…

ncaas: drawing lane 3 for a 200 prelim is extremely unfair and they should not use it, 3 people per heat; @seandolan__ looked great for @NovaTrackXC; on a run over winter break @gary_martin20 told me the uva dmr would be up there, too bad the mile prelim is so soon before

concept: chile con carne but you put corn in it and call it chile corn carne

this is still a good idea 🦉

“what people thought were stories were fragments from shattered wholes, the patterns, the brain waves, of a certain man at a certain time in his life, the record of his controlled and uncontrolled inner life: therefore all writing was autobiography, wasn’t it?” -@JoyceCarolOates

The ILAS Board approved a proposal to hold the 26th ILAS Conference in Kaohsiung, in the South of the island of Taiwan, June 23–27, 2025. The main organizers are Jephian C.-H. Lin (National Sun Yat-sen University) and Matthew M. Lin (National Cheng Kung University).

@MarissaKawehi I gave up after several tries and told my program director I couldn’t do it and he said not to worry about it 🥴