Rowena Ball
@Rowena@mathstodon.xyz
Professor in mathematical sciences, with cross-disciplinary interests in all of the sciences. Leading new research and teaching program, 'Mathematics Without Borders'. Research and publications in applied mathematics, physical and mathematical chemistry, Indigenous and First Nations mathematics and sciences, the emergence of life, thermochemical instabilities, complex dynamical systems, railways, country pub lunches. She/her, widowed, with 3 children and 5 grandchildren
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Rowena Ball
@Rowena@mathstodon.xyz
Professor in mathematical sciences, with cross-disciplinary interests in all of the sciences. Leading new research and teaching program, 'Mathematics Without Borders'. Research and publications in applied mathematics, physical and mathematical chemistry, Indigenous and First Nations mathematics and sciences, the emergence of life, thermochemical instabilities, complex dynamical systems, railways, country pub lunches. She/her, widowed, with 3 children and 5 grandchildren
mathstodon.xyz
@Rowena@mathstodon.xyz
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Apr 20, 2026
How am I supposed to assess and rank ARC grant applications that are riddled with LLM-generated or generative AI content? Guess I'll just have to send them back as un-assessable. This AI shenanigans is getting ridiculous! The entire research funding system could fall in a heap! The ARC bureaucracy cannot solve this problem alone though.
(I am not talking about proposals to use machine learning to *analyse* data.)
@ARC_Tracker@aus.social
#academicchatter
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Christine Sætre-esque
@csaetre@techhub.social
Fan of wit, science, logic, tech (day job). Enjoyed fact based debate when it was a thing. #expat #ui #software #engineering #coding #devops #webapps #infosec #humor #universitylife #학습 #hiking Residing in #norway
techhub.social
Christine Sætre-esque
@csaetre@techhub.social
Fan of wit, science, logic, tech (day job). Enjoyed fact based debate when it was a thing. #expat #ui #software #engineering #coding #devops #webapps #infosec #humor #universitylife #학습 #hiking Residing in #norway
techhub.social
@csaetre@techhub.social
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Apr 18, 2026
Love this.
A peer reviewed blank page was published in 1974, without revision.
The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block” by Dennis Upper.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a
Credit: Found this gem via ‘stephenknowstuff’ on another platform
#writersblock #academicchatter
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Lauma Pret ♡ ᪲᪲᪲🌈
@laumapret@toot.lv
"That deep blue sky is my home." I cheat in singleplayer videogames if that makes them more enjoyable for me. My employer disagrees with me on great many things, including... at least one major trend. #VintageStyleNotVintageValues #RestIsResistance https://justmytoots.com/@laumapret@toot.lv
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Lauma Pret ♡ ᪲᪲᪲🌈
@laumapret@toot.lv
"That deep blue sky is my home." I cheat in singleplayer videogames if that makes them more enjoyable for me. My employer disagrees with me on great many things, including... at least one major trend. #VintageStyleNotVintageValues #RestIsResistance https://justmytoots.com/@laumapret@toot.lv
toot.lv
@laumapret@toot.lv
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Apr 09, 2026
I already shortened the paper in all the ways I could, there is barely enough space for missing abstract, and yet my supervisor wants to squeeze in couple paragraph from international collaborator. Forgive me, my future reviewer, 'cos the lettering in the images will probably be ant-sized. At least, those are vector images and nowadays everything is digital. #AcademicChatter
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
mementomori.social
David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
mementomori.social
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
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Mar 31, 2026
Writing physics posts on fedi to avoid doing the hard work of writing lectures.
#AcademicChatter
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
mementomori.social
David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
mementomori.social
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
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Mar 28, 2026
Okay, help: what's a good compromise for a whiteboard for one-off use in a lecture? I want to collect student ideas, group them together and talk them through interactively while showing the whiteboard on a screen. Nothing more.
For a long time I would have used Flinga Whiteboard (https://flinga.fi/) but my employer stopped paying for it. They do pay for Miro but it's horrendously complicated to use, and a steep learning curve for a one-off activation exercise in class.
Is there something simple, freely available (maybe - ideally - open source) that is at the Flinga end of complexity rather than Miro?
#education #EdTech #whiteboard #AcademicChatter
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
mementomori.social
David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
mementomori.social
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
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Feb 25, 2026
I’ve been asked to sign a declaration of solidarity with academics at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, in response to legislative measures in Georgia that will cut student admissions and limit academic freedom. Does anyone have any good English-language resources about what these changes entail and how they are being receive?
#AcademicChatter #Georgia #ISU #IliaStateUniversity
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the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
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the roamer
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
University teacher, father, dog walker. A European in England. Posting micro-comments on all things that come my way, large and small. #pedagogy, #taoism, #literature, #programming, #typography, #TeX, #politics, #covid. Kindness will prevail. Posting about #noAI. #StopTheAICorruption. Personal long-term strands: #MastodonCulture, #whippet_moments, #Plutarch's #ParallelLives. Regular comments on the #Pepys diary. Most of my comments come up in conversations. Please view my "Posts and Replies".
mastodonapp.uk
@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk
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Feb 21, 2026
Professor Agatha "Agy" Nimble, the Pro Vice-Chancellor Education. She enters the room lightfooted, a winning smile on her face. She is the never-say-no Anglican Bishop, caring, soft-voiced, immovable.
Professor Nimble does not teach anymore. But she runs her own workshops on how to transform your teaching.
She absolutely loves every comment, idea, criticism made by a participant. She prepared a slide before the session, listing all the interesting things that participants have said and learnt during the day.
She is the author of the University's "Teaching The Magical Way" strategy and heads the curriculum transfomation process. She may or may not believe in it herself, but she knows that she would find it easy to implement, if only she could clone herself sufficuently many times to place herself in each of our roles. Her workshop has shown us how to do it. She is very empathetic and she forgives us that we don't see the way yet.
She will not change the plan.
#AcademicChatter
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Dr. Anna Latour
@anna@mathstodon.xyz
Computer Scientist. Assistant professor interested in counting and reasoning under uncertainty. Feminist. Trekkie. Traveller. LaTeX enthusiast. "Clearly not very smart" - a former colleague "Exceptional in every way. 10/10" - one of my former students
mathstodon.xyz
Dr. Anna Latour
@anna@mathstodon.xyz
Computer Scientist. Assistant professor interested in counting and reasoning under uncertainty. Feminist. Trekkie. Traveller. LaTeX enthusiast. "Clearly not very smart" - a former colleague "Exceptional in every way. 10/10" - one of my former students
mathstodon.xyz
@anna@mathstodon.xyz
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Feb 16, 2026
Incredible dedication to indexing in Kleinberg & Tardos.
#Algorithms #Algorithmics #ComputerScience #Books #ProfessorLife #Textbook #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
mementomori.social
David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @davidjamesweir
mementomori.social
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
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Feb 11, 2026
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science!
Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community):
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117
#AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM
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𝕛𝕦𝕝𝕖𝕤 
@blitter__dup_36816@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
likes chaos vibes, IT, a positive future (including 🌳s, 🚄s, and 
rights) and shit toots. researches theoretical computer science¹ by daytime², and does half-assed configuration and weird prototypes otherwise. one day, I will learn more languages (currently: native de, fluent en, rusty B2 french, very beginners swedish (and the automtically learned norsk at that), literal 3 words of finnish, beginners level japanese) books are awesome, always happy to discuss them, ask me for recommendations internet culture is culture, this especially applies to fanfictions and memes 
belongs at pride. toots may be lewd (and if not directed at reader and not very explicit, not cwed), and may be answered accordingly. Flirting only after explicit consent. young people belong on the internet and are probably better at judging their own boundaries than you think writing technical documentation is surprisingly fun wahlhelfer aus Überzeugung 🐋 frequent enjoyer of lost-and-found places will eventually unfollow all entities that don't put cws in front of `pol--` or `chaos meta--` toots most prideflags look better upside down if gender isn't fun you're doing it wrong I do not expect "follow for follow" and usually don't do it #nobot (for bad bots) #noindex good bots may use the headpat dispenser :pat: I reject follow requests if you don't have at least one of the following: pronouns in your bio, a couple of interesting posts, account on a small instance. ¹ algorithms and data structures for compressed strings ² the time I'm apparently supposed to be awake³ ³ and I like footnotes a bit too much
mastodon.catgirl.cloud
𝕛𝕦𝕝𝕖𝕤
@blitter__dup_36816@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
likes chaos vibes, IT, a positive future (including 🌳s, 🚄s, and rights) and shit toots. researches theoretical computer science¹ by daytime², and does half-assed configuration and weird prototypes otherwise. one day, I will learn more languages (currently: native de, fluent en, rusty B2 french, very beginners swedish (and the automtically learned norsk at that), literal 3 words of finnish, beginners level japanese) books are awesome, always happy to discuss them, ask me for recommendations internet culture is culture, this especially applies to fanfictions and memes belongs at pride. toots may be lewd (and if not directed at reader and not very explicit, not cwed), and may be answered accordingly. Flirting only after explicit consent. young people belong on the internet and are probably better at judging their own boundaries than you think writing technical documentation is surprisingly fun wahlhelfer aus Überzeugung 🐋 frequent enjoyer of lost-and-found places will eventually unfollow all entities that don't put cws in front of `pol--` or `chaos meta--` toots most prideflags look better upside down if gender isn't fun you're doing it wrong I do not expect "follow for follow" and usually don't do it #nobot (for bad bots) #noindex good bots may use the headpat dispenser :pat: I reject follow requests if you don't have at least one of the following: pronouns in your bio, a couple of interesting posts, account on a small instance. ¹ algorithms and data structures for compressed strings ² the time I'm apparently supposed to be awake³ ³ and I like footnotes a bit too much
mastodon.catgirl.cloud
@blitter__dup_36816@mastodon.catgirl.cloud
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Jan 31, 2026
Can anyone recommend me some (online available ;) ) CS textbook that explains Elias-Fano encoding (and SELECT queries on it specifically) in a readable manner?
The original papers are annoying and my advisor just told me "it's popular enough that you can just ask your favourite LLM about it" and hell no
#csacademia #csresearch #cs #academicchatter #shadowlibrary #bookrecommendations #bookrecs #llm
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Anthony Arblaster
@aarblaster@mastodonapp.uk
Theatre lighting designer and educator from Kamberri/Canberra, Australia. Now living in London. I teach and research #LightingDesign at RADA in London. I am a #PhD researcher at the #UniversityOfYork, researching #dramaturgy and lighting design. #UoY I make iOS apps to fix problems I have, using #swift.
mastodonapp.uk
Anthony Arblaster
@aarblaster@mastodonapp.uk
Theatre lighting designer and educator from Kamberri/Canberra, Australia. Now living in London. I teach and research #LightingDesign at RADA in London. I am a #PhD researcher at the #UniversityOfYork, researching #dramaturgy and lighting design. #UoY I make iOS apps to fix problems I have, using #swift.
mastodonapp.uk
@aarblaster@mastodonapp.uk
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Jan 29, 2026
My university wasn’t listed in @ResearchOrgs@mastodon.social and guess what, proposing the addition was simple. If an org you know has a mistake or is missing take the 5 minutes to suggest a change.
And hello to ROR id 01y7y4033 — the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
#AcademicChatter #RADA
Https://ror.org/01y7y4033
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