Nalini Joshi

The collective noun for hermits is a paradox

Stereographic Rubik’s

Why One of the World’s Greatest Mathematicians Is on a ‘War Footing’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u... I have rarely if ever seen Terry being angry. But here he is …

To help researchers with the new ARC Research Points system I made a simple spreadsheet calculator for 'what-if' scenarios - looking at various roles, across schemes, across NCGP period (2027 - 2029). Let me know if you use, and it's useful! www.linkedin.com/pulse/arc-re... @arc-tracker.bsky.social

“I didn’t know you were a “real” professor” When I heard this as a newly appointed Professor, I thought it was a sign of the place & its age … but this study shows that the same refrain, the same instruments of devaluation continue, no matter what the age.

what angle does this converge to?

Too many people are calling on the community to "change how we value papers". Not enough people are posting "this is what we look for in our next hiring round".

New post on Transformation: Cracks appear in OpenAI’s wall of proofs https://www.quantamagazine.org/updates/transformation/#167798

It's "as though there were aliens that came to Earth and then just left, we would be studying this for the next 10 years, trying to understand everything." @theroberthart.bsky.social talked to three dozen mathematicians about OpenAI's drop. Gift link:

They sold me a machine to drink my coffee for me, then I had to buy their caffeine injectables to get the same buzz, but it shaved 12 minutes off my morning routine which I use to earn 381 extra cents for my employer. At the end of the year I'll get a bag of gourmet coffee beans for my hard work.

From my wonderful mathematical colleague Melissa Lee @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Turns out 3 of the papers have been retracted based on a sign error in one of them. github.com/openai/math/...

Here’s a bombshell for those considering the impact of the recent dump of mathematical papers by OpenAI: why the semantic translation of a mathematical text into Lean code by an AI may neither be reliable nor faithful 👉🏼 arxiv.org/abs/2610.08144

In case you’re wondering why I’ve been posting about inappropriate relationships between students and staff, the news about this case of a mathematician is now reaching across the media … vinnews.com/2026/10/01/h...

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

Has the world gone mad? I just got charged $20.20 for an affogato ☕️+🍨 at the Opera House…

ARC has given some details of how new Explore scheme will run ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... ❗️There's a lottery❗️ Peer review yields 3 categories: highly competitive, competitive, uncompetitive. After funding highly competitive apps, competitive ones enter a lottery for remaining $.

A propos @astrokatie.com ‘s recent post on vulnerability of grad students to badly behaved senior researchers, I draw your attention to a very recent ruling by the Hebrew University Sexual Harassment Tribunal (use Google Translate if needed)👇🏼 www.ynet.co.il/news/article...

Preparing a lecture on the practice of research and was reminded of this lovely essay on the importance of being comfortable with feeling stupid: fermatslibrary.com/s/the-import...

My University’s Code of Conduct contains the following section. Does your University have a similar policy?

I will be giving the 2026 Moyal Medal Lecture today at 18:30 at the Macquarie University campus 👉🏼 www.mq.edu.au/faculty-of-s...

I collect first lines. Do you recognize this one? “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

An 11-year-old chess prodigy has become the youngest woman grandmaster of all time, after a strong performance at the 46th Chess Olympiad. https://cnn.it/4d56dpY

From our friends at the School of #Mathematics and Statistics at #USyd: positions as 'Magma Research Associates / Magma Research Fellows to develop and maintain the Magma computer #algebra system." 2 positions, each for 3 years: apply by October 20 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer

In my school days, it was the magpies who pecked the foil tops off milk bottles waiting for us at recess…

Repeatedly subdividing a triangle using its centroids

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/s...

One of the challenges of being a senior woman in academia is that our models for leadership are usually male & frequently achieve their goals by making rude demands. If women try that, it really doesn't go well for us. So a lot more emotional load is involved in formulating every request.

Public perception about the future of mathematics is an enormous challenge facing our community. We are currently not even remotely in control of the narrative. For example, the photo shows what’s on display in every newsagents and supermarket in the UK. Will future students be scared away? #MathSky

Wow does the post title bury the lede! I particularly like the pictured comment.

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

Initial Members of the Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI⁠: Camillo De Lellis (IAS) Timothy Gowers (Cambridge) Martin Hairer (EPFL) Nikhil Srivastava (Berkeley) Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford) Ravi Vakil (Stanford) Edward Witten (IAS) Melanie Matchett Wood (Harvard) terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/a...

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now, for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning.” - Vincent Van Gogh

The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM is awarded annually to women recently promoted to Associate Professor or ..equivalent.. in the mathematical sciences. It provides a fellowship to spend a semester in the Math Dept of Cornell University without teaching obligations 👇🏼

🏅 Nominations are open for the 2027 LMA/@ima-maths.bsky.social Crighton Medal. The medal is named in honour of David George Crighton FRS and is awarded to an eminent mathematician for services both to mathematics and to the mathematical community. ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/prizes/crigh...

Wild Flowers, 1995 by Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye #womensart

Pleased to have Weighted Voronoi stippling implemented. Cool look!

The 2026-27 Round of LMS Early Career Fellowships are live, open to early career mathematicians in the transition between PhD and a postdoctoral position. Deadline is in TWO weeks (1 October 2026). For further details ➡️ www.lms.ac.uk/grants/lms-e...

ICYMI it says “The current version of the manuscript is complete mathematically, but it is not in the shape we wished to share in. We have chosen to do so due to rumors that surfaced around Friday, September 11th. We will work on a more complete version of the manuscript in the close future.”

Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

Mathematicians at OpenAI announced that a group of 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction proved that the Navier-Stokes equations can “blow up,” thus solving one of the six remaining Millennium Prize Problems. The result is not without controversy. www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve...

TurtleStitch Discovery Day @ Warwick 22nd September, 10:00-15:00 (drop in) Explore #TurtleStitch, where coding meets digital embroidery! A drop-in day with links to Computing, Maths, Art & Design, and cross‑curricular projects. Register: www.warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch #WMGOutreach #TurtleStitch

I tried to delete my Bluesky account but accidentally deleted my real life, so I only exist here now. Please feed me likes to keep me alive.

Knight’s Distance Function (how many knight moves a square is from another)

This is an extremely worrying graph (via @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social ) from the report at www.cdc.gov.au/resources/pu...

Downgrade a movie The Lord of the Magmas

Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah