Gabrielle Birchak
@gabriellebirchak.bsky.social
Podcaster, Speaker, Author of Hypatia: The Sum of Her Life
www.MathScienceHistory.com
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This from @zeblarson.bsky.social is gooood. It answers the question: Now that our government has muted our national public health officials, what can we, as citizens, do _now_?!?
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Propaganda, Rather than Pandemic Policies, Caused the War on Public Health
The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This from @zeblarson.bsky.social is gooood. It answers the question: Now that our government has muted our national public health officials, what can we, as citizens, do _now_?!?
(cc FYI @cdelawalla.bsky.social)
www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...
(cc FYI @cdelawalla.bsky.social)
www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...
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"Retract your unscientific hype" !
This is what many European scientists are asking the European Commission president about #AI
www.linkedin.com/posts/jlamat...
This is what many European scientists are asking the European Commission president about #AI
www.linkedin.com/posts/jlamat...
Scientists Letter to the President on AI Hype | Jean-Louis Amat
"Retract your unscientific AI hype" !
Décidément, nos dirigeants ne sont pas à la hauteur en ce qui concerne les technologies. Ici avec l'IA mais le cas est plus général.
La présidente de la Commiss...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"Retract your unscientific hype" !
This is what many European scientists are asking the European Commission president about #AI
www.linkedin.com/posts/jlamat...
This is what many European scientists are asking the European Commission president about #AI
www.linkedin.com/posts/jlamat...
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A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
The love for his father became the equation for time. 💫Today’s special guest: Dr. Ronald Mallett, theoretical physicist and pioneer in time-travel theory.
We talk wormholes, Einstein, and the science behind the impossible.
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#RonMallett
We talk wormholes, Einstein, and the science behind the impossible.
Listen here → mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/turning-grie...
#RonMallett
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The love for his father became the equation for time. 💫Today’s special guest: Dr. Ronald Mallett, theoretical physicist and pioneer in time-travel theory.
We talk wormholes, Einstein, and the science behind the impossible.
Listen here → mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/turning-grie...
#RonMallett
We talk wormholes, Einstein, and the science behind the impossible.
Listen here → mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/turning-grie...
#RonMallett
What is the Engineer Proximity Effect? I talk about it on this week's podcast and even interview my live-in engineer (that would be my husband). Tune in!
Some engineers bless machines by walking in. Others (like Wolfgang Pauli) cursed them by proximity.
This week on Math! Science! History! >>> 3 tales of science, superstition, and the ghosts in our machines. Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/haunted-mach...
#Halloween #MathScienceHistory
This week on Math! Science! History! >>> 3 tales of science, superstition, and the ghosts in our machines. Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/haunted-mach...
#Halloween #MathScienceHistory
Math Science History with Gabrielle Birchak
Step into the laboratory at Math! Science! History! where time bends, ideas spark, equations echo, and the past hums with the electricity of what’s to come. Each week, Gabrielle Birchak lights the…
mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What is the Engineer Proximity Effect? I talk about it on this week's podcast and even interview my live-in engineer (that would be my husband). Tune in!
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Sources say that they once heard Zohran Mamdani boast in a poetic cadence that he would walk 500 miles and would walk 500 more just to be the man who walks 1000 miles to your door, yet he has never done so.
SCOOP: A bombshell report will prove Zohran Mamdani’s claim that “he’s been to a million bodegas” is FALSE after investigative journalists at the Free Press discover that New York City only has approximately 13,000 bodegas.
October 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Sources say that they once heard Zohran Mamdani boast in a poetic cadence that he would walk 500 miles and would walk 500 more just to be the man who walks 1000 miles to your door, yet he has never done so.
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It's worth a little more detail: Her teacher had them write a proof, then the next question said something like, "If you used more than 4 steps in the previous proof, could you write a proof using fewer steps than you did?" 😒 [1/4]
After receiving little more than groans and eye rolls when helping my 14yo daughter with her math homework over the years, I finally got it last night after talking her through a Geometry proof: "Why couldn't YOU be my math teacher?"
a baby with a fist in the air on a purple background
ALT: a baby with a fist in the air on a purple background
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October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
It's worth a little more detail: Her teacher had them write a proof, then the next question said something like, "If you used more than 4 steps in the previous proof, could you write a proof using fewer steps than you did?" 😒 [1/4]
Some engineers bless machines by walking in. Others (like Wolfgang Pauli) cursed them by proximity.
This week on Math! Science! History! >>> 3 tales of science, superstition, and the ghosts in our machines. Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/haunted-mach...
#Halloween #MathScienceHistory
This week on Math! Science! History! >>> 3 tales of science, superstition, and the ghosts in our machines. Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/haunted-mach...
#Halloween #MathScienceHistory
Math Science History with Gabrielle Birchak
Step into the laboratory at Math! Science! History! where time bends, ideas spark, equations echo, and the past hums with the electricity of what’s to come. Each week, Gabrielle Birchak lights the…
mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Some engineers bless machines by walking in. Others (like Wolfgang Pauli) cursed them by proximity.
This week on Math! Science! History! >>> 3 tales of science, superstition, and the ghosts in our machines. Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/haunted-mach...
#Halloween #MathScienceHistory
This week on Math! Science! History! >>> 3 tales of science, superstition, and the ghosts in our machines. Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/haunted-mach...
#Halloween #MathScienceHistory
Every minute, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic enters our oceans. Our latest Flashcard Friday episode of Math! Science! History! explorse how small, daily choices help protect coral reefs and marine life.
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#SaveOurOceans #MathScienceHistory
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#SaveOurOceans #MathScienceHistory
Math Science History with Gabrielle Birchak: FLASHCARDS! Conserving Our Oceans
In this Flashcard Friday episode of Math! Science! History!, Gabrielle explores how everyday choices can make a real difference for our oceans. From reducing single-use plastics to supporting…
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October 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Every minute, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic enters our oceans. Our latest Flashcard Friday episode of Math! Science! History! explorse how small, daily choices help protect coral reefs and marine life.
Listen: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/flashcards-c...
#SaveOurOceans #MathScienceHistory
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#SaveOurOceans #MathScienceHistory
The demolition of the East Wing of the White House isn’t just the erasure of brick and mortar. It symbolizes the rapid decay of our country. The space once home to the nation’s First Ladies is gone. This is more than a metaphor, it's a warning of things to come.
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First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump’s ballroom.
The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House.
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October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The demolition of the East Wing of the White House isn’t just the erasure of brick and mortar. It symbolizes the rapid decay of our country. The space once home to the nation’s First Ladies is gone. This is more than a metaphor, it's a warning of things to come.
19thnews.org/2025/10/east...
19thnews.org/2025/10/east...
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This free webinar is for professors, postdocs, and PhDs ready to make a real change. Learn what’s possible and how to get there Especially relevant for professors, postdocs, and other PhDs exploring new paths. Watch the free webinar now. #PhDSky
Free Training for PhDs - From PhD to Life
Leaving academia? You want a new career as a PhD without wasting time applying for the wrong jobs, but don’t know where to start. Get clarity with Dr. Jen Polk in this free training.
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October 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This free webinar is for professors, postdocs, and PhDs ready to make a real change. Learn what’s possible and how to get there Especially relevant for professors, postdocs, and other PhDs exploring new paths. Watch the free webinar now. #PhDSky
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So... it looks like hamsters will soon be in our feed. Visit us at MathScienceHistory.com
Anybody else visit Wikimedia to look up "physicist A.K. Geim" only to follow up your search with "hamster?"
October 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
So... it looks like hamsters will soon be in our feed. Visit us at MathScienceHistory.com
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Yes. Looking something up is relatively easy in most cases, but knowing how to determine the question you should be asking in the first place, how to evaluate a source, how to infer something, how to be critical of your own assumptions, etc, are among the most valuable skills learned in life.
October 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Yes. Looking something up is relatively easy in most cases, but knowing how to determine the question you should be asking in the first place, how to evaluate a source, how to infer something, how to be critical of your own assumptions, etc, are among the most valuable skills learned in life.
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One of the fundamental flaws with this sort of thinking, assuming it is sincere which I doubt, is that a big part of college is about teaching someone *how* to learn. You can ask a chatbot about an infinite number of things, but how do you know which parts are important and which are irrelevant?
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One of the fundamental flaws with this sort of thinking, assuming it is sincere which I doubt, is that a big part of college is about teaching someone *how* to learn. You can ask a chatbot about an infinite number of things, but how do you know which parts are important and which are irrelevant?
It's telling that even AI can't figure out why my printer acts up.
October 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's telling that even AI can't figure out why my printer acts up.
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FFS.
Googled the title of our new paper out today and the FIRST HIT was an AI sludge article that was completely incorrect
A: no we didn't analyse phosphorus isotope ratios in rocks
B: NOBODY analyses these
C: because phosphorus only has ONE stable isotope
Dead internet here we go
A: no we didn't analyse phosphorus isotope ratios in rocks
B: NOBODY analyses these
C: because phosphorus only has ONE stable isotope
Dead internet here we go
October 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
FFS.
NASA’s JPL lays off 550 employees. NASA's 2024 FY Budget was less than .5%. These cuts are concerning, unconscionable, and so unnecessary.
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NASA’s JPL lays off 550 employees
NASA JPL layoffs cut 550 jobs in reorganization, impacting space missions. Director Dave Gallagher says it is unrelated to the shutdown.
www.astronomy.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NASA’s JPL lays off 550 employees. NASA's 2024 FY Budget was less than .5%. These cuts are concerning, unconscionable, and so unnecessary.
www.astronomy.com/science/nasa...
www.astronomy.com/science/nasa...
In an era when public discourse feels more polarized than ever, even professors face limits on what they can say. This article takes a closer look at how the First Amendment applies, and where it doesn’t
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What the First Amendment doesn’t protect when it comes to professors speaking out on politics
American colleges and universities have traditionally encouraged free speech. Recent dismissals of professors are eroding their commitment to this core mission.
theconversation.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
In an era when public discourse feels more polarized than ever, even professors face limits on what they can say. This article takes a closer look at how the First Amendment applies, and where it doesn’t
theconversation.com/what-the-fir...
theconversation.com/what-the-fir...
In 1776, math and science didn’t just save lives, they saved a revolution.
Learn how smallpox inoculation shaped history in this week’s Flashcards Friday episode.
#MathScienceHistory
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Learn how smallpox inoculation shaped history in this week’s Flashcards Friday episode.
#MathScienceHistory
Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/flashcards-s...
Math Science History with Gabrielle Birchak
Step into the laboratory at Math! Science! History! where time bends, ideas spark, equations echo, and the past hums with the electricity of what’s to come. Each week, Gabrielle Birchak lights the…
mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In 1776, math and science didn’t just save lives, they saved a revolution.
Learn how smallpox inoculation shaped history in this week’s Flashcards Friday episode.
#MathScienceHistory
Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/flashcards-s...
Learn how smallpox inoculation shaped history in this week’s Flashcards Friday episode.
#MathScienceHistory
Listen here: mathsciencehistory.libsyn.com/flashcards-s...
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Well worth the 6 minute watch!
October 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Well worth the 6 minute watch!
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Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'
'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'
www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...
'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'
www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...
Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome
Scientists say they have developed the worlds first accurate blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome MECFS.
www.femalefirst.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'
'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'
www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...
'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'
www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
I'm sure that, in my older years, when I draw my last breath, I will be retrieving and entering a six digit code.
October 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I'm sure that, in my older years, when I draw my last breath, I will be retrieving and entering a six digit code.
Origami meets quantum physics! Scientists just proved that paper-folding patterns hold the key to solving a major amplituhedron puzzle in particle theory.
🔗 www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...
🔗 www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...
Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle | Quanta Magazine
The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Origami meets quantum physics! Scientists just proved that paper-folding patterns hold the key to solving a major amplituhedron puzzle in particle theory.
🔗 www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...
🔗 www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...
Rogue planet’s record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second
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Rogue planet's record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second
Astronomers have witnessed a planet 620 light-years away eat up nearby gas and dust at a rate of 6 billion tonnes a second, the fastest growth rate ever
cosmosmagazine.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Rogue planet’s record growth spurt of 6 billion tonnes per second
cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...
cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...