Matt Salomone
@matthematics.com
Associate dean, Bartlett College of Science & Math, Bridgewater State University. Mathematics enjoyer. Views mine. ¹Best known for other work. 📍 Plymouth, MA
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I am just a humble physicist devising new modes of sandwich with corn fritters and leftover turkey, it’s not for me to say if this is “brilliant” or “unimaginably creative” or “the sort of orthogonal sandwich thinking that comes along once in a generation.” That is for the MacArthur folks to decide.
December 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I am just a humble physicist devising new modes of sandwich with corn fritters and leftover turkey, it’s not for me to say if this is “brilliant” or “unimaginably creative” or “the sort of orthogonal sandwich thinking that comes along once in a generation.” That is for the MacArthur folks to decide.
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The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar
December 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The days between December 25 and January 1 are the Lanthanides and Actinides of the Gregorian calendar
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Postulate a spherical dude
I'm still upset that "manosphere" doesn't refer to men who have been crushed and formed into a perfect orb.
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Postulate a spherical dude
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☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
December 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
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Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
![Excerpt from article: "The praise heaped upon a student who interrupted a class lecture to announce that she was personally offended by the instructor’s views on gender and who then proceeded to push to have that instructor fired is an illuminating contrast to the widespread vilification and punishment of college and graduate students who have protested external speakers on the basis of their views on gender. For example, students who protested a speech by a lawyer from the extreme anti-LGBTQ+ organization Alliance Defending Freedom at Yale Law School were accused of imposing a “heckler’s veto”; they were mocked, denounced, and “canceled” from consideration as clerks by several prominent, conservative federal judges. Stanford Law School students who disrupted a speech by a far-right conservative federal judge, Kyle Duncan, were similarly lambasted for their “intolerance” and similarly excluded for consideration for federal clerkships by conservative judges. These incidents have been frequently cited as examples of “snowflake students” trying to shut down discussion of topics they find personally offensive or unpleasant. In 2016, the founder of the Heritage Foundation described liberal students who protested conservative speakers as both “little snowflakes demand[ing] ‘safe spaces’ where they can be protected from words” and the “little dictators” of the campus. No one, however, has accused the anonymous Texas A&M student of being a “little dictator,” despite her hysterical and erroneous assertion that a viewpoint she found offensive—presented in a classroom setting by an expert on the subject being taught— was “illegal” and her announcement that she would be reporting the professor to the administration for that reason. None of the conservative cancel culture warriors ... have characterized her successful campaign to have an instructor fired for speech they didn’t like as “cancel culture.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uabrjr5kme2wfaskk56o2ais/bafkreifndk43t4q5zm6em756n4mspeislfiknhdk24tptqjcxp5lfkrlri@jpeg)
December 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
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I'm sorry but that's nuts even for him, who the hell says "enjoy what may be your last merry christmas" except, like, a movie villain
December 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm sorry but that's nuts even for him, who the hell says "enjoy what may be your last merry christmas" except, like, a movie villain
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There is, for all intents and purposes, no academic freedom anymore for anyone teaching at a red state public university.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
There is, for all intents and purposes, no academic freedom anymore for anyone teaching at a red state public university.
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Scrolled over a photo and was like “I think that’s a J6er” and sure enough it was Russ Taylor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
December 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Scrolled over a photo and was like “I think that’s a J6er” and sure enough it was Russ Taylor. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Hans Moleman who did NOT die
December 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Hans Moleman who did NOT die
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Bob Cratchit five minutes after the end of A Christmas Carol
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Bob Cratchit five minutes after the end of A Christmas Carol
Grinchin ain’t easy
The younger generation doesn't understand what it means to really be out there grinching
December 26, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Grinchin ain’t easy
Ok who waited to sell this until
Stranger Things dropped
Stranger Things dropped
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December 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Ok who waited to sell this until
Stranger Things dropped
Stranger Things dropped
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This is literally a holiday-themed missile strike. It is as insane as it sounds and should be front-page news.
December 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is literally a holiday-themed missile strike. It is as insane as it sounds and should be front-page news.
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gift of the MAGA guy
December 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
gift of the MAGA guy
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There is a job posting for a mathematics staff writer at @quantamagazine.bsky.social:
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Maybe this is good for you or somebody you know!
#MathSky 🧮 #iTeachMath ♾️
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Maybe this is good for you or somebody you know!
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Staff Writer (Mathematics), Quanta Magazine
POSITION SUMMARY Quanta Magazine is seeking a first-rate reporter and writer to identify and cover newsworthy developments in mathematics. The ideal candidate will have tireless appetite for exploring...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
There is a job posting for a mathematics staff writer at @quantamagazine.bsky.social:
simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...
Maybe this is good for you or somebody you know!
#MathSky 🧮 #iTeachMath ♾️
simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...
Maybe this is good for you or somebody you know!
#MathSky 🧮 #iTeachMath ♾️
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Mark Cuban just sitting around in a mansion or on a private jet and thinking “hmm, methinks I should bestow the poor with my knowledge” and getting yelled until his feelings are hurt is really funny
December 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Mark Cuban just sitting around in a mansion or on a private jet and thinking “hmm, methinks I should bestow the poor with my knowledge” and getting yelled until his feelings are hurt is really funny
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a very merry christmas from the most spoiled boy in the world
December 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
a very merry christmas from the most spoiled boy in the world
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Uhm it’s ableist to expect people to recognize jokes as jokes so check your privilege and do better *clap emojis*
Bluesky dot com: No we don’t know what a joke is here
I'm "skeptical" precisely because I am willing to be educated. Show me the evidence and I will change my position.
OP was lecturing a Brit about what non-Christians do on Christmas as if there were no non-Christians there. But there are probably more than here. That's quite arrogant, no?
OP was lecturing a Brit about what non-Christians do on Christmas as if there were no non-Christians there. But there are probably more than here. That's quite arrogant, no?
December 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Uhm it’s ableist to expect people to recognize jokes as jokes so check your privilege and do better *clap emojis*
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million dollar idea: rage room with only vtech brand toys
December 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
million dollar idea: rage room with only vtech brand toys
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Asking questions is not hate, although I can see how you might interpret it that way. No one challenges you on X. Here we do. That must be so hard for someone who has never really been questioned.
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Asking questions is not hate, although I can see how you might interpret it that way. No one challenges you on X. Here we do. That must be so hard for someone who has never really been questioned.