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Nalini Joshi
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Mathematician, wife, mother, addicted to math
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"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
—Charles Babbage
February 13, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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sydmathinst.bsky.social
'A world from a sheet of paper' - SMRI's #InternationalDayOfMathematics public lecture by Tadashi Tokieda will be on Fri 13 March

Starting from a sheet of paper, explore magic tricks and geometry in this lecture filled with table-top demonstrations

🔗 events.humanitix.com/internationa...

#MathSky🧮
A poster for the public lecture. The background is a man (Tadashi Tokieda) flying a white kite over a sunny beach
February 12, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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biancanogrady.bsky.social
Celebrating International Day of Women & Girls in Science by sharing this NSW State Library collection of interviews with some incredible Australian women in science, incl Nalini Joshi, Belinda Medlyn, the late Emma Johnston, Veena Sahajwalla & Lesley Hughes.
collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/search?subje...
Search the collection
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collection.sl.nsw.gov.au
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 AM
monsoon0.bsky.social
It’s mind-blowing to read that “ACIP’s chair, told a podcast, “I don’t like established science,” adding that ‘science is what I observe.’” The Economist (Asia Pacific)
07 Feb 2026 [The ACIP is Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices]
February 9, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.
February 9, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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drmel.bsky.social
Free archive copy: archive.md/2026.02.09-0...
archive.md
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 AM
monsoon0.bsky.social
The inimitable @drmel.bsky.social takes a star turn in the Sydney Morning Herald www.smh.com.au/business/wor...
Jeffrey Epstein, the rockstar physicist and the Australian whistleblower
Melanie Thomson accused astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss of sexual harassment after an alleged incident in Melbourne. The professor asked Jeffrey Epstein for help.
www.smh.com.au
February 9, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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socmathfrance.bsky.social
Matinée d'hommage à Michèle Audin : mathématicienne, historienne, écrivaine et femme engagée

Le 14/03 à l'Institut Henri Poincaré, organisée par Femmes et Mathématiques et la SMF

Inscription gratuite obligatoire smf.emath.fr/node/3690018

Venez nombreuses et nombreux, et partagez !
February 3, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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The applications to the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI @sydmathinst.bsky.social) International Visitor Program close ⏰ 11:59pm (Sydney time) Feb 17.

Apply to visit, and do research at SMRI and institutions across Australia!
mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/internationa...
International Visitor Program - Sydney Mathematical Research Institute
IVP August 2023 applications are due 8 August 2023, for July 2024–June 2025 visits (general applicants) & March 2024–June 2025 for Australian citizens/PR & NZ citizens.
mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au
January 31, 2026 at 8:27 AM
monsoon0.bsky.social
The extraordinary internationally renowned mathematical physicist Francesco Calogero passed away on 31 January 2026. He accepted the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of Pugwash and was influential in many directions, e.g., the Calogero-Moser systems 👉🏼 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances...
Francesco Calogero - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
monsoon0.bsky.social
I just discovered happy numbers and I’m happy because they’re not what I expected… Hint: take the square of each digit and add. Do the same to the result and keep going. If the end is 1, then it’s happy 😃
January 31, 2026 at 5:42 AM
monsoon0.bsky.social
“Professor John Cannon AO FAA has been recognised as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to tertiary education, to mathematical computation, to cryptography, and to the development of algebraic software systems.” #mathsky 🎊 👉🏼 www.science.org.au/news-and-eve...
Academy Fellows honoured on Australia Day
Top, left to right: Professor Anne Kelso AC FAA FAHMS, Emeritus Professor Bruce Armstrong AC FAA, Scientia Professor Michelle Simmons AC FAA FTSE FRS. Bottom, left to right:Professor John Cannon AO
www.science.org.au
January 25, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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solidangles.bsky.social
WOOHOO! Our sandwiches paper has been published! 🥳

...in celebration, I'm going to claim that tonight's lasagna was a sandwich. 🥪
January 23, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
monsoon0.bsky.social
I read “Triangle inequalities” as “tranquilizers” this morning 🤔 Hmm 🧐 the universe is telling me something…
January 13, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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xkcd.com
Planetary Alignment

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4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 with ponytail: The inspection revealed a few problems. Looks like your planet needs an alignment. PERSON 2: Oh? (2) PERSON 1: Yeah, your magnetic axis is 400 miles off-center from your rotational one. PERSON 2: Is that bad? (3) PERSON 1: The unbalanced magnetic field could cause radiation anomalies over the South Atlantic. Have you noticed any spacecraft equipment failures in that area? PERSON 2: There *have* been a few, actually. (4) PERSON 1: We can give you a loaner planet while yours is in the shop. Is a gas giant OK? PERSON 2: I’d *really* prefer a solid surface. PERSON 1: Sorry, it’s all we have. But it’ll just be for a few days.
January 12, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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profkinyon.bsky.social
Everything is linear
In its own way
Cuz if you zoom in close enough
The curviness almost goes away
January 12, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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mcnees.bsky.social
The 13yo is disappointed with me because I said that Millie Bobby Brown is 1/1000 of a Bobby Brown.
January 12, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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newscientist.com
The Nesin Mathematics Village in western Turkey was dreamed up by award-winning mathematician Ali Nesin to engage his students
These images explore a 'utopic' village built for teaching maths
The Nesin Mathematics Village in western Turkey was dreamed up by award-winning mathematician Ali Nesin to engage his students
www.newscientist.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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valeriadepaiva.bsky.social
A New Year present from @MaríaMartínezOrdaz to all of us! a calendar illustrated with Women Logicians! This is lovely! María!
January 4, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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merriam-webster.com
‘Cancel’ comes from a Latin word meaning “to make like a lattice.”

When people needed to annul or void a document, they sometimes would mark it with crosshatches

XXXXX

which resembled a lattice.

So the document became ‘canceled.’

...we hope this post doesn’t get us that.
January 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
monsoon0.bsky.social
Almost a decade ago Emma Johnston, Tanya Monro and I appeared at The National Press Club of Australia to talk about our stories and our views of issues that impact on Women in Science. It was an amazing experience…

I will miss you Emma.

theconversation.com/if-we-really...
If we really want an ideas boom, we need more women at the top tiers of science
If we want a genuine ideas boom in Australia, then we need to remove the barriers preventing women from reaching the highest levels in science.
theconversation.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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biancanogrady.bsky.social
Devastating news that marine biologist, science communicator, and UniMelb VC Professor Emma Johnston has died after a short illness.
She really was an extraordinary and visionary leader, and I have no doubt she would have made a fine Chief Scientist one day.
theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...
Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity
The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.
theconversation.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
monsoon0.bsky.social
I was searching for the arXiv reference for my recent preprint with 2 collaborators but the first hit was an AI synopsis of us as researchers 😂
An AI overview at the top of a webpage saying “Nalini Joshi, Marta Mazzocco, and Pieter Roffelsen are mathematicians known for their collaborative research on Painlevé equations and integrable systems, particularly the geometry of their solution spaces. Their published work focuses on topics such as: • Segre surfaces and geometry of the Painlevé equations: They consider a family of affine Segre surfaces associated with the q-difference sixth Painlevé equation (qPVI).”
December 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM