Alex Hoover 🏳️🌈
@alexphoover.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Math at Cleveland State University. Slowly rebuilding my Babel here, but I post about/shoot random likes at: Math / Fluids / Biology / LGBTQ+ in STEM / Ohio + Cleveland / EU + Italy
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1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1/ Today, ProPublica is running a piece I've been working on for a bit. It's about what happened with a devastating wave of bird flu earlier this year, as egg prices hit record highs.
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
And it's a story that illuminates the ways the U.S. is failing to control what could become the next pandemic. 🧵
It's been a long semester but managed to get some epic shots during last week's coronal mass ejection.
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
It's been a long semester but managed to get some epic shots during last week's coronal mass ejection.
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Lightfield 4D has landed at the HCBI. If you are in Boston, come check it out!
hcbi.fas.harvard.edu
For those not in Boston, enjoy this GIF of a hydra moving around with a z-depth coded LUT
hcbi.fas.harvard.edu
For those not in Boston, enjoy this GIF of a hydra moving around with a z-depth coded LUT
September 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Lightfield 4D has landed at the HCBI. If you are in Boston, come check it out!
hcbi.fas.harvard.edu
For those not in Boston, enjoy this GIF of a hydra moving around with a z-depth coded LUT
hcbi.fas.harvard.edu
For those not in Boston, enjoy this GIF of a hydra moving around with a z-depth coded LUT
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Math @ Williams is hiring — I hope you consider applying!
MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society
Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.
www.mathjobs.org
August 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Math @ Williams is hiring — I hope you consider applying!
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1. Good news for trans people: I have independently confirmed that the Trump admin is now processing passport updates in compliance with a court order.
Multiple trans people have gotten their gender markers updated.
There are important caveats though, read on.
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Multiple trans people have gotten their gender markers updated.
There are important caveats though, read on.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump Admin Begins Processing Some Trans Passport Updates, Though It Will Maintain Data On Requests
On Wednesday, at least some transgender people applying for passports in person at passport offices for urgent travel have received updated passports with correct gender markers.
www.erininthemorning.com
July 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
1. Good news for trans people: I have independently confirmed that the Trump admin is now processing passport updates in compliance with a court order.
Multiple trans people have gotten their gender markers updated.
There are important caveats though, read on.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Multiple trans people have gotten their gender markers updated.
There are important caveats though, read on.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
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NONE in Life science?! NONE?!
The 500 additional GRFPs NSF awarded were not very evenly distributed across fields, it seems.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
June 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
NONE in Life science?! NONE?!
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"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked
A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.
www.houstonchronicle.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Happy to announce a new publication on a project I started at the tail end of my postdoc! Here we use the method of regularized Stokeslets for a single point formulation of a pusher/puller microswimmer.
Joint work with Priya (Shilpa) Boindala and Ricardo Cortez.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Joint work with Priya (Shilpa) Boindala and Ricardo Cortez.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A regularised force-doublet framework for self-propelled microswimmers | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Cambridge Core
A regularised force-doublet framework for self-propelled microswimmers - Volume 1009
www.cambridge.org
April 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Happy to announce a new publication on a project I started at the tail end of my postdoc! Here we use the method of regularized Stokeslets for a single point formulation of a pusher/puller microswimmer.
Joint work with Priya (Shilpa) Boindala and Ricardo Cortez.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Joint work with Priya (Shilpa) Boindala and Ricardo Cortez.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to see students present some recent research at Cleveland State's Choose Ohio First poster showcase!
April 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Happy to see students present some recent research at Cleveland State's Choose Ohio First poster showcase!
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🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day.
Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience
Thread👇🧵
Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience
Thread👇🧵
March 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day.
Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience
Thread👇🧵
Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience
Thread👇🧵
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The U.S. has instituted a transgender ban on visa issuance and entering the country. Fascism is here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US officials ordered to issue permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The U.S. has instituted a transgender ban on visa issuance and entering the country. Fascism is here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The squirting cucumber catapults its seeds with a force & precision rivalling the mechanics of modern engineering. A groundbreaking study in PNAS, co-authored by Fellow, Dr Dominic Vella, reveals the secrets of this botanical marvel.
FIND OUT MORE 🔗https://ow.ly/q1WJ50UnoB8
FIND OUT MORE 🔗https://ow.ly/q1WJ50UnoB8
December 9, 2024 at 3:10 PM
The squirting cucumber catapults its seeds with a force & precision rivalling the mechanics of modern engineering. A groundbreaking study in PNAS, co-authored by Fellow, Dr Dominic Vella, reveals the secrets of this botanical marvel.
FIND OUT MORE 🔗https://ow.ly/q1WJ50UnoB8
FIND OUT MORE 🔗https://ow.ly/q1WJ50UnoB8
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🦑🧪 Modelling the mechanospace of larvacean pumping and swimming, presented by @alexphoover.bsky.social at
Cleveland State University in the Invertebrates and Flow session. #SICB2024
Cleveland State University in the Invertebrates and Flow session. #SICB2024
January 10, 2024 at 10:32 PM
🦑🧪 Modelling the mechanospace of larvacean pumping and swimming, presented by @alexphoover.bsky.social at
Cleveland State University in the Invertebrates and Flow session. #SICB2024
Cleveland State University in the Invertebrates and Flow session. #SICB2024