Liz Munch
@elizabethmunch.bsky.social
Mathematician. Assoc prof in CMSE at MSU studying TDA. 55N31, 62R40. Mother of 2 dragons. Half of a 2-body opportunity. She/her.
Friends don't let friends make a college wide calendar event for their colloquium.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Friends don't let friends make a college wide calendar event for their colloquium.
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I cannot tell you what it means to get this shout out from someone I have looked up to for my entire career. Thanks, Steve. 🙏
Mathematician Chad Topaz's new book looks at America's criminal legal system through the lens of data science. Pre-order at www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Ju...
Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change
Amazon.com: Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change: 9780691276151: Topaz, Chad M.: Books
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October 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I cannot tell you what it means to get this shout out from someone I have looked up to for my entire career. Thanks, Steve. 🙏
Grant writing is 20% perspiration, and 80% WTF RESEARCH.GOV WHY WILL YOU NOT LISTEN TO ME!
September 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Grant writing is 20% perspiration, and 80% WTF RESEARCH.GOV WHY WILL YOU NOT LISTEN TO ME!
Save the Date! ATMCS 12 is coming up fast, January 26-30, 2026, in Leipzig. More info at the link below, call for contributions coming soon!
www.mis.mpg.de/events/serie...
www.mis.mpg.de/events/serie...
Series
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August 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Save the Date! ATMCS 12 is coming up fast, January 26-30, 2026, in Leipzig. More info at the link below, call for contributions coming soon!
www.mis.mpg.de/events/serie...
www.mis.mpg.de/events/serie...
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#MachineLearning loves data. #Topology loves shape.
Let's bring them together!
👉The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) bridges both worlds, as I outline in a recent article in the Notices of the
@amermathsoc.bsky.social
Engage!
🧵1/n
Let's bring them together!
👉The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) bridges both worlds, as I outline in a recent article in the Notices of the
@amermathsoc.bsky.social
Engage!
🧵1/n
July 22, 2025 at 8:16 AM
#MachineLearning loves data. #Topology loves shape.
Let's bring them together!
👉The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) bridges both worlds, as I outline in a recent article in the Notices of the
@amermathsoc.bsky.social
Engage!
🧵1/n
Let's bring them together!
👉The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) bridges both worlds, as I outline in a recent article in the Notices of the
@amermathsoc.bsky.social
Engage!
🧵1/n
Oh, right, that's why I never fly United.....
June 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Oh, right, that's why I never fly United.....
Hahaha ok so first off, I was tipped off at the answer, and second, it's because the answer was my last name 😜
The top scorer for Wed, Jun 18, 2025, UTC is: @elizabethmunch.bsky.social! They scored 420 points for #Wordle 1460 and solved it on row 1! That's better than 1,962 (~99%) other users. You’re unstoppable!
June 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Hahaha ok so first off, I was tipped off at the answer, and second, it's because the answer was my last name 😜
I had given up on wordle for a while, but a friend gave me a heads up that my usual starter word was FINALLY the answer 😜😂😂🤣
Wordle 1,460 1/6*
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Wordle 1,460 1/6*
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June 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I had given up on wordle for a while, but a friend gave me a heads up that my usual starter word was FINALLY the answer 😜😂😂🤣
Wordle 1,460 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,460 1/6*
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Math professors for trans rights
Math teachers for trans rights
May 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Math professors for trans rights
New personal best:
From revise and resubmit request email to resubmit in 12 hours 32 minutes.
From revise and resubmit request email to resubmit in 12 hours 32 minutes.
a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '
ALT: a man is standing in front of a sign that says ' usted leadership for a stronger america '
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May 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
New personal best:
From revise and resubmit request email to resubmit in 12 hours 32 minutes.
From revise and resubmit request email to resubmit in 12 hours 32 minutes.
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Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.
May 2, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.
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The average American has three friends: ℝ, ℂ, and ℍ.
The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The average American has three friends: ℝ, ℂ, and ℍ.
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The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The average American has three friends.
The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The average American has three friends.
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the function of ChatGPT isn't *being* correct it's *looking* correct. often the two line up surprisingly well! but sometimes they don't!
May 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
the function of ChatGPT isn't *being* correct it's *looking* correct. often the two line up surprisingly well! but sometimes they don't!
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My colleagues and I draft a statement about the recent end of equal opportunities employment practices at @michiganstateu.bsky.social
It’s incredible that our community is standing up where our administrators aren’t.
#academicsky #edusky #highereducation #msu
It’s incredible that our community is standing up where our administrators aren’t.
#academicsky #edusky #highereducation #msu
MSU administration announced the end of equal opportunity employment practices this week. In response, the UTSF Organizing Committee issued the following statement: 1/n
April 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
My colleagues and I draft a statement about the recent end of equal opportunities employment practices at @michiganstateu.bsky.social
It’s incredible that our community is standing up where our administrators aren’t.
#academicsky #edusky #highereducation #msu
It’s incredible that our community is standing up where our administrators aren’t.
#academicsky #edusky #highereducation #msu
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This feels existential for US science:
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
New NIH grant rules override the Civil Rights Act of 1964, barring recipients from DEI activities
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is rolling out rules that block new grants for any researcher or institution ad | The National Institutes of Health is rolling out rules that block new grants f...
www.fiercebiotech.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This feels existential for US science:
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
To get any future medical research funding, an entire university would need to certify that it won't have programs doing DEIA work
(e.g. note-takers for blind students, veteran's support, women's resource groups, etc.)
No institution could *ever* comply.
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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK #MSU
So, we don't provide equal opportunities anymore?
>Per the guidance from MSU Human Resources, please remove the following language from all letterhead immediately: “MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer”.
So, we don't provide equal opportunities anymore?
>Per the guidance from MSU Human Resources, please remove the following language from all letterhead immediately: “MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer”.
April 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK #MSU
So, we don't provide equal opportunities anymore?
>Per the guidance from MSU Human Resources, please remove the following language from all letterhead immediately: “MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer”.
So, we don't provide equal opportunities anymore?
>Per the guidance from MSU Human Resources, please remove the following language from all letterhead immediately: “MSU is an affirmative-action, equal-opportunity employer”.
I am still in research and in academia because I found community in the WinCompTop research network. Beautiful work in the April Notices putting numbers behind the impact of these important networks.
www.ams.org/journals/not...
www.ams.org/journals/not...
April 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I am still in research and in academia because I found community in the WinCompTop research network. Beautiful work in the April Notices putting numbers behind the impact of these important networks.
www.ams.org/journals/not...
www.ams.org/journals/not...
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Proud to stand with and for my colleagues. We’re just getting started.
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MSU students and faculty fight to protect education
MSU students and faculty came together Thursday, fighting to protect higher education. They're hoping to be heard by the federal government.
www.fox47news.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Proud to stand with and for my colleagues. We’re just getting started.
www.fox47news.com/neighborhood...
www.fox47news.com/neighborhood...
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Here's what I said if you are interested:
danny.hellmo.space/posts/speaki...
#academicsky #solidarity #highered #msu #MichiganState #puremichigan #unionstrong
danny.hellmo.space/posts/speaki...
#academicsky #solidarity #highered #msu #MichiganState #puremichigan #unionstrong
April 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Here's what I said if you are interested:
danny.hellmo.space/posts/speaki...
#academicsky #solidarity #highered #msu #MichiganState #puremichigan #unionstrong
danny.hellmo.space/posts/speaki...
#academicsky #solidarity #highered #msu #MichiganState #puremichigan #unionstrong
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“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx
— Karl Marx
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.”
— Karl Marx
— Karl Marx
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"Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart." - Haruki Murakami
April 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart." - Haruki Murakami