Kim M
@kmontgom24.bsky.social
Data Scientist, Mathematician, Kaggle Grandmaster
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The equivalent of the Bechdel test for a tech-ish event is “is there a line for the womens bathroom?” and #positconf just passed with flying colours 😅
September 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The equivalent of the Bechdel test for a tech-ish event is “is there a line for the womens bathroom?” and #positconf just passed with flying colours 😅
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Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own p...
mathstodon.xyz
August 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Terence Tao (@teorth.bsky.social) has written a thread on Mastodon about the impact of the federal grant freeze to UCLA, particularly to his own field of Mathematics. UCLA's IPAM (Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics) could shut down entirely
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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“Given the very real consequences for our competitiveness, our standard of living and, yes, also our bottom lines, we all ought to be making the case for aggressively funding basic science.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
Opinion | The White House Tech Bros Owe Their Fortunes to the Research They’re Killing
Underlying many investments are breakthroughs in medicine and technology from great universities.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“Given the very real consequences for our competitiveness, our standard of living and, yes, also our bottom lines, we all ought to be making the case for aggressively funding basic science.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...
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I have a challenge for starter pack creators in STEM: Try to add one person from an underrepresented group for two people from the majority.
My most liked X post, reposting here:
1 in 10 of the top 100 ‘best’ scientists are named Michael or Eric, but only 3% are female according to Research.com. Putting aside the obvious flaws of the H-index, these numbers are disheartening: research.com/scientists-r...
#SciComm #WomenInSTEM
1 in 10 of the top 100 ‘best’ scientists are named Michael or Eric, but only 3% are female according to Research.com. Putting aside the obvious flaws of the H-index, these numbers are disheartening: research.com/scientists-r...
#SciComm #WomenInSTEM
November 17, 2024 at 9:17 PM
I have a challenge for starter pack creators in STEM: Try to add one person from an underrepresented group for two people from the majority.
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There will be a ring-of-fire annular solar eclipse Saturday for some lucky ducks on the West Coast, visible to some extent to everyone in North America. Check it out! 🧪 scientificamerican.com/article/how-... by
@philplait.bsky.social
@philplait.bsky.social
How to See the ‘Ring of Fire’ Annular Solar Eclipse of October 14
This annular solar eclipse will only reveal its full glory to a select few, but onlookers across much of the Western Hemisphere can catch a partial glimpse of the dazzling phenomenon
scientificamerican.com
October 13, 2023 at 8:42 PM
There will be a ring-of-fire annular solar eclipse Saturday for some lucky ducks on the West Coast, visible to some extent to everyone in North America. Check it out! 🧪 scientificamerican.com/article/how-... by
@philplait.bsky.social
@philplait.bsky.social