Maxwell Plummer
@maxwellplummer.bsky.social
When I take a walk on the torus
August 31, 2025 at 1:19 AM
When I take a walk on the torus
On the bus going to a protest and there’s a guy with a Haley 2024 shirt lol
June 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
On the bus going to a protest and there’s a guy with a Haley 2024 shirt lol
Overleaf document titled “Why I can’t prove [Theorem] right now” that quickly devolves into an attempted proof of [Theorem].
June 7, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Overleaf document titled “Why I can’t prove [Theorem] right now” that quickly devolves into an attempted proof of [Theorem].
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Do this please! It’s literally just leaving a comment. You can do it anonymously.
Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions.
It's easy - here is how:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...
It's easy - here is how:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...
Last day to weigh in on Trump's plan to politicize the civil service
Trump has already shown us how he would use Schedule F powers
donmoynihan.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Do this please! It’s literally just leaving a comment. You can do it anonymously.
Rice is renovating our offices, so I’m cleaning mine out. Who knew I was sharing an office with this masterpiece this whole time?
May 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rice is renovating our offices, so I’m cleaning mine out. Who knew I was sharing an office with this masterpiece this whole time?
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It’s fun to look through this even just to see how much stuff he knows about that I don’t (a lot)
May 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
It’s fun to look through this even just to see how much stuff he knows about that I don’t (a lot)
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One of my academic siblings has his first paper up on arXiv!!
Junmo Ryang: Pseudo-Anosov subgroups of surface bundles over tori https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07848 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07848 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.07848
May 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
One of my academic siblings has his first paper up on arXiv!!
One of my academic siblings has his first paper up on arXiv!!
Junmo Ryang: Pseudo-Anosov subgroups of surface bundles over tori https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07848 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07848 https://arxiv.org/html/2505.07848
May 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
One of my academic siblings has his first paper up on arXiv!!
So in the paper I’m trying to finish up, I’ve dedicated quite a bit of time/space to an example that demonstrated a certain interesting property. Except I’ve now discovered that it doesn’t have that property…
April 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
So in the paper I’m trying to finish up, I’ve dedicated quite a bit of time/space to an example that demonstrated a certain interesting property. Except I’ve now discovered that it doesn’t have that property…
Catching up on arXiv postings, and Paper BOAT is the best paper title I think.
Federico Castillo, Damian de la Fuente, Nicolas Libedinsky, David Plaza: Paper BOAT https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04489 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04489 https://arxiv.org/html/2504.04489
April 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Catching up on arXiv postings, and Paper BOAT is the best paper title I think.
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it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
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I want to explain in down-to-earth terms what this paper is about, since it ultimately boils down to what I think are some really concrete and fundamental questions. 1/n
Yeuk Hay Joshua Lam, Daniel Litt
Algebraicity and integrality of solutions to differential equations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13175
Algebraicity and integrality of solutions to differential equations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13175
January 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I want to explain in down-to-earth terms what this paper is about, since it ultimately boils down to what I think are some really concrete and fundamental questions. 1/n
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potatoes 1%
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
January 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
potatoes 1%
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
winter wheat 7%
corn 5%
spring wheat 2%
cattle feed 83%
barley 5%
someone who is good at water management please help me my Great Salt Lake is drying
(someone on Twitter made a version of this joke using an earlier study a few years ago, but search is now broken, so replicating here)
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Please share with any grad students in geometry, topology, and dynamics who you think could benefit from this research+mentoring focused workshop (see announcement below)! We especially encourage applications from grad students from historically marginalized groups. #MathSky
We are pleased to announce the Inverting Hierarchies Workshop, which will happen on the weekend of April 12-13, 2025 at UC Riverside. Registration is open only to graduate students. It closes on March 1, 2025. We have applied for funding for participants from the NSF.
January 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Please share with any grad students in geometry, topology, and dynamics who you think could benefit from this research+mentoring focused workshop (see announcement below)! We especially encourage applications from grad students from historically marginalized groups. #MathSky
Boosting this because this is the exact object I am studying in my current research!
December 10, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Boosting this because this is the exact object I am studying in my current research!
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The geometry of this "Poincaré disk" inspired M.C. Escher's "Circle Limit" series of drawings. In this case the rulers are the fish-lengths. See how they get small as you approach the edge? (21/n)
Image: M.C. Escher, "Circle Limit III"
Image: M.C. Escher, "Circle Limit III"
December 1, 2024 at 10:52 PM
The geometry of this "Poincaré disk" inspired M.C. Escher's "Circle Limit" series of drawings. In this case the rulers are the fish-lengths. See how they get small as you approach the edge? (21/n)
Image: M.C. Escher, "Circle Limit III"
Image: M.C. Escher, "Circle Limit III"
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The mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was born #OTD in 1792. He developed a non-Euclidean geometry that shows up in areas ranging from relativity to the designs of M.C. Escher. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Portrait: Lev Kryukov (wikimedia)
Portrait: Lev Kryukov (wikimedia)
December 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
The mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky was born #OTD in 1792. He developed a non-Euclidean geometry that shows up in areas ranging from relativity to the designs of M.C. Escher. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
Portrait: Lev Kryukov (wikimedia)
Portrait: Lev Kryukov (wikimedia)
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are you fucking kidding me
MSNBC recently acquired Errol Morris’s documentary “Separated,” a likely Oscar contender examining the Trump administration’s family separation policy, but it won’t air until a month after — in part because NBC bosses don’t want to offend Trump, Oliver Darcy reported Monday.
NBC Set Post-Election MSNBC Premiere of Errol Morris Doc 'Separated' to Avoid Offending Trump | Report
New report from Oliver Darcy comes 2 days after the film's director suggested politics played a role in scheduling his film
www.thewrap.com
October 8, 2024 at 12:21 PM
are you fucking kidding me
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people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
Police stop more Black drivers, while speed cameras issue unbiased tickets − new study from Chicago
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
theconversation.com
September 30, 2024 at 9:06 AM
people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.
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"It wasn’t the first ticket or even the 50th tied to the car. Allen, who was given a photo of the license plate by a witness, learned that the Land Rover has 94 unpaid tickets worth $19,770 from D.C. traffic cameras, six for speeding just this month and four for running red lights since July."
A 12-year-old girl was hit by a car. It had $19,770 in unpaid tickets.
Victims of traffic violence in D.C. say the city needs to get drivers who rack up tickets off the roads.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
"It wasn’t the first ticket or even the 50th tied to the car. Allen, who was given a photo of the license plate by a witness, learned that the Land Rover has 94 unpaid tickets worth $19,770 from D.C. traffic cameras, six for speeding just this month and four for running red lights since July."
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"embedded tori" professor we're here to learn 3-manifold topology, not gossip about who slept with whom
April 10, 2024 at 1:38 AM
"embedded tori" professor we're here to learn 3-manifold topology, not gossip about who slept with whom
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just a remarkable story: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty
She was pressured into convicting a man she believed was innocent—and was haunted by remorse. Three decades later, she did something about it.
www.texasmonthly.com
January 23, 2024 at 3:02 AM
just a remarkable story: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...