Matt Cordes
@mcordes.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 mathematician, assistant professor at heriot-watt
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December 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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What if we kissed 👉👈 in the topological jellyfish
August 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
What if we kissed 👉👈 in the topological jellyfish
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“How can we expect them to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?” nymag.com/intelligence...
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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May 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“How can we expect them to grasp what education means when we, as educators, haven’t begun to undo the years of cognitive and spiritual damage inflicted by a society that treats schooling as a means to a high-paying job, maybe some social status, but nothing more?” nymag.com/intelligence...
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Me, circa 2008: “Sure you can pull some neat tricks with it, but does the pigeonhole principle actually matter for real world day-to-day things?”
Edinburgh, this morning:
Edinburgh, this morning:
May 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Me, circa 2008: “Sure you can pull some neat tricks with it, but does the pigeonhole principle actually matter for real world day-to-day things?”
Edinburgh, this morning:
Edinburgh, this morning:
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again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression
April 16, 2025 at 9:06 AM
again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression
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Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
August 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Posting this extract from a lecture by John Maynard Keynes, speaking on the BBC in the middle of the Second World War, to every Labour cabinet minister
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Quark
On he runway you are serving solid gold press latinum.
But in the comedy challenge you forgot the 97th Rule of Acquisition, if you want to profit, dont bore Q!
You're safe
On he runway you are serving solid gold press latinum.
But in the comedy challenge you forgot the 97th Rule of Acquisition, if you want to profit, dont bore Q!
You're safe
March 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Quark
On he runway you are serving solid gold press latinum.
But in the comedy challenge you forgot the 97th Rule of Acquisition, if you want to profit, dont bore Q!
You're safe
On he runway you are serving solid gold press latinum.
But in the comedy challenge you forgot the 97th Rule of Acquisition, if you want to profit, dont bore Q!
You're safe
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It's also high time we recognize that all mathematics is Hazardous (and wouldn't be worth doing if it weren't).
March 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It's also high time we recognize that all mathematics is Hazardous (and wouldn't be worth doing if it weren't).
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Only 1 day until the fifth annual OURFA2M2 conference. Are you ready?
Visit our website ourfa2m2.org to register for free!
Visit our website ourfa2m2.org to register for free!
February 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Only 1 day until the fifth annual OURFA2M2 conference. Are you ready?
Visit our website ourfa2m2.org to register for free!
Visit our website ourfa2m2.org to register for free!
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Meet 4 of our Crash Course speakers for the upcoming OURFA2M2 conference February 8-9 2025!
The goal of the Crash Course talks is to inspire curiosity and give students exposure to various areas of math.
For more information and to register for the event, visit our website ourfa2m2.org
December 28, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Meet 4 of our Crash Course speakers for the upcoming OURFA2M2 conference February 8-9 2025!
The goal of the Crash Course talks is to inspire curiosity and give students exposure to various areas of math.
For more information and to register for the event, visit our website ourfa2m2.org
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Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.
February 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.
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I've said it before and will doubtless have occasion to say it again: a cool 60% of everything that's wrong with higher ed stems from colleges believing that they are credentialing institutions rather than educational institutions
Times Higher Ed has a column today about getting rid of accommodations for students with disabilities. It is breathtakingly ableist. It argues for the exclusion of people with disabilities from higher ed. I am not linking: it's click bait, but you can see the opening paragraph below.
October 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
I've said it before and will doubtless have occasion to say it again: a cool 60% of everything that's wrong with higher ed stems from colleges believing that they are credentialing institutions rather than educational institutions
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Lololol I broke a big scary task up into so many little tasks that I got overwhelmed and gave up
April 13, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Lololol I broke a big scary task up into so many little tasks that I got overwhelmed and gave up
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