What does it take to become a math teacher in school?
We sat down with math teacher trainers and coordinators to find out. We talk about the rewards and challenges of being teachers, and discuss creative ways to inspire students.
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A good day for Dutch mathematicians.
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Now on @sciam.bsky.social: See the Artemis II mission in 12 unforgettable photos. Can't say I disagree with any of these selections!
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New blog post: I got tired of having repetitive arguments explaining why I think it’s OK to be skeptical of LLMs for coding, so I wrote six and a half thousand words on the topic that I will be referring people to from now on.
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🔭 Exploring the Antennae
Image Credit & Copyright: Acquisition - Mike Selby Processing - Roberto Colombari
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Are you curious about @sciencefaction.nl work at the council or you are thinking of joining for next year's elections? Then come to our afternoon drinks!
Wednesday 15 April, 17.00-19.00
Vin Natuur, Groningen
We hope to see you there!
Jullie mogen doodstil blijven, Odido, maar de hackers die mijn gegevens nu hebben helaas niet. Ik word dankzij jullie shitbeveiliging nu met mijn naam en adres telkens benaderd door oplichters. #Odido
I could not agree more and share the worry. It feels to me that this applies pretty much verbatim to mathematics as well
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A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
More context on this #Artemis II image:
* This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right
* The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon:
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Studium Generale Groningen organizes many inspiring public lectures and debates. This should be quite exceptional:
Be Kind - Alette Smeulers in conversation with Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Monday 11 May, 19.30 - 21.00
Academy Building, Groningen
All the details at sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement...
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Are you curious about @sciencefaction.nl work at the council or you are thinking of joining for next year's elections? Then come to our afternoon drinks!
Wednesday 15 April, 17.00-19.00
Vin Natuur, Groningen
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The more fascist underfunded and limited our basic science becomes the fewer divergent or dissenting voices will exist or will be heard. That's something to consider as we're quite obviously in those times. 5/
Authors Chad M. Topaz, Anvi Kurongonayini, Bennett Ptak, Arden Fluehr, Ariana Mendible, Rachel Roca, Nancy Rodríguez, Lu Xian, Régan Schwartz, Jude Higdon Abstract Five countries account for over 80% of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries. Because high-prestige recognition redirects resources and talent, such concentration can be self-reinforcing, yet whether it originates in institutional design or individual evaluator behavior is unknown. We decomposed Nobel selection into a five-layer network spanning 8,134 individuals, 514,111 edges, and five prize categories (1901–1975). The Swedish and Norwegian bodies that oversee Nobel selection assembled a geographically diverse nominator pool, yet within it, nominators select same-country nominees 4.85 times as often as expected (p < 0.001), from 8.58 times in Literature to 3.01 times in Physics. This concentration persisted as the nominee pool diversified over seven decades. Geographic sorting enters at the discretionary nomination decision, not the institutional pipeline—a specific, targetable point in the selection process.
🚨 80% of Nobel Prizes go to folx in 5 countries. Why?
We analyzed 75 years of prize committees, nominators, nominees, and laureates... a network of 500k edges. Turns out nominators choose compatriots at 5x the expected rate — amplifying geographic bias.
Read: osf.io/preprints/so...
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wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it
And the answer to “What should we use instead?” should be: “Nothing! We should defend the right to privacy and reject mass surveillance!”
Fantastic document in my opinion. I love that they end with the ELDeR call for action: Engage, Learn, Discuss, Reflect!
Of course I had to write down my thoughts about it: www.mseri.me/mechanizing-...
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Following up on yesterday's youtube video, here is the manifesto about "Shaping the Future of Mathematics in the Age of AI". Looking forward to reading it today!
arxiv.org/abs/2603.24914
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If you have one hour to spare and you are curious about the development in the mechanization of mathematics, without technicalities and with an uplifting call for action, please have a look at this beautiful lecture by Johan Commelin at Studium Generale Groningen
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My column in English (and a tiny bit of German).
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I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.
Black and white portrait of Emmy Noether standing. She is in her early-to-mid twenties. Noether wears a long, dark skirt with a white blouse that has high shoulders. A dark belt with a shiny buckle is cinched around her waist. Her hair is pulled back, and she is looking slightly down and to the right of the photographer.
Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882.
She made groundbreaking advances in abstract algebra, but is probably best known for her eponymous theorems articulating the deep connection between symmetries and conserved quantities in physics. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
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Exactly - I always say that the most important thing about a degree isn't memorising things, it's learning how to learn.
I don't use most of what I learnt in my astronomy degree on a day to day basis, even as a professional astronomer. But the independence & learning skills I gained are essential.
This was necessary (we actually had this as an item of concern during the deliberation on the European Strategy Update for Particle Physics). Preservation of knowledge by independent entities becomes more and more crucial. Thanks @arxiv.bsky.social
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I want to share this memorable piece by @therezalangeler.bsky.social that taught me about Anda Kerkhove, famous Groningen pacifist, and that provides an important reflection on the role of universities as promotors of Peace in the 71st anniversary of her death
www.rug.nl/about-ug/org...
Brain Awareness Week Why is sleep important for brain health? Illustration by Matteo Farinella
Good sleep hygiene is necessary for brain health! We spend one-third of our lives sleeping, so it’s crucial to understand how it impacts the brain and how we function. #BrainAwarenessWeek #BrainWeek #SciArt #Sleep
