Diana Gillooly
Mathematical sciences editor @princetonupress.bsky.social; was
@cambridgeup.bsky.social. UCLA/Westwood, Los Angeles well-wisher
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- Fascinating thread!
- Thanks to Mura Yakerson for helping us share the news that Ravi Vakil's The Rising Sea has been published! Her short video is a lovely introduction to Ravi and a great appetizer for her wonderful Math-Life Balance channel on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUWW...
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- If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity
- THE FOOTBALL is in the @sciam.bsky.social best-of books list! @dodecalemma.bsky.social calls it "a fascinating mathematical and physical microhistory of soccer balls... World Cup match balls in particular." Thanks, Emma R Hasson (love your bsky handle) and SciAm! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
- Reposted by Diana GilloolyAn article I cowrote with Andy Schultz and David McCune providing some highlights from a research project that analyzed various voting systems. theconversation.com/ranked-choic...
- Reposted by Diana GilloolyJournalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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- Great to see people looking ahead to building back better @princetonupress.bsky.social
- "There's my mathematician!," Clinton said when she saw me. We had a lovely conversation about math, democracy, my book, and Bosnia. Also met and chatted with @repemilyrandall.bsky.social, another amazing Wellesley alumna.
- Reposted by Diana GilloolyNEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
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- On this, National Sandwich Day, keep up with voir dire for DC sandwich guy with @ryanjreilly.com
- And now we breathe
- Two books I've been waiting for!
- Reposted by Diana GilloolyAmazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
- Eagerly awaiting my Prop 50 flyer from the Christmas Adventurers.
- "Big Tent" Algebraic Geometry. Your ring isn't Noetherian? This book still cares about you.
- Reposted by Diana GilloolyIn the early days of quantum chemistry, before we had computers to calculate the shapes of electron orbitals, one man invented a mechanical machine that simulated their shapes. My latest column for @chemistryworld.com www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...
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- Except that. That's a bad lifeboat.
- The Rising Sea around the world, part 3: here in Los Angeles -- with a normal-sized cat for scale.
- The Rising Sea around the world, part 2: here on display -- with other excellent titles -- at the @mathmoves.bsky.social library.
- The Rising Sea around the world: here on display at the Clay Math(s) Institute annual meeting in Oxford UK (official publication date is 21 October).
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- I haven't read the whole list(!), but saw some excellent math books for unbelievably friendly prices...
- Our 70% Off Sale is live! 📚 Save on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects until October 31. Explore the books on sale and refresh your shelves this autumn: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off #ReadUP
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- Walking the Carcassonne ramparts as Every Day Is Like Sunday floats up from the town. Love that, musically, it's always the 80s in Europe.
- Brilliant piece
- Celebrate the communication medium that's inherently local!
- Found around the house
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- Reposted by Diana GilloolyInspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6
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- Terry Tao on Trump/Republicans' irrational disinvestment in science: "in our current environment, when even the most benign activities are subject to capricious disruption and political interference, the luxury of disengagement is no longer a viable option." newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
- Such a fun book to work on
- I urge everyone outraged at this letter to demand that their congressional representatives vote for a ban on gerrymandering at the national level.
- Celebrating the 2025 Euler Book Prize winner: @ismarvolic.bsky.social's Making Democracy Count. So much talk at #MAAthFest re gerrymandering, ranked choice voting & where we go from here. Thanks to @joinmaa.bsky.social. @princetonupress.bsky.social is honored to be a part of it. #ItAllStartsWithMath
- Mathfest friends, @princetonupress.bsky.social is displaying stimulating books by thoughtful mathematicians, and we're running our traditional display copy giveaway. Visit us at booth 205 and save 30% online with code EXH30. #MAAthfest #ItAllStartsWithMath
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- “Honey bees … play a key role in keeping the U.S. food supply stable…. beekeepers will need organizations such as USDA fully funded and firing on all cylinders.”
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- Current favorite referee comment: "One danger an instructor faces ... is getting bogged down in point-set topology: you get into topological spaces and never get out."
- I've been waiting for this since it was first proposed, mere days after I experienced abject failure as a bugwatcher.
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- Wilshire Federal Building in Westwood. I'll bet this guy was late to pick up his rush passport and didn't realize human frailty is not allowed. It's a pity: in my (limited) experience the vibe of that building in the past was official but humane.
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- Reposted by Diana GilloolyThe Princeton University Press team is thrilled to congratulate Benjamin Nathans, whose book To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement is the winner of 2025 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction! 🎉 www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...
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- Editorializing in the copy of Reyner Banham's Los Angeles that I borrowed from the UCLA library.
- From the late, great Village Voice sports section:
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- Reposted by Diana GilloolyWe are looking forward to all the incredible speakers at #TMO25, our free, virtual conference. Join Mary T. Bassett, @dtkung.bsky.social, and @ismarvolic.bsky.social as they examine #math as the key to understanding and improving the world around us. Register now! bit.ly/tmo-2025-reg...
- At my parents' for the semiannual Culling of the Hoarded Boxes. Sincere shoutout to Delta Faucets and Easy Spirit shoes for beautifully designed boxes -- no tape, no glue, and the Delta box has a nearly rectangular footprint!
- Lively discussion of whether America is ready for “Piece of Kit” in a book title.
- Whoa -- nothing makes you reach for your Fowler's like discussing English with a French author.
- The long-awaited middlebrow turn in math -- foretold by Cassels & Flynn in the 1990s. assets.cambridge.org/97805214/837...
