Nicholas Jackson
mathematician, depressive, agnostic, European, SF fan, ancestor. (he/him/his).
Assistant Professor in Maths and Economics at the University of Warwick.
Mastodon: @njj4@mathstodon.xyz
Instagram: dr.nicholas.jackson
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonContext: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonStuart Dunkel (American Artist, born 1952) "Hero", 2020. Oil on Panel, 4 × 5 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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We don't usually do requests, but this title was suggested and was just too good not to do - Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict / Pink Floyd (1969) youtu.be/cYfxdFZkM5Y
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonWhat's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonIn April 1976, in a café at Cambridge railway station, Douglas Adams bought some biscuits. We know this because he told the story so many times that it somehow opened up a wormhole in the space-time continuum, travelling both forwards and backwards and, intriguingly, sideways in time. (1/some...)
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonYou can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonBATMAN'S FIVE STAGES OF GRIEF • denial • anger • bargaining • dressing up as a bat with your underwear on the outside to fight crime • acceptance
- The current vibe is no sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, no dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, no healthful ease, no comfortable feel in any member, no shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November! -- Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
- www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.
- The current vibe is no income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee.
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- Some years ago I worked part-time as a production editor for a maths research journal for which my PhD supervisor was one of the managing editors. There was a guy in Italy who kept sending us "articles". We'd get one every few weeks, and they were always complete nonsense.
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonCarry On Zardoz
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonCan I just say something...? 🧣
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonI got given some of my aunt’s yarn stash to use up and I would like everyone to appreciate what this colour is called
- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonMorning! #MosaicMonday
- They bloody well won't if they know what's good for them.
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- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonGary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonThe other night I dreamed that there was something like the Kardashev scale to see how advanced a civilization was but instead of measuring how much energy they had harnessed it was whether or not they had yet created SpongeBob
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- Reposted by Nicholas JacksonHere is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.
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