GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. MARYAM MIRZAKHANI, 1977-2017. First woman and first Iranian to win the Fields Medal. Multiple gold medals at International Mathematical Olympiad as a teen. At age 20, she survived a tragic bus crash that killed many of her friends. Overcame 1/5

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There are growing xenophobia, hate speech, and violence against Chinese/Asian people after the COVID-19 outbreak. Some may forget Chinese are also human beings and the first victims. I’ve heard recurring sad and heroic stories since January. We are in this together from beginning

Can't help thinking of this XKCD Comic when COVID-19 has killed more than 56k people in America in 2 months and confirmed cases have exceeded 1million, yet people want to reopen xkcd.com/795/

Logging on to a videoconferencing session, the grad student squeezes himself into the one remotely clean corner of his apartment.

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Big news! All lectures in the 2020 Summer Program will be recorded, so if you miss a class or live 10 hours ahead of us, no worries. We've got you covered. Your course, your time. Read the full announcement on our website: icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumpr…

For anyone not at #AAPOR today but in need of some joy, check out this survey research version of "I'm still standing" youtube.com/watch?v=PFtCIC…

Breaking News: Ennio Morricone, the award-winning Italian composer who created atmospheric scores for “The Mission” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” has died at 91 nyti.ms/3gtVLs7

If you missed any of our 2020 Blalock Lectures, or won't be able to attend some coming up, we have just the YouTube playlist for you. Every Blalock lecture this summer will be posted right here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Yesterday some of us got together for the first time since March! An ice cream outing next to road work. Half the staff isn't in this picture, but they say hi too.

Mein Twitter-Feed ist heute meistens auf Deutsch! Danke denialisten die für Die @Welt schreiben 😆

2020 Summer Program merchandise is now available! Shirts designed and voted on by participants, hat designed by us. Wearable by all. Order by 10/26! myumi.ch/Nx413

Heute Abend präsentiere ich beim #LandeslehrpreisBRB mein Lehrkonzept. Für die Universität Potsdam sind Dr. I. Bozkaya sowie Dr. C. McLaughlin und M. Dalla mit dabei. Live ab 18:30 Uhr: youtu.be/Y_LoiFn7qUY #Lehre FSR PuV #UniPotsdam

Gestern wurde der #LandeslehrpreisBRB verliehen. In unserer neuen Reihe stellen wir euch die Preisträger*innen genauer vor. Eine Preisträgerin ist Dr. Inci Bozkaya von der Universität Potsdam. Ziel ihrer Lehre: ‚Mut zum produktiven Zweifel‘. Mehr Infos: mwfk.brandenburg.de/mwfk/de/servic…

Ausgezeichnet – Drei Landeslehrpreise gehen an die Universität Potsdam: uni-potsdam.de/de/nachrichten… #UniPotsdam #Landeslehrpreis #Lehre #Lehrende #Lehrprojekte #Soziologie #Germanistik #Anglistik #Amerikanistik #Wettbewerb #Fachkräfte #Brandenburg Foto: K. Fritze (2019)

#Meetup its down. For todays R-User-Event use the following link:unilu.zoom.us/j/91657568596?… #RStats Maybe some of you could retweet this. Sorry for the inconvenience.

For everybody who has a plroblem joining, the password is: eVRGLzZPdnlVakdtMXBVaGZ0aTdydz09 #rstats, #meetup Zurich R User Group

The Russian invasion marks a turning point. It is our duty to support Ukraine to the best of our ability in defending against Putin's invading army. That is why we are delivering 1000 anti-tank weapons and 500 #Stinger missiles to our friends in #Ukraine.

I estimate well over 100,000 on the street in Berlin for #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and against #PutinsWar!