@fortnow

Tangled Up in Blue

As a shorthand, perhaps we should refer to "trial by a jury of one's peers" as simply "peer review". Oh wait…

The published version of our paper: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~mason/papers/Kim-etal-PRE2025.pdf

"Competition Between Group Interactions and Nonlinearity in Voter Dynamics on Hypergraphs"

by Jihye Kim, Deok-Sun Lee, Byungjoon Min, Mason A. Porter, Maxi San Miguel, and Kwang-Il Goh

@Valdis Thank you!

Where applied mathematics comes from. :P

@tikitu @adapalmer

Challenge accepted.

(OK, that's probably not how I'm supposed to react to this.)

Here is the final published version of my paper on data ethics for mathematicians. It is one of the chapters in our new book on mathematics and computation for complex social systems.

Hyperlink to the AMS website for my data-ethics chapter: https://www.ams.org/books/psapm/080/728/psapm080-728.pdf

In this problem in my mathematical-modeling course, I use emoji differential equations. :)

Our book is out!

"Mathematical and Computational Methods for Complex Social Systems"

Editors: Heather Z. Brooks, Michelle Feng, Mason A. Porter, and Alexandria Volkening

AMS site for the book: https://www.ams.org/books/psapm/080/

arXiv is in the process of migrating "all" its services off Cornell University servers to Google Cloud. I'm concerned about what implications this could have for its long term independence and fitness for mission https://info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.html

ChatGPT fail.

"Based on publicly available images of Mason Porter, such as the one provided by UCLA, he is a middle-aged man with short, dark hair, glasses, and a friendly demeanor. He often wears professional attire, including dress shirts and blazers.​"

The preface for our AMS edited volume (available on 6 June 2025, but without any invasions) is available online: https://www.ams.org/bookstore/pspdf/psapm-80-pref.pdf

Name of the volume: "Mathematical and Computational Methods for Complex Social Systems"

Our paper on bounded-confidence models with adaptive confidence bounds is now out in final form: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~mason/papers/BCM-dynamic-April2025.pdf

Here is my ChatGPT muppet (although the integral is strange).

Here you go. :P

1/ “The new Trump administration has wasted no time launching a multi-pronged assault on the scientific enterprise in the United States,” Ran Blekhman writes.

So what do we do about it?
#StandUpForScience
https://elifesciences.org/articles/106702?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Sometimes the most important role that I can play for our students is to be a thorn in certain people's sides.

(It does tire me out and make me friends, though.)

:P

So, science friends.

When in the 1930s would you have decided “no, I’m not going to go to that conference in Germany”?

Because the question now needs to be posed looking westwards across the Atlantic.

If your phone can be taken on arrival & searched for messages critical of the government & then you can be denied entry (or perhaps worse in the future), why would you even think of going in the first place?

Absolutely horrifying slide into totalitarianism.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

Great to see another article standing up for DEI in science too www.nature.com/articles/d41...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rw2kfkoa7dvxmip5rm4nay7x/post/3lkl3rqf3ok2p

Don’t wait out four hard years...