Today is the 10th International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Gender equality is a necessity for a better future, but we still face barriers. Working together to improve science and society!
For the math folks on here: NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2347850&HistoricalAwards=false
The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.
Take a listen to this interview with Professor Daniel Erker on BU's The Brink podcast, where he discusses language variation and BU's Spanish in Boston Project!...
I don't have a perfect bank note vignette for today's eclipse, but here is a relevant 19th century paper financial instrument, a stock certificate from the Moonlight Mining Company of San Francisco, 300 shares, February 10, 1881. 🗃️