@cdarwin@c.imMathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck was born #OTD in 1942.
She is known for her work on PDEs, calculus of variations, topology, and gauge theory, and was the second woman (after Emmy Noether!) to give the plenary lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians.
@danyork@mastodon.socialBeginning the second day of the #Rotary International 2025 Convention in Calgary, Canada… over 15,000 people here!
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe average undergrad tuition fee in the 1974/75 academic year in Canada, across all disciplines, was $547 ($3445 adjusted to 2025)
Fees 50 years later in 2024/25 were $7360 ($7496 adjusted)
That is more than double. 117%.
And I *know* from personal experience this is a low ball average. If I could find a breakdown by discipline or by length of study for today, some would be even more obscene.
What has changed? Any occupation outside a minimum wage paying job demands a 2-4yr undergraduate diploma or degree, if not more.
Think about the 1970s and how common it was for people to get good paying jobs, leading to careers, without even high school education. Our free education stops with high school.
My family is a good example.
Mom and Step Dad: teacher college/degree. One got a Masters mid career.
Dad: didn’t complete HS
Father in law: didn’t complete HS
Mother in law: completed HS mid-career
Leadership positions and full careers demand a Masters or PhD requiring 5-10 years of study after HS!
Add in the cost of food and housing and the massive cuts happening at all colleges and universities because of the loss of international student tuition and I am going to go out on a limb and say our students today are going to pay double the price for a far worse experience than possibly any time since the Second World War.
Public education should be free.
Food and Housing should be controlled.
If the only thing government cares about is the economy, then they are setting us up for failure, and have been for decades.
(Don’t get me started on the kinds of “values” Canadian governments demonstrate when International student tuitions are 5x more than domestic students, let alone the inherent revenue risk in that funding strategy that has now come home to roost)
#canpoli #cdnpoli #education #university #college #canada
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74/75 Source Stats Can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710015001&pickMembers[0]=1.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=1972 / 1973&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2006 / 2007&referencePeriods=19720101,20060101
24/25 source stats can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710004501
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@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageMultilateralism in the Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Michal Natorski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15397 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15397
@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot@mastoxiv.pageE-21 Level Instability Frequency Dissemination over 2067 km noisy Telecommunication Infrastructure
Fa-Xi Chen, Li-Bo Li, Jiu-Peng Chen, Kan Zhao, Jian-Yu Guan, Yang Xu, Lei Hou, Fei Zhou, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Qiang Zhang, Hai-Feng Jiang, Jian-Wei Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14192
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotSpending 5% of GDP on "defence" – in reality, on preparing for war – is an arms race. Historically, arms races have very frequently led to war.
We should be spending at least some of that money on building peace – on building complex webs of social and commercial relationships between rival blocks, and strengthening the international institutions which, if respected, could realise the "rules-based international order".
@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtfFuck Liz Truss
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKWtxobNcx_/
@arXiv_econTH_bot@mastoxiv.pageConcentration and Markups in International Trade
Alviarez Vanessa, Fioretti Michele, Kikkawa Ken, Morlacco Monica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00345 https://…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s determination to move fast could slow implementation of his tariff regime.
It also threatens to cost him credibility with businesses he’s counting on to invest in the U.S.
and world leaders whose buy-in he needs to negotiate trade deals.
Still, few expect a different posture from the famously intransigent fool or any second-guessing following the Wednesday ruling from the U.S. Court of International Trade, which briefly halted most of the tariffs
@arXiv_astrophEP_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06343 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…
@arXiv_astrophIM_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Major Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC)
Oscar Blanch, Julian Sitarek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22585 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22585
