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Prof Christelle Vincent

@xl772

Math, cryptography, justice. No alt text = no engagement. Cis het white woman, québécoise, Canadian American, tired. Profile pic: Free Link on orange background; banner pic: masked white woman giving a talk entitled “Introduction to cryptography”

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#MathSky

06.03.2026 00:15 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The people deserve to know!!

04.03.2026 19:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s very rare that it gets that cold anymore. Last winter I don’t think I wore a hat at all! Extreme cold for one or two days is really not so bad, but then again I grew up in Montreal 😉

02.03.2026 16:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Picked our year to be away from Vermont so well 😭🙌🏻

01.03.2026 23:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?

Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.

The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

01.03.2026 16:21 👍 2080 🔁 671 💬 76 📌 56
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Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

01.03.2026 05:23 👍 8607 🔁 2935 💬 118 📌 364

I love when the hockey panel has to admit how good the Habs are as they choke on it.

01.03.2026 02:58 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Ohmigod I hope it’s a set of small integers because then I’ll live forever!!

28.02.2026 21:23 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It is Friday at 5pm and I’ve done 2 of the 4 things on this week’s to-do list 🤗🙃

28.02.2026 03:26 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

26.02.2026 13:15 👍 9817 🔁 3491 💬 51 📌 89

(I love that both our reactions were on the topic of how cute they are)

25.02.2026 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Exactly! We could live in this world!

25.02.2026 22:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Small yellow sidewalk snow plow shown plowing a sidewalk. It has a v-shaped front to push the snow on each side and room inside for one person to sit and drive it.

Small yellow sidewalk snow plow shown plowing a sidewalk. It has a v-shaped front to push the snow on each side and room inside for one person to sit and drive it.

For example witness this adorable tiny plow. Don’t tell me you couldn’t have a bunch of these and having them would be more expensive than an equivalent number of the big ones

25.02.2026 22:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know but my point is exactly your second sentence. In Montreal they have little snowplows for the sidewalks and I cannot imagine one little snowplow is more expensive than a big one, and it certainly cannot cost as much in gas. Choices are made and then presented as immutable reality.

25.02.2026 22:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

25.02.2026 20:23 👍 518 🔁 431 💬 13 📌 70

How many miles of roads? Why is it logistically and financially realistic to clear every road? 🤔

25.02.2026 18:23 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ohmigod!! I have no words for how terrible that is. It’s… it’s bad. It’s so bad.

25.02.2026 16:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#MathSky

25.02.2026 02:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In some sense, even Davidson is a victim of white supremacy here. He is not solely responsible for the existence of the n word and its serious effect. So if we want to “help him” we need to dismantle white supremacy. Our (white) response to this fiasco should reflect this.

24.02.2026 17:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The only thing I will say about the BAFTA thing is that the issue is white supremacy. There shouldn’t be a word that can harm like this, and it’s on us white people to work every day to repair our long history of racism. And if you’re not moving in that direction, then you’re part of the problem.

24.02.2026 17:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Author states how many generations of her family have lived in Vermont: drink! 🥃

(Being a 7th generation or more Vermonter is extremely cliché, and I find it hilarious that everyone brags about it. You don’t want to know what generation québécois I am…)

24.02.2026 06:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Forget Norway. This Tiny U.S. State Dominates the Winter Olympics. Vermont’s secret sauce isn’t maple syrup.

Vermont!! #the802 #VT

How Vermont dominates the Winter Olympics. slate.com/culture/2026...

24.02.2026 06:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Question mark cat! #ShapesWithCats

24.02.2026 04:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Star of approval from a cat!

23.02.2026 21:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Truly blessed 😅

23.02.2026 08:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

22.02.2026 19:21 👍 3495 🔁 2688 💬 123 📌 398
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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries! In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

Hey, New Yorker, sitting at home, or a friend’s place, scrolling on your phone as the snow comes in? Want to take a quick moment to support our public libraries? It is easy-peasy, and libraries are an absolutely crucial, varied, and delightful public resource!

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actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

22.02.2026 21:10 👍 180 🔁 96 💬 2 📌 5

After bringing us four dead rats in the last three weeks, today Comète decided we were ready for the next step of hunting our own rats and brought us a small live one 🥰 (sarcastic emoji!)

Content note: rat picture

23.02.2026 02:43 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

Fund the libraries!!

I now dislike his ads 😭

22.02.2026 22:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Circle cat for @barbarafantechi.bsky.social

22.02.2026 21:37 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1