Respect Government Office for Science for reaching out to the public to clarify the role of scientific advisors in public health decision making. Public trust in the good faith of scientists indispensable when difficult decisions lie ahead.

1/ Here's a picturesque thread to celebrate a brand new paper with my fantastic student Ambrose Yim. One of our secret motivations was the gradient descent algorithm which powers all of modern machine learning... arxiv.org/abs/2206.10198

Achievement unlocked: featured in one of Vidit Nanda 's legendary paper threads. Had a lot of fun sharing this work at the ATMCS10 conference this week, and even more fun seeing all the great work done in the area of Morse theory by our talented TDA community!

‘Words as sweet as honey’

I'm very excited to announce that our latest pre-print just went up on the arxiv, joint work with Heather Harrington and Ulrike Tillmann. Grounded persistent path homology: a stable, topological descriptor for weighted digraphs arxiv.org/abs/2210.11274

Norma/Adalgisa, swap roles in cast B

Arts Council England has just released its funding decisions for the next three years - and opera's the one to take the hit. English National Opera no longer getting any regular funding, Royal Opera House down 10%, Welsh National Opera down 34%, Glyndebourne down 50%

Professor Ulrike Tillmann, President of the London Mathematical Society, responds to the Prime Minister's Speech on behalf of the Protect Pure Maths campaign:

Starting a new TDA project? Need persistent homology on cubical complexes and a custom filtration in C++? Or just a Rips filtration but in parallel and using Python? Wading through all those repos giving you a headache? 1/3