After academia's latest gaffe, researchers joke mathematicians need media training
giffmana · x · 2026-10-11
Mathematician @littmath called for mandatory media training for academic mathematicians (himself included); Google DeepMind's giffmana quipped that academia is slowly learning from first principles why big companies have all those trainings and speech restrictions.
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