Mitch Keller

Doing some arithmetic here on National Coming Out Day, and apparently 2026 – 2001 = 25, which means that today marks 25 years since I first told a friend that I’m gay. Total accident that it happened on NCOD, which I don’t even think I knew was a thing until he pointed it out in his email reply. 🏳️‍🌈

North Dakota State making the playoff without upgrading anything whatsoever and Sacramento State being the worst team in FBS while thinking money solves everything would say confusing things about society

Yesterday the Trump admin proposed a fee of up to $100,000 that universities would have to pay for any foreign student doing post-grad Optional Practical Training, a program that lets some grads work for up to three years. For @immcouncil.org's blog I wrote about what this means.

Human mathematicians are left to sort out this mess. So it’s like someone dropping a burning bag of shit on your doorstep, telling you there’s a silver dollar inside, and wondering why you’re not happy.

Republicans' entire campaign against David Crowley is just this, over and over.

Missouri and Montana would have some of the nation’s most robust constitutional protections for direct democracy if voters approve two citizen-initiated ballot measures this fall.

Judge Saylor’s opinion consists mostly of expressions of bafflement at the idea that anyone would ever take this policy proposal seriously. slate.trib.al/JFNRTd1

Surprised not to see anything about this in my feed this morning from the LawSky folks I follow. I’m sure CA1 won’t stay the PI, but this feels like wildcard territory at SCOTUS. Hopefully @chrisgeidner.bsky.social gives this some attention at @lawdorknews.bsky.social today.

1.2 million foreign students represents just 6% of the 19.4 million students studying as of 2025. But even that is too high, as the 1.2 million number includes ~300,000 people on post-graduate Optional Practical Training (OPT), meaning foreign students are sub-5%.

Say what you want about Wisconsin electing Supreme Court justices in April elections, but one thing this state unequivocally got right: it is constitutionally impossible for more than one of the seven seats on the Supreme Court to be up in any given year.

The one that didn’t need a fifth down to beat Mizzou remains the only legitimate national champion from 1990. But man, that display from the Jackets tonight was an embarrassment.

Academics, to "celebrate" the start of a new semester, post a WayBack Machine snapshot of your workplace from when you were applying to college (or a later milestone if you missed the dawn of dot edu) #WayBackCollegeChallenge

Folks, stop whining about Wisconsin polling being off. The gold standard, Marquette Law, had Hong’s support dead on in this July 29 release. If you look at it closely, what’s obvious now is that this was her ceiling, and what was obvious even then— most of the electorate was figuring out what to do.

A reminder, as polls open in Wisconsin: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration. So, if you haven’t registered or need to re-register, you can do so at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY. Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

This is really, really fucked up from our Madison PD, who I learned tonight from a friend don’t wear body cameras. The videos are in the article in @chrisgeidner.bsky.social’s skeet in reply to the one I quoted. They are more disturbing than I imagined after reading the article.

TFW four months after discovering your great great grandfather was born in Luxembourg, you are able to look yourself up in the national registry and confirm that your Luxembourgish nationality is now officially recognized and you can get your second passport. 🇱🇺 🦁

‘Kavanaugh presenting a “living Constitution” argument for ending birthright citizenship is either an effort that highlights limitations of his reasoning skills or a troll. It’s hard to see it any other way.’

The vote on the constitutional question in the birthright citizenship case is an absolute scandal slate.com/news-and-pol...

Happy pride from Chicago! #bluehourphotography #blueskyartshow #pridemonth

I have Josiah (Jed) Bartlet and Leo Thomas McGarry. Jed doesn’t really have a silly nickname, although sometimes I do call him my chonky boy. Leo has this very squeaky meow, so he often gets called Squeaky. If Lord John Marbury made an appearance, he would undoubtedly call him Gerald.

Thinking about #accessibility for your #math course materials for the Fall semester? Join @mitchkeller.phd and me for a virtual 3-day workshop next week hosted by the Ohio section of the MAA: More at mathtech.org/workshops/oh...

A lesson on social network discrimination for the Supreme Court. slate.trib.al/m462A5z

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

I got about 3/4 of the way through episode 1 on my jog this morning, and this is shaping up to be a fascinating season of Slow Burn.

#PreTeXtGang win during the Canvas outage: I had been embedding worksheets and annotated notes in Canvas (Thanks @oscarlevin.com !) from GitHub-pages deployed stuff. Just had to email students direct links to the entire thing. Quickly built and deployed exam questions that had been posted as SCORM.

Oh, hey, it’s @uwmadisonmath.bsky.social’s @jsellenberg.bsky.social getting elected to AAAS!

Well, well, well... the deadline for compliance with the new Title II accessibility guidelines has been extended by a year (or two, depending on the size of your organization)

Blue Hour View from the Citadella In honor of Hungary 🇭🇺 voting to stand for freedom and democracy yesterday, here’s a shot from my recent trip. Pentax K-3 iii smc Pentax-DA 18–270mm at 88mm stitched to a panorama in Lightroom Classic

I always forget that I share a birthday with Sam Alito until social media reminds me. @maddow.bsky.social is also in the April Fool’s Day baby club, too, which I appreciate more.

had a dream where i was taking a math final. on page 2 was a problem i immediately recognized as an "x choose y" problem @mitchkeller.phd

That last sentence! (Read the whole piece, please.)

This is undoubtedly the home of the Math Department at Bee State University.

Always read Chris’s reporting, but today make sure you make it to the end for the courthouse mystery!