From early morning to late evening; from registration to reception: it's a wrap for the first day of #ECMTB26! Looking forward to more exciting talks, discussions, and the first round of poster presentations tomorrow!
Benjamin Hackl
@behackl.dev
Postdoc for math and software at @uni-graz.at, Austria. I like counting things. And computers. Maintainer of Python animation thingy, manim.community
this was actually quite fun to build; short-ish share links for a static page / no backend or database. :-) (no credit for ui/ux for me, that was all @anja.codes)
Wondering about the best way to prepare for #ECMTB26? You can now build your own schedule on our website by clicking the ⭐ on contribution detail pages -- see ecmtb2026.org/my-programme/ for details! Share your programme with your colleagues (or sync up your devices) with the share link!
Only 10 days left until the registration deadline for #ECMTB26, don't forget to sign up and pay in time! We are currently working on some more information for conference participants, and some more quality of life improvements of our online schedule at ecmtb2026.org/programme/ -- stay tuned! 👀
Programme | ECMTB 2026
Browse the ECMTB 2026 timetable, sessions, talks, posters, plenary lectures, breaks, and conference events.
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2,5 Milliarden Euro sollen bei den Unis gespart werden. Das ist wirklich crazy, wo wir doch Wissen, dess gerade Innovation und Forschung für mehr Wirtschaftswachstum sorgt! www.uni-graz.at/de/neuigkeit...
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it's been a while since I last saw a good old *crop*py-paste job in journal proofs. 🙄
last thursday our students organised *profslam*, a very fun and entertaining 10min math talk competition. had a looots of fun telling one of my favorite computer math stories: the fast inverse square root implementation from quake 3 arena! 👀🧑💻 interactive slides: behackl.dev/slides/2026-...
🚨⚠️ ... & while we are at it: please take the warning on our sites seriously; we have already learned of scam attempts via "travel agencies" contacting speakers! ⚠️🚨 See ecmtb2026.org/accommodation/ for details on who we partner with for special hotel rates (that you have to book on your own!).
The first five PhD position of our doc.fund project are now open for application - see inspirehep.net/jobs/3129302 for details. Work with us @uni-graz.at in particle physics and quantum gravity. E.g. with me on the consequences of a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect in quantum gravity!
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🚀 Manim v0.20.1 is out! A small patch release with bug fixes, Docker/runtime improvements, and docs/type-hint updates. Huge thanks to all contributors — including several first-time contributors 🙌 📖 Changelog: docs.manim.community/en/latest/ch... #manim #python #opensource
v0.20.1
Date, February 27, 2026,. What’s Changed: Enhancements 🚀: Cleanup TipableVMobject: avoid mutable default and fix assign_tip_attr typo by@josiest in PR #4503, enhancement: optimize Docker image buil...
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🎉 Manim v0.20.0 is out! 🎉 ✨ Mobject.always for intuitive updaters 🔢 --seed for reproducible scenes 🧮 More robust MathTex - bug fixes & 8 new contributors 🙌 pip install manim --upgrade Full list of changes: docs.manim.community/en/stable/ch...
v0.20.0
Date, February 20, 2026,. What’s Changed: Breaking Changes 🚨: Fix ImageMobject 3D rotation/flipping and remove resampling algorithms lanczos( antialias), box and hamming by@chopan050 in PR #4266, F...
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🚀 Manim v0.19.2 is out! The big news: Python 3.14 compatibility is here! 🎉 Grab it: pip install manim Release notes: github.com/ManimCommuni... #Python #Manim #Animation
Release Manim v0.19.2 · ManimCommunity/manim
What's Changed Highlights 🌟 Add support for Python 3.14, bump minimum Python to 3.11 and av to 14.0.1 by @behackl in #4385 Bug Fixes 🐛 Fix argument passed to get_hash_from_play_call in hashing b...
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Our GitHub org is back, and so are our repos! \o/
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Manim Community has 17 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Slowly getting worried our ticket might have gotten drowned over Christmas + New Year's... still hoping for the best that our stuff can be recovered. 🤞🍀
It's been about 2 weeks since our GitHub organization has been deleted, we're still working on resolving this and are waiting for our friends from @github.com to get back to us. In the meantime, find a mirror of some of our main repos over at codeberg.org/ManimCommunity!
It's pretty hard to follow up to cool number years like (20 + 25)² = 2025, but I hope you have a great start to 2¹¹ - 2·11 = 505 + 506 + 507 + 508 = 2026. Happy new year! 🥂🍾🎉 (Bonus fun fact: 2026 is the number of disconnected 4-regular graphs on 17 vertices, via oeis.org/A033483 🧐) #mathsky 🧮
There now is a more comprehensive update about our situation with the deleted assets over on Reddit at www.reddit.com/r/manim/s/DY..., and we've setup a mirror of our main repo at codeberg.org/ManimCommuni...
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merry crisis
We are aware of an ongoing situation concerning our GitHub organization and Discord server (both of which have been deleted) and are working on resolving this as soon as possible. In the meantime we have setup discord.gg/fGG4TFSdKh as a new home on Discord for our community, come join us there!
Come join us in July 2026 for the 14th European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology in Graz, Austria! Registration opens now: ecmtb2026.org #ECMTB’26 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social
European Conference on Mathematical & Theoretical Biology 2026
ECMTB is coming to Graz, Austria in July 2026. Registration and Call for Contributions are open!
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@astrodicticum.bsky.social coole show heute! 👏 aber: was passiert, wenn beim "zukunft voraussagen" zufällig eine zahl ohne rest durch 7 teilbar vorkommt? nochmal dividieren lassen, dann wäre zumindest nur 49 ein problem... (1/2)
📢 WE HAVE A NEW NAME We are excited to share that VSC has undergone a slight rebranding and will now operate under a new name: 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗔𝗦𝗖). The name was chosen to reflect the nationwide scope of the consortium - read the official statement here ➡️ asc.ac.at/news/2025/ne...
Der ehemalige Mathe-Lehrer und ÖVP Wossenschaftssprecher, der gsunde Watsch supi findet und den Klimawandel leugnet, hat jetzt also eine Meinung zu FWF Projekten. Was für ein Wiaschtl. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
ÖVP-Abgeordneter Taschner attackiert Uni und Wissenschaftsfonds: "Verbranntes Geld"
In einer Rede schmähte der ÖVP-Wissenschaftssprecher ein Forschungsprojekt. Der Uni-Rektor ist über Taschner empört und ortet "billige Vorurteile". Auch der FWF weist die Vorwürfe zurück
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unfassbar, furchtbar. kraft und mitgefühl allen angehörigen. 🖤
Es werden 10 Todesopfer - darunter auch der Täter - sowie mehrere Schwerverletzte bestätigt. #graz1006
spent my day playing around with parallelizing an exhaustive search over a large space from a combinatorial problem in rust. 🦀 pretty solid experience, very fun! stuff that took ~3h before is now down to like 10mins. ⏱️👀
weil zuerst unterwegs und danach superstressig bin ich noch nicht zum alljährlichen matura-live-rechnen gekommen -- wird jetzt aber gleich nachgeholt; live auf twitch.tv/behackl in ca. 5 minuten, video dann hoffentlich ab morgen auf youtube!
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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Was für ein Erfolg! Was für eine Stimme! Was für eine Show! Lieber JJ, herzliche Gratulation zum fulminanten 1. Platz beim Eurovision Song Contest. #ESC25 Ganz Österreich freut sich! (vdb)
fresh out of the oven, software-fun with generating functions! 🧑💻🚀
Benjamin Hackl, Andrew Luo, Stephen Melczer, \'Eric Schost: A SageMath Package for Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables: Beyond the Smooth Case https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09790 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.09790 https://arxiv.org/html/2504.09790
And one of these DN is ALMOA! Excited to be the coordinator of it. Looking forward to collaborating with a great consortium and training the next generation of Mathematical Optimizers! @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social #optimization #mathematics #MSCA
🔁EuropeanResearchExecutiveAgency The #MSCA 2024 Doctoral Networks call results are published! The @ec.europa.eu will train over 1800 doctoral researchers through 149 doctoral programmes. These networks will strengthen the candidates' skills and employability in the long term. 🔗 europa.eu/!NNq63m
from the makers of evergreens like "your parcel has been deposited at a self-service station" and "nobody was at home when we tried to deliver your parcel" comes a new instant classic: "upon your request, the parcel is being held for collection." ⛽🔥🥲
heute auch im programm beim MINT-kongress: ein besonders wichtiger (und launiger) vortrag "wie reden wir über wissenschaft?" von @florianaigner.at :-)