Are you at #MAAMathFest? Do you like puzzles? 🧩 Come get a free puzzle hunt packet in Salon I (conference hotel 4th floor) at 5:50 tonight before the exhibit hall grand opening! More info at maa.org/events/mathf...

#AwkwardBoardingSelfie for the next three days.

Just because

Hi Blue Sky! I edit the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. We publish articles, essays, #fiction & #poetry on doing, teaching & living #mathematics. We've had more than 900K full-text downloads of our content - why not check us out? scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/ #math #openaccess #mathart #mathjoy

I am thrilled to share that the biology dept at Hamilton College is hiring a TT Evolutionary Ecologist to start in fall of 2027! This position would teach an upper level Evolution lect/lab, a section of Bio-100, rotate through our 200-level Eco/Evo course, and a seminar. apply.interfolio.com/190184

Hey for those who attended our #PreTeXtGang workshops earlier this year and use pretext.plus, @davidwfarmer.bsky.social @oscarlevin.com and @clontz.org have improved the functionality many orders of magnitude over what it was!

PreTeXt.Plus | Author accessible mathematical documents in your browser

PreTeXt.Plus is a service that supports the authoring and sharing of PreTeXt documents using only a web browser.

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Tien Chih@tienchihmath.bsky.social · 5d ago

One button push! @clontz.org @oscarlevin.com @mathtech.org #PreTeXtGang

One button push! @clontz.org @oscarlevin.com @mathtech.org #PreTeXtGang

Doing some of my famous relatable humor

I was a guest on The Random Sample! Had a delightful conversation with Kate Smith-Miles

The Algorithm that Transformed Optimisation - with Dr Sophie Huiberts

Podcast Episode · The Random Sample · 29 July · 44min

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In our latest episode, we explore the Simplex Method - an algorithm that transformed optimisation and a question that continues to intrigue mathematicians: why is it so fast in practice, despite theoretical predictions that suggest it shouldn't be - with special guest @sophie.huiberts.me

Sayonara beta release

A lovely preprint by Ben Braun et al. on Ehrhart h*-distributions. #Combinatorics #LatticePolytopes #MathSky arxiv.org/abs/2607.15886

"There's an extreme, radical, right-wing agenda coming out of the federal government targeting higher education. The AAUP won’t exist in an ivory tower and wait for politics to be done to its members. That’s not the AAUP of 2026." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

AAUP Embraces Political Role With Candidate Endorsements

The group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality.

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Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

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English Version of "How to read Mathematics?" on the ArXiv now: arxiv.org/abs/2607.24136 German Version here: web.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/ggt/schwer #math #teaching #highereducation #mathematics #mathsky

How to read Mathematics? A study guide

Reading a math textbook isn't like reading a novel. You've probably already figured that out on your own. But how *do* you read mathematical texts? And how can you actually learn from a book or lectur...

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Petra Schwer@petraschwer.bsky.social · 2w ago

You aim to understand a mathematical text all by yourself? I finally made an English version of my users guide on "How to read math?" You might want to download it here: web.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/media/How_To... #math #readingmath #mathematics #matheducation #science #mathsky

And now thanks to the beauty of open source / open access, you can view the electronic version of Linear Algebra for @tbil.org online for free: tbil.org/library/ Also includes materials for Precalculus and Calculus!

Drew Lewis@drew-lewis.com · last wk.

I am excited to share that the print version of our "Linear Algebra for Team-Based Inquiry Learning" activity book is now available for preorder from 619 Wreath! www.619wreath.com/store/p56/Li...

The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

Getting ready for my fall classes at pretext.plus/@ClontzSouthAL -- yes, that's automatically generated braille output for my Intro to Topology course notes, ready to be embossed by my accessibility center upon demand. #PreTeXtGang

You can now create projects from templates in PreTeXt.plus! Do you have a useful #PreTeXtGang starter document (on PreTeXt.Plus or GitHub) that would be useful for others to iterate on? Share it here or DM me and we may add it to the list!

Working on something

While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

I am excited to share that the print version of our "Linear Algebra for Team-Based Inquiry Learning" activity book is now available for preorder from 619 Wreath! www.619wreath.com/store/p56/Li...

Linear Algebra for Team-Based Inquiry Learning

Team-Based Inquiry Learning (TBIL) is an active learning pedagogy combining elements of Team-Based Learning and Inquiry-Based Learning. Linear Algebra for Team-Based Inquiry Learning is an activity b...

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Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2w ago

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

Is it time to start writing your course materials? Want to make them accessible? We are hosting a few free workshops in the next weeks to help you do just that with PreTeXt. And using PreTeXt.Plus means nothing to install and no GitHub required. Info here: pretext.plus/announcement...

PreTeXt.Plus | Writing Accessible Course Materials with PreTeXt: workshops in July & August 2026 | Office Hours at MAA MathFest

To help our colleagues adopt PreTeXt to meet this need (whether via the PreTeXt.Plus app, or a local install of PreTeXt's free and open source software), we're excited to offer several virtual workshops this July and August.

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Growing up in Guilin, new Fields Medalist Hong Wang found math to be one favorite thing among many, alongside badminton, table tennis, Greek myths, The Lord of the Rings, and evening walks in what is often called China’s “most beautiful city.”

Hong Wang Wins 2026 Fields Medal, the Third Woman Ever | Quanta Magazine

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal.

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