Everyone still thinks that the ICM will go ahead with no hiccups like this? Or that it *should* go ahead? And mind you, I'm Canadian. Travel issues are not even my main concern...

I saw him playing live in Paris at the beginning of the 80's.

I like this comment by Buzzard: "Mathematicians should find it quite striking that tech companies are suddenly interested in their work. "

"These characteristics of mathematics as a subject matter are also compatible with understanding mathematics as a human practice, and its place in the world. As mathematicians, and also as inhabitants of a shared world, we have a duty to care for other people and our environment."

Since September I've been working with an international group to develop what we hope can be a response from the mathematics community to artificial intelligence in maths. The Leiden Declaration is now posted and open for signatures: https://leidendeclaration.ai/ #leidendeclaration

Please consider signing the petition to rename NYC’s Williamsburg Bridge as the Sonny Rollins Bridge!

The Sonny Rollins Bridge Project seeks to rename NYC’s Williamsburg Bridge to commemorate Rollins’ musical sabbatical there from 1959-1961. SIGN OUR PETITION sonnyrollinsbridge.net/our-quest/

Same.

Sonny Rollins' Freedom Suite played by David S. Ware, his spiritual heir www.youtube.com/watch?v=XloT...

Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen with Sonny Rollins www.youtube.com/watch?v=piqK...

Reading "TOWARD A NEW HUMANISM - One world anthropology" by Tim Ingold. Here is a passage ~ "the world is a conversation; it is not the object of our conversation. In this conversation lies... the becoming of being..." Here is the link ~ aura.abdn.ac.uk/server/api/c... #humanism #interfaith

Courtesy of Michael Harris: who [gets to] speak for mathematics? Maybe not just Terry Tao. siliconreckoner.substack.com/p/who-speaks...

The thing about Scholze is that he's a really decent guy.

With the following quote from mathematician Peter Scholze: "I already consider the influence of AI to be strongly negative, for humanity, for democracy, and for the planet"

Advertisement for a call by 140 German scientists warning about the dangers of IA www.pause-ai.de

A reminder that we should cancel or relocate #ICM2026 as we did in 2022, so no mathematician has to choose between watching online or risking this. If you are happy with privileged ones being there and others online, let me kindly know so I can block you.

On Martin Nowak, the evolution of cooperation, Jeffrey Epstein, and the corruption of mathematicians. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/n...

Any comment from @amermathsoc.bsky.social ?

It's a bit of an extension, but you remind me that the word from Buddhism most often translated as "enlightenment" (in part due to influence of the western Enlightenment movement) is, more literally, "awakening" (*bodhi*). And a buddha is someone who is awakened — so "Buddhism" is "woke-ism." 🙂 🙏

Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Sodo Yokoyama (1907–1980) 🔗 Explore more at BDG: buddhistdoor.net #Buddhism #Buddha #Dharma #Mahayana #JapaneseBuddhism #Japan #Soto #Zen #Compassion #Enlightenment #Liberation #SpiritualGrowth #Awakening #Spirituality

The ICM boycott petition seems to have a new website with loads of data on it: #MathSky sites.google.com/view/icm2026...

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

"Maryam Mirzakhani, la primera mujer en ganar la Medalla Fields de matemáticas (el Nobel de las matemáticas),estudió en la Universidad Tecnológica Sharif, IRÁN,que acaba de ser bombardeada por EEUU e israel."

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit. You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

This is a message I just sent to all members of the IMU Executive Committee:

I agree completely with ‪@barbarafantechi.bsky.social‬. How can the International Congress of Mathematicians take place in a country that is currently bombing the University where a Fields medallist (Maryam Mirzakhani) studied?

🚀 Big news from our publishing house @ems-press.bsky.social 🚀 Today at #UKSG2026 they unveiled Launch to Open (L2O): a new open access model built around community support, transparency and sustainability.

L’hommage des mathématiciennes à Michèle Audin Billet publié sur Images des mathématiques par René Cori images.math.cnrs.fr/billets/i7s4...

Matinée d'hommage à Michèle Audin à l'Institut Henri Poincaré, organisée par Femmes et mathématiques, l'IHP, la @socmathfrance.bsky.social. Des témoignages émouvants de mathématiciennes, historiennes, écrivaines... pour rendre hommage à une belle personne que nous serons nombreux à regretter.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

Un article très intéressant...

Matinée d'hommage à Michèle Audin : mathématicienne, historienne, écrivaine et femme engagée Le 14/03 à l'Institut Henri Poincaré, organisée par Femmes et Mathématiques et la SMF Inscription gratuite obligatoire smf.emath.fr/node/3690018 Venez nombreuses et nombreux, et partagez !

Three years ago, Danylo Yavhusishyn escaped his war ravaged country of Ukraine just shy of his 18th birthday when he would be conscribed in his country's existential battle versus Russia--and arrived in Japan, not knowing the language or any person except for Arata Yamanaka an amateur ...

"Berbessa. Mes ancêtres colons" de Michèle Audin Le dernier né de la collection #Apartés passe une dernière nuit au chaud : demain 23 janvier, vous pourrez le découvrir en librairie, le lire, le partager…

Au mois de novembre, Michèle Audin nous a quittés alors que nous étions en train de finaliser l’édition de son nouveau livre, "Berbessa". 👇

Pour se changer un peu les idées : diacritik.com/2026/01/05/p...

Si vous voulez vous changer les idées en écoutant un monsieur passionnant (qui vient de nous quitter), je vous invite à écouter ces 5 épisodes d’À voix nue avec Francis Hallé sur @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Il n'y a qu'à Bures-sur-Yvette qu'on peut taper la discute avec un prix Nobel de physique en faisant ses courses chez Auchan.

Elena Mistrello est en particulier illustratrice d'une BD consacrée à la mathématicienne Emmy Noether www.stormi.info/emmy-noether...

Je viens d’apprendre le décès de Michèle Audin. La nouvelle me bouleverse profondément. Mathématicienne brillante, écrivaine engagée, elle va terriblement manquer. Voici une photo de Michèle en action au CIRM, ainsi qu’une photo de groupe où nous sommes côte à côte lors d’un colloque en 2006.

Après son frère Pierre, parti en 2023, c’est au tour de la mathématicienne et oulipienne Michèle Audin de nous quitter. Elle avait trois ans et lui quelques mois quand leur père, Maurice, fut torturé puis assassiné par l’armée française en 1957 à Alger. 👉 femmes-et-maths.fr/deces-de-mic...

C'est avec très grande tristesse que j'apprends le décès aujourd'hui de mon amie Michèle Audin, mathématicienne et écrivaine.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Léopards (qui ont l’air d’être en colère) sur les mosaïques de la Salle de Roger au palais des Normands de Palerme - XIIe siècle.

Fantômette strikes back!

Today's BA newsletter is a review of a new Mosaic box set gathering six Pharoah Sanders albums from the 1980s, all on the Theresa label. Also, an announcement about a major CD sale via our Bandcamp page: burningambulance.substack.com/p/pharoah-sa...

À la fois poète beat et poète zen, « anarchiste anthropologique », Nanao Sakaki !

A excellent way to discover Gary Snyder, one the greatest living poets, and a forerunner of deep ecology.