This story of the discovery of Alison Doig the person is wild pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/cel...

Les abonnés de @politis.fr ont libéré le formidable entretien réalisé par @elsagambin.bsky.social avec la pédopsychiatre Fanny Gollier-Briant sur la santé mentale des adolescents et des jeunes adultes . A lire absolument, ici ⤵️ www.politis.fr/articles/202...

Marouane is live tweeting all #EuroMIP25 talks, follow him to stay up to date

Sophie Demassey @sofdem.bsky.social kicks off the third and final day of #EuroMIP25 with a talk on Block Coordination of Nonlinear Network and Discrete Optimization. She focuses on scheduling nonlinear flow networks, with an application to load shifting in drinking water systems. #EuroMIP25 #orms

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Trump banned important words from research - 350 of them. So we said 🛑Touche pas à mon pote!✊ and stuffed as many of them as we could into the abstract of our new math paper. 🫵You can do the same!🫵Join the cause with your next abstract - they will have no choice but to hear us. #AdoptCensoredWords

Bill Cook strikes again: shortest tour of 81,998 bars in South Korea is the top story tonight at Hacker News www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/korea/in...

Hitler’s rise to power shows how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following.

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

More summer schools added to the list today! thiagoserra.com/2025/02/04/s...

Hey #IEEE, can you explain where your "Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at IEEE" page went?! Last week, it was still linked on the front page. Now: It's gone, and the old link goes to "We are sorry, the page you are looking for has been moved or removed." www.ieee.org/about/divers...

"In an era where political forces seek to distort, suppress, or co-opt scientific knowledge for ideological purposes, the scientific community must recognise that staying silent in the face of these challenges is no longer an option." My latest substack kityates.substack.com/p/uk-and-oth...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Les institutions scientifiques ont une longue histoire d'obéissance anticipée. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

Don’t let them convince you that you didn’t see what you saw with your own eyes.

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Inspiring critical study by @estherturnhout.bsky.social, on how and why environmental sciences are part of the problem rather than the solution in the face of intertwined social inequalities and injustice, and climate & ecological crises.

I recorded my current talk for youtube! If you are interested in linear programming or theoretical computer science, this is for you

We've added the Cornell "Computational optimization open textbook" to our list of #orms resources: www.solvermax.com/resources/li...

Cet ouvrage, en open source, est une véritable mine ! un outil d’une très grande utilité pour les profs, les étudiant-es, et généralement toutes celles et ceux qui ont envie de mieux comprendre, connaitre, utiliser les concepts présentés par l’ouvrage books.openedition.org/enseditions/...