From jm_collective at inventati.org Mon Nov 4 18:26:09 2024 From: jm_collective at inventati.org (Just Mathematics Collective newsletter) Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:26:09 +0000 Subject: [jm_collective] Just Mathematics Collective Newsletter, No. 8 Message-ID: Hello! Welcome to the Just Mathematics Collective newsletter. This is our (roughly) monthly round-up of news about our campaigns and activities, suggestions for how you can help, and reading we've found useful recently. --- Signal boosts: An update from our Math Minus Militarism friends re: JMM 2025: If you are going to the JMM in Seattle this winter, don't despair! Math Minus Militarism will be there as well and prepared with many ideas and opportunities to both: * disrupt the "business as usual" of the AMS and their friends at the NSA and * to build community with like-minded mathematicians who are tired of how deep militarism runs in our academic community. For the past few JMMs, we have focused on one aspect of militarism in mathematics: the violence of the NSA, and the fact that the AMS lets them recruit at the JMM. This year, we want to think more broadly about how militarism shows up in our conferences. What does it mean that the conference theme is "AI and Math," in the midst of an AI-powered genocide in Gaza? As the US government continues to fund and fuel genocide, anti-militarism movements are growing in solidarity with Palestinian resistance. What is the role of mathematicians in this struggle? We must do more to create a #MathMinusMilitarism together. We all can relate to the dread that comes before attending the JMM, knowing you will see NSA logos and workers everywhere, uncritically accepted into mathematics communities. Start thinking now about what you can do to ensure that no NSA logo remains uncovered and no NSA worker is willing to return to the JMM. And trust that we are planning right alongside you. Stay tuned for more info! In Solidarity, MMM --- Check out this letter by a group of mathematicians calling on math organizations to provide hybrid options in conferences. The letter was sent to the Notices of the AMS and to MAA Focus together with the list of signatories in September. You can read the letter here: https://sites.google.com/view/hybridmathconferences --- Digest of the JMC twitter --- https://x.com/jm_collective/status/1847011394064892166 https://x.com/jm_collective/status/1791795661542703515 https://x.com/jm_collective/status/1791795790106476568 https://x.com/jm_collective/status/1791795898608951550 https://x.com/jm_collective/status/1791795961276101095 https://x.com/jm_collective/status/1791796033854353802 --- Ongoing JMC campaigns/how you can help: --- 1. Cut ties between mathematicians and the NSA: https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/nsa_statement.html. Please sign the statement and take the pledges if you haven't already, and share with your colleagues. 2. Support the USACBI academic boycott of Israeli institutions: https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/USACBI_statement.html. Please register your pledge. --- As always, please feel free to contact us at justmathematicscollective at inventati.org with any questions, comments, or suggestions, including materials and campaigns for us to consider including in next month's newsletter. - JMC newsletter team -- Just Mathematics Collective https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/ https://twitter.com/jm_collective?lang=en -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed