A dedicated quiet room is available in the Andrew Wiles Building for staff, students, visitors and guests who need space for reflection or prayer. Room S0.30, at ground level on the south of the building can be accessed during building hours via Reception, or by using your keycard. There is step-free access available for this facility. Please do let your guests and visitors know.

You may have seen our latest exhibition downstairs in the Mezzanine - colourful, mathematically inspired and, we hope, inspiring in turn to you all. Go down and have a long look.

For those of you (all?) who follow our social media we have now joined Bluesky as 'oxfordmathematics', though we are not leaving X as we don't want to abandon nearly 70,000 followers.

We haven't posted on Bluesky yet, not least because much of our content is now video and Bluesky has a small video file size. But we will.

As part of our 'Me and My Maths' series, a certain villainous character from 1893 infiltrated our films.

You can imagine the comments, informed and bewildered.

One for all parents and children. Written by Bowie for his son Duncan, it contains some valuable parental advice:

"And if the homework brings you down
Then we'll throw it on the fire
And take the car downtown."

Quite a few of you are taking a well-deserved break over the next few weeks and plenty of you will be driving long distances, so why not while away the long hours at the wheel by taking the Night Train?

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