What's the one thing you know about maths now that you didn't know at school (with thanks to Sam Cohen for the idea)?

Part 2 of video featuring Mirzakhani Society students Ellie Gupa and Sienna Jacobs. What advice would they give to a 13 year old girl who doesn't think maths is for them?

And here's part two starring Ellie and Sienna from the Mirzakhani Society . If you wonder at the title (Etc.) the post was accompanied by the text: "Mathematicians are all the same. They look the same. They only like other mathematicians. They only like maths. They did nothing but maths from the age of two. Etc."

Exeter College is seeking to appoint a Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics. This is a fixed-term role, tenable from 1 October 2025 until 30 September 2026.

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Image: the Rector’s Drawing Room in Exeter College in the 1890s

High summer in Oxford and the students have gone to be replaced by tourists and generic summer schools. But before they left, we had a chat. Here's the first video, with the guys on the other side of the lectern for a change. And our apologies to Shing Fung whose name is spelt incorrectly in the captions.

The 53rd card.

There are plenty of cricket fans in the department. We even used to have an annual North v South match. So, in the week of England v India at Lord's in London, the so-called home of cricket, here's one of our big fans talking about one of Lord's quirks.

The Tour de France began three gruelling weeks of sun, scenery and summits on Saturday, but what's the key to winning in this elite world of small margins? How about appetite for risk and the danger of crashing (of which there has been a lot in the first week)?

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