Did you know these professional societies are a great source of information, in addition to offering networking and career resources? Often professional societies publish magazines, blogs, or newsletters with news, trends, and developments relevant to professionals working in the field. Here are some suggestions of professional news sources:
The AWM Newsletter
Published by The Association for Women in Mathematics. Contains informative articles, book reviews, and announcements of upcoming events of interest, as well as a broad range of ads including job announcements from academic, industry, and government organizations
Chance
Published by the American Statistical Association. Designed for anyone who has an interest in using data to advance science, education, and society. Highlights applications that demonstrate sound statistical practice.
Math Horizons
The undergraduate magazine of the Mathematical Association of America
Notices of the AMS
Published by the American Mathematical Society. Reports on industry trends, academia, and research; invitations to get involved and calls for nominations; community updates from the AMS, news and announcements from other mathematics institutions; opinion pieces on professional issues facing mathematicians; reviews of books; and upcoming national and international meetings and conferences.
Significance
Published by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). Explains how and why statistics helps in life, science and commerce. Written by statisticians for anyone with an interest in the analysis and interpretation of data. Challenges myths, provide a unique perspective on the stories of the day, and use statistics to answer society's most difficult questions.
This list is not exhaustive so I encourage you to browse the websites of other professional societies, or check to see what information sources your membership provides access to.
Searching in a databases that includes professional magazines can give you news from multiple sources at one time:
SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)
Provides full-text to science and technology scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications. Includes the following collections: Natural Science Collection, Technology Collection
There are many other sources of news relevant to math, and STEM more broadly, so seek out more sources! Also consider following researchers and professionals on Twitter and LinkedIn to learn about news and trends.
