If you're in Manchester and fancy watching an interesting maths talk this Thursday evening, Rob Eastaway is giving a free lecture on Thursday about maths and Shakespeare: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
One week to go until this science comedy night I'm speaking at as part of Hull's Colliderfest - Thursday 12th March, tickets £12: www.comedyloungehull.co.uk/events/colli... colliderfest.co.uk
Photo of my arm lying on a table, showing a plaster over my blood donation site, next to an Orange Club and a cup of drink. There is also a rainbow heart sticker
Mmm, chocolate style flavoured coating approximation (but hopefully my blood is actually real and can help someone!)🩸💉🅾️➖ #65 #GiveBlood #NHSBT
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
Do you work in a school, and want a fun activity to do for π day? Zoe's running the incredible Think Maths Pi Representation Competition again this year, and you can enter for free and with prizes! think-maths.co.uk/pi-comp/
Rob Eastaway is coming to Manchester on 12th March to give a freepublic lecture as part of MIMUC - details here: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
Happy 30th birthday to all Pokemons who like dancing to Enya
the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.
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If you're in or near Hull, you might like to come along to this science comedy night I'm speaking at next month - Thursday 12th March, tickets £12: www.comedyloungehull.co.uk/events/colli... It's part of Colliderfest, a science festival running all weekend: colliderfest.co.uk
Do you know anyone who's interested in maths and might like to watch monthly livestreams of people chatting about interesting maths? You can buy a gift membership to our Finite Group community to give someone livestream access for a number of months of your choice! www.patreon.com/FiniteGroup/...
![Three of a four pack of yogurts,the fourth one would presumably have had the preceding words of a phrase on the lid but the one nearest us just has the words ‘[…] YOUR GUT’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dbt4bn45duta7tsdl6zf67gm/bafkreicbecg2tndvcues65mophzexywlltzrfp6ay3cikib42tdgulz73m)
Three of a four pack of yogurts,the fourth one would presumably have had the preceding words of a phrase on the lid but the one nearest us just has the words ‘[…] YOUR GUT’
that’s not how you spell it
Today's # HackJam successes: bit of sewing (until I ran out of the strong thread), bit of Python coding (date handling is hard), bit of model painting, made some printable signage for the new recycling setup, and a bit of house-hunting (not for me).
Top marks to Bedford Borough Council on both history and astrophysics. 🔭
Looking for high-quality maths enrichment activity resources? Me and @AlisonKiddle.bsky.social have an online shop where you can buy PDFs for peanuts, and run interactive mathematical investigations with kids ages 10-18 (or adults, or just do things yourself). Find out more at
Screenshot of the printer info dialog which has the text "Printing, Katie Steckles, Printer is printing"
It just looks like it's trying to tell me and it's so proud of itself
Photograph of a sticker which says "bicycle thieves operates in this area"; the sticker is attached to a pole in front of a large bike shed full of bicycles
Wow, they really picked a bad place to store all these bicycles
We haven't announced the March one yet, but we'll have a special guest joining us and I'm very excited! You can also join for free and access our Discord server where we talk shit about maths and share memes and it's extremely wholesome. For info and to join, head to finitegroup.co.uk!
Our February stream will be a fun one, with @PeterRowlett.net and @ayliean.bsky.social chatting about lines and queues, on 18th Feb from 4pm GMT. Details here: www.patreon.com/posts/upcomi...
You may be aware that I'm part of a collective of maths people called the Finite Group, and we've got two brilliant livestreams coming up where you can watch interesting people chat about fun stuff for an hour, for the low price of £4 (which gets you access to recordings too if you can't join live).
Patches @mostly_cheese OFFICER: the victims were dismembered and sacrificed on an altar made of antlers DETECTIVE: dear god OFFICER: most likely yes
i can’t think about deer anymore without thinking of this tweet
A picture of Worf from TNG with a canary’s head. There’s a space background.
Canary Worf.
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
The next episode of the Mathematical Objects podcast is out now - the object this week is 'a story about an absent-minded mathematician', and @PeterRowlett.net and I chat about how these stories originate and what they mean: aperiodical.com/2026/02/math...
Tomorrow is #scicommburrito in Manchester - join other science communicators for a chat and a catch-up from 6pm at Tortilla in Manchester Arndale! Details at scicommburrito.co.uk
Massive shout out to the arcade at Llandudno Pier for having a massive sign that says "We've gone cashless!" above the machines where you get your 2ps to put in the pushers
