Ayliean

Fun fact: it’s me that writes the Maths Gear newsletter!

It comes out on average once per month (you’ll have to sign up to find out which kind of average)

So glad you enjoyed the show!
@standupmaths.bsky.social still has plenty more tour dates upcoming if you want to see me be play the role of Stagehand Ayliean✨

It’s your only chance to catch me wearing all black!

The layers of nerdery here 😅 let me explain…!

@wordle-tetris.bsky.social is day by day showing the frames of a Tetris game played on Wordle

and does-it-glider.com is one of my fave weird internet artefacts, where you run your wordle score through Conway’s Game of Life to see if it forms a glider🤓💗

Tetris Wordle game 2 is going strong, but the real question …

DOES 👏 IT 👏 GLIDER? 👏

A Wordle screenshot showing clump, minty, react, great, plump, tacky. The yellow squares light up in the shape of a zigzag Tetris piece

This was my attempt at today’s Wordle Tetris (definitely not done at 15mins past midnight)

Ooooh day 2 of Wordle Tetris is going well!

Also, lil bonus game, you can do your wordle as normal and then attempt wordle Tetris manually - I didn’t match with any of @wordle-tetris.bsky.social words but I did manage to make the Tetris frame!

T’was a heroic effort to ROTATE THE L, but alas!

Tetris played on Wordle!

I love what’s going on over at @wordle-tetris.bsky.social

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Iyu...

It’s too good, I thought this was an actual cardboard collage!

Shape nerds ASSEMBLE!

(In an icosahedral symmetry formation)

That’s how maths’ll getcha! And then after a while you wonder if anyone actually uses these words, but you do now, so you become the perpetuator of this obscure maths vocab!

Oh definitely send me a link to that! I’m working my way through shapes wolfram alpha mentions as having Eulerian paths because they could be done with one balloon whereas things like a cube couldn’t

Oh that is so cool! I’m just a humble maths nerd in it for that shapes but it’s always fascinating to learn what they do in the “real world”

Thanks 🥰 do shapes like this ever come up in protein folding?

Small Rhombicosidodecahedron if u even care.

I know it can be made with a single (incredibly long) modelling balloon because every vertex only has four lines coming from it, so it has an ✨Eulerian path✨

Not sure what phase of my life I’m in, but here’s that modelling balloon icosidodecahedron nobody asked for!

In theory it could be made out of a single modelling balloon, although in reality they don’t make balloons long enough :(

Well that’s none of my bismuth

Screenshot of a weather app saying the sun will set at 12:36

Screenshot of a weather app for Pitlochry saying the sun will set at 16:38

Screen shot of a weather app for Orient saying the sun will set at 16:28

What mistake has happened in my phone to make it tell me the sun is going to go down at 12.36pm in Dundee today?!

All the other locations are showing the normal depressing time of 4.30ish!

The @ima-maths.bsky.social seems quite proud they invited BAE to speak at their conference.

I am so so disappointed that an institution which normally funds sweet creative maths projects and supports maths communities has chosen to platform BAE Systems which produces munitions used in genocide.

16 red squares in total!

My cute sausagey dog in a car looking bemused as I hold out a puzzle cube themed dog toy. The cube shows three yellow pieces around one corner, two red central cubes and two identical edge pieces.

Nice try human, I’m not wasting time solving that impossible cube.
Treats now.

It’s not too late for the @ima-maths.bsky.social to un-invite them or just entirely bin that conference all together.

It is possible to take a stand, not doing so would be a choice - maths is not neutral.

A screenshot reading “Institute of Maths and its Applications” 8th IMA Conference on Mathematics in Defence and Security Mathematics for Decision Support”

Phillips Payne (BAE Systems) is product technical lead for mission effectiveness at BAE Systems, Air, supporting both current and future global combat air programmes. Based in the Chief Engineer’s Office, she helps ensure next-generation fighter heat integrate cutting-edge technology.

BAE systems. The worlds seventh largest weapons manufacturer, U.K. company BAE Systems manufactures the M109 howitzer, a 155mm mobile artillery system that the Israeli military has been using extensively, firing tens of thousands of 155mm shells into the Gaza Strip. Screenshot from afsc.org

BAE also manufactures electronic missile launching kits and other components for Israel’s F-15, F-16, and F-35 fighter jets, which the Israeli Air Force has used extensively in all of its attacks on Gaza, including in 2023. Screenshot from afsc.org

I don’t think that @ima-maths.bsky.social should be inviting speakers from BAE Systems to speak at their conference when BAE manufactures weapons which are used by Israel in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

That sounds like Maths being complicit to me.

A screenshot of a Stand Up Maths video with a Matt Parker making a cheeky face up top and then the credits which include “Produced by Nicole Jacobus and Ayliean MacDonald”

It’s ya girls first ✨producer credit✨

Here is the video youtu.be/eqyuQZHfNPQ?... it has all your favourite maths hits: triangle number, square number, cube number, 45 pin bowling…

I am very proud of it 💗

Okay, now I’ve found their “Bagpipe Practice Room” I think Scotrail might just be having us on!

“Whisky Distillery”
On a train?! How? @geofftech.bsky.social

Aww that sucks that you were the only young woman in your class! Hopefully something that changes in future.

For this particular instance I’m not even sure the stat tells an accurate story. Half of all women could have 3 children and half with none and the births per woman would still be 1.5 😂

Maybe it kinda makes it feel like I’m expected to give birth to 1.57 children…

Or like the birth rate is somehow “women’s” responsibility when there are two people involved…?

A Google search result for “UK birth rate” giving a statistic of 1.57 births per woman (2022)

I can’t quite explain it but something about describing a country’s birth rate in “births per woman” feels really misogynistic.

(As well as the obvious erasure of NB n trans peeps who give birth)