Madeleine Shepherd

That's beautiful! Looking forward to seeing photos of it in situ.

A Three Thing Day is happening threely this month:
12/2: Hen & Chickens Theatre Bar London N1
19/2: @oldwoollen.bsky.social Farsley W.Yorks
27/2: Tom Thumb Theatre Margate
It's a comedy concerning affinity, vertigo and phone reception and is smart, warming and weird.
Tixdeets via Linktree in Bio.

MATH & ART AT CIRM WITH JEAN-MORLET CHAIR DAVID GAY (University of Georgia - Chair Jean-Morlet 2025, SEMESTER 2) & AN ALEXANDER ZUPAN'S ILLUSTRATION (University of Nebraska-Lincoln).

To me the worst time in US was 1968, when they were drafting my friends to face death in 'Nam...for no reason! But ICE is a new low. Masked, nameless, secret police invading anti-Trump cities. Hard to believe it's real. It can't go on.

EvenQuads cards of women profiles laid out in a spiral form.

EvenQuads is a card game created to celebrate our 50th anniversary. This project is made possible by a broad, supportive community that uplifts and encourages women in math. We're seeking volunteer portrait artists to contribute to Deck 3. If interested fill out the form.
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Machine Knitting 101 - The Basics Introductory machine knitting workshops for complete beginners. Whether you are just getting started or want to try it out, this is for you!

Extra dates added due to popular demand!

Join me on 7th February or 7th March to find out if machine knitting is your new passion!

Machine Knitting 101 - The Basics www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/machine-kn...

Machine Knitting 101 - The Basics Introductory machine knitting workshops for complete beginners. Whether you are just getting started or want to try it out, this is for you!

Extra dates added due to popular demand!

Join me on 7th February or 7th March to find out if machine knitting is your new passion!

Machine Knitting 101 - The Basics www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/machine-kn...

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you!

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Social media slow down.

I'm changing the way i use social media. It's a notice board, not a diary. I will not posting here or Instagram & Mastodon unless I have news. New work, new classes, exhibitions or similar updates will be posted but that's all.

My first thought was 64 because the box is (probably) a square.

Call for nominations: EMS Simon Norton Prize for Mathematics Outreach 2026 Markus Juvonen

📣 Call for nominations: EMS Simon Norton Prize for Mathematics Outreach 2026

Know an individual, team, or partnership whose mathematics engagement has had an outstanding, demonstrable impact?

🗓️ Deadline: 30 April 2026

➡️ All details + nomination form link: euromathsoc.org/news/call-fo...

Slightly angled photo from above two small tables with beginners working at simple knitting machines. The tables are facing each other and you can see the hands of each student working on their projects.

That's the first beginners machine knitting workshop of 2026 done. I was very impressed with the finished neckwamers. I hope both students will be dusting off and setting up their home machines soon.

Fancy having a go, too?
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1950-something

Thank you - I am a bit better. Certainly well enough to teach at the weekend. The new work might take a while though.

A small little bit of both advice and a plea for using Bluesky.

This platform doesn't have an algorithm for content.

If your default response to seeing something cool is to hit like, take a second to hit the Repost button too.

Especially if it's a cool indie product, a show, some art, whatever.

A piece of pale green knitting with small repeating patterns in darker grey green, lying on the keyboard of a laptop and partly propped on the screen. The mostly white screen shows the Img2Track software and the chart of one pattern ready to load into my knitting machine (not pictured).

After a holiday season dominated by illness (mine and other people's) and admin, I'm looking forward to getting back into the studio to continue exploring the knitting potential of tile agar patterns in Conway's Game of Life.

Oh yes, thank you! I've been aiming to attend one since I first heard about Bridges in 2000. Cost and timing are prohibitive but I think i might finally get to this year's event in Ireland.

Me too!
I finally feel like I might actually be able to attend this time.

35 ???????????? Street Greenock

Can anyone suggest the street name in this birth record from 1867?

Today's exchange of posts with @noneucldreamer.bsky.social got me thinking about Botanica Mathematica. This installation explores taxonomy and mathematical growth patterns using knitted forms.

I'd love to see it exhibited again. Any suggestions?

www.madeleineshepherd.co.uk/gallery_7865...

Thank you. Our inspiration was a book - The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants. www.algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop

For Botanica Mathematica we mostly looked a branching patterns and taxonomy but there's so much more to explore.

Introduction to L-systems The Botanica Mathematica project is about using simple mathematical rules to generate pieces of knitting or crochet. If the rule involves choosing what to do based on what you have already done, th…

Love this! It reminds me of the L-system crochet we developed for the Botanica Mathematica project.
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The memorial to the astronomer Thomas Henderson (1798-1844), set in the exterior wall of the City Observatory on Calton Hill, Edinburgh

Today (28 December) is the birthday of THOMAS HENDERSON, born in 1798, who became the first ASTRONOMER ROYAL for Scotland in 1834, based at the Calton Hill Observatory, where he worked until his death at home at 1 Hillside Crescent on 23 November 1844. 1/

YouTube video by Tom Baker Official Tom Baker's Christmas message 2025

Still there! It’s Tom Baker’s Christmas message.

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Say the Prime We're attempting to get a collection of humans to say every digit of the newly-discovered (and currently largest-known prime number) Mersenne prime M136279841, and hope to achieve this before another…

Bored over the festive season? We're still seeking contributions to our ridiculous saytheprime.com video project: sign up and make a 5-minute video of yourself saying a chunk of digits of the largest known prime number. Can we finish before they discover a bigger one? It's a race against maths!

Photo of a white, left hand wearing a yellow and black knittwd wrist warmer. Hand is clutching a similar wrist warmer showing a multitude of loose ends to be finished off.

These wrist warmers have 28 ends to hide per pair. Four can be used for hand stitching the seams. If I had seamed them on the linker I'd have created another 8 ends to sew but would have trapped the original 28 in the seam. Why did I think it wasn't worth getting the linker out for just one pair?

Brilliant! At first glance I thought it was a drawing of plant cells seen in a microscope!

Amazing agar art!

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Chelsea Girl by Simple Minds

A photo of Edinburgh castle at light, lit red. Trees can just be seen on the steep slop below it.

Took a photo of Edinburgh castle last night and ended up with William Hope Hodgson's House on the Borderland.