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Mathematician by day, generally asleep by night. Chocolate fountains, sperm cells and bridge signs. @VisualPDE.com and @chalkdustmag.bsky.social. Probably listening to Radio 2.
Comma comma comma comma comma cater-pillar
05.07.2025 12:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Photos of the four people in the Finite Group, along with the FG logo
FYI: I'm part of the Finite Group, a friendly bunch of mathematicians with a free Discord community and monthly livestreams about cool bits of maths. Our next is 23rd May, when I'll be chatting with @Ayliean.bsky.social about maths & Rubik's cubes! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk
07.05.2025 11:02 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Standing in front of a low bridge sign marked 1.4m 4’9”
Came to Bedford. Was not disappointed. #heighthunt
21.04.2025 10:28 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 New Chalkdust alert 🚨
You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!
chalkdustmagazine.co...
I think Issue 21 is up there with the best issues of Chalkdust (and that's not just because I wrote an article for it)
17.03.2025 08:59 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Want to put more of *you* into your mathematical modelling? Soon you'll be able to do this through your webcam and VisualPDE!
More exciting things coming soon too! Let us know how we can support your science at hello@visualpde.com.
Three excellent people and a great project. You will learn mathematical modelling and how to interact with our experimental colleagues, proper interdisciplinary science. Plus we do excellent cookies at lunch time meetings 😎
27.02.2025 21:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Hmm OK. DM me and we'll try to figure it out.
26.02.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hi @wynke.bsky.social – Do you want to try again now?
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The shortlist for the Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 is out now. View the list and vote for your favourite book at chalkdustmagazine.co....
We'll be publishing short reviews over the next couple of weeks, including notes relating to our four judging criteria: style, control, damage and agression.
What a great calendar!
05.02.2025 23:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All these people going around living their lives writing \frac{\partial y}{\partial x} all the time
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #13: Our Little Secret.
A disappointing end to #NetflixChristmas season. Lindsay Lohan’s bf’s sister’s bf is her ex-bf. They hide this to impress Kristin Chenoweth (wasted). LL gets stoned; everyone swaps partners. 🤷🏻♀️ Not silly enough. #BringBackHudgens2025.
🤫💍🤫🍬🍪/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #12: A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter.
Sabrina sings some OK new Christmas songs and takes part in some OK sketches with guests. But it’s charming and she’s obviously a great singer, even if it made me feel very old.
🎶🎥🎄👩🏻🎤🪟/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #11: Carry-On.
A cross between Die Hards 2 and 3. A TSA agent resembling Terminator 2 is blackmailed into getting a case on a plane. Starts well, but plot gets silly quickly. Worst is the belief you could have a car chase round LAX 😂. Watch Die Hard instead.
🇺🇸✈️🚨🎒🦠/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #10: Christmas as Usual.
Uncomfortable: a Norwegian woman brings her fiancé home for Christmas but somehow her family don’t know he’s Indian and they are really weird about it. Supposedly a real story, but if I were the real woman’s family, I’d be mortified.
🇳🇴🌶️🕳️⛪️🥛/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #9: That Christmas.
An animated adventure with a stellar cast that is less than the sum of its parts. Tired jokes. Strangely features lots of current Xmas songs. But agreed that Santa’s a Scotsman. Bill Nighy wears Reddit’s favourite watch.
🎅🏼🚌⛸️🔎🦃/5
Coming soon: a modern take on an old paper by William Newman and Carl Sagan postulating a simple wave-like model of interstellar travel and colonization (link below). Now with inter-galactic heterogeneity, stochasticity, and more!
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...
Setting is a carnival. Indian man holds pink candyfloss whilst an Indian woman looks at him sceptically.
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #999: Merry Christmas (Hindi)
Starts almost as a romance (woman meets man, takes him back to her place), turns into Hitchcockian thriller when she finds her husband's dead body... then it disappears, then reappears again?? Great film, will leave you guessing. 😵😵😵😵😵/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas.
Occasionally we stumble across a really good film while doing this: this is one of those. As usual, it starts meet cute but quickly turns into a Hitchcock-like thriller.
🎄🧸💃🔫🎅/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas (Hindi/Tamil).
An unexpected gem. Set in Bombay, a man back in town meets a woman at a restaurant and they hit it off. Then it turns into a completely different mystery movie. Great fun, if a little long (mostly the intro credits).
🍿👩🏽🍳🪑🦜💍/5
Lacey Chabert looks forward, frowning in confusion. Subtitle reads, "That is so funny. That looks like a girl I went to high school with.'
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #49: Hot Frosty.
Romance didn't work for me, FMC was too maternal towards her supposed love interest, snowman was funny but too stupid to be a plausible. Best bit wwas Doug Judy and Boyle from Brooklyn 99, whole thing should have just been them. ☃️☃️☃️☃️💧/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #7: Hot Frosty.
Snowman comes to life, doesn't walk in the air, breaks a window. The Pontiac Bandit and Boyle try to track down the window breaker. Snowman and the other one from Mean Girls fall in love, while the town falls in love with Snowman.
⛄💫🧍♂️🪟👮/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #7: Hot Frosty.
OK this one is genuinely good. You know the plot: woman falls for a snowman come to life. He fixes everything. Played for laughs by a great cast. One to watch.
⛄️🧣🪚🧊👮🏾♂️/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #6: Twas the Text Before Christmas.
Nana tries to text her granddaughter about Christmas, texts the wrong number, invites main character to Christmas anyway. Main character starts visiting them for every Christmas dinner, with a side order of rom com.
📱📲❄️🇯🇲💌/5
A young white woman with strawberry blonde hair and a camel trench coat holds up a pinecone Christmas tree ornament which she looks at with wonder.
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #6: Twas the Text Before Christmas. Inspired by that Thanksgiving story, a wrong number text leads to a lonely woman spending Christmas with a strange family. This is a genuinely lovely film, the wholesome family dynamics work, the love story is well earned. 🌲🍷❄️☃️🥧/5
21.12.2024 20:35 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #6: ’Twas the Text Before Christmas.
A woman with a fundamental misunderstanding of Australian seasons picks up a wrong call and gets a new boyfriend over many years. Cheap sets. Big decs. Watch her hair dye roots change dramatically during scenes.
📱👵🏼🥔🐶🇦🇺/5
Enjoyed chatting with Plus Magazine about @visualpde.com and broader 'interactive approaches to communicating science' with @bjwalker.bsky.social r.bsky.social and @pecnut.bsky.social t.bsky.social! Check out the podcast (and some virus transmission dynamics) below.
plus.maths.org/content/adve...
Beret-wearing is the sign of a really good Christmas heroine. Only bettered by Vandervoord’s hat in A Christmas Exchange
14.12.2024 20:20 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0![A shot from the film "Meet Me Next Christmas" where the Pentatonix are saying "No, I know. We've been on Team Lames [Layla & James] when we could have been on Team Tayla [Teddy & James]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5brx4bzepbx7tu5etr7onu73/bafkreiaga2wc6zkmeggncvgo4sskyoeusolpuwloxhjhcur6ik3qcvukuy@jpeg)
A shot from the film "Meet Me Next Christmas" where the Pentatonix are saying "No, I know. We've been on Team Lames [Layla & James] when we could have been on Team Tayla [Teddy & James]."
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #5: Meet Me Next Christmas.
Would've made more sense to me at the start if I knew who the Pentatonix were, but once it got going it was very entertaining. Doesn't take itself too seriously and is a lot of fun. The interlude scenes with the Pentatonix are fab.
👨🎤👨🎤👨🎤👨🎤👩🎤/5
