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Came to Bedford. Was not disappointed. #heighthunt

🚨 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)

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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 😎

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!

All these people going around living their lives writing \frac{\partial y}{\partial x} all the time

#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...

#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

#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

#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

#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

#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

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #5: Meet Me Next Christmas. A woman who flies in a beret goes on a Jingle All The Way-style mission to get show tickets to famous band The Pentatonix. Turns out her true love is Sinbad. Unbelievably long. Would watch the version that just contains the band. ✈️👩🏻‍🎤👜🎫🚕/5

Cometh Christmas, cometh the chocolate

Many thanks to all our collaborators!! (nobody else here on bsky??) Check out this fantastic @visualPDE implementation made by Ben Walker for our paper...

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #4: The Snow Sister. A sweet Norwegian mystery story you can take part in. A boy named after a month named after a general—or maybe Christmas—makes a new friend who cheers him up. Production values far higher than usual. Def worth watching at normal speed. ☃️👻⛸️🇳🇴😭/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #4: The Snow Sister (Snøsøsteren). Very sad. Looked like a kids film, but would have upset me way too much if I'd watched it as a child. A good film, but didn't make me feel very Christmassy. ❄️😭⛄😭👻/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #4: The Snow Sister. Incredibly sad Norwegian film about a bereaved child making a new friend, who has some secrets. Worth a watch but bear in mind it really is sad 😢 😢 😢 😭 😢/5

Now that we've watched and reviewed 3 #NetflixChristmas films, we get to watch a bonus Christmas film that we know is good. This week, the bonus film is Let It Snow. If you have Netflix but haven't watched Let It Snow, watch it! 🌨️🐷🚗🍺🧇/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #3: The Merry Gentlemen. Girl is fired from show, goes to small town, parents' bar needs money so starts show with topless men, saves Christmas, falls in love, decides to not go back to New York. 2 cameos of other Netflix xmas films. Not amazing, not awful. 💰🕺💰🕺💰/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #3: The Merry Gentleman. Fake Rockette loses her job, leaves NYC for her small hometown only to find her parents haven't paid the rent on their fake Rainbow Room. To save the day she organises local men to do fake Magic Mike. Fun to watch💃🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #3: The Merry Gentlemen. If #NetflixChristmas did the Full Monty. An out-of-time dancer (first scene) goes home and saves her parents’ bar by getting local men to strip. Why are they doing this? Don’t they have jobs? 🤷🏻‍♀️ . But it’s fun, and knowingly silly. 💃🏻👯‍♂️👷🏼‍♂️💸💪/5

Check out visualpde.com/explore#fluids for all of our our new interactive #fluiddynamics simulations! 🌊 More cool stuff coming soon. 😊

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #2: 'Fall into Winter' sweet shop woman attempts enemies to lovers with man she has no chemistry with to a soundtrack of public domain musak. The kiss at the end (spoilers) is weirdly cut, b couple are cuter and more compelling

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #2: Fall Into Winter. Hard to concentrate on the plot due to the musak playing in every single scene that is too loud and often doesn't fit with with what's going on. One of the worst films we've watched in the 7 years we've been doing this. 🍫🎵👎👎🎵/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #2: Fall into Winter Punny title wasted. Small town chocolate maker needs an investor. He arrives from NY, improves sales, is kind; they fall in love before Winterfest, an important January holiday. No jeopardy, no B plot, no real hair colours. Pleasant. 🍫🫘💵❄️👩🏼‍🍳/5

Good explanation of recent changes for efficiency: No more academic boards of studies, each module can only have one summative assessment, modules with <10 students cancelled, removal of all double-blind marking. www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/assessm...

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #1 Best. Christmas. Ever! Mostly enjoyable. I appreciated the two leads were women in STEM. Are those round robins still being sent? Is the real meaning of Christmas the friends we made along the way? 🌲✨🎄🧪🎈/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #1: Best. Christmas. Ever! Has chess scene where main character claims "check" but it's clearly not check, but the "checkmate" on the next move looks valid. Rest of film is quite boring. Best bit is Princess Switch playing on TV in background of one scene. 🌨️♟️🎅🛷🪦/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #1: Best. Christmas. Ever. A couple visit old friends whose round-robin suggests they have a perfect life. Turns out they do. Level of self-awareness varies wildly. Tonally all over the place. Polystyrene snowmen. Some good jokes. "Santa believes in us". 🎈💌🏠🚙⛄️/5.

With apologies to all, every year @mscroggs.co.uk @aaclarke4.bsky.social and I post reviews on here of the latest #NetflixChristmas films 🎄🍿. This year is no exception; there is no escape. Here's the list, should you want to join in: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I'm going to be watching and reviewing a load of #NetflixChristmas films again this year with @aaclarke4.bsky.social and @pecnut.bsky.social. Our plan is at docs.google.com/spreadsheets... in case you want to join in. (Or wait until we tell you which ones aren't terrible.)

Chalkdust issue 20 is out now! Our latest issue features spirographs, complex triangles and a lot of ants, plus all your favourite regulars. You can read it now at chalkdustmagazine.co...

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