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...

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! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

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.

📣 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...

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? www.madeleineshepherd.co.uk/section88805...

1950-something

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.

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.

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...

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/

Still there! It’s Tom Baker’s Christmas message. youtu.be/bIgIIjf69LM?...

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!

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?

Amazing agar art! asm.org/press-releas...

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

Seconded! Thanks to everyone who turned up, took an interest, and maybe even made a purchase! Thanks also to Edinburgh Open Workshop team for organising the Festive Makers Market.

PLEASE SHARE: On Black Friday, I want to draw attention away from the big chains and towards local Edinburgh independent retailers, makers and markets. Please join me from 7 pm - 8 pm on Friday 28 November to share some ideas for Christmas gifting. We'll use the hashtag #EdinburghHour

Looking forward to sharing a stall with @floopy-b.bsky.social at the Edinburgh Open Workshop's Festive Makers Market on 29 November. We'll have cozy knitted goods, hand carved crochet hooks and some festive bits and bobs. Full info on the market: www.edinburghopenworkshop.co.uk/news/festive...

My time in the Spotlight is over ut the Coburg House gallery and shop are open on 29 & 30 November for a Fair Saturday workshop and a sneak peek at what's coming the following weekend, when we celebrate 20 years of Open Studios. www.coburghouse.co.uk/exhibitions/

So much enshittification that it's now hit knitting and crochet patterns. Check everything you can before buying online. AI is just a probabilistic parrot not a skilled designer with a team of editors and testers. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...

Get your geek on with knitted cellular automata! Today and tomorrow at the National Galleries Scotland:Portrait www.nationalgalleries.org/event/tea-gr...

Rudy’s still unique. More so, even! Go for this: books2read.com/sqink

We need your help. @waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith. Please read on for more information www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908... (1/2)

To celebrate #BookWeekScotland we're sharing some of our favourite #kidsbooks featuring maths. Next, we have the wonderful counting caper 'How Many Legs' by Kes Gray & Jim Field. What's your favourite picture book about maths? #MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #kidslit #kidsbooks #booksky 💙📚

Maths is a hobby for a lot of people, just like reading, cinema, or tennis. This Tuesday (18th) is November MathsJam in many places, where you can meet other people who like maths in a pub. Find your local MathsJam here: https://www.mathsjam.com/find-a-jam/ (Or ask me about the one in MK if […]

John Edmonstone, a Guyanese man born into slavery, became a successful taxidermist in 19th-century Edinburgh, mentoring figures like Charles Darwin and leaving a lasting legacy in his own contributions to natural history.

For the next three weekends, you can find my latest work in Coburg House Gallery Shop Spotlight display. The basis for this work is an agar pattern in Conway's Game of Life. It was the subject of new research in 2022. It's all knitted in Aran-weight lambswoolspun and dyed in Scotland.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

chats in squirrel are limited to a sort of Roman salute foreleg extended then folded open paw on breast as if to say Look I take you in my open paw and hold you to my heart… —William Bonar, “SQRL” published in OFFERING (Red Squirrel Press, 2015) www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sqrl/

BREAKING NEWS! - The final line up has been announced for the Maths Week England Launch event at MathsWorld, London on Saturday 15th November. An entire day of talks, stalls and mathsy activities - come and join in the fun, you won’t want to miss out. AND - be part of a world record breaking attempt

I wrote *Juicy Ghosts* in 2020, reacting to T's assault on the Capitol. In my novel, rebels bring down an insane, evil President who’s stolen a 3rd term. "Too radical" for the big houses. I pubbed it myself in 2021. And here we are in 2025. Time to read the book! rudyrucker.com/juicyghosts/

A superb exhibition of and about Ursula K Le Guin's map making practice. Loved the use of cyanotype banners. If you're in central London before 6 December, check it out.

Guess which one I'm reposting this for!

Here's this week's link to the new titles at Transreal Fiction. Posted a bit early because I'll be closed on Saturday until noon on Thursday. transreal.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/t...

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" Stay tuned for more.

*You look at "weird" science fiction people and, like, how many of them do any time in prisons and madhouses *Not all that many, really. Surprisingly few. *They might have a *day-job* as some orderly in one of those places

Of my various interest groups over the years mathematicians are the most peculiar. More than acid heads, punks, computer hackers, artists, mystics, and SF writers. There's even a name for what we use. Instead of "logic" we have "mathematical logic". Which I got my PhD in. What---ME mad?

For those accused of having too many books Robinince.com #poetry #poem

Create crochet granny squares for a community math/art project! Our Granny Life motif-generating app can now export printable pattern pages ❤️ www.mathgrrl.com/granny-life @geek @crochet 🧶

It's Gala Day today on Calton Hill and I'll be there with some space knitting! www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/ga...