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...

What’s the story behind those dodgy gift shops on Princes Street in Edinburgh? Jim Waterson of @londoncentric.media investigates in bonus edition of the Minute: edinburghminute.substack.com/p/tax-evadin...

"Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation, called the Fourier transform, that decomposes any function into its parts" Reposting mainly for the wool graphic (but also - Fourier transforms are cool)

Thread! Read the whole thread.

7th September is Gala Day at the Collective Gallery in the City Observatory on Edinburgh's Calton Hill. Check it out her www.collective-edinburgh.art/programme/ga... I'll be there with the latest pieces in my Saturn's Rings knitting collection, and a few bargains too.

Pretty much me, but I have such a busy week coming up!

#OTD 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 50 yrs ago, #Viking1 launched. 48 yrs ago, #Voyager2 followed. One searched for #life on #Mars. The other carries our voices into #interstellar #space. These anniversaries remind us what we once dreamed — and what we may now be giving up.🔭🧪 👉 medium.com/@shanil.vira...

We’re at the Edinburgh International Book Festival again today, and look forward to welcoming local schools for some maths drawing games in the Discovery Zone! #MathsWeekScot #UKMathsChat #MathsToday

Tipping Point at the Inspace Gallery is a show of artists responding to AI. There’s things to make you comfortable and things to make you uncomfortable, and it’s another Best Thing in Edinburgh. Five Technologies: 📲📲📲📲📲 www.edinburghartfestival.com/event/tippin...

Stunning exhibition of woven banners inspired by change ringing at St Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh. #mathart #mathsart #textileart #changeringing www.cathedral.net/event-detail...

Today, the one-week #illustratingMath workshop at @icerm.bsky.social starts. It is a week, packed with great talks on #images, #animations, #textiles, #sculptures, #dance, and #3dPrinting. All talks are being live-streamed, so go check out the schedule at icerm.brown.edu/program/topi... and join in!

I'll be exhibiting a curated selection of my cellular automata and op art collections this weekend at the Tea Green Summer Market in the National Gallery Scotland - Portrait on Queen Street, Edinburgh. www.nationalgalleries.org/event/tea-gr...

All set up and ready for the public! Stop by and buy. www.teagreen.co.uk

If the snooker championship was like this they’d get a lot more viewers

This looks like an amazing afternoon at Orkney Science Festival. I can't justify flying there for such a short visit, though. oisf.org/fest-event/w...

I'll be exhibiting a curated selection of my cellular automata and op art collections this weekend at the Tea Green Summer Market in the National Gallery Scotland - Portrait on Queen Street, Edinburgh. www.nationalgalleries.org/event/tea-gr...

Final day of Open Studios today. Visit me, and let's geek out about hacked knitting machines and cellular automata. www.coburghouse.co.uk/whats-on#/op...

Coburg House Open Studios is 20 years old this year. I've been taking part for 17 of those years. We open on Friday 1st August and you can visit over the rest of the weekend. Hope to see some of you there! www.coburghouse.co.uk/whats-on#/op...

Just discovered the American stockist for all the issues of @scotyarnjournal.bsky.social . Math knitting fans might like issue 5, which has a feature on my work. theknittingtreela.com/products/the...

Coburg House Open Studios is 20 years old this year. I've been taking part for 17 of those years. We open on Friday 1st August and you can visit over the rest of the weekend. Hope to see some of you there! www.coburghouse.co.uk/whats-on#/op...

New book out! A Three Thing Day (and other things) has the text of my new show and, um, other things. On sale after performances at The Pleasance during the Edinburgh Fringe, and to UK customers from my webshop with a limited time discount: www.spesh.com/ben/benmoors...

Crocheting Rule 6, Generation 250 on the Amtrak to NYC. Any recommendations for yarn shops there who might know intrepid crocheters and knitters? Looking for ppl to who want to join the project

Work is simply not fit for humans, work should be sent to the gym. Work needs to sort out its lifestyle balance and come back when its ready to be healthy for humans again.

I feel this needs to be embroidered.

I'm definitely the melting ewe!

Last chance before the summer break!

Here's this week's link to the new titles at Transreal Fiction: transreal.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...

Reposting for morning crowd!

Thank you @steckl.es for this lovely endorsement. Hoping to see some great equation core knitting from you in future. 😉

One spot remaining! Learn to overcome the limitations of vintage electronic knitting machines with me on Thursday 26th June. Details and booking form here. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hacked-kni...

If you haven't seen it already, the CALTON PANORAMA by Robert Barker is on display until 27 June 2025 at the National Records of Scotland/HM General Register House, 2 Princes Street.

I am old enough to remember the arrival of the truly global and astonishingly useful worldwide web. I really did not expect to witness its death, poisoned by carelessness and greed.

Overheard at @cymerafestival.co.uk: "I've been to most of the conventions that happen in the UK and this is my favourite. You just get to hang out with cool people."

Looking forward to @cymerafestival.co.uk this weekend! I'm not in the Creators Hall this year so I can socialise and go to more events. If you're after a copy of my Alba ad Astra project visit the @shoreinf.bsky.social stand. For my science fiction inspired t-shirts, visit knot-unknot.teemill.com

Shoreline of Infinity 39 is out now! www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/shor... In paperback, PDF and ebook formats.

New journal INTERLACE devoted to mathematics & fiber arts: interlace-journal.org 🧮 #mathart

For mutuals on the east coast, I am giving this talk in Haddington on Wednesday: eastlothianu3a.org.uk/events/pione...

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Calling all science fiction, fantasy and horror writers! Black Blade Literary invites you to enter our 2025 Novel/Novella Competition, with a chance to win editorial feedback on a full book manuscript. It's free to enter! Please share! Visit: www.blackbladeliterary.com/competition-...

Voice of Space by René Magritte, 1931 #artbots #guggenheim https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137870

@hanaayoob.co.uk and I are back again with another #NerdyLooks challenge, starting on Monday! The theme for this one is habitats. Repost this so other people can see it. More info about how to take part in the thread below...

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

We cannot believe but it's just TWO WEEKS until the first #OHS2025 event?!?! The lovely @helenleigh_makes will be running a Hardware Happy Hour in LONDON on the 28th at 6pm local time.

Just been reminded that the recording of Knitting With Data panel from the 2023 Edinburgh Science Festival's is still available. Have a look and see what three of us did with our Creative Informatics funding. vimeo.com/826828992

Do you, or anyone you know, want to improve your maths communication skills? Me and @SparksMaths.bsky.social are running our one-day maths comm training course, in Edinburgh on 11th June/online on 24th June, and tickets are just £15. More info and sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/london-mathe...

Ooh, my next episode of @lateralcast.com is out - visit lateralcast.com to hear me trying to work things out using my brain, alongside some other cool people!

Talking Maths in Public is a UK network for maths communicators of all kinds - presenters, authors, YouTubers, workshop leaders, event organisers and many other kinds of inspirational mathematician! Join us for our #TMiP25 conference in August - details at talkingmathsinpublic.uk