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World's #1 matchbox fan
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Maths Inspiration
10 days ago
Our spring shows are now open for booking! - 5th March BATH Forum - 10th March BRADFORD St George's Hall - 23rd March READING Hexagon Theatre Speakers include
@sparksmaths.bsky.social
, Aoife Hunt,
@mscroggs.co.uk
, Jen Rogers and in Reading - Matt Parker! Show details here
mathsinspiration.com
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Maths Inspiration - Event Details
Event Details
https://mathsinspiration.com/events/?id=206
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Zoe Griffiths
25 days ago
I'm looking forward to Inside Maths again! Maths enrichment day, 9 Feb 2026, for year 5 and their teachers, at the Ri, London. Featuring
@robeastaway.bsky.social
and Fran Watson, hands-on activity and puzzles. Feedback from last year:
insidemaths.co.uk/feedback
Book here:
insidemaths.co.uk/booking
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FEEDBACK 2025
https://insidemaths.co.uk/feedback
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Tomorrow, I'm showing off MENACE at the Association for Science and Discovery Centres' Members' Forum. Tickets are free and looks like they're still available.
www.sciencecentres.org.uk/events/octob...
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October Members’ Forum: Engaging audiences with AI
October Members’ Forum: Engaging audiences with AI
https://www.sciencecentres.org.uk/events/october-members-forum-ai-engagement-showcase/
25 days ago
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Amazing: due to
github.com/python/cpyth...
, once you've updated to Python 3.14, you can use the command πthon to run your code
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about 1 month ago
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Python 3.14 is released today. Happy πthon Day everyone!
about 1 month ago
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I'm home from
#TMiP25
. Was great to catch up with a lot of old faces and meet many new faces. I'm very very tired, but not the most tired I've ever been after working on an event with
@steckl.es
(see
24hourmaths.com
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24 Hour Maths
Fri 28th October 7pm BST to Sat 29th October 2022 7pm BST. Raising money for Beat Eating Disorders, the Rheumatoid Arthritis Foundation, the Disasters Emergency Committee, and the Malala Fund.
https://24hourmaths.com/
2 months ago
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In the last few weeks, I made the first issue of my new puzzle zine, Puzzlebug. You can buy a printable PDF from
ko-fi.com/s/9f1f1875c4
if you like puzzles.
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Puzzlebug #1 PDF - Matthew Scroggs's Ko-fi Shop
Puzzlebug is a zine full of puzzles. Puzzlebug #1 was published in August 2025. it was written and drawn by Matthew Scroggs. If you buy this zine, yo...
https://ko-fi.com/s/9f1f1875c4
2 months ago
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MathsJam (UK) Gathering aka Big MathsJam is always an excellent event and well worth coming to if you've not been before.
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3 months ago
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If you're coming to TMiP, do this session then do the puzzle hunt that I've written quickly afterwards and you should just about get back in time for lunch
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3 months ago
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Printed this puzzle to do at
#mathsjam
yesterday. It's a great puzzle
mathstodon.xyz/@OscarCunnin...
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Oscar Cunningham (@
[email protected]
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Attached: 1 image Nice puzzle from Magma on the ConwayLife discord. They call it 'Internono'. 'Shade some squares of this grid such that the list of unshaded numbers in each row and each column is t...
https://mathstodon.xyz/@OscarCunningham/115015675307702044
3 months ago
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PRL
3 months ago
Having a clear out of some old computer equipment that's been cluttering up my place for a couple of decades. It's absolutely SPARCtastic. All free to a good home. r/vintagecomputing are all over it, but if any of my friends here want something then just ask.
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I'm very glad that the Switch version of Final Fantasy 12 has a 4× speed mode
3 months ago
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Happy Approximation Day
4 months ago
Happy π Approximation Day!
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Electromagnetic Field
4 months ago
We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.
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The comma caterpillars in the garden have started turning into chrysalises.
4 months ago
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Adam Townsend
4 months ago
Comma comma comma comma comma cater-pillar
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Some comma caterpillars have made their home in our garden
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4 months ago
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Forgot to go buy all the newspapers this weekend to get all the wall charts but thankfully Tesco had one copy of Match of the Day magazine left
4 months ago
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Happy new paper on arΧiv day to me!
arxiv.org/abs/2506.20188
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DefElement: an encyclopedia of finite element definitions
DefElement is an online encyclopedia of finite element definitions that was created and is maintained by the authors of this paper. DefElement aims to make information about elements defined in the li...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20188
5 months ago
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Time Mime with Jrimes Gimes.
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5 months ago
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Peter Rowlett
5 months ago
I'm chatting maths and games with
@jamesgrime.com
next Wed 25th June 2-3pm BST. Sign up at
finitegroup.co.uk#join
Either join a paid tier to watch live or join for free & get the option to pay one-off for the recording. Either way gets you into our Discord chat community, a lovely place to be.
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5 months ago
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Excited that
#SciCompInRust25
is starting in a couple of minutes!
5 months ago
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Alice I Cecile
5 months ago
I refined my talk for the Scientific Computing in #rust workshop today! It's a lot of fun, and covers the things that I think #science (🧪) can learn from #gamedev. My slides are public (with full speaker notes):
docs.google.com/pres...
But there's still space! Sign up at:
scientificcomputing....
#rust
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Juice your Simulations: What Science Can Learn from Game Development
Juice your Simulations: What Science Can Learn from Game Development Alice Cecile, Staff Engineer @ Bevy Foundation Hi! I'm Alice. Once upon a time, I was a complex system ecologist. These days though, I’m a game dev. For Scientific Computing in Rust 2025
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17VYQY2JnLO9HSzQtWRO2IDguh9UODVubFUpfTCDy92g/edit?usp=sharing
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Video of me making this animation:
youtu.be/EtKy0XBwgyY
#MathsAnimationTMiP
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5 months ago
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I made an animation of a visual proof of Pythagoras's theorem for
#MathsAnimationTMiP
(using LaTeX and TikZ). Video of how I made it coming very soon
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5 months ago
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If you're interested in
#ScientificComputing
and/or
#RustLang
, you should come to
#SciCompInRust25
next week. It's taking place virtually and is free to attend. Timetable at
scientificcomputing.rs/2025/timetable
. Register at
scientificcomputing.rs/2025/register
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Scientific Computing in Rust 2025
the Scientific Computing in Rust annual workshop and monthly newsletter.
https://scientificcomputing.rs/2025/timetable
5 months ago
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Had a fun day playing noughts and crosses against MENACE at
@aiatkings.bsky.social
AI Festival today
6 months ago
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Clopen Mic Night (a maths variety evening that I'm doing the tech for) is live on YouTube right now at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVu2...
. Watch along now, or watch the recording whenever you like.
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Clopen Mic Night 5: The Power of Five
YouTube video by Clopen Mic Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVu2CG6kDVE
6 months ago
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Am I the first person to solve ophex 1 (
www.andrewt.net/puzzles/ophex/
)?
#StecksConf
7 months ago
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Me: Hello ticket machine. Two return tickets from Peterborough to Manchester please. Ticket machine: printing 1 of 12
7 months ago
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Pro top: make repetitive tasks more interesting by recording them and uploading them to YouTube as speedruns
youtu.be/OYRmo7d4Ddo
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Folding ten zines speedrun (6:37.08)
YouTube video by Matthew Scroggs 🦂
https://youtu.be/OYRmo7d4Ddo
7 months ago
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As promised, here's a video of how I made this animation
youtu.be/EctOgaLqGnw
#MathsAnimationTMiP
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7 months ago
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I made an animation of a cube folding from a net for
#MathsAnimationTMiP
. Video of me making this using TikZ coming once I've had time to edit it.
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7 months ago
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I've been writing a website widget thing that we're now using to display puzzles on the Chalkdust website (eg
chalkdustmagazine.com/regulars/cry...
). If you're trying to solve one of these puzzles and it doesn't behave as expected, send me a bug report at
github.com/mscroggs/cro...
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Cryptic crossword, Issue 21 - Chalkdust
Can you solve it?
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/regulars/cryptic/cryptic-crossword-issue-21/
8 months ago
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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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8 months ago
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Finally got round to uploading a video of my
#BigMathsJam
talk from last year. In the talk, I showed off the databet: my collection of 26 data sets that resemble the alphabet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bxG...
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The Databat, MathsJam 2024
YouTube video by Matthew Scroggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bxGNZVxWyc
8 months ago
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Happy Approximation Day
8 months ago
Happy τ-ϕ Approximation Day!
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Chalkdust
8 months ago
Exciting news: Chalkdust issue 21 is coming on 17 March!
chalkdustmagazine.co...
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Chalkdust issue 21 - Coming 17 March - Chalkdust
Pre-order your copy of issue 21 now!
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/chalkdust-issue-21-coming-17-march/
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Sam Hartburn
8 months ago
Great to see these Animation Generation Collaboration videos start coming in! Find out more about the collaboration at
www.talkingmathsinpublic.uk/animation/
#MathsAnimationTMiP
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I made an animation of a point on a circle tracing out a sine wave for
#MathsAnimationTMiP
youtu.be/UW8m1nZ0lK4
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Animating a sine wave using TikZ
YouTube video by Matthew Scroggs
https://youtu.be/UW8m1nZ0lK4
8 months ago
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Ayliean
8 months ago
Happy
#worldbookday
to an incredibly niche group of people, specifically
@mscroggs.co.uk
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Really hope someone somewhere has sent their kids to school dressed up as a Springer graduate text for
#WorldBookDay
8 months ago
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Project ideas I have no time for #385: Make a YouTube video of me and someone else performing the example screenplay from the Wikipedia screenplay article (
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screenp...
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8 months ago
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Andrew Krause
8 months ago
We're advertising a fully-funded PhD project at Durham in understanding microbial ecology from a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective! More details below. Feel free to email me, Denis Patterson, or
@thecopperdoctor.bsky.social
. March 31st deadline.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Metals, Microbes, and Mathematics: Understanding Coexistence with Toxic Nutrients at Durham University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Metals, Microbes, and Mathematics: Understanding Coexistence with Toxic Nutrients at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/metals-microbes-and-mathematics-understanding-coexistence-with-toxic-nutrients/?p182855
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The pre-recorded voice at Cambridge Station just said "because a tractor has broken down on a level crossing". Is there any eventuality that they didn't record a voice clip for?
8 months ago
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If my
#mathsfest2025
talk goes wrong, it's because Matt made me stare at this for 2 minutes instead of getting ready
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8 months ago
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Chalkdust
9 months ago
You have 2½ hours left to vote for your favourite book on our Book of the Year 2024 shortlist. The book with the most votes will be crowned "The Readers' Choice". View the books and vote at
chalkdustmagazine.co...
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Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 - Chalkdust
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
https://chalkdustmagazine.com/book-of-the-year/chalkdust-book-of-the-year-2024/
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Zoe Griffiths
9 months ago
I'm running the Pi Representation competition again this year! Free and fun, with a chance of winning a prize. For schools and students (any school age). Deadline 28 March 2024. Visit: think-maths.co.uk/pi-comp
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The Scientific Computing in Rust annual workshop that I am one of the organisers of is happening on 4-6 June this year. If you're interested in at least one of
#RustLang
and
#ScientficComputing
, you should register to attend (for free) at
scientificcomputing.rs/2025
.
#SciCompInRust25
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Scientific Computing in Rust 2025
the Scientific Computing in Rust annual workshop and monthly newsletter.
https://scientificcomputing.rs/2025
9 months ago
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