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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · 1d

Talking Maths in Public is the UK's network for people who communicate maths to the public in any format - writing, speaking, video making, podcasting and performing, and a bunch of other ways too. Find out more and join our network at https://tmip.uk

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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · 15d

Did you know we have a podcast? All six episodes of the TMiP Podcast, featuring case studies, interviews and idea sharing from maths communicators in our network, are available to listen to at https://tmip.uk/podcast. The next series will be starting in 2026!

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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · 26d

Talking Maths in Public is a network for maths communicators in the UK and elsewhere, for sharing ideas, making contacts and raising standards in maths comm. Find out more, join our mailing list and chat community at talkingmathsinpublic.uk

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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · Sep 8

This month's #MathsAnimationTMiP deadline is 15th September - if you can make a video showing how to create an animation of a Hilbert curve being drawn, submit it for our playlist and share your approach! Info and submission link at tmip.uk/animation

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

Thanks to everybody who took part in my #MathsInMuseums activity at #tmip25 this morning. Some people have sent me some of the ideas they had, and I'm hoping a few more will when they've recovered from the conference!

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Matthew Scroggs @mscroggs.co.uk · Aug 30

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)

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.

24hourmaths.com

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Maths Explorers @mathsexplorers.bsky.social · Aug 31

Geometry, code & embroidery! Thank you @megjlow.bsky.social for a fantastic workshop at #tmip25!

#joyfulmaths #momentofmaths

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Sam Hartburn @samhartburn.bsky.social · Aug 31

This show was so much fun! Hard to believe it was only 2 years ago that I did a lightning talk at @tmip.bsky.social entitled 'Do you wanna be in a band with me?' Now I have a wonderful community of people who love making maths music (most not pictured here). More to come soon, online and in person.

Pseudorandom Ensemble @prensemble.bsky.social · Aug 31

We had an amazing time performing maths songs to a sold-out audience, to open the Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social conference last week. We couldn't have asked for a more welcoming audience for our first in-person show. There will hopefully be a few clips coming soon!

Photo shows Colin Beveridge singing, Sam Holloway playing keyboard, Sam Hartburn singing and Gavan Fantom playing tambourine. They are wearing black T-shirt which, when put together, read {pseudo random}. A screen to the right displays the words 'He's number 1, but he transcends the cardinals'.

Photo shows Colin Beveridge playing guitar, Sam Holloway playing keyboard, Sam Hartburn singing and Gavan Fantom playing clarinet. They are wearing black T-shirt which, when put together, read {pseudo random}. The back wall is lit with blue lights and there are blue and yellow triangle patterns projected on the ceiling.

Photo shows Colin Beveridge playing guitar, Sam Holloway playing keyboard, Sam Hartburn singing and Gavan Fantom playing a guiro. They are wearing black T-shirt which, when put together, read {pseudo random}. Sam Hartburn is wearing antennae made of purple sparkly pipe cleaners, and Gavan is wearing a mortarboard. The back wall is lit with green lights.

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Alison Kiddle @alisonkiddle.bsky.social · Aug 30

I've not been on here as much as I'd have liked lately - it turns out that being part of the @tmip.bsky.social committee becomes very full on and intense in the run up to and during the biennial conference. But #tmip25 is now done and dusted, so allow me to share a couple of highlights...

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Robert Low @robjlow.bsky.social · Aug 30

Had a great time at #TMiP25 on Thursday and Friday: met some old friends for the first time, caught up with others and even spoke with a couple of people I didn't know previously. Oh, and there were talks and stuff too.

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Naomi @naomihmaths.bsky.social · Aug 30

Beaded Archimedean Solids!!!

I had lots of fun over the past two weeks making these for the pigeonholes at the TMiP conference.

[Each n-regular graph has an n-colouring and there's a pair of colours on each one which form a Hamiltonian cycle.]

#TMiP25 #MathsArt #MathArt #Polyhedra

Beaded Archimedean Solids made of colourful beads on a grey background.

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

My Brian is fired from another great Talking Maths in Public conference!

While I'm waiting for my train I'll see if I can post some coherent (if disordered) thoughts about the last couple of days spent at #tmip25.

In no particular order...

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Sarah Cosgriff 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇭 @acescicomm.bsky.social · Aug 30

I had a lovely time at @tmip.bsky.social this week! It was great to be part of this panel and reflect on my science communication career.

On Monday it will be officially one year since I went full time freelance 🥳

Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · Aug 29

Then we'll have a panel on careers in maths comm with Dominique Sleet, @acescicomm.bsky.social and @pecnut.bsky.social. In the afternoon, attendees will choose from one of five skills workshops to pick up some new skills. #TMiP25
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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · Aug 30

Huge thanks again to our lovely sponsors for making it possible - thanks @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social for hosting, and @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social, @ima-maths.bsky.social, INI newton.ac.uk, MapleSoft.com and heilbronn.ac.uk for financial support with our event. #TMiP25

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

The Isaac Newton Institute is a national and international visitor research institute. It runs research programmes on selected themes in mathematics and the mathematical sciences with applications over a wide range of science and technology.

newton.ac.uk

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Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

Today at #tmip25, I'm at @TeaKayB's session on maths in museums. (You should hire him.)

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Nicholas Jackson @njj4.bsky.social · Aug 30

Kenilworth Books is a lovely shop. The team ran a very popular book stall at the Talking Maths in Public conference over the last couple of days, and were so nice. It was a real pleasure to work with them. #tmip25

Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · Aug 28

In Kenilworth in Warwickshire, there is an independent bookshop called Kenilworth Books. They just got in touch with me to say they have 3 copies of my book and can order more. I'd love to support them. Perhaps we could even find homes for more than 3? Here: www.kenilworthbooks.co.uk/next-day-boo...

A photo of someone holding the book in hardcover with the bookshop in the background. The cover is a very light peach colour and has illustrations by Adam Beer of: a café in orange, a seagull and a girl with a kite in blue, a green pigeon, pink cow parsley and plastic bags and a yellow origami boat and leaves. The title is The place I’m in ‘WHAT I SEE WHEN I STOP TO NOTICE’ in black letters. It has this quote at the bottom ‘This Book is lovely’ by Philip Pullman.

A photo of someone holding the book in hardcover with the bookshop in the background. The back cover is a very light peach colour and has illustrations by Adam Beer of: two children in a cafe in orange ink and washing on a line in blue ink.

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Talking Maths in Public @tmip.bsky.social · Aug 30

Today's our final day of #TMiP25, with a morning of fun maths activities around the city, followed by a lunch buffet at Coventry Transport Museum. We hope everyone has enjoyed the conference, and thanks to everyone who made it happen!

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Alison Kiddle @alisonkiddle.bsky.social · Aug 30

Up early this morning to walk πkm as the first in a list of amazing Saturday Morning Activities at #Tmip25

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James Munro @jamesmunromaths.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yesterday I saw a question here about mixed partial derivatives and it got me thinking about how a surface might or might not have d^2 f / dx dy = 0 if we rotate it. Today I saw these two ruled surfaces at #TMiP25 made by Laura Bradby. No such thing as coincidence in maths!

Two ruled surfaces (in this case, a hyperbolic paraboloid, like a Pringle crisp). Each is made of a collection of cross-sections in two colours, criss-crossing each other at right-angles. At first glance they're different; one has cross-sections aligned with the curvature and for the other they're at 45 degrees. But the surface is the same!

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Alison Kiddle @alisonkiddle.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hope everyone else is having a great time at #tmip25. One thing I love is how much of the discussion on the hashtag is about the mathematical music last night, and the mathematical art on display - proof if it were needed that creativity and mathematics go hand in hand

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Threaded Theorems @threadedtheorems.bsky.social · Aug 28

Excited to be part of the maths art exhibition at Talking Maths in Public at the University of Warwick!! 🧶 🧮 #MathSky #embroidery #handembroidery #TMiP2025 #TMiP25

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Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

TIL, via Ayliean at #tmip25, that the octahedron is the only platonic solid you can make from a single modelling balloon.

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Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

Enjoying @kityates 's workshop at #tmip25 , especially the idea that the restriction on writing a book on maths and football is that not everyone likes football.

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

I bet a lot of people think they have a clear idea of what goes on at a #maths conference.

Anyway, today at #tmip25 I attended an embroidery workshop.

#mathstoday

Embroidered with white thread on black felt, a sort of 9-pointed, curved-edge star design with smaller almost-squares sprouting at regular intervals from the edges (on the inside of the shape).

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Margaret Low @megjlow.bsky.social · Aug 29

Really impressed by the brilliant designs created by #TMIP25 participants at our Geometry, Code and #Embroidery workshop today with @philjemmett.bsky.social

I'm running a free online introductory workshop 17th Sept 4–5pm.

Registration & resources: www.warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch
#maths #computing

$A collage of colourful squares with each square containing a stitched pattern. Each pattern is unique, there are some fractal patterns and circular patterns.$

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