mastodon 4.7.2Mathematician, robot fan, auntie and unstoppable thingdoer from Manchester. She/her
@alisonatkin.bsky.social Just a lil' geode guy https://bsky.app/profile/robinbougie.bsky.social/post/3mieo3regqs2o
In case you missed it: I'm part of the Finite Group, a motley crew of mathematicians with a free Discord community and monthly livestreams with great people about cool bits of maths. Our next livestream is 14th May, on the maths of Wordle! Find out more and join at https://finitegroup.co.uk
I'm speaking at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail in London on 15th June! Come along to hear me and several interesting people sharing their favourite unnecessary details: https://www.universe.com/events/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail-tickets-6GY35W
Got some spare time this weekend? Why not visit https://saytheprime.com and make a short video of yourself saying some digits of the currently largest known prime number, to help contribute to our collaborative prime-saying project?
Tonight is #scicommburrito in Manchester and we'll be meeting in Tortilla in the Arndale for delicious Mexican food and science communication networking. Join us! https://scicommburrito.co.uk
Our next Finite Group livestream will be on 28th April, and will feature me and @mscroggs@mathstodon.xyz talking about numerical crosswords (and building one live on stream!) Paid members of FG can get access to the livestream (live or recorded) and the finished puzzle. If you're not already a paid member, details of how to sign up are here: https://finitegroup.co.uk
If anyone would like to join our online maths community, it's free to join our Discord chat, and we have paid memberships at £4/mo which get you access to monthly livestreams/recordings of fun 1-hour maths chats! Here's a video showing some clips from recent streams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CveAsG3lyD0
If you're in Manchester and fancy watching an interesting maths talk this Thursday evening, Rob Eastaway is giving a free lecture on Thursday about maths and Shakespeare: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofmanchester11/2071458
One month to go until this AEOUD gig in London, at which I will be going into unnecessary levels of detail along with several cool people: https://www.universe.com/events/an-evening-of-unnecessary-detail-tickets-6GY35W
My new video came out today! It's been a real effort (not least because it involved several busy people sending and receiving a bunch of emails to make it work) - thanks to @peterrowlett@mathstodon.xyz @mscroggs@mathstodon.xyz @sophiemacmaths@mathstodon.xyz @KatDoesMaths@mathstodon.xyz @sam_hartburn@mathstodon.xyz @standupmaths@mathstodon.xyz for getting involved: https://youtu.be/ehRTbNIr6-E
New maths resources alert! We now have a cellular automata activity on https://15minutemaths.com, made by the lovely @alisonkiddle@mathstodon.xyz - grab yourself some printables, slides and session leader notes to run an interesting and mindful maths activity!
It's tomorrow! #scicommburrito will be taking place in the Manchester Arndale branch of Tortilla from 6.30pm on 14th May, for anyone who likes eating Mexican food and talking about sci-comm with other people who have similar stances on both of those things! Join us: https://scicommburrito.co.uk
One week to go until the next #scicommburrito in Manchester! Join us at Tortilla in the Arndale Centre from 6.30pm on Thursday 14th May for a burrito and a chat about science communication. More info at https://scicommburrito.co.uk
