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My third #EMFCamp has ended and I still haven't made it to anything in the Maths Village.

Starting to wonder if maybe I am comforted by the idea that there are nerds like me somewhere at the event but unwilling to risk actually meeting them. The possibility of not fitting in there either or of feeling even more awkward around everyone else afterwards might be somewhere in the back of my mind.

I have massive awkwardness about going back to almost every space I used to be in pre transition. The only exception was Biphoria, which I actually feel I fit better into now.

Still wish I had gone to #MathsJam though.

My third #EMFCamp has ended and I still haven't made it to anything in the Maths Village.

Starting to wonder if maybe I am comforted by the idea that there are nerds like me somewhere at the event but unwilling to risk actually meeting them. The possibility of not fitting in there either or of feeling even more awkward around everyone else afterwards might be somewhere in the back of my mind.

I have massive awkwardness about going back to almost every space I used to be in pre transition. The only exception was Biphoria, which I actually feel I fit better into now.

Still wish I had gone to #MathsJam though.

UPDATE !!!

We have now sold over 73.267% of the early-bird tickets for this year's MathsJam Annual Gathering.

https://mathsjam.com/gathering/uk/

You can follow along with the so-called "Graph Of Doom" here:

https://solipsys.co.uk/images/MathsJamBookings_2026.png

CC: @MathsJam

#BigMathsJam2026 #MathsJam

UPDATE !!!

We have now sold over 73.267% of the early-bird tickets for this year's MathsJam Annual Gathering.

https://mathsjam.com/gathering/uk/

You can follow along with the so-called "Graph Of Doom" here:

https://solipsys.co.uk/images/MathsJamBookings_2026.png

CC: @MathsJam

#BigMathsJam2026 #MathsJam

Big #MathsJam -ers who took the train home today and are also movie fans might have recognised the railway station building from 1987's Superman IV. Various other buildings in CMK were used as locations for bits of Metropolis in the movie. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Superman IV film recreated in ...

Big #MathsJam -ers who took the train home today and are also movie fans might have recognised the railway station building from 1987's Superman IV.

Various other buildings in CMK were used as locations for bits of Metropolis in the movie.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36881560.amp

Big #MathsJam -ers who took the train home today and are also movie fans might have recognised the railway station building from 1987's Superman IV.

Various other buildings in CMK were used as locations for bits of Metropolis in the movie.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-36881560.amp

Also of potential interest to Big #MathsJam folk & other maths fans: don't forget to submit recent maths stuff ready for December's Carnival of Mathematics: aperiodical.com/carnival-of-...

Carnival of Mathematics

Also of potential interest to Big #MathsJam folk & other maths fans: don't forget to submit recent maths stuff ready for December's Carnival of Mathematics: https://aperiodical.com/carnival-of-mathematics/

Also of potential interest to Big #MathsJam folk & other maths fans: don't forget to submit recent maths stuff ready for December's Carnival of Mathematics: https://aperiodical.com/carnival-of-mathematics/

I wanted to make a poster about this for the new Big #MathsJam feature, but I don't have a printer, so:

I wanted to make a poster about this for the new Big #MathsJam feature, but I don't have a printer, so:

If you're interested in some intersection of history and maths (e.g. history of maths, or the maths of history) and the potential for each to enrich education of the other, then I have the free fledgling network for you: https://historyand.mathsy.space/

I wanted to make a poster about this for the new Big #MathsJam feature, but I don't have a printer, so:

If you're interested in some intersection of history and maths (e.g. history of maths, or the maths of history) and the potential for each to enrich education of the other, then I have the free fledgling network for you: https://historyand.mathsy.space/

Another excellent Big #MathsJam. Somehow I'm less tired than usual. Maybe it's the travel that does it‽

Another excellent Big #MathsJam. Somehow I'm less tired than usual. Maybe it's the travel that does it‽

Another excellent Big #MathsJam. Somehow I'm less tired than usual. Maybe it's the travel that does it‽

Lovely weekend at #mathsJam . Thanks to all those who organised and those who gave talks. Hope to see you all next year! Safe journey home everyone.

To start the final set of talks at #mathsjam, Vanessa Madu sharred her explorations of sequences of consecutive odd semiprimes. You can read her blog post about it here: https://www.vanessamadu.com/posts/consecutive-odd-semi-primes/

To start the final set of talks at #mathsjam, Vanessa Madu sharred her explorations of sequences of consecutive odd semiprimes. You can read her blog post about it here: https://www.vanessamadu.com/posts/consecutive-odd-semi-primes/

Here are my drawings from this year’s #BigMathsJam (up to the final edits when someone inevitably points out a mistake)

#Mathsjam

Here are my drawings from this year’s #BigMathsJam (up to the final edits when someone inevitably points out a mistake)

#Mathsjam

Enjoyed the Slant puzzle in the #mathsjam competitions so I decided to go online and do a slightly bigger one

Starting the penultimate session of #mathsjam 2025, Kristin Ohlmann showed us how the digits of pi and tau can be used to improve visibility of her unicycle. And she's actually brought it with her to MathsJam! Here's her Python code: https://cloud.uol.de/s/45YkY3GiF5kcoaR

To kick off the second Sunday session at #mathsjam, Fredrik Motland Kirkemo shared a cool magic trick from G4G Europe, involving a set of clown cards with each clown wearing different coloured clothes. You can find out more about G4G Europe here: https://www.gathering4gardner.org/ or follow @sciencecircus on Instagram.

To kick off the second Sunday session at #mathsjam, Fredrik Motland Kirkemo shared a cool magic trick from G4G Europe, involving a set of clown cards with each clown wearing different coloured clothes. You can find out more about G4G Europe here: https://www.gathering4gardner.org/ or follow @sciencecircus on Instagram.

It's Day Two of #mathsjam! We kicked off the first session of the day with Miles Gould (@pozorvlak), telling us all about dual numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number You can find out more about them, and the magic of automatic differentiation, in this blog post by Dan Piponi http://blog.sigfpe.com/2005/07/automatic-differentiation.html

For the first #MathsJam in *ages* I remembered my Mathscot: meet The Rat! I'm not sure what he's clambering on, there.

To kick off our final session of the day, Nettie Margolis shared the formula for the derivative of an inverse function, which is impressively neat and tidy! https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Calculus/Calculus_(OpenStax)/03%3A_Derivatives/3.07%3A_Derivatives_of_Inverse_Functions #mathsjam

In our third session, we started with a talk from John Read aiming to answer the question: Can AI's play the game SET? (Turns out the answer is, yes, but not honestly or accurately). #mathsjam

I'm at a conference*. It's a maths conference*.

#MathsJam #MathsToday

*Well, it's a gathering.

Jørn Hafver, from Norway's https://www.jaermuseet.no/vitenfabrikken/en/ Vitenfabrikken science museum, shared a mathematical magic trick adapted from one he saw at G4G Europe: instead of using binary to guess a number, what if it's in base 3, and you use rock, paper, scissors instead? #mathsjam

In the first session of MathsJam 2025, we started with four quick-fire magic tricks in five minutes from @MathematicalAdventurer (you might find some more in his book: https://mathsj.am/tiago-book).

Next, @robinhouston shared some fun shapes (stellations of the rhombic dodecahedron). https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RhombicDodecahedronStellations.html #mathsjam

Who are my remote #mathsjam pals this year?

I'm ensconced snugly in L-P towers and I'll be helping out in the virtual venue all weekend.

We set a new record especially post covid for the #seattle #mathsjam. 8 people came out tonight. Next goal: fill the whole pub with people doing math.

You can tell the early-bird discount period is closing soon ... the sudden surge of bookings is a tell-tale.

@BigMathsJam #MathsJam #BigMathsJam

A lovely evening of #MathsJam fun, and proud to be a member of the MathsJam with its name on this month's Shout (though it was entirely put together by @DavidLyfordTilley ).

Ticket sales for the #MathsJam Annual Gathering are slowing, as expected. There will be a rush just before the early-bird discount period ends.

But we are 1/3 sold already.

Latest #MathsJam 2025 bookings ... we are close to 25% capacity ...

Bookings for #MathsJam ... how it's going:

Tickets for the #MathsJam Annual Gathering, aka "Big MathsJam", have been on sale for 1 days and we are more than 10% sold out.

I doubt the trend will continue! But last year we sold out three weeks in advance, and the waiting list did *not* get emptied.

https://mathsjam.com/gathering/uk/