Alice Zhang
@origamialice.bsky.social
PhD in Applied Physics from Cornell, with specialization in micro/nano fabrication and computational origami
Helping spread Veritasium, Stand-up Maths, and Steve Mould into China
Helping spread Veritasium, Stand-up Maths, and Steve Mould into China
Happy Thanksgiving!
If you'd like to show appreciation to Matt Parker (Stand-up Maths) this year, we're making him a birthday present that will (hopefully) be filled with 2025 Parker Squares, and could use, like, a thousand more 😅
To participate, fill out (by Dec 15): forms.gle/PepGSKb3wco9...
If you'd like to show appreciation to Matt Parker (Stand-up Maths) this year, we're making him a birthday present that will (hopefully) be filled with 2025 Parker Squares, and could use, like, a thousand more 😅
To participate, fill out (by Dec 15): forms.gle/PepGSKb3wco9...
2025 Parker Squares
In this Numberphile video, Matt Parker pointed out how his 45th birthday in the year 45*45=2025 is going to be phenomenal. A few of us from the Stand-up Maths community have decided to gather 2025 Par...
forms.gle
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Happy Thanksgiving!
If you'd like to show appreciation to Matt Parker (Stand-up Maths) this year, we're making him a birthday present that will (hopefully) be filled with 2025 Parker Squares, and could use, like, a thousand more 😅
To participate, fill out (by Dec 15): forms.gle/PepGSKb3wco9...
If you'd like to show appreciation to Matt Parker (Stand-up Maths) this year, we're making him a birthday present that will (hopefully) be filled with 2025 Parker Squares, and could use, like, a thousand more 😅
To participate, fill out (by Dec 15): forms.gle/PepGSKb3wco9...
Can always rely on Facebook (yes I know I'm old...) for some amazing memories. Man I've been doing this for too long...
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Can always rely on Facebook (yes I know I'm old...) for some amazing memories. Man I've been doing this for too long...
So you know how sometimes you spend like 5 minutes generating an animation for some origami folding, go "okay that looks nice enough for friends," send it to Matt, only to have him go "I think I'll use this in a show and tease Alice for it folding sooooo slowly"?
Yeah that's my life now... 😅😊
Yeah that's my life now... 😅😊
Matt has one final show for 2025, and it's a big 'un!
He's heading to the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End for one night only!
More than half the tickets are already gone, and we know you can sell this one out!
standupmaths.com/shows/
He's heading to the Cambridge Theatre in London's West End for one night only!
More than half the tickets are already gone, and we know you can sell this one out!
standupmaths.com/shows/
October 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So you know how sometimes you spend like 5 minutes generating an animation for some origami folding, go "okay that looks nice enough for friends," send it to Matt, only to have him go "I think I'll use this in a show and tease Alice for it folding sooooo slowly"?
Yeah that's my life now... 😅😊
Yeah that's my life now... 😅😊
I just got a +44 (UK country code) text from the bank to my Chinese phone number saying that I made a purchase in the US... I think I broke the bank's system... 😅
September 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I just got a +44 (UK country code) text from the bank to my Chinese phone number saying that I made a purchase in the US... I think I broke the bank's system... 😅
My boba runs these days have been me thinking, “I’ve done quite a bit of work and would like a break, but also wouldn’t it be nice to have some boba when I get back to work?”
Then I go get boba, walk around town for a bit, and when I get home… Oops
Then I go get boba, walk around town for a bit, and when I get home… Oops
August 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My boba runs these days have been me thinking, “I’ve done quite a bit of work and would like a break, but also wouldn’t it be nice to have some boba when I get back to work?”
Then I go get boba, walk around town for a bit, and when I get home… Oops
Then I go get boba, walk around town for a bit, and when I get home… Oops
Small fun video (that I definitely spent too much time on...)~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr72...
Origami Mario design change within the Mario world
YouTube video by Origami Adventures
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August 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Small fun video (that I definitely spent too much time on...)~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr72...
Planning on going to the UK later in Aug, and probably traveling the world mid-September. Let me know if you’d like to meet up, or know of cool places I should visit!!!
August 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Planning on going to the UK later in Aug, and probably traveling the world mid-September. Let me know if you’d like to meet up, or know of cool places I should visit!!!
Just learned today that Welch Labs is also part of our little translation family?! The translator's been messaging me for a while now about inviting another creator and I didn't know who or how it was going until now.
It's so nice to see things growing this organically!!!
It's so nice to see things growing this organically!!!
July 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Just learned today that Welch Labs is also part of our little translation family?! The translator's been messaging me for a while now about inviting another creator and I didn't know who or how it was going until now.
It's so nice to see things growing this organically!!!
It's so nice to see things growing this organically!!!
Go see Matt in person and say hi for me!!!
Tour sales are going well! Shows are not until October but 24% of all tickets are gone. Watch out if you're in Swindon: that show is over half sold; Leeds and North Finchley both > ⅓ gone. standupmaths.com/shows/
Matt Parker | Standup Mathematician - Shows
Matt does super-nerdy shows all around the world. His calendar of performances is below but you should also check out Festival of the Spoken Nerd and An Evening of Unnecessary Detail.
standupmaths.com
July 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Go see Matt in person and say hi for me!!!
Had some fun making a small vlog~ youtu.be/4VivSRX96G8
Wassssup
YouTube video by Unironic Enthusiasm
youtu.be
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Had some fun making a small vlog~ youtu.be/4VivSRX96G8
Wrapping up Open Sauce! For now I wanted to give a shout out to @hankgreen.bsky.social , @tweetsauce.bsky.social , & @gavinfree.bsky.social for shouting out Veritasium and Stand-Up Maths during their panel!!!
It’s always heartwarming to hear a friend’s name come up randomly at events like this 🥰
It’s always heartwarming to hear a friend’s name come up randomly at events like this 🥰
July 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Wrapping up Open Sauce! For now I wanted to give a shout out to @hankgreen.bsky.social , @tweetsauce.bsky.social , & @gavinfree.bsky.social for shouting out Veritasium and Stand-Up Maths during their panel!!!
It’s always heartwarming to hear a friend’s name come up randomly at events like this 🥰
It’s always heartwarming to hear a friend’s name come up randomly at events like this 🥰
You all should go support this creator I work with! Matt's always been a crazy one...
I'm going to calculate π on the Moon! And you can join in. Get your own Lunar Pi. www.kickstarter.com/projects/sta...
June 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
You all should go support this creator I work with! Matt's always been a crazy one...
If anyone following me is interested, this is an incredible team and you should apply!!!
Though, yes, I may be a *tiny* bit biased 😅
I just want what's best for Veritasium, can you blame me?...
👉👈
Though, yes, I may be a *tiny* bit biased 😅
I just want what's best for Veritasium, can you blame me?...
👉👈
Could you design thumbnails for Veritasium? We're looking for a Designer. The role is full-time and fully remote join.com/companies/el...
June 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
If anyone following me is interested, this is an incredible team and you should apply!!!
Though, yes, I may be a *tiny* bit biased 😅
I just want what's best for Veritasium, can you blame me?...
👉👈
Though, yes, I may be a *tiny* bit biased 😅
I just want what's best for Veritasium, can you blame me?...
👉👈
After 2 weeks of resting and recovering, I think I'm back up and running! Here's some photos from the end of my PhD~
Man that was a rough 6 years. I feel like I can handle anything life throws at me now...
Man that was a rough 6 years. I feel like I can handle anything life throws at me now...
June 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
After 2 weeks of resting and recovering, I think I'm back up and running! Here's some photos from the end of my PhD~
Man that was a rough 6 years. I feel like I can handle anything life throws at me now...
Man that was a rough 6 years. I feel like I can handle anything life throws at me now...
I have a defense date: May 14th at 2pm!!! 🥳
It's going to be hybrid, so if you want to come please message me for a link!!! I just don't want it too public.
If you're from one of my scicomm groups, feel free to ask Derek/Ben、Matt/Nicole/Alex、Steve/Amy/Charles if we don't know each other too well.
It's going to be hybrid, so if you want to come please message me for a link!!! I just don't want it too public.
If you're from one of my scicomm groups, feel free to ask Derek/Ben、Matt/Nicole/Alex、Steve/Amy/Charles if we don't know each other too well.
May 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I have a defense date: May 14th at 2pm!!! 🥳
It's going to be hybrid, so if you want to come please message me for a link!!! I just don't want it too public.
If you're from one of my scicomm groups, feel free to ask Derek/Ben、Matt/Nicole/Alex、Steve/Amy/Charles if we don't know each other too well.
It's going to be hybrid, so if you want to come please message me for a link!!! I just don't want it too public.
If you're from one of my scicomm groups, feel free to ask Derek/Ben、Matt/Nicole/Alex、Steve/Amy/Charles if we don't know each other too well.
An origami engineering project I'm helping with! Nice to be able to share something with everyone after a year of working on it~
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Solar solutions: Bio-inspired approach creates bespoke photovoltaics | Cornell Chronicle
An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers is developing HelioSkin, an aesthetically appealing solar-collection fabric that is inspired by the biological mechanisms that enable plants to bend to...
news.cornell.edu
February 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
An origami engineering project I'm helping with! Nice to be able to share something with everyone after a year of working on it~
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Wow it's been forever since I last looked at @veritasium.bsky.social's Bilibili data, but check out that perfect exponential curve!!! So... 150M subscribers in another 10 years?
February 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Wow it's been forever since I last looked at @veritasium.bsky.social's Bilibili data, but check out that perfect exponential curve!!! So... 150M subscribers in another 10 years?
Happy lunar new year from the Chinese @veritasium.bsky.social & @standupmaths.bsky.social teams!
January 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happy lunar new year from the Chinese @veritasium.bsky.social & @standupmaths.bsky.social teams!
Best line I read regarding the rise of “Rednote” (Seems to be the most common translation?) on the Chinese socials:
The creators of Rednote were also stunned: “Does this mean we’ve made it abroad? We haven’t even thought of a good English name for the app yet to give foreigners a good experience!“
The creators of Rednote were also stunned: “Does this mean we’ve made it abroad? We haven’t even thought of a good English name for the app yet to give foreigners a good experience!“
January 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Best line I read regarding the rise of “Rednote” (Seems to be the most common translation?) on the Chinese socials:
The creators of Rednote were also stunned: “Does this mean we’ve made it abroad? We haven’t even thought of a good English name for the app yet to give foreigners a good experience!“
The creators of Rednote were also stunned: “Does this mean we’ve made it abroad? We haven’t even thought of a good English name for the app yet to give foreigners a good experience!“
Happy new years from China!!!
December 31, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Happy new years from China!!!
My AEOUD talk for @fotsn.bsky.social!
Finally got around to uploading this. My friends have told me it's good. Let me know if they're just being nice. 😅
youtu.be/IhjhZg_V2CM
Finally got around to uploading this. My friends have told me it's good. Let me know if they're just being nice. 😅
youtu.be/IhjhZg_V2CM
The quest for the world's smallest origami [AEOUD talk]
YouTube video by Origami Adventures
youtu.be
December 17, 2024 at 5:29 PM
My AEOUD talk for @fotsn.bsky.social!
Finally got around to uploading this. My friends have told me it's good. Let me know if they're just being nice. 😅
youtu.be/IhjhZg_V2CM
Finally got around to uploading this. My friends have told me it's good. Let me know if they're just being nice. 😅
youtu.be/IhjhZg_V2CM
Just dropped our new origami paper with Erik and Ryuhei on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2412.02174
I was the main person pushing this out, though I'm not the best at the technical stuff so the coauthors helped a lot with honing in the language and proofs, couldn't have done it without them!
I was the main person pushing this out, though I'm not the best at the technical stuff so the coauthors helped a lot with honing in the language and proofs, couldn't have done it without them!
All Polyhedral Manifolds are Connected by a 2-Step Refolding
We prove that, for any two polyhedral manifolds P, Q, there is a polyhedral manifold I such that P, I share a common unfolding and I, Q share a common unfolding. In other words, we can unfold P, refol...
arxiv.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:29 AM
Just dropped our new origami paper with Erik and Ryuhei on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2412.02174
I was the main person pushing this out, though I'm not the best at the technical stuff so the coauthors helped a lot with honing in the language and proofs, couldn't have done it without them!
I was the main person pushing this out, though I'm not the best at the technical stuff so the coauthors helped a lot with honing in the language and proofs, couldn't have done it without them!
At the orthopedics to check up on my broken arm:
Doctor: “What happened?”
Me: “Skating accident.”
Her: “You’re like my fifth one this week”
5! By Tuesday morning!!! In a small collegetown city!… Tis the season, I suppose, but seriously be safe out there everyone. Too late for me 😅
Doctor: “What happened?”
Me: “Skating accident.”
Her: “You’re like my fifth one this week”
5! By Tuesday morning!!! In a small collegetown city!… Tis the season, I suppose, but seriously be safe out there everyone. Too late for me 😅
December 4, 2024 at 1:07 AM
At the orthopedics to check up on my broken arm:
Doctor: “What happened?”
Me: “Skating accident.”
Her: “You’re like my fifth one this week”
5! By Tuesday morning!!! In a small collegetown city!… Tis the season, I suppose, but seriously be safe out there everyone. Too late for me 😅
Doctor: “What happened?”
Me: “Skating accident.”
Her: “You’re like my fifth one this week”
5! By Tuesday morning!!! In a small collegetown city!… Tis the season, I suppose, but seriously be safe out there everyone. Too late for me 😅
Derek: “My son asked me a question so I decided to make a video”
Me: Yep sounds about right.
Before we know it the channel’s gonna be a few of the cutest kids ever asking science questions and the Veritasium team scrambling to answer them. 🙃
Me: Yep sounds about right.
Before we know it the channel’s gonna be a few of the cutest kids ever asking science questions and the Veritasium team scrambling to answer them. 🙃
Rainbows are way more fascinating than you think www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Gf...
You’re Probably Wrong About Rainbows
YouTube video by Veritasium
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December 1, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Derek: “My son asked me a question so I decided to make a video”
Me: Yep sounds about right.
Before we know it the channel’s gonna be a few of the cutest kids ever asking science questions and the Veritasium team scrambling to answer them. 🙃
Me: Yep sounds about right.
Before we know it the channel’s gonna be a few of the cutest kids ever asking science questions and the Veritasium team scrambling to answer them. 🙃
Wow this place grew a lot…
Hi! I'm Alice! (I'm the worst at intros…) I do research in origami and make microbots, and do some scicomm things with YouTube creators, so that's fun.
Oh! Stand-up Maths (@standupmaths.bsky.social Matt you on here?) passed 1M views on Bilibili so I've been celebrating~
Hi! I'm Alice! (I'm the worst at intros…) I do research in origami and make microbots, and do some scicomm things with YouTube creators, so that's fun.
Oh! Stand-up Maths (@standupmaths.bsky.social Matt you on here?) passed 1M views on Bilibili so I've been celebrating~
November 26, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Wow this place grew a lot…
Hi! I'm Alice! (I'm the worst at intros…) I do research in origami and make microbots, and do some scicomm things with YouTube creators, so that's fun.
Oh! Stand-up Maths (@standupmaths.bsky.social Matt you on here?) passed 1M views on Bilibili so I've been celebrating~
Hi! I'm Alice! (I'm the worst at intros…) I do research in origami and make microbots, and do some scicomm things with YouTube creators, so that's fun.
Oh! Stand-up Maths (@standupmaths.bsky.social Matt you on here?) passed 1M views on Bilibili so I've been celebrating~