Adam Townsend
@pecnut.bsky.social
Mathematician by day, generally asleep by night. Chocolate fountains, sperm cells and bridge signs. @VisualPDE.com and @chalkdustmag.bsky.social. Probably listening to Radio 2.
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul out the Holly.
A Hallmark Christmas film, but thankfully not one of the really cheap feeling ones. Has the other one from Mean Girls in it, who obviously goes to a small town to celebrate Christmas.
🎄🌨️📜🌨️🎄/5
A Hallmark Christmas film, but thankfully not one of the really cheap feeling ones. Has the other one from Mean Girls in it, who obviously goes to a small town to celebrate Christmas.
🎄🌨️📜🌨️🎄/5
December 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul out the Holly.
A Hallmark Christmas film, but thankfully not one of the really cheap feeling ones. Has the other one from Mean Girls in it, who obviously goes to a small town to celebrate Christmas.
🎄🌨️📜🌨️🎄/5
A Hallmark Christmas film, but thankfully not one of the really cheap feeling ones. Has the other one from Mean Girls in it, who obviously goes to a small town to celebrate Christmas.
🎄🌨️📜🌨️🎄/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul Out the Holly.
Single woman returns to parents' huge house for Xmas. HOA insists she decorates the street. Instead of leaving, she falls for HOA president. Painful. Talent wasted on the script. Clearly summer. Is it a spoof? Took me 3 days to watch.
☀️⚪️🍿💅🚯/5
Single woman returns to parents' huge house for Xmas. HOA insists she decorates the street. Instead of leaving, she falls for HOA president. Painful. Talent wasted on the script. Clearly summer. Is it a spoof? Took me 3 days to watch.
☀️⚪️🍿💅🚯/5
December 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul Out the Holly.
Single woman returns to parents' huge house for Xmas. HOA insists she decorates the street. Instead of leaving, she falls for HOA president. Painful. Talent wasted on the script. Clearly summer. Is it a spoof? Took me 3 days to watch.
☀️⚪️🍿💅🚯/5
Single woman returns to parents' huge house for Xmas. HOA insists she decorates the street. Instead of leaving, she falls for HOA president. Painful. Talent wasted on the script. Clearly summer. Is it a spoof? Took me 3 days to watch.
☀️⚪️🍿💅🚯/5
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
Idk why but this reminded me of Emily in Paris even though main girl is competent at her job. Maybe it's because of the scenes where French people talk to each other in French. Anyway I liked it, nice Christmassy escapism. 🇫🇷🍾🥂🌲🎄❄️/5
Idk why but this reminded me of Emily in Paris even though main girl is competent at her job. Maybe it's because of the scenes where French people talk to each other in French. Anyway I liked it, nice Christmassy escapism. 🇫🇷🍾🥂🌲🎄❄️/5
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
Idk why but this reminded me of Emily in Paris even though main girl is competent at her job. Maybe it's because of the scenes where French people talk to each other in French. Anyway I liked it, nice Christmassy escapism. 🇫🇷🍾🥂🌲🎄❄️/5
Idk why but this reminded me of Emily in Paris even though main girl is competent at her job. Maybe it's because of the scenes where French people talk to each other in French. Anyway I liked it, nice Christmassy escapism. 🇫🇷🍾🥂🌲🎄❄️/5
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
I've already forgotten the plot of this one. Although I do remember the montage of moments from earlier in the film about 2/3 of the way in - the sign of a true blockbuster.
🍾🥱😴😴😴/5
I've already forgotten the plot of this one. Although I do remember the montage of moments from earlier in the film about 2/3 of the way in - the sign of a true blockbuster.
🍾🥱😴😴😴/5
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
I've already forgotten the plot of this one. Although I do remember the montage of moments from earlier in the film about 2/3 of the way in - the sign of a true blockbuster.
🍾🥱😴😴😴/5
I've already forgotten the plot of this one. Although I do remember the montage of moments from earlier in the film about 2/3 of the way in - the sign of a true blockbuster.
🍾🥱😴😴😴/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
Workaholic American goes to Paris; gets involved in a champagne business; falls for a Frenchman. It’s Emily in Paris + tinsel. Starts weak but side characters improve over time and I actually laughed at points. A strong start.
🇫🇷🥂🇩🇪🚄📚/5
Workaholic American goes to Paris; gets involved in a champagne business; falls for a Frenchman. It’s Emily in Paris + tinsel. Starts weak but side characters improve over time and I actually laughed at points. A strong start.
🇫🇷🥂🇩🇪🚄📚/5
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems.
Workaholic American goes to Paris; gets involved in a champagne business; falls for a Frenchman. It’s Emily in Paris + tinsel. Starts weak but side characters improve over time and I actually laughed at points. A strong start.
🇫🇷🥂🇩🇪🚄📚/5
Workaholic American goes to Paris; gets involved in a champagne business; falls for a Frenchman. It’s Emily in Paris + tinsel. Starts weak but side characters improve over time and I actually laughed at points. A strong start.
🇫🇷🥂🇩🇪🚄📚/5
We're back for 2025! Let's gooooooo ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️🎬🍿🤮
Me, @pecnut.bsky.social and @aaclarke4.bsky.social are once again watching and reviewing a ton of #NetflixChristmas films this year.
Check out docs.google.com/spreadsheets... if you want to play along.
Check out docs.google.com/spreadsheets... if you want to play along.
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025
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December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We're back for 2025! Let's gooooooo ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️🎬🍿🤮
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🦂🚨🦂 New Chalkdust alert! 🦂🚨🦂
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
Chalkdust: Read Issue 22 now
A magazine for the mathematically curious. Issue 22 now available: DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
chalkdustmagazine.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🦂🚨🦂 New Chalkdust alert! 🦂🚨🦂
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Read the entire new issue now at
chalkdustmagazine.com
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We're working on some exciting new features for VisualPDE, but we want to hear from you!
Whether you're a regular user or just tried it once, we'd love your feedback on how you use the tool. It’s a super short survey (promise)!
👇Fill it out here:
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Whether you're a regular user or just tried it once, we'd love your feedback on how you use the tool. It’s a super short survey (promise)!
👇Fill it out here:
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August 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We're working on some exciting new features for VisualPDE, but we want to hear from you!
Whether you're a regular user or just tried it once, we'd love your feedback on how you use the tool. It’s a super short survey (promise)!
👇Fill it out here:
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Whether you're a regular user or just tried it once, we'd love your feedback on how you use the tool. It’s a super short survey (promise)!
👇Fill it out here:
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FYI: I'm part of the Finite Group, a friendly bunch of mathematicians with a free Discord community and monthly livestreams about cool bits of maths. Our next is 23rd May, when I'll be chatting with @Ayliean.bsky.social about maths & Rubik's cubes! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
FYI: I'm part of the Finite Group, a friendly bunch of mathematicians with a free Discord community and monthly livestreams about cool bits of maths. Our next is 23rd May, when I'll be chatting with @Ayliean.bsky.social about maths & Rubik's cubes! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk
Came to Bedford. Was not disappointed. #heighthunt
April 21, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Came to Bedford. Was not disappointed. #heighthunt
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🚨 New Chalkdust alert 🚨
You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!
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You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!
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Read Issue 21 now! - Chalkdust
Sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets finally revealed in our spring 2025 issue. Plus all your favourite columns!
chalkdustmagazine.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🚨 New Chalkdust alert 🚨
You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!
chalkdustmagazine.co...
You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!
chalkdustmagazine.co...
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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)
🚨 New Chalkdust alert 🚨
You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!
chalkdustmagazine.co...
You can read about sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets right now in issue 21!
chalkdustmagazine.co...
Read Issue 21 now! - Chalkdust
Sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets finally revealed in our spring 2025 issue. Plus all your favourite columns!
chalkdustmagazine.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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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Want to put more of *you* into your mathematical modelling? Soon you'll be able to do this through your webcam and VisualPDE!
More exciting things coming soon too! Let us know how we can support your science at hello@visualpde.com.
More exciting things coming soon too! Let us know how we can support your science at hello@visualpde.com.
March 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Want to put more of *you* into your mathematical modelling? Soon you'll be able to do this through your webcam and VisualPDE!
More exciting things coming soon too! Let us know how we can support your science at hello@visualpde.com.
More exciting things coming soon too! Let us know how we can support your science at hello@visualpde.com.
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Three excellent people and a great project. You will learn mathematical modelling and how to interact with our experimental colleagues, proper interdisciplinary science. Plus we do excellent cookies at lunch time meetings 😎
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.
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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
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February 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Three excellent people and a great project. You will learn mathematical modelling and how to interact with our experimental colleagues, proper interdisciplinary science. Plus we do excellent cookies at lunch time meetings 😎
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The shortlist for the Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 is out now. View the list and vote for your favourite book at chalkdustmagazine.co....
We'll be publishing short reviews over the next couple of weeks, including notes relating to our four judging criteria: style, control, damage and agression.
We'll be publishing short reviews over the next couple of weeks, including notes relating to our four judging criteria: style, control, damage and agression.
Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 - Chalkdust
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
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February 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The shortlist for the Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024 is out now. View the list and vote for your favourite book at chalkdustmagazine.co....
We'll be publishing short reviews over the next couple of weeks, including notes relating to our four judging criteria: style, control, damage and agression.
We'll be publishing short reviews over the next couple of weeks, including notes relating to our four judging criteria: style, control, damage and agression.
What a great calendar!
HOW IS HE DOING THIS?!
The creativity people bring to Say The Prime! 🙌
It brings a smile to my face almost daily and fills me with joy to see people getting involved 💗
youtu.be/SbpoQ19PeuY?...
The creativity people bring to Say The Prime! 🙌
It brings a smile to my face almost daily and fills me with joy to see people getting involved 💗
youtu.be/SbpoQ19PeuY?...
Say The Prime, chunk 216: digits 90086 to 90504 of Mersenne Prime M136279841
YouTube video by Woolly Benguin
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February 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
What a great calendar!
All these people going around living their lives writing \frac{\partial y}{\partial x} all the time
January 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
All these people going around living their lives writing \frac{\partial y}{\partial x} all the time
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #13: Our Little Secret.
A disappointing end to #NetflixChristmas season. Lindsay Lohan’s bf’s sister’s bf is her ex-bf. They hide this to impress Kristin Chenoweth (wasted). LL gets stoned; everyone swaps partners. 🤷🏻♀️ Not silly enough. #BringBackHudgens2025.
🤫💍🤫🍬🍪/5
A disappointing end to #NetflixChristmas season. Lindsay Lohan’s bf’s sister’s bf is her ex-bf. They hide this to impress Kristin Chenoweth (wasted). LL gets stoned; everyone swaps partners. 🤷🏻♀️ Not silly enough. #BringBackHudgens2025.
🤫💍🤫🍬🍪/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:58 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #13: Our Little Secret.
A disappointing end to #NetflixChristmas season. Lindsay Lohan’s bf’s sister’s bf is her ex-bf. They hide this to impress Kristin Chenoweth (wasted). LL gets stoned; everyone swaps partners. 🤷🏻♀️ Not silly enough. #BringBackHudgens2025.
🤫💍🤫🍬🍪/5
A disappointing end to #NetflixChristmas season. Lindsay Lohan’s bf’s sister’s bf is her ex-bf. They hide this to impress Kristin Chenoweth (wasted). LL gets stoned; everyone swaps partners. 🤷🏻♀️ Not silly enough. #BringBackHudgens2025.
🤫💍🤫🍬🍪/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #12: A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter.
Sabrina sings some OK new Christmas songs and takes part in some OK sketches with guests. But it’s charming and she’s obviously a great singer, even if it made me feel very old.
🎶🎥🎄👩🏻🎤🪟/5
Sabrina sings some OK new Christmas songs and takes part in some OK sketches with guests. But it’s charming and she’s obviously a great singer, even if it made me feel very old.
🎶🎥🎄👩🏻🎤🪟/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:47 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #12: A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter.
Sabrina sings some OK new Christmas songs and takes part in some OK sketches with guests. But it’s charming and she’s obviously a great singer, even if it made me feel very old.
🎶🎥🎄👩🏻🎤🪟/5
Sabrina sings some OK new Christmas songs and takes part in some OK sketches with guests. But it’s charming and she’s obviously a great singer, even if it made me feel very old.
🎶🎥🎄👩🏻🎤🪟/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #11: Carry-On.
A cross between Die Hards 2 and 3. A TSA agent resembling Terminator 2 is blackmailed into getting a case on a plane. Starts well, but plot gets silly quickly. Worst is the belief you could have a car chase round LAX 😂. Watch Die Hard instead.
🇺🇸✈️🚨🎒🦠/5
A cross between Die Hards 2 and 3. A TSA agent resembling Terminator 2 is blackmailed into getting a case on a plane. Starts well, but plot gets silly quickly. Worst is the belief you could have a car chase round LAX 😂. Watch Die Hard instead.
🇺🇸✈️🚨🎒🦠/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:25 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #11: Carry-On.
A cross between Die Hards 2 and 3. A TSA agent resembling Terminator 2 is blackmailed into getting a case on a plane. Starts well, but plot gets silly quickly. Worst is the belief you could have a car chase round LAX 😂. Watch Die Hard instead.
🇺🇸✈️🚨🎒🦠/5
A cross between Die Hards 2 and 3. A TSA agent resembling Terminator 2 is blackmailed into getting a case on a plane. Starts well, but plot gets silly quickly. Worst is the belief you could have a car chase round LAX 😂. Watch Die Hard instead.
🇺🇸✈️🚨🎒🦠/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #10: Christmas as Usual.
Uncomfortable: a Norwegian woman brings her fiancé home for Christmas but somehow her family don’t know he’s Indian and they are really weird about it. Supposedly a real story, but if I were the real woman’s family, I’d be mortified.
🇳🇴🌶️🕳️⛪️🥛/5
Uncomfortable: a Norwegian woman brings her fiancé home for Christmas but somehow her family don’t know he’s Indian and they are really weird about it. Supposedly a real story, but if I were the real woman’s family, I’d be mortified.
🇳🇴🌶️🕳️⛪️🥛/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:18 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #10: Christmas as Usual.
Uncomfortable: a Norwegian woman brings her fiancé home for Christmas but somehow her family don’t know he’s Indian and they are really weird about it. Supposedly a real story, but if I were the real woman’s family, I’d be mortified.
🇳🇴🌶️🕳️⛪️🥛/5
Uncomfortable: a Norwegian woman brings her fiancé home for Christmas but somehow her family don’t know he’s Indian and they are really weird about it. Supposedly a real story, but if I were the real woman’s family, I’d be mortified.
🇳🇴🌶️🕳️⛪️🥛/5
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #9: That Christmas.
An animated adventure with a stellar cast that is less than the sum of its parts. Tired jokes. Strangely features lots of current Xmas songs. But agreed that Santa’s a Scotsman. Bill Nighy wears Reddit’s favourite watch.
🎅🏼🚌⛸️🔎🦃/5
An animated adventure with a stellar cast that is less than the sum of its parts. Tired jokes. Strangely features lots of current Xmas songs. But agreed that Santa’s a Scotsman. Bill Nighy wears Reddit’s favourite watch.
🎅🏼🚌⛸️🔎🦃/5
December 25, 2024 at 5:07 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #9: That Christmas.
An animated adventure with a stellar cast that is less than the sum of its parts. Tired jokes. Strangely features lots of current Xmas songs. But agreed that Santa’s a Scotsman. Bill Nighy wears Reddit’s favourite watch.
🎅🏼🚌⛸️🔎🦃/5
An animated adventure with a stellar cast that is less than the sum of its parts. Tired jokes. Strangely features lots of current Xmas songs. But agreed that Santa’s a Scotsman. Bill Nighy wears Reddit’s favourite watch.
🎅🏼🚌⛸️🔎🦃/5
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Coming soon: a modern take on an old paper by William Newman and Carl Sagan postulating a simple wave-like model of interstellar travel and colonization (link below). Now with inter-galactic heterogeneity, stochasticity, and more!
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...
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December 24, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Coming soon: a modern take on an old paper by William Newman and Carl Sagan postulating a simple wave-like model of interstellar travel and colonization (link below). Now with inter-galactic heterogeneity, stochasticity, and more!
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #999: Merry Christmas (Hindi)
Starts almost as a romance (woman meets man, takes him back to her place), turns into Hitchcockian thriller when she finds her husband's dead body... then it disappears, then reappears again?? Great film, will leave you guessing. 😵😵😵😵😵/5
Starts almost as a romance (woman meets man, takes him back to her place), turns into Hitchcockian thriller when she finds her husband's dead body... then it disappears, then reappears again?? Great film, will leave you guessing. 😵😵😵😵😵/5
December 21, 2024 at 8:56 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #999: Merry Christmas (Hindi)
Starts almost as a romance (woman meets man, takes him back to her place), turns into Hitchcockian thriller when she finds her husband's dead body... then it disappears, then reappears again?? Great film, will leave you guessing. 😵😵😵😵😵/5
Starts almost as a romance (woman meets man, takes him back to her place), turns into Hitchcockian thriller when she finds her husband's dead body... then it disappears, then reappears again?? Great film, will leave you guessing. 😵😵😵😵😵/5
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#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas.
Occasionally we stumble across a really good film while doing this: this is one of those. As usual, it starts meet cute but quickly turns into a Hitchcock-like thriller.
🎄🧸💃🔫🎅/5
Occasionally we stumble across a really good film while doing this: this is one of those. As usual, it starts meet cute but quickly turns into a Hitchcock-like thriller.
🎄🧸💃🔫🎅/5
December 21, 2024 at 8:56 PM
#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2024 #8: Merry Christmas.
Occasionally we stumble across a really good film while doing this: this is one of those. As usual, it starts meet cute but quickly turns into a Hitchcock-like thriller.
🎄🧸💃🔫🎅/5
Occasionally we stumble across a really good film while doing this: this is one of those. As usual, it starts meet cute but quickly turns into a Hitchcock-like thriller.
🎄🧸💃🔫🎅/5