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Ayliean
@ayliean.bsky.social
Mathemactivist and Craftamatician.
Constantly trying to unleash the beauty of Maths for all to see! 🌈✨

I do nerdy things on the internet, and “real life”
What mistake has happened in my phone to make it tell me the sun is going to go down at 12.36pm in Dundee today?!

All the other locations are showing the normal depressing time of 4.30ish!
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The @ima-maths.bsky.social seems quite proud they invited BAE to speak at their conference.

I am so so disappointed that an institution which normally funds sweet creative maths projects and supports maths communities has chosen to platform BAE Systems which produces munitions used in genocide.
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Nice try human, I’m not wasting time solving that impossible cube.
Treats now.
September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I don’t think that @ima-maths.bsky.social should be inviting speakers from BAE Systems to speak at their conference when BAE manufactures weapons which are used by Israel in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

That sounds like Maths being complicit to me.
September 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
It’s ya girls first ✨producer credit✨

Here is the video youtu.be/eqyuQZHfNPQ?... it has all your favourite maths hits: triangle number, square number, cube number, 45 pin bowling…

I am very proud of it 💗
August 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Okay, now I’ve found their “Bagpipe Practice Room” I think Scotrail might just be having us on!
August 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“Whisky Distillery”
On a train?! How? @geofftech.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I can’t quite explain it but something about describing a country’s birth rate in “births per woman” feels really misogynistic.

(As well as the obvious erasure of NB n trans peeps who give birth)
July 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Happy Paperback Publication Day @drrageshri.bsky.social

Your writing is so compassionate and forceful.

I believe this book will change the relationship between medical practitioners and patients for the better (and probably already has done) 💗✨
🥳PAPERBACK PUBLICATION DAY! 🥳

Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing is now out in paperback, hardback, audiobook and ebook from your favourite bookshop and library.

A huge thanks to everyone for your support with the book, for the reviews, recommendations and invitations.

😍🙏🏽🫶🏽
July 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is another thing I have been doing lately and it’s really fun.

Go get involved maths nerds! 💗
In case you missed it: I'm part of the Finite Group, a connected graph of mathematicians with a free Discord community and regular monthly livestreams with great people about cool bits of maths. Our next livestream is tomorrow, Friday 4th July! Find out more and join at finitegroup.co.uk
Finite Group
Finite Group is a collective of cool maths people who want to have nice conversations about mathematical ideas.
finitegroup.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I’ve been doing so much stuff lately but I never get time to reflect or share!

Here’s a mini documentary I made about the recent free Community Meal we organised, using veg from a local growing project :)

Tryna live as if it’s the first day of a better world 🌍💗✨🦀
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Well this is fun. The Met Office are taking suggestions for new storm names.

Sure would be a shame if we named them BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, and Shell 👀 www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
Name our Storms
www.metoffice.gov.uk
July 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
How many Howie Hua?

Only one Howie Hua.

According to Google AI. How did it count?

(@howiehua.bsky.social’s fun subitising resources “how many” are so great for low barrier prompting of mathematical discussions)
July 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Grime Time with James Games.
I'm chatting maths and games with @jamesgrime.com next Wed 25th June 2-3pm BST.

Sign up at finitegroup.co.uk#join
Either join a paid tier to watch live or join for free & get the option to pay one-off for the recording. Either way gets you into our Discord chat community, a lovely place to be.
June 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Oooh Morse code content!!
June 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Do you pronounce it "google" or "joogle"?
June 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Literally the coolest teacher of geometry around!

I love your diagrams and wisdom 😍
Solving one problem in multiple ways has turned out to be quite an effective way to convince Y8 to write down their reasons. #MathsToday
June 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I misread this and wondered why not a single person in the comments was talking about the shoegaze/post-hardcore/chip-ish band ✨Idiot Pilot✨ who were my absolute jam circa 2005
June 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Spent my 12345th day on Earth processing sea grass for a re-wilding project at Loch Craignish. It was awesome!

All the sea grass is safely planted now and hopefully soon there will be a sea grass meadow habitat 🌱🦀🦭🦑🌊
June 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today is my 12345th day on Earth! 🥳

And look at what my van did in celebration (an hour and twenty early) 🚙

I don’t remember being 1, 12, 123 or 1234 days old and I probably won’t make it to 123456 days - so it’s time to celebrate!! 🌈💗✨
June 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Something I did in the other place was the Math Photo Challenge-a weekly invitation (June-July) to notice the world through a mathematical lens and share a photo.

I’m giving it a go on Bluesky. First prompt drops June 5th. Everyone’s welcome to join! 📷 Tag your posts with #MathPhoto25. #ITeachMath
June 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I desperately need there to be a word for when a meal is the best you’ve ever tasted, not because of the actual food but because of the circumstances in which you are eating it.
May 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Une vidéo intéressante de @ayliean.bsky.social !
Ça m'a fait penser au tweet de @collmaths sur les nombre de Delannoy  (c'est un homonyme...😉)
et une démonstration qui fait intervenir le triangle de Pascal.
May 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Gutted I can’t go to this screening tonight!

The anti-immigrant crowd are planning some get together in Dundee on Saturday so if you want to show them that racism and fascism isn’t welcome then come along and take up the space :)

@foodnotbombsdundee.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Cool question!

Minimum understanding: someone can talk me through it and I go “ah I see” but I probably won’t remember it

Full understanding: I can be the person explaining it to someone else

Deep understanding: I can connect it to other areas of maths and get the same thing from different views
What does it mean (to you) to understand a piece of mathematics?

#mathsky #math #philosophyofmathematics #understanding
May 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM