Evelyn Lamb
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Evelyn Lamb
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Math and science writer. Complex analysis fangirl.
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Listening to an Elizabethan era album today and feeling this meme deeply. (As I do often because this meme captures my very essence.)
A meme with four people holding beers in a bar and cheering like they’re watching a sports game and their team just scored. The text at the top says “English Renaissance music fans when there’s another false relation and you have to listen to f and f sharp at the same time again.”
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Tfw the book you’re reading cites you. 😆 Hi, @drmichaelbrooks.bsky.social, glad you liked my blog post about a silly way to draw a lute. www.scientificamerican.com/blog/roots-o...
The cover of the book The Art of More: How mathematics created civilization by Michael Brooks. A page of citations from the book, including “Evelyn Lamb, ‘The slowest way to draw a lute,’ Scientific American Blog Network.
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Inexplicable thrift store find OTD: a framed ceramic tile illustration of the E8 lattice. (Yes, I’m moving in less than a month. No, I should not be acquiring new knick-knacks. Yes, I bought it anyway.)
A wooden frame around a white ceramic tile with a purple and yellow illustration of the E8 lattice (lots of radial symmetry, kind of looks like a mandala or something). “E8” Is worn on it in red.
August 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only
A promotional cast picture from the TV show Community, featuring characters Abed, Chang, Shirley, Troy, Britta, Jeff, Pierce, and Annie in their study room.
May 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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“Paint me like one of your French girls”
A fluffy orange cat is lounging against a pillow on a porch swing on a sunny afternoon. She looks glorious and is kind of posed like Kate Winslet in that one scene in titanic.
April 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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She doesn’t know about tariffs and inverted yield curves
A fluffy orange cat is flopped on her side on a brown couch. Her belly is very fluffy. Her head is rolled over and her paws are folded in front of her. She looks like she is not worried about her retirement account. A fluffy orange cat is flopped on her side on a brown couch. Her eyes are closed and her paws are curled cutely in front of her face. She isn’t worried about another Great Depression.
April 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Took me a moment, but I found it.
My husband, a brown haired white man, is standing outside holding a fluffy orange cat. He is wearing a green sweater and she is looking at the camera with her matching green eyes.
April 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Me right now: cat lying across my neck, fur spilling onto my face.
Me tomorrow: Why am I sneezing? Oh no, am I getting sick?
A selfie of me lying on a brown couch with a fluffy orange cat sitting like a sphinx across my neck and upper chest. I am smiling like a maniac because I love her so much.
April 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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For anyone who needs a little peace right now
A selfie of me lying on a brown couch with a fluffy orange cat curled into my left arm and side. I’m wearing a gray and black cat print sweatshirt. There is a book behind the cat that I don’t think I can grab without disturbing her, so I guess I’m not getting any reading done. You can’t see it in the picture, but she is purring steadily.
April 5, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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So much disturbing news, but we’re catsitting right now, so we get late night cuddles with our favorite little buddies, and it is pure contentment. I wish you could hear the purring in these pictures. They get so cuddly at night!
A selfie of me lying on a couch with a pillow behind my head smiling at the camera with a fluffy orange cat cuddled up on me looking into the camera. The picture is backlit a bit, so it’s not super sharp. A different angle of a selfie on the couch with a fluffy orange cat resting on me. In this picture, she is facing away from the camera, so you mostly see her back. A large gray cat is sitting on the couch near us. A similar selfie on the couch with a fluffy orange cat in my lap. This time she is looking at the camera, although her paws and fluff obscure the lower half of her face. The large gray cat is still sitting near us on the couch.
March 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Man who has it all
My husband, wearing an orange sweater, is sitting out on our back stairs on a sunny afternoon with a fluffy orange cat in his lap. He is reading a book he’s holding in his right hand and the cat’s paw is in his left hand. Both cat and human are very content.
March 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Said art:
A piece of art by a small child. It has colorful swirls and some of the paint is metallic. In the bottom right corner it says: "Beautiful Bloom" 9-19-24 ADH A paper airplane made out of pretty origami paper with a navy, red, and gold floral pattern
January 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Bow to me: all eight of my pitas got pockets!
Eight beige pitas on cooling racks on a black countertop. They are deflated, so it’s hard to tell, but they all have pockets!
December 30, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Emotional support beans just arrived. If I’d known how they would be packed, I would have gotten an even dozen!
A view looking into a cardboard box filled with plastic bags of beans of several different colors and sizes (and one bag of wild rice). There are twelve cubbies within the box, and eleven are filled.
November 25, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Monday was absolutely gorgeous and even though I was kind of dragging all day, I made myself go for a bike ride to enjoy the last (probably) warm fall afternoon of the season. As always, it was great for my body and mood!
A landscape view of Sugarhouse Park in Salt Lake City. In the foreground are fake red rocks, in the middle ground a blue pond, and in the background mountains with a little bit of snow. There are some red and yellow trees near the pond. The sky is perfectly clear. A picture of a bike path in Salt Lake City. To the sides of the path are brushy grasses and something like maybe yarrow. In the background are mountains with a little bit of snow on them. The path is paved with a yellow line down the middle and has a metal-covered bridge. A selfie of me at the top of my bike ride. I'm smiling and wearing a blue bike helmet, fake wood-rimmed sunglasses, and a colorful bike jersey. In the background is a grass-covered hill.
November 13, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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My neighbor’s cat is demonstrating one way to avoid seeing any papers that need to be graded.
A fluffy orange cat curled up on a pastel sheet. A fluffy orange cat curled up on a pastel sheet with a paw over her face.
October 28, 2024 at 4:31 AM
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The face of a cat who just tricked me into getting out of the most comfortable chair in the porch so she could hop into it
A fluffy orange cat is sitting on an outdoor chair with the ruthless expression of someone who would collude with their ex-wife to undermine the kids’ power in the family company
October 12, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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There were too many kinds of treats and I didn’t know which ones to give them! (I know, a terrible excuse!) But I seem to have been forgiven.
A pov shot looking down at my lap. There is an orange cat sitting on my left leg and a black and white cat sitting on my right leg with his paw sticking out towards the orange cat. I am wearing gray pants and a multicolored shirt. A pov shot looking down at my lap. There is an orange cat on my left leg with his head titled back to look at me. There is a black and white cat on my right leg who is looking toward the orange cat. I am wearing gray pants and a multicolored shirt. Unfortunately the cats are slightly blurry in the photo.
September 24, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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I’m visiting friends who have cats. I’m currently standing in the place where my friends sometimes give them treats, but I’m not giving them treats.
Three cats are sitting on a wood floor in the kitchen next to some cabinets looking at the camera. The fluffy black and white cat is in the foreground and two orange cats are a little farther back.
September 24, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Heartbreaking: I have to go to the bathroom, but Kitty is on my lap.
A photo looking down at the fluffy orange cat in my lap. She is looking up at me and has her paws on my tummy and arm.
September 13, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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New sphere just dropped
A fluffy orange cat is curled up on a pink and gray flowered sheet. The cat looks very round and has a paw over her face.
September 12, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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Post a meme made by you
Based on the "epic handshake" meme. Left side: a black person's arm with "composers writing figured bass lines" written on top of it. Right side: a white person's arm with "People who recently moved to Utah" written on top of it. "First inversion" is written where their hands meet.
August 31, 2024 at 5:06 AM
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My neighbor cat’s secret to maintaining her luscious orange coat: regular snacks of cantaloupe!
August 23, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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My neighbor’s cat being a weird little guy. She chose to lie down in this position, one paw on my arm and her head curled down onto my hand 😂
A fluffy orange and white cat is lying awkwardly on a porch swing. Her back paw is braced on my arm just above my elbow and her head is curled around onto my hand.
August 13, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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When I feel worried about the state of the world I spend some time with my neighbor’s cat. Maybe you want to too. She seems untroubled by recent events.
An orange and white cat lying on a beige patio. The cat is lying on its back with its fluffy belly up. Its eyes are closed. There is a little dish of water near its head. A close-up of the fluffy orange and white cat’s head and front paws. Its eyes are closed and there are stripes of sunlight on its face.
July 15, 2024 at 10:24 PM