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Hope
@hopeiona.bsky.social
Set theorist. Panel show enthusiast. Reader of too many books at once.
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I'll be at @tmip.bsky.social later this week, which gave me the perfect excuse to finally soft launch my YouTube channel, where I learn to be a better maths communicator by analysing some of my favourite YouTube creators!
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E0: Fake it 'till you make it
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So they renewed line of duty for another season, and I very confidently told my girlfriend that the first 3 seasons are some of the best TV I've seen - am now rewatching to see if this opinion formed by undergrad me holds up
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Can someone give me like an extra year of PhD funding please I wanna think about hat problems
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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in case you didn’t know, in a year voyager 1 will be 1 light-DAY away from earth.

it took almost 50 YEARS of travel time to reach that distance and will be the first human-made object to reach this distance.
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Been really enjoying listening to tiny desk concerts while I mark recently, had the Nile Rodgers one especially on repeat
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Enaldo Valadares)
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Got too much maths on the brain, I've been spelling the chef's name Gordon Ramsey 😭
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Was recognised in the noodle place near campus for being a regular and given a loyalty card, super sweet!
November 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I spent most of today marking, so I'd like to shout out caffeine, noise cancelling headphones and MF Doom
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Idk why but the clocks changing is definitely responsible for my overwhelming urge to rewatch old doctor who
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I should time myself on whether making beamer slides or drawing iPad slides is quicker for a maths talk because truly I have no idea
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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love to see an argument broken up into steps, labelled by how mysterious each step is
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Genuine shout out to the student who submitted a picture of their group theory problem sheet for me to mark that was very clearly taken at the pub
November 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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This is a real sign from a real deli near the Wesleyan math department, and they put it up because the mathematicians were too engrossed in their mathematics discussions to efficiently order sandwiches. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
October 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This is the answer I wish I had time to give when people ask me what I do for work at parties!
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Peter Holy, Jonathan Schilhan
The Ordering Principle and Higher Dependent Choice
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14821
October 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Today's self care has been going on a run in the rain, doing the marking I've been putting off, and belting radiohead while I made pesto pasta. 10/10 Sunday
October 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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One way to reduce stress is to meditate. Another way is to not live under a fascist government. This has been wellness tips!
August 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I just had an absolutely delightful afternoon talking about #infinity with @hopeiona.bsky.social, for a special episode of #TheMathematiciansPodcast.

Tune in next Wednesday to hear about the history and the now of infinity.

#talkingmaths
#mathsky
#mathshistory
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The problem class I'm teaching that requires speaking to everyone individually is in a sloped lecture theatre with a different door for every row ... I've just spent an hour vaulting over and sitting on tables like I'm trying to be a cool supply teacher
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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lots of pain in the world but sometimes you stumble on a stranger’s obsessive wikipedia table. michelangelo had the sistine chapel, this guy had the “guess who” article. perhaps both sacred
October 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Started using anki again for German vocab which I'm really happy about, but directional and positional verbs are really kicking my ass rn
October 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Spent today drafting a pre-print, and this evening eating malatang, watching taskmaster and playing Baba is you 🥰
October 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Have I told you the black hole drinking game? The rules are:

(a) watch a documentary involving black holes
(b) when someone says, "not even light", take a drink.

Easy!

("Not Even Light" was my working title for "The Dead Star" 😁)
September 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Don't forget: if Earth, Wind, and Fire see their shadows tonight we get 6 more weeks of September
September 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM