𝕋𝕖𝕒𝕂𝕒𝕪𝔹 🐦: Tommaths in Museums

I'm on twitter less and less these days. Join me on (in order of preference): - The fediverse: @TeaKayB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mathstodon.xyz/@TeaKayB - BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/TeaKay…

@fleurmeston Yay suffering... ? I sign into X for the first time in ages and get a genuinely terrible person right at the top of my feed. This place is nasty.

In case you didn’t hear, Scotland has voted NO to assisted suicide!!!!!!!!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍾

@snezanalawrence have you seen that we're shortlist-buddies? chalkdustmagazine.com/book-of-the-ye…

@Avanti_CareTM Follow and DM the fake 'customer service' phishing bot? I don't think so!

@Kit_Yates_Maths I'd never thought of it like that, but you're absolutely right: what books cost and what greetings cards cost overlap considerably. I don't do greetings cards, but writing 'happy birthday' inside the cover of a book I can probably get on board with.

How to Expect the Unexpected has a random 39% off on amazon at the moment. Just £6.72 for 120K words. Seems like value for money when you think how much you'd pay to send someone a greetings card! amazon.co.uk/How-Expect-Une…

@JasonBourne1986 @AvantiWestCoast Same here. Going to be over an hour late for an appointment thanks to @AvantiWestCoast, (assuming the next train isn't cancelled as well). Can't even spend the extra waiting time filling in Delay Repay form as it won't accept future times even though they've already cancelled!

Cancellations. Delays. @AvantiWestCoast 💪

@Deliveroo @BrewDogMK I have reported. Of my £80+ order I have been offered £3.75. What a joke!

@TeaKayB @BrewDogMK Sorry to hear this, Tom. Please report this via the Help section in our app,📱or you can DM us with your order details and email address 👉📨

Made the mistake of ordering from @BrewDogMK via @Deliveroo this evening. An entire third of the order either missing or incorrect; what was sent arrived cold. And we only identified the cauliflower wings by a process of elimination: a greasy sludge in the bottom of a box. Nasty.

£80! For two people's worth of cold, greasy nastiness.

My first ever order from @joebrowns arrived this evening. I tried on my shiny new boots and they immediately broke, so it's also my final order from Joe Browns.

@snezanalawrence @NoContextBrits Hello!

@TeaKayB @NoContextBrits 😄 Hi Tom!

@snezanalawrence @NoContextBrits I present the following for consideration in this matter... @TeaKayB/111959086526017942" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mathstodon.xyz/@TeaKayB/11195…

@NoContextBrits Towcester

"I'm afraid there's many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances." - President of the Royal Society. The Royal Society continues to be happy to be associated with, indeed honour Elon Musk with fellowship, despite the Grok scandal. I will never understand this.

2026 is 0% complete.

Here's his argument: markgoodrich.substack.com/p/a-new-years-…

Mark Goodrich suggests a new year's resolution for teachers posting on X: stop. I'll include a link to his reasoning in a reply to this post, as posts with external URLs are restricted by X's algorithms (which is one great reason to leave).

#Art and #mathematics are not - and never have been - mutually exclusive, non-intersecting disciplines. sciencealert.com/oldest-known-b… "People visualized divisions, sequences, and balance through their art." 🏛️🎓 #MathsToday

[If you'd like a signed copy, I still have a handful available - send me a PM. Or you can get a copy from anywhere you like, put it in front of me, and hand me a Sharpie.]

If anyone has some Christmas money & feels like spending it on a satisfyingly chunky, full-colour hardback exploration of books that shaped the development of maths over 40k years of human history, The Mathematicians' Library is available to purchase here: uk.bookshop.org/lists/tom-s-pu…

Possibly not a great idea, but I'll chuck it out there and see what happens: Would there be any interest in the idea of a @thestorygraph buddy read of The Mathematicians' Library (with the author [me]) at some point in 2026?

Hanging out at home for the holidays? Turn some downtime into space time. Make a 2026 Moon Phases Calendar, and follow the lunar cycle all year long! 🌖 All you need is a printer, scissors, tape, and a brass fastener: jpl.nasa.gov/edu/resources/…