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Associate Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of New England. I enjoy many research topics, but especially collective motion. Video game and fantasy fan.
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Now over 900 signatures. Please keep signing and sharing to send a clear message to the Royal Society that we want them to stand up for values that we all hold dear: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Children who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new contexts, highlighting a need to reconsider how maths is taught in school, according to a paper in Nature. https://go.nature.com/4aXHcuu 🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Job alert! We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

And there it is! First article of 2025 is published :) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Residents of Sydney have woken to yet another outbreak of appalling grammar in what authorities believe is the latest incident in a spate of anti-semantic attacks across the country.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Got the ad out! Share with anyone who might be interested :) Two year postdoc in geometric analysis and/or mathematical general relativity: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I003/583...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

We weep for the people of Gaza. To unmerciful Trump this is just beach front real estate. To secure a safe future for the people of Gaza and Israel the international community must intervene to rebuild Gaza, its schools, hospitals, homes and infrastructure.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

New! You can now enjoy Veritasium videos old and new on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/6EpB14Z...

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

submitted 103 days ago • 3192 comments

Here's a 10000 particle simulation of collective motion, generated by the zonal model developed by @icouzin.bsky.social and collaborators in their 2002 paper. The calculation was done on my desktop PC!

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

I’m new to Bluesky - and new to bats - my first bat paper! Led by the amazing Aya Goldshtein. We show how they navigate their environment, and provide evidence that they employ an acoustic map! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments