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Joseph Newton

@josephnewton.bsky.social
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Mathematician, composer and video-maker www.joenewton.au www.youtube.com/@josephnewton

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 11/09/2026
the mathematics award winning fields medalist and known himedanshi yu deng just said that if ai puts all mathematicians out of a job he's gonna go home and write yuri novels. girl please do it anyway i need to see what yuri a fields medalist mathematician can do omfg
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On one hand, Tao was a massive proponent of AI in maths and has a lot to answer for. On the other hand, hooray! We have rescued him from the clutches of the tech-bros!
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Something I find morbidly amusing about the Navier-Stokes chaos is that Buckmaster and Alpöge were already using LLMs, so both OpenAI and Anthropic would have received plenty of clout from their results. But apparently one or both companies tried to killsteal, and now there’s a scandal.
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hamburg’s airport code of HAM is currently making me feel like I’m in a Heathcliff comic
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New video: Finding every solution to Color Cube Sudoku using maths youtu.be/GDGVlGXW2EY
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Finding every solution to Color Cube Sudoku using maths
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Liℤℤy Kodpuak née Acid Lich (can’t spell sheaves without she) @acidlich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How wonderful, I finished a drawing!! And it only a year!!! Here is Deck Transformations!!!
Illustration made on orange paper. It features a woman seen in triplicate, the foremost version has her face in her hands, the middle most looks up and to the left and the back is just hands. Behind her we can see C, the complex plane without the origin (eg without zero) being contracted to an annulus eg the circle, ie S^1, in topology. Above this the real numbers, R, is being mapped down to S^1. Sometimes this is known as the ‘spooky spiral’. Around this are butterflies, bedecked with patterned meant to call to mind homotopy. To the left and right are coiling clouds and spiraling eyes. On the left in particular there is a spiraling staircase lost in the clouds which points to Z, the integers referencing that if you partition the real numbers by [0,1] , you’ll get back the integers. Behind the complex plane without the origin there is a blue/gold star and her nails are also painted the same iridescent metallic shade. Hatched shaded with white accents
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sneak peak of recording setup for my next video
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I am going to Bonn and Uppsala for conferences in August, taking recommendations for places to visit while I’m there!
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A thank you note/love letter/commentary on art for anyone interested
A long love letter to you, thank you for following my work!
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 05/05/2026
"His Dark-Box Materials"?
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Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown.com · 22/03/2026
This video was a complete joy to make. Here's a short preview, but next time you're looking to sit down for 45 minutes of math and art, take a look at the full version on YouTube: youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Today I spent 4 hours making hexaflexagons for maths outreach with @sydmathinst.bsky.social, it’s a good life
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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"Tech killed online education" is a heck of an outcome.
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Bluesky is sending me down a multilingual plesiosaur rabbit hole
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Alex Willmer @alex.moreati.org.uk · 16/02/2026
Someone pointed me to marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen..., so obviously I had to
An XKCD-style cartoon with 2 stick figures talking.
Her: XKCD is second nature to us nerds, so it's esay to forget that the average person probably only knows KXCD 327, 386, 927, 936, and 2347
Him: And 2501, of course
Her: Of course
Caption: Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Ll...
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If I'm not a bush, I'm not no one
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Furlong? Depends on the animal
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Cursed Units 3 is out now! I want it to be known that I recorded the tablespoon bit on Australia Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWbf...
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Cursed Units 3: The British Empire Strikes Back
YouTube video by Joseph Newton
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Cursed units 3 coming soon... 👀
A diagram of ratios between volume units in the imperial, US customary and metric systems
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
An analysis of what now
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Summer of Math Exposition 4 results are out! I was not expecting to win, but I did get a shoutout which I am super grateful for 3blue1brown.substack.com/p/some4-prizes #SoME4
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Um
A web search for "long common words." Google's AI Overview responds with "Long common words you might actually see include" followed by two asterisks and a very long string of left angle quotation marks
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Found this water dragon on a windowsill in Urunga
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I was going to point out that "6000% percent lower" is nonsense, and the title should say "a 60th of" or "60 times lower" or similar. But there are already dozens of people calling this out in the replies, which restores my faith in humanity somewhat.
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
nice
Opening of the 69th annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Oh no #metazooa
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Metazooa is a site with essentially a daily phylogeny game. Guess an animal from its' database, and it will draw a tree showing you the finest scale group that both your guess and the mystery animal are both in, and it'll update it from each additional guess. metazooa.com
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Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Cursed unit enjoyers will appreciate this video by @alexander-the-ok.bsky.social youtu.be/sdWEGzWFcCc
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Oilfield Units: a Measurement System so Cursed it made me Change Career
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My favourite thing about Silksong is that one of the first abilities you get is the “Silksong silk skill silkspear”, just filling the S quota straightaway
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Doing fieldwork
Me lying on the Harvard bridge next to the smoot markings
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
A successful mushroom picking expedition with Pavel Etingof and the MIT maths crowd
A bunch of mushrooms freshly pickedHoney mushrooms growing around a treeChicken of the woods mushrooms growing on a treeHen-of-the-woods mushroom being picked, and a dog is there too
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Coincidentally, I made a video about temperature and entropy at the same time as 3B1B and Spectral Collective youtu.be/gRPv4rd_6O4
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Temperature and the Sackur–Tetrode Equation
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
Photo of Tom Lehrer
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Katherine Seaton @mathskath.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I’m curating an exhibition of Mathematical Art at the Australian Mathematical Society meeting in December. If you’re coming to the meeting and you create art with mathematics, please think about being involved. More information to appear at the conference website.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/06/2025
Farads xkcd.com/3106/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: This stick is one meter long. PERSON 2 WITH SHORT HAIR: Cool. PERSON 3 WITH WHITE HAT: That’s a nice stick. (2) PERSON 1: This rock weighs one pound. PERSON 2: I’d believe it. PERSON 3: Looks like a normal rock. (3) PERSON 1: This battery is one volt. PERSON 2: Seems fine. PERSON 3: Might need a recharge. (4) PERSON 1: This capacitor is one farad. [2 and 3 leaning away attempting to shield themselves] PERSON 2: *AAAAA! Be careful!!* Person 3: Put it down!!
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
You would not believe your knees If 250 million bees
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This child is about to see some man-made horrors beyond scug comprehension
A screenshot from the video game Rain World, showing a slugcat and a slugpup in a foreboding landscape
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Spent an embarrassing amount of time on the self-portrait in Chicory: A Colorful Tale
On the left, a pixellated portrait of the dog character from the video game Chicory: A Colorful Tale. On the right, the portrait appearing on the wall in-game.
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Jack Straw @jstrw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Graph of impalings at the Colosseum over time with a drop to zero in 404 AD and a tiny spike in 2025.
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K @adityakhanna.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Made a video on how GCD and LCM can help us understand category theory: youtu.be/qbaSvUbG7sk?... Building on @josephnewton.bsky.social 's example!
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What if category theory was as easy as arithmetic?
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CodeParade @codeparade.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just published my first math paper! What a journey! youtu.be/zVRNcRFaZ94
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I Published a Math Paper!
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Joseph Newton @josephnewton.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Time to start using social media for once! Here's my latest video on YouTube: youtu.be/4uJLvby7K9Y
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(Co)Products: motivating category theory
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