Thread by @TimHarford

I planned to do this on Friday (is #FollowFriday still a thing?) but better late than never. Wanted to make a list of awesome UK-based maths education / communication folk on Twitter. So...

There's Youtube sensation @standupmaths - Matt also wrote the magnificently wise, funny and surprising "Humble Pi": amzn.to/3edYW7J
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And @robeastaway , author of "Maths on the Back of an Envelope" and other excellent books, has been offering free school talks of late. amzn.to/3dwlwt7
Rob is director of "Maths Inspiration": robeastaway.com

There is the inimitable @FryRsquared , star of stage and screen and author of several great books including "Hello World". She wrote an excellent essay in the @NewYorker recently: newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

I could scarcely leave out @Bobby_Seagull , maths hero, author of "The Life Changing Magic of Numbers" and among other things an actual maths teacher.
amzn.to/3gt5KRX
(He does online maths here: )

Nor @BradyHaran - the mysterious and shadowy figure behind the delightful @numberphile (this one filmed on the hottest day of 2020)

There is the remarkable @SLSingh - who seems to achieve more in most Mondays than the rest of us achieve in a year. His "Parallel" project sets regular maths puzzles to extend, inspire and challenge young students: parallel.org.uk

Like Simon, @CCriadoPerez has a lot more strings to her bow than maths communication but I had an epiphany reading "Invisible Women" so she has to be on this list. (CCP has a newsletter, here: carolinecriadoperez.com)

Statistical ambassador @StatsJen has often popped up on @BBCMoreOrLess to explain the hard stuff to us.
jenniferrogers.co.uk

Speaking of @BBCMoreOrLess my long-suffering series producers Charlotte McDonald (who I think eschews twitter) @Ruth__Alexander and @katelamble are all maths heroes, as is Eminence Grise @richardvadon (yes that is his job title on the show)

For important data on the stuff that matters follow @MaxCRoser & @_HannahRitchie of @OurWorldInData and my @FT colleagues @theboysmithy @jburnmurdoch

I much enjoyed "How To Read Numbers" by @TomChivers and @dave_chivers , but Tom is particularly worth a follow on here as he's always working hard clearing up misinformation. (The book: uk.bookshop.org/a/3472/9781474…)

Others I know less well, but hear good things about include @stecks @jamesgrime (great dice!) @tomrocksmaths @VickyMaths1729 @kyledevans (his maths tunes are marvelous) - who else?
Who am I missing?

Just joking, I would not leave off...

...@d_spiegel of course. His book, "The Art of Statistics" is terrific (amzn.to/3tvFmu8) and so is he. Here's the Winton Centre webpage: wintoncentre.maths.cam.ac.uk

I knew I'd forget someone! @TimandraHarknes, author of "Big Data: Size Matters".

I would also suggest Michael Blastland and Sir Andrew Dilnot, creators of @BBCMoreOrLess , but I don't think either of them are on Twitter. (I may be wrong.)

Oh, and I forgot someone else: @alexbellos who does too many brilliant pieces of maths communication to count. (My personal favourite is his book "Alex's Adventures In Numberland" / "Here's Looking at Euclid")
uk.bookshop.org/a/3472/9781526…

And @Kit_Yates_Maths - who I forgot (I think unwittingly I think of Kit in epidemiological contexts rather than maths-comm - sorry Kit!) but who wrote the lovely "The Maths of Life and Death" (paperback out next week, pre-order!) uk.bookshop.org/a/3472/9781787…