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Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Chalkdust dissertation prize 2025
Calling all final-year students! This is your opportunity to get your work published as a Chalkdust article.
Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Page 3 model: Ponytails
Many mysteries about hair are now revealed with the ponytail shape equation
The wonders of mathematical crochet
Hyperbolic surfaces, Klein bottles and more
Finding the edge of your images
How can we identify objects in photos, to diagnose cancer or predict the weather? Using gradients!