Rowena Ball

@rowena-mathscieng.bsky.social

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Professor in mathematical sciences, Indigenous and non-Western mathematics, Origin of life, Cross-disciplinary interests in all STEM, Railways, Country pub lunches She/her, widowed, with 3 children and 5 grandchildren

The temperature is minus 5 at 7:10 am in Canberra
Dawn breaks at old Newnes junction on the main western line of NSW – view from the driver's cab
'Nice jacket,' remarks a seagull to a smartly dressed man strolling along the promenade while eating chips. 'Oh thanks,' replies the man. 'Be a shame if something were to happen to it,' says he seagull, then, as the guy keeps walking with dawning realisation and dismay on his face, the seagull hisses 'Leave the chips!'
Celestial mechanics cartoon showing two tradies diagnosing a problem god had with the planets
Jupiter and Venus in the evening sky, on my walk home from work in Canberra
Pareidolia. 12500 m above the south China sea. Cloud structure looks like a crocodile.
Unpleasant sign on building reads 'CHILDREN NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY ON THESE PREMISES'.
Platypus roadside sign in Tasmania
On board flight menu
Derwent valley railway line covered with autumn leaves
Hardwood seat at Hobart airport in backside bas relief
Roadside sign in Tassie seems to show a giant kangaroo up-ending a Morris Minor
Full moon sails above mount Owen, Queenstown, Tasmania
Mount Roland, lutruwita Tasmania
Curried Tasmanian Scallop Pie
Platypus walk. They do not. They swim
Croydon railway station, NW Qld, with the famous Gulflander ready to depart on its 94-mile journey west to Normanton
The renowned and internationally envied Gulflander setting off on its regular 94-mile journey across the glorious Gulf savannalands of NW Qld!
Autumn leaves, jewels
The extra angles in the second 7 at 77 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra
Queanbeyan river rail bridge
Radar of storms over Canberra
Goanna in the engine bay of the Gulflander
A Little Corella perches on the Station Master sign at Normanton railway station, NW Qld
Tailor shop
The Hanna Neumann building at ANU Canberra, housing the Mathematical Sciences Institute where I am a professor
Yarralumla creek's concrete straitjacket is damaged after a storm. Image from ABC News/ James Tugwell https://www.instagram.com/p/DUhmY1ult0U/
Kulhad stacked at the Indian grocer
Terra cotta kulhud cups for chai
Death cap mushrooms warning sign
Fibonacci day from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The riddle of the 4th and 6th missing numbers in the sequence. How many Aussie mathematicians have Italian ancestry?
This dog meets the Gulflander train every week. NW Qld, Australia.
full moon
Galong railway station September 2018