Prof Luca Biancofiore speaking about evaporating films and droplets at #Euromech666 in #Warwick.

Prof Karapetsas speaking about evaporation of sessile droplets on soft surfaces at #Euromech666 in #Warwick.

Prof Benoit Scheid speaking about draw resonance at #Euromech666 in #Warwick.

Speaking at #Euromech666 in #Warwick today.

At #Euromech666 at #Warwick.

Prof Isabelle Cantat (Rennes) speaking about internal motions in soap films at #Euromech666 in #Warwick.

Dr Lyes Kahouadji (Imperial) speaking about surfactants at #Euromech666 in #Warwick.

Prof Christian Ruyer-Quil speaking about modelling falling films at #Euromech666 in #Warwick.

Physics first: Faster and fairer—A renewed vision for <italic>Physics of Fluids</italic> from the new co-Editors-in-Chief pubs.aip.org/aip/pof/arti...

Slip length estimation and flow reconstruction from micro-particle image velocimetry via functional uniqueness guarantees Slip length, a fundamental measure of solid–fluid interaction, plays a crucial role in the inversion and reconstruction of flow-field parameters. However, near-

How do fluids really slip on surfaces? This study proposes a method to estimate #SlipLength and reconstruct flow fields from limited data. A key step to better understand flows where friction at the wall nearly vanishes.

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#fluiddynamics #interfacialflows #hydrodynamics #physics

#BAMC2026 at #UEA was fun, but now it's off to #Scotland for #orienteering at #JK26.

Professor Hannah Price (Birmingham) speaking about superfluid vortices at #BAMC2026 at #UEA.

Attendance at today's 0900 tutorial: 3 out of 30.

Inevitably some of the other 27 will complain that they don't get enough opportunities for feedback and support.

Professor Nigel Peake (Cambridge) speaking about aerodynamic noise (and why some owls are silent) at #BAMC2026 at #UEA.

Professor Sir Chris Whitty

A panel discussion is taking place in a grand hall with tall, white columns and a balcony. Four individuals are seated on a stage near a podium with a "Bath" logo. A large screen displays presentation slides related to the topic "From treatment to prevention." Banners celebrate the 60th anniversary of the venue or event.

A group of people in lab coats stand at a table with a CWBE banner, engaged in conversation with a visitor. The table is covered with scientific equipment and informational materials.

A group of individuals is gathered at a table displaying materials related to public and environmental health. A banner reads "CWBE." The individuals appear to be engaged in conversation, with one person holding a tablet and others attentively listening. A hallway with arches and checkered flooring is visible in the background.

The University of Bath launched its 60th anniversary year with an inaugural Adelard Lecture, welcoming Government Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty to the historic Pump Room for an evening focused on the future of health.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/4thVAFR

Professor Robb McDonald (UCL) giving the Stewartson Memorial Lecture at #BAMC2026 at #UEA.

Arrived at #UEA for #BAMC2026.

In which we ask ourselves whether reconstructing a national economy on the basis of spite, greed, and the prejudices of racist old people might have been a mistake.

(We will conclude, inevitably, that no: it's the graduates who are wrong.)

Students bring Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

OK, I take it back. Maybe instead of doing everything we could and working our fingers to the fucking bone for two years to give our students an education while protecting them from the killer virus we should just have let them all die. Happy now?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Old newspaper headline: THE SMACk CZAR.

Saw this headline in the Caledonian Mercury (Feb 1831) and my brain automatically assumed it was about one of those much-hyped government appointments on either school discipline or the War on Drugs.

(It is not.)

There is a colleague who teaches in one of my tutorial rooms the hour before me, and has no concept of time.

I have an idea.

The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported

As an avid listener and sometime contributor to the BBC Sorld Service, it seems crazy to me that we have got to this point.

It would be a tragedy to let the World Service and all the good it does disappear.

Professor Kit Yates in a gray jacket holding a plush turtle and a small green toy, standing in front of a white brick wall.

Sir Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia begins its run at London’s Old Vic this week.

Bath's @kityates.bsky.social has been working as the maths/science consultant for the play, running sessions with the cast, directors, producers and stage designers to help make the science and maths as authentic as possible.

Entries close this week for the British Night Championships 2026!

Find out all you need to know about securing your place at the event via the official website: www.britishnightchamps.org.uk/

#britishnightchamps2026 #britishorienteering #orienteeringchampionships #nightorienteering

1.What support do programme teams need to embed AI into learning, teaching and assessment at programme level? They need complete autonomy to refuse Gen-AI on academic and/or ethical grounds. 2.What would staff like to use AI for that will support them in the delivery and/or support of teaching, learning and assessment? Nothing. Gen-AI is a technology built on IP theft which has consumed immense resources while finding (at best) very limited use cases. Embedding it is entirely incompatible with our values as a socially progressive institution.

Be warned: if you ask questions then you may receive answers.

Making waves: the context and afterlife of John Scott Russell’s canal experiments of 1834–1835 We reconstruct the events surrounding John Scott Russell’s first observation of a solitary wave, which would become a foundational myth of both nonlinear wave theory and Scottish engineering scienc...

Hi to folk who've recently found me via the Scottish history starter pack.

If you were looking for professional historians you might wish to look elsewhere.

I'm an amateur whose usual beat is the very long nineteenth century. I wrote this:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Blue Monday: a depressing day of pseudoscience and humiliation A psychologist explains why the third Monday of January has for him become the most depressing day of the year

A reminder that mathematical modellers and psychologists have conclusively demonstrated that "Blue Monday" is the most dispiriting day of the year to be a mathematical modeller or a psychologist.

www.theguardian.com/science/blog...

The nappy pin memorial sculpture on the site on the old Rottenrow Maternity Hospital at the #UniversityofStrathclyde in #Glasgow today.

Wet and windy but good running in the New Forest today. #orienteering

AI is solving 'impossible' math problems. Can it best the world's top mathematicians? AI is making gains in solving pure math problems. Can it crack the hardest problems in mathematics?

AI is solving 'impossible' math problems but can it beat the world's top mathematicians?

Professor @kityates.bsky.social from the Department of Mathematical Science finds out in his latest blog for @livescience.com.

www.livescience.com/physics-math...