Credit where it is due...this post manages both to diss Liverpool's achievements and have some interesting mathematics in it.

I went to see the amazingly talented Edith Pageaud play in Leeds last night. I was blown away both by her technique (which is awesome) and her musicality. Absolutely beautiful music. If you get a chance to see her - take it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fq0...

It is a great honour to take up the Tait Chair of Mathematical Physics at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. I will arrive in June 2025. www.ph.ed.ac.uk/news/2025/ch...

It's taken a while! We finally managed to show how to do Generalised Direct Statistical Simulation. Paper in Journal of Fluid Mechanics doi.org/10.1017/jfm....

Stretch-twist-fold is an important concept in chaos theory - and in MHD dynamos. A dynamo can only be a "fast" dynamo if there is Lagrangian chaos in the flow, so that stretching can overcome diffusion in the singular limit of small diffusion.

Great to see that @lifd.bsky.social has arrived at bluesky! Truly the platform has now made it.

Today I shall be speaking at the APS DFD Memorial Meeting for Keith Julien in Salt Lake City. Keith was a brilliant mathematician and great friend who was taken from us way too soon. We miss him.

My six favourite European Mr Men character names... 6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso 5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel 4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing 3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo 2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs 1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump

I think I still have my inflatable banana somewhere www.theguardian.com/football/202...