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...

Thanks Rebecca. Hope you are doing well. Come up and see us in Edinburgh!

Thanks Jenny. Hope you are doing well!

Thanks Santi. Looking forward to it. I'm not sure about Hibs to be honest. Think I will stick with Man City ;)

Thanks. I should be around! Come and find me...

For a history of the Tait Chair see

tait.ac.uk/History.html

The video at that page has some amazing anecdotes (including James Clerk Maxwell failing to get a job and Schrödinger failing to get a work permit.)

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....

I remember the newspaper with the headline "City title talk" and my dad turning to me and saying "they'll be lucky not to get relegated!". Typical City is back.

This is why dynamo theorists spend a lot of time calculating finite time Lyapunov exponents and thinking about the back-reaction of magnetic fields on Lagrangian chaos in fluids journals.aps.org/prfluids/abs...

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...