Helen Wilson

We are excited to share our new paper in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics @JFluidMech: “Theoretical analysis of Stokes flow through a sharp-cornered cross-slot” - collaboration with my PhD supervisor Prof Helen J Wilson @profhelenwilson and Dr Elena Luca. doi.org/10.1017/jfm.20…

Dear @axa I’m a neurologist here, please read this thread 👇and alert whoever your medical director is….as they are in grave likelihood of facing a fitness to practice decision by failing to consider the insured persons best interests

We are delighted that Hannah Fry will join the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in January 2025 as Cambridge's first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics. Learn more in our interview: maths.cam.ac.uk/features/hanna… @FryRsquared @Cambridge_Uni

Our Mid-Winter Meeting (Sheffield 16-18th Dec) registration closes soon (2nd Dec) on "Straining to reach beyond steady simple shear - advanced techniques for complex fluid and flow field characterisation": bsr.org.uk/events/bsr-202…

The deadline for applying to STEM for BRITAIN 2025 is 25 November! #STEM #ECR apply to present your research in parliament at stemforbritain.org.uk @RoySocChem @RoyalSocBio @RAEngNews @PhysicsNews @NutritionSoc @physoc @LondMathSoc

IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help... 1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change what most pay each year. For most, they're paid for you by the student loans company and you repay afterwards only if you earn over the threshold. The amount you repay each year (9% over the threshold) solely depends on what you earn not on what you borrow. 2. Increasing tuition fees will only see those who clear the loan in full over the 40yrs pay more. That is generally mid-high to higher earning university leavers only, so the cost of increasing them will generally be born by the more affluent. Most lower and middle earning university leavers will simply pay 9% extra tax above the threshold for 40yrs (and higher tuition fees won't change that) 3. The rise is tuition fees is likely to be trivial compared to the changes the last govt made for 2023 starters. 2023 starters had their repayment thresholds dropped to £25,000 (from £27,295/yr) and had the time they had to keep repaying for (unless cleared) extended to 40years from 30years. So these higher annual repayments for longer, increased by over 50% the amount many graduates will eventually have to pay back for going to university. Yet they were almost stealth changes because people can't intuitively feel the seismic impact. Changing tuition fees is a more obvious rise, but in reality has far less of an impact on the amount most will repay (though combined with the 2023 changes it does certainly up the cost). 4. The biggest practical problem for students isnt tution fees (even if raised) its the fact maintenace loans aren't big enough. English maintenance loans have not kept pace with inflation. I'd urge the govt to couple the tuition fee loans with bigger living loans - if not it is a real risk to social mobility, with those from the poorest backgrounds likely to be worse affected. I could write more, but will stop here, hopefully this gives an idea the issues are less straightforward than many feel.

To all of this I would add: check on the PI's website, and if their photo looks female, don't start your email "Dear Sir". To be safe, address all PIs as "Dear Professor X" - it can't go wrong. (Worst case you've accidentally upgraded a British academic... they don't mind that.)

@notcapnamerica Not once. Now I'm fairly small and unthreatening but still... smells like racism to me.

Question for white people — how often have you been harassed and stalked by strangers demanding to know why you’re in their neighborhood? Answer below:

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@wtgowers I would assume it means (a+b)(c+d) - with space taking the role of brackets. The spatial clustering associates the a with the b, not the b with the c.

If you saw the expression a+b x c+d on a page with that layout, where 'x' is the multiplication symbol, how would you interpret it, and why? (I have a reason for asking, but I don't want to give it immediately.)

My kids have been playing at Ickwell since they were really quite little. This season the club launched training for novice women (yes me) - and this weekend we are in the finals! Makes a change from the usual mathematician activity of watching and keeping score.

The @LondMathSoc @womeninmaths committee has made their Diversity Days grant more flexible so that you can apply for an event that focusses on EDI more broadly. If you're thinking of doing a UK-based EDI maths event this academic year, apply! (by Oct 31) lms.ac.uk/grants/lms-inc…

On Sat 28 Sept, @newscientist are hosting an amazing event that unlocks the secrets hidden within the language of mathematics. It features @profhelenwilson @XenaProject @sarahlovesmaths @alaingoriely @peterrowlett and @weatherbeth. Further details ⤵️ newscientist.com/science-events…

I'll be one of the speakers at the New Scientist Instant Expert event on 28th September: newscientist.com/science-events… Should be fun!

@Cricket_East Week 16 never got tweeted I think?

🏆𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒆𝒆𝒌 17 Check out the latest honours boards 👆 Some amazing performances to celebrate. #cricketeast

All this news about the riots is pretty depressing. If only there were a way of figuring out where they might crop up next and how to police them. Oh wait, remember this classic?! @tobypeterdavies @FryRsquared nature.com/articles/srep0…

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Today at the cafe, two guys walked in, arms around each other, chatting. Handsome. In love. I looked at them and felt sad for all I lost. Then I saw an elderly woman sitting alone, looking wistfully at me and the 11yo. Maybe remembering times with her own son. Hold what you have.

BMS *never* beat Bedford School. You wouldn't believe how exciting they found this victory. Matthew got a postcard home from the headmaster!

Delighted that the second paper from Liam Escott's PhD project @MathematicsUCL is now out in JNNFM. We've looked at suspension rheology up to moderate concentrations, incorporating the first effects of viscoelasticity and deformability. doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnf…