Good deed of the day: giving a barely moving bee some sugar water

A bit of fun I had on the home office desk during lockdown somehow managed to win the UK Fluids Network's photo/video competition prize

This week at the AIChE conference, and coming up under similar formats at the ICR conference, I am pleased to be presenting a talk / poster on extensional flows affecting shear rheology / extensional channel design: plan.core-apps.com/aiche2020/even… plan.core-apps.com/aiche2020/even…

Here we go! #ICR2020

Virtual post-conference city explore - a takeaway sat outside Sheffield cathedral, sadly not quite the same as being in Rio! (I wouldn't have been able to afford attending if it was the latter though, virtual certainly has it's positives) #ICR2020

And the #ICR2020 comes to a close - as Gerald Fuller highlights, many thanks to the organisers, particularly Paulo and Monica, for all the hard work in making this happen

A useful and inexpensive trick for anyone with a mill or drill press

4 Extensional flow "capillaries" expertly made by Jackson Scientific Glass

New paper finally out! Very happy to see the work make it into the literature doi.org/10.1122/8.0000…

News I am very happy to finally share: I will be embarking on a fellowship investigating a virtually unexplored area of rheology sheffield.ac.uk/materials/news… Materials at TUoS The British Society of Rheology Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK Fluids Network Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics (LIFD) TA Instruments Helen Wilson Chris Holland Bruker

Can the yield stress rheological properties of peanut butter - not to mention the oil's surface wetting properties - be used as a temporary engineering sealent on an iterative design of an experiment? Guess there's one way to find out! Green Nanomaterials

Wonderful to be a part of the #INNFM meeting with the The British Society of Rheology, chat to so many knowledgeable people and be accepted onto the BSR council. Thanks too to everyone who offered kind comments on my fellowship project - I am honoured!

One unscheduled upper stage separation of an attempt to print an excessively long experimental flow cell 😅

Excited to be attending the #Mixing17 conference with Siddharth Patwardhan Green Nanomaterials - and my first ever flight carrying self-built electronics hardware on a flight!

I'm not sure there will ever be anywhere quite like Wilko again! wilko

Very sorry to see Wilko go! The cheeriness will be missed, best wishes to the staff (particularly all those in my home town of Worksop). I still have the wooden spatulas from my undergraduate days! wilko

The The British Society of Rheology "Mid-Winter Meeting" registration is now live. Students only £60! "Straining to reach beyond steady simple shear - advanced techniques for complex fluid and flow field characterisation" Sheffield Uni: 16-18th December 2024 bsr.org.uk/events/bsr-202…

This is a great opportunity to learn more about the nuances and cutting edge of rheometry, with subsidised registration rates and an array of plenary and keynote invited speakers! Registration closing soon, not to be missed!