In the week the Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne died, here's a nocturne by Chopin. Actually Ozzy has been due to feature in the Bulletin for some time, but not necessarily in Song of the Week. Watch this space. 

RIP Ozzy (if appropriate in your case).

The pianist is Canadian Jan Lisiecki.

Waves on glaciers
Fowler, A Journal of Fluid Mechanics volume 120 283-321 (20 Jul 1982)

And here's part two starring Ellie and Sienna from the Mirzakhani Society . If you wonder at the title (Etc.) the post was accompanied by the text: "Mathematicians are all the same. They look the same. They only like other mathematicians. They only like maths. They did nothing but maths from the age of two. Etc."

Simulating diffusion bridges with score matching
Heng, J De Bortoli, V Doucet, A Thornton, J Biometrika asaf048 (10 Jul 2025)
From metric to action: An evaluation framework to translate infectious disease forecasts into policy decisions
Mills, C Irons, N Tsui, J Sparrow, S Carvalho, L Kucharski, A Ratmann, O Lambert, B Donnelly, C Kraemer, M

Where were you when you had that moment when things became mathematically clear (if they ever have).

We're looking to do a short series of films on places that inspire after the success of last year's places you go to get away from maths.

Drop Dyrol a line. We'll also be coming round with the camera so shut your doors if you don't fancy it.

Image: Caspar David Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

Strong gradient effects on neoclassical electron transport and the bootstrap current in large aspect ratio tokamaks
Trinczek, S Parra, F Catto, P Journal of Plasma Physics volume 91 issue 4 e97 (10 Aug 2025)

UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) has recently launched a Good Practice Exchange Survey to help develop a plan for research culture.

It’s targeted at anyone that has a passing interest or involvement in anything research culture related. It closes on 10 August.

The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science UK and Ireland Young Talent Awards is an annual programme that awards grants worth £25,000 to five outstanding early-career women scientists in the fields of Engineering, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physical Sciences and Sustainable Development.  

The grants are designed to provide flexible and practical financial support to enable these women scientists to further their research and careers.

Multiple solutions to the static forward free-boundary Grad-Shafranov problem on MAST-U
Farrell, P Pentland, K Amorisco, N Ham, C Nuclear Fusion
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