Your regular reminder that a 'mumpsimus' (16th century) is someone who insists that they are right despite clear evidence that they are not.

Word of the day is 'misken' (15th century): to refuse to recognise something by pretending it's not happening.

On point, as always, John Crace

Another excellent Stability minisymposium at #EMI2022 at Johns Hopkins University, great talks and new friends made. Marvellous! #buckliphilia

Just been given a splendidly cool CRUSHMETRIC gift by @johnshopkins legend @BenjaminSchafer; filmed by LPR at #EMI2022. #buckliphilia

Just posted a photo @ Johns Hopkins University instagram.com/p/CeZBZwFIfto/…

We've been crushing coke cans for the Imperial College London open day and the last two we did buckled almost identically in terms of deflection pattern and mechanical response. Not bad, eh Rainer Groh? 😉 #buckliphilia Nonlinear Mechanics @ Imperial Nonlinear Mechanics @ Imperial @ImperialCiveng Imperial College Steel Structures

Word of the day (again) is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to go backwards on a task rather than progress it. Literally to ‘shuffle backwards’.

The market is failing and millions of working class Britons are paying the price. Minor VAT cuts won't offer real relief. Labour must back public ownership 🌹 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Research from the EU project DamBuckler Project led by Anton Koellner has been published in the European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids. We present a novel energy based modelling approach for buckling problems incorporating material damage. Nonlinear Mechanics @ Imperial doi.org/10.1016/j.euro…

Liz Truss will be Britain’s next prime minister — the nation’s fourth in seven years. And she’s inheriting a nation falling apart at the seams. nyti.ms/3ASl6ru

Our work on #shear #buckling of thin-walled #steel I-sections has now been published with #OpenAccess! Get in touch if you'd like to find out more, and watch this space to find out how this methodology is used to accurately and reliably predict the I-section shear resistance

As a supervisor,one isn't supposed to have favourite students, but I'll make an exception for LPR who passed his PhD today. An absolutely brilliant student in all aspects. Well done Luke! Or as we now must call you, "Dr Lapira"! Nonlinear Mechanics @ Imperial Imperial College Steel Structures

Congratulations to our own Fiona Walport who has been announced as one of the new UK Young Academy Members!

Proud to share our contribution to a special issue in Phil. Trans. A of The Royal Society. We demonstrate a strategic combination of probing techniques and #MachineLearning to accurately predict the in-situ strength of PSCs. We're developing this further, so watch this space for more

#HappyBirthday Ahmer Wadee and cheers to many more🥳!!

A very pleasant surprise to receive a hard copy of the actual Philosophical Transactions A of The Royal Society special issue on probing. LPR Jiajia Shen @alberto_pirrera Leroy Gardner

"My plan to have 50 hamburgers for dinner are entirely consistent with my plan to reduce my cholesterol"...

Delighted to report that our latest #openaccess paper in Thin-Walled Structures on shear resistance of steel I-section girders has been published. This is work led by LPR, written in collaboration with Leroy Gardner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tws.…