Conference season is well-and-truly in swing now, starting with the Physics of Life 2025 conference in Harrogate last week. Here I was presenting our recent work on characterising nutrient exchange between marine microbes with microfluidics and Raman microspectroscopy. It was a fantastic week of excellent talks, and I thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to reconnect with colleagues in back in the UK for the first time since leaving the UK back in 2019. As a bonus, it was a very pleasant surprise to be awarded the Early Career Researcher Presentation Prize!

Next up, I will be talking as part of a panel on “Communicating Across Discipline boundaries” at Queen Mary University of London, as well as presenting an invited seminar on our work on mixing and transport in active turbulence. After that, it’s off to Denver to an invited talk at SIAM-DS25 as part of a mini-symposium on “Motility, Transport and Transport of Active Impurities”. Busy times ahead!