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Calum is a lecturer in physics at Edge Hill University where he studies topological solitons and enjoys talking about maths and physics to anyone who will listen. He can often be found on the side of a mountain or out on a bike, talking to himself about solitons.

Top ten: modes of transport
The undisputed top ten ways to get around this season
Oπnions: In defence of toy models
Calum gets on his soap box about toy models
Cryptic wordsearch, Issue 19
Can you solve it?
On the cover: skyrmions
Sven Bjarke Gudnason and Calum Ross introduce you to the wonderful world of skyrmions
Page 3 model: Solitons
Solitons
Our favourite (and not-so-favourite) Euler equations
A collection of our favourite and least favourite things named after Euler, from issue 07