Welcome back! With the new year we say goodbye and best wishes to Diego Feinmann, who has just started a position at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Warm welcomes also to: postdoc Preeti Kumari and new PhD student Matthew Galbraith, who are working on Martina Wiltschko's project; postdoc Evripidis Tsiakmakis, who has funding through the INVESTIGO program; and Rafael Martínez, who is starting a departmental predoctoral teaching assistantship!