The paper “The stability of jets and wakes confined by compliant walls” co-authored by Ryan Poole and Matt Turner has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Fluids. The paper examines the absolute and convective stability properties for jet/wake flows confined between compliant walls. They model the compliant walls as spring-backed elastic plates (see figure below) and the flows stability properties are analysed using spatio-temporal stability analysis. This analysis identifies the long-time growth/decay behaviour by seeking special saddle points in the complex wavenumber plane. Results show that the inclusion of the compliant walls leads to additional instability modes which can induce an absolute instability at large confinement values, where there was no absolute instability in the rigid wall case. The author final copy of the paper can be found here.