'… for me it was an interesting read, and the relatively short length might even be an advantage if the goal is to get a taste of current research in the field.' Phillip Helbig, The Observatory

• 1. Strong lensing by galaxies: past highlights, current status, and future prospects Anowar Shajib; 2. The 'external' shears in strong lens models James Nightingale; 3. Strong lensing by edge-on galaxies in UNIONS Javier Alejandro Acevedo Barroso; 4. Joint lensing–dynamics constraint on the elliptical galaxy mass profile from the largest galaxy–galaxy lens sample Chin Yi Tan; 5. Strong lens detection 2.0: machine learning and transformer models Hareesh Thuruthipilly; 6. The last stand before Rubin: semi-automated inverse modelling of galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems João Paulo França; 7. Lens discovery in the era of wide-area surveys Philip Holloway; 8. Gravitational lenses in hydrodynamical simulations Giulia Despali; 9. Lensed radio arcs at milli-arcsecond resolution: methods, science results, and current status Devon Powell;10. Clumpiness of lens galaxies as a window on dark matter Dorota Bayer; 11. Angular structure and gravitational imaging Conor O'Riordan; 12. Effectively investigating dark matter microphysics with strong gravitational lensing anisotropies Birendra Dhanasingham; 13. High-precision strong lensing models of galaxy clusters in the JWST era Pietro Bergamini; 14. Combined strong and weak gravitational lensing mass measurements in clusters of galaxies Davide Abriola; 15. Simulating high-realistic galaxy scale strong lensing in galaxy clusters to train deep learning methods Giuseppe Angora; 16. Shapes and centroids of 39 strong lensing galaxy clusters from the Sloan Giant Arcs Survey Raven Gassis; 17. MAximum-entropy ReconStruction (MARS): a new strong-lensing reconstruction algorithm for the JWST era Sangjun Cha; 18. The present & future of lensed supernovae: from ZTF to LSST Nikki Arendse; 19. Extended surface brightness modeling of three sources strongly lensed by an ultra-massive elliptical galaxy Andrea Bolamperti; 20. Large data set of lensed quasars: higher accuracy on H0? The angular structures viewpoint Lyne Van de Vyvere; 21. Accounting for population-level systematic effects using a hierarchical strategy Matthew R. Gomer; 22. Time delay cosmography of SDSSJ1433 with the 2.1m Wendelstein Telescope Giacomo Queirolo; 23. Impact of galaxy dynamics on Modified Gravity constraints from strong lensing systems Grasiele Romanzini-Bezerra; 24. Learning about the structure of strongly lensed AGNs from their lightcurves Dominique Sluse; 25. Where are the Eddington-limited starbursts? Gravitational lensing provides a way forward for sub-kiloparsec views of star formation Patrick Kamieneski; 26. Stellar mass fraction and quasar accretion disk size in SDSS J1004+4112 from photometric follow-up Raquel Forés-Toribio; 27. Probing the structure of SDSS J1004+4112 through microlensing analysis of spectroscopic data Carina Fian.