We are looking for a science communication/outreach specialist! www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/Jobs/jobs.ph... (in Hamburg, main task: communication of the LHC experiments in Germany)

Yesterday, CERN alumni, staff and children participated in the Relay Race #AtCERN – an event organised by the Running club and the Staff Association, which has become an annual tradition. The fastest runners and the most creative costumes were awarded during the festivities.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Here we see scientists working on new collimators – special devices installed close to the beam to clean it of stray particles before they come close to the collision regions. #FunFact: more than a hundred collimators are placed around the LHC.  Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ex...

The High-Luminosity LHC (#HiLumiLHC) will be the successor of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, due to start after 2030. It will deliver a higher number of particle collisions to the experiments, thus increasing the chances of new observations.

Join my team at Dalton Cumbrian Facility as a #SummerStudent and help us to build a virtual #moon 🌙 Work with heaters, liquid nitrogen and our #ion beam #accelerator to simulate lunar day/night cycles and effects of cosmic rays on materials. Apply this week! Deadline 2 May #STEM #science #physics 🧪👩‍🔬

Two of my favorite things. 🎢 Cats are the physicists of the animal kingdom. 😸

Happy Saturn ring plane crossing day to all who celebrate.

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

I just enjoyed an excellent talk for #InternationalWomensDay by Dr Claire Malone @geeknproud42.bsky.social on ways to improve #academia by "Going slow to accelerate". Some great suggestions for improving academic culture! #STEM #Science 👩‍🔬🧪

palaeontologists, look away now 👀

It was great to hear from #scientists that work with the #media and use their scientific expertise to engage with #policy and the #public.

I found some #planets! Say hello to Jupiter and Venus 🪐👋

At around 6pm, this evening, take a moment to look at the #NightSky. You could see up to 7 #planets! 🪐 #Binoculars or a #telescope 🔭 will help with the faint ones. Happy #Stargazing (or should that be planet gazing?) 🌌👀 #physics #science #astronomy starwalk.space/na/en/planet...

"just 56% of supervisors reported feeling valued by their institution, compared to 90% who felt valued by their students"

For anyone wondering why the Lovell Telescope has been parked pointing at the zenith for a while, we are changing a wheel. They're made of steel and very occasionally crack - first failure we had was 2007, after 50 years of operation!

Just saying... would you rather this wobbly wet gross thing, or a delicious plum pudding? 🍮 #ilovephysics #physics #scisky #YearOfQuantum

#Caturday. It's science.

Happy #Caturday from Pumpkin and the radiator. Stay toasty everyone! #CatSky #Cats

Ever wondered what it feels like to be in the heart of a #particle #accelerator? ⚛️ This week, my boss Andy got as close as it gets! Here he is, inside the accelerator tank at Dalton Cumbrian Facility, replacing the inner generator to keep our Pelletron accelerator running at peak performance. 💪

CERN’s next director-general is on the physics world weekly podcast - check it out here

Muons xkcd.com/3043

I completed my #BigGardenBirdwatch today. Unfortunately, only 2 blue tits landed in my patch, but they were checking out the bird box! Hopefully, this means there'll be some chicks in the spring 🏠 🐦 🐣 #birds #birdsky @rspb.bsky.social

Telescopes parked, pointing at the zenith, due to the strong winds today.

Only 1 day to go until the #BigGardenBirdwatch! Chirpy House Sparrows took 1st place as 2024's most spotted BGBW bird. Will they stay on top this year? 🏆 Get involved: https://buff.ly/4gXUE3y 📷 Carl Bovis

This weekend, become a #citizen #scientist and take part in the #BigGardenBirdwatch! I wonder what birds you will see? 🐦 #BirdSky

Excited to visit @newscientist.bsky.social HQ in #London today to learn how to make more #impact with my #public #engagement of #science with @jamiebgall.co.uk. Here's hoping my Oyster card still works! 👩‍🔬🚋

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

Working in Antarctica, scientists have drilled the world’s oldest continuous ice core, 2690 meters long and holding an unbroken history of the atmosphere going back 1.2 million years. Learn more in this week’s News at a glance. ⬇️

A plaque marking the tenement on Dumbarton Road in Glasgow where James Alferd Wight grew up. He would later go on to write a series of books based on his experiences as a vet in Yorkshire, which was then turned into the TV series All Creatures Great and Small. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowhistory

Trimix xkcd.com/3035

This week, I hit my head on a #particle #accelerator. I wonder how many others can say that?

Join me and the team behind New Scientist Live for an afternoon exploring effective Science Communication and hear about opportunities to be part of the 2025 event. 📍 New Scientist HQ, London 📅 Tue 21st Jan, 2pm 🎟️ Free, booking required.

The CMS umbrella travels the world with all our CMSers and enthusiasts! ☂️Can you guess where it is in this picture?

Because 2025 = 45² and 45 is a triangle number, we get these lovely sums: 2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² 2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ Pleasingly the next triangle number 55 is 10 more, so get ready for a repeat of this fact in the year 3025.

My bed is not big enough for my cat let alone my cat, my dog, and myself. How can such a tiny creature fill an entire bed? Cats defy the laws of three dimensional space.

New Scientist Live are looking for speakers, nominate yourself by Dec 31st Held at the ExCel centre in London 18-20th Oct 2025. Last year's event drew over 25k people. Info on event: live.newscientist.com Nomination form: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

There's a great little #audiobook short story called "The Lacura Effect" by Tony Jones. An excellent near future #TimeTravel tale. If you ask Alexa to "Tell me a story" there's about a 1/20 chance you'll get to hear it! (Seems unavailable by other methods) 📖 #books #sci-fi #scisky #science #audible

The @ri-science.bsky.social #XmasLectures start tonight! I'm looking forward to all the #foodie #science

So looking forward to the screening of the @Ri_Science #XmasLectures starting tonight. Such an incredible project to have been part of! 🗓️ 29, 30, 31 Dec 🕰️ 9pm 📺 BBC 4 and iPlayer

I knew it!!!! The socks!!!

I've been loving the #physics #advent calendar activities by PiA this December. I think my current favourite is "different ways to weigh tomatoes" 🍅 ⚖️ You can check out all the PiA #experiments so far on YouTube youtube.com/@physikimadv... What's your favourite small physics demo?

James Webb telescope just dropped its latest image, Neptune, and its rings.

I see your non-newtonian fluid, and I raise you... the 'Cat'. Cats ❤️ science #science #catsofbluesky #cats #catsky #physics #stem

when the sky comes alive ✨

#Particle #accelerators don't *just* help us explore the origins of the universe. An accelerator at SLAC has been used to uncover lost writings of #Archimedes, hidden beneath the ink of a monk who reused the parchment for a prayer book. #physics #history #STEM

A cat pendulum: more evidence that cats ❤️ science #CuriousCat #Science #Physics #Cats #Catsofbluesky

One person who knows a lot about labcoats and pregnancy is Gates McFadden. 🤰🏻 But seriously, check out the study below if you’ll have a baby on board while in the lab.

Love #science? This Dec try #Physics in #Advent (PiA)- 24 days of fun physics #experiments you can do at home or #school! I’m joining the PiA challenge this year. You can too, register at www.physics-in-advent.org ✨ #Teachers, your class can even win prizes! #PhysicsInAdvent #STEM #ITeachPhysics