Best way to know you’ve reached the German border when entering the country is entering a “Funkloch”: a hole in mobile data. No phone connection whatsoever. Never fails.

News for those looking for European funding in quantum tech: 3 calls have been cancelled and moved to the EuroHPC JU work programme (tba) 🧪⚛️

I had fun interviewing project partners from @udl.cat to learn more about thermal energy storage system and the innovation brought forward within the SUSHEAT project. Listen to our conversation if you want to learn how these are like batteries for heat, but not quite the same 🧪

UK Pauses Its Plan To Cede Chagos Islands After US Opposition 🧪🦑🌎 Sigh

Climate change is outpacing water conservation efforts in the Southwest. Cities like Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas have been having great success with reducing water usage. But climate change will produce severe shortages that demand management alone cannot solve.

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Wanna hear a bit about my journey as a woman in science and beyond? Tune in to the latest #InnovationCast by RTDS. Bonus track: insights on being a woman in science communication by Nouhaila Bouhout 🧪👩‍🔬

Decarbonisation needs real solution for industry. Changing the way we approach industrial heat means lowering CO2 emissions. Hear from industry leaders and scientific experts at the upcoming SUSHEAT webinar on March 10 10:00CET 🧪

Bright side of spraining my ankle in the stupidest way (don’t text and walk downs stairs kids!) is that I picked up cross stitch again after a 2.5 years hiatus! Last time was just few hours before my water broke

Even though I’m not doing active research anymore, I still support science. The SUSHEAT project is particularly close to my heart, bringing together different technologies to build a solution for industrial heat decarbonisation. And women are at the forefront of this new developments 👩‍🔬

I woke up salty today, so I had to leave a comment on yet another post sharing “scientists and their world-changing ideas” and showing exclusively male scientists. It’s time men start noticing it too 🧪👩‍🔬

Read about the latest developments in #EUFunding, #policy and #innovation in our new monthly #newsletter, authored by our EU project consultant @cagrap.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/pulse/rtds-n... #SciComm #Research #Funding #Insights #HorizonEurope

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Business trips by yourself are weird. But here’s the truth • Nobody cares. Truly. No one is judging you for eating alone. • It’s time with yourself, not time by yourself. Reframing helps. • Walk like a local. No frantic map-checking. Just stroll with confidence, explore a shop, let the place unfold.

This week’s inauguration of the Ruby and Jade quantum computers forming the first federated hybrid quantum HPC infrastructure was amazing. The most incredible part? So many women leading the project and presenting key results 😍 ⚛️🧪

“My science is different” No, sir, yours is not science if you refuse to look at the actual evidence. (And if you don’t believe dyslexia exists) 🧪 www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Last month, I was lucky enough to celebrate my birthday at the Vienna quantum Tech days. I wrote about the key takeaways on the @rtds-group.bsky.social blog. Bringing research to the market is the main challenge for a quantum Europe. It’s also what RTDS does best. More here tinyurl.com/yjpkme8b ⚛️🧪

(1/2) Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the first woman Nobel laureate and the only person awarded in both Chemistry and Physics, opened new frontiers in science. Her spirit inspires researchers through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme that supports excellence and collaboration across borders 🧪

Perks of being a EU-projects consultant: getting to experience the local culture while attending consortium meetings

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Changing from academia to industry is often referred as transitioning. But how does this transition look like? From a physics point of view, I'd say it' a second order phase transition. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧵#AcademicSky

2-years-old are your best friend and your worst enemy all in one too-cute-to-handle package

Even people who know that Substack is bad news still think of it as their only alternative. It’s not. @anildash.com lists some and makes a great point: call it your work. Your writing. Thank you for clarifying my thoughts even to myself, now I know how to counter argument to substack use

How to excite a physicist on a Greek island? 🌊 By spotting soliton waves! 🧪 ⚛️ 🧵

Update on the anti-vax nominees on the Italian vaccine committee: the committee has been dissolved 🧪

Paper accepted 🎉 Except… grant just ended and I’m out of funding… OA fees anyone? 🧪 #AcademicSky 🧵

There is much less fuss around this news than around any RFK related one (and it makes sense, in a way). Still, I find it very frightening that Italy has appointed two renowned no-vax supporters in its vaccine experts committee, an organism which collaborates with the WHO. 🧪🧵

Discussions shape us. But papers do it too. For me, one that shaped the way I think was: 🧠 Introduction to topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions by Leijnse & Flensberg. I read it during my master’s thesis—10 years ago!—and it just clicked. 🧵🧪⚛️

Did not have “toddler waking up with pink eye” on my July bingo card…

How do you navigate transitioning out of academia while also on vacation? I mean, how do you deal with those open projects very close to completion? #AcademicSky

Former EU high representative Josep Borrell accused the European Commission and European Council of failing to act over crimes committed by U.S. mercenaries in Gaza.

Let’s remember that one of von der Leyen’s pony was killed in a wolf attack. Is the push for downgrading protection for wolves a coincidence? I doubt it. I wrote about it in Italian few months back, with my scientist view and some political glasses on top 🧪 medium.com/@cliagrapidi...

One thing we don’t talk about enough is how collaboration in academia is highly affected by personal priorities: maybe you’re making time to finish up something so your colleagues can take over and do their part, but when they do they are actually busy with something else #AcademicSky

“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.” ht: @timmiller.bsky.social www.nola.com/news/politic...

Today we had the online graduation ceremony, closing this year with @scicommtrento.bsky.social. It was bittersweet to see my classmates one last time all together after this very intense year. Congratulations everyone, let’s keep telling science stories #SciComm

What a list of accomplishments! What a barrier breaker! We should all celebrate Cecilia Payne 👩‍🔬🧪⚛️

“To counter the new normal’s assault on normalcy, we must double down on our duty to know, to speak up and to remember“ www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve...

Innenminister Dobrindt will sich mit seiner Flüchtlingspolitik über geltendes Recht hinwegsetzen, andere greifen sogar Verwaltungsrichter an. Das ist inakzeptabel und untergräbt die Gewaltenteilung. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/dobr...

1/7 This week, two women asked me why I studied physics. I said: “Because I liked it.” They were surprised. ⚛️👩‍🔬🧵

Reviews are in for a manuscript. Both reviewers write "this is solid work, it should be publish as is. But first answer these questions", then proceed making the most unhinged requests that would require at least 6 more months of calculations and be enough for a second paper 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️ #AcademicSky

Today’s reason to learn another language: You will have a 1-on-1 conversation with someone in you new language at some point. It will be unexpected. It will change you forever. #langsky

The produce box came with 4 beetroots this week. So today I made beetroot pancakes for breakfast, beetroot risotto for lunch, and beetroot chocolate cake for tea. If we all look pinker than usual, you know why 🫜

Choose Science. Choose Europe. In 2025, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions will invest over €1.25B, supporting more than 10,000 researchers. A new Choose Europe for Science pilot will promote stable research careers across the EU. Explore the calls ↓

Let’s take something wrong and make it wronger 🧪👩‍🔬

The irony of having posted this at 11:35pm is not lost on me

Here is my cat to remind myself and everyone that resting is fundamental (and being this cute also helps) #catsofbluesky

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

Today was probably my last day with my colleagues at the faculty of physics. I will be off most of the summer and exit academia as of end of August. Feelings are bittersweet, but I am excited of what’s ahead. #AcademicSky 👩‍🔬🧪

I fell like @elenamilani.bsky.social might like this content. I raise you a “every time you used a 3D chart, was an opportunity to use a 2D one”

Didn’t expect that me coming back to Warsaw would be accompanied by a terrible attack on the main campus and a toddler throwing up in the middle of the night, but here we are. Toddler is fine now, for those wondering.