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.

German institutes are stepping up to help prevent the loss of US science data related to climate and other subjects. I want to say "well done" but also isn't it scary we could lose data because of one administration? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#WomenOfQuantum is back! I took a long break from this series due to life circumstances and having chosen to feature none other than the only women to have won the Abel Prize for her contributions to mathematics: Karen Uhlenbeck 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️🧵 clioagrapidis.com/2025/04/23/w...

I hear students say they aren't cut out for science because they had trouble with it in high school. Don't count out science based upon HS; it's such a small glimpse into the enormous world of STEM. If you enjoy it, there's a place for you and you can succeed 🧪🥽👩‍🔬🍎🧬⚛️ #iteachchem

Why do most conference posters look like they are still in the 1990s or early 2000s? I keep wondering and cannot find a decent answer 🧪 #SciComm

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

Blog will probably stay on hiatus for another week, but I have been working on the new Women of Quantum profile. This time, she’s a mathematician and we’ll touch on gauge theories and Yang-Mills equations, which means it’s a tough one for me to write! Any guesses who she might be? 👩🏻‍🔬

Thanks to everyone who took our meme survey—we got over 190 responses in one weekend! Presenting in class today. I’ll share more later this week… once I escape being nap-trapped under a snoring toddler with a cold. #MomLife #SciComm #WomenInSTEM

Science memes—funny and clever, but are they also #SciComm? For an assignment, we created a short survey to explore how people interpret science memes. It’s quick, fun, and anonymous! Plus, you get to check out some memes along the way. Take the survey here: forms.gle/aRhTttUfY24R... 🧪

For an assignment, we are designing a survey about understanding science memes. Please everyone drop your favourite science memes in the replies ⬇️🧪 Thank you!

Such a fun read! I laughed out loud at the paragraph about his programming: sounded exactly like most physicists actually code. Physics would not be the same without arXiv and neither would a lot of other scientific fields 🧪⚛️

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today is Equal Pay Day—representing the point in the new year where women have worked enough days to earn what men did by the end of 2024. The largest gender pay gap is found in science and engineering careers. 🧪 #EqualPayDay #WomenInScience More info from @awisnational.bsky.social—

Today is #Dantedi! Experts say that 725 years ago, Dante began his journey through Inferno. I have a special connection to Dante—not just because I’m from Ravenna, where his journey starts, but because he even made an unexpected appearance at my wedding. 🧵 1/8

🧵 Back with my #WomenOfQuantum series for #IYQ2025 Today, let’s talk about Hertha Sponer—an incredible pioneer who bridged physics and #chemistry through her work on molecular spectroscopy. 🔬🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️ clioagrapidis.com/2025/03/21/w...

Evenings are like Shall I work on assignments? Write blog articles? Watch a sitcom? Text friends? Sleep? Have a shower? This year has been wild and it is only March

Working with mostly men means nobody commented on my new haircut as I walked into the office. Luckily I had #SciComm class in the evening and my women cohort did not disappoint: even online, they texted me about it