@drkayd.bsky.social
⚛️ Particle accelerators. Physics. Science. Education. Occasionally cats. 🐈⬛
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)
17.05.2025 12:03 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Yesterday, 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.
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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?
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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.
12.05.2025 06:59 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0Join 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. 😸
12.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Happy Saturn ring plane crossing day to all who celebrate.
23.03.2025 07:55 — 👍 185 🔁 61 💬 5 📌 3bsky.app/profile/geek...
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I'm a physicist working on particle accelerators. Please can you add me? Here's a link to my staff page at Manchester, UK: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/k...
13.03.2025 23:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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 👩🔬🧪
A screen grab of a guardian opinion piece titled "Enough with unicorns and dinosaurs – show children the magic of real, living animals instead".
palaeontologists, look away now 👀
13.03.2025 11:38 — 👍 108 🔁 12 💬 9 📌 14It was great to hear from #scientists that work with the #media and use their scientific expertise to engage with #policy and the #public.
11.03.2025 11:21 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations! 🎊
06.03.2025 23:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A sunset sky ranges from dark blue in the top right to pink in the bottom left by the horizon. The outline of trees and a building form silhouettes against the sky. In the top left a small white dot is the planet Jupiter and in the middle another small white dot is Venus.
I found some #planets!
Say hello to Jupiter and Venus 🪐👋
P.S. You can see the 8th planet by looking down near your feet 😉
28.02.2025 07:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"
24.02.2025 08:57 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0It's difficult, especially when they've all already been invited. Can you push to add 1 more person to the panel?
18.02.2025 20:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
16.02.2025 14:47 — 👍 148 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 0Just saying... would you rather this wobbly wet gross thing, or a delicious plum pudding? 🍮
#ilovephysics #physics #scisky #YearOfQuantum
Ooh, this looks good! I enjoyed the poem you performed about ADHD at CERN. Will certainly grab myself a copy 📚
10.02.2025 12:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photo of two cats snuggling up to a third in the middle, who looks rather alarmed. The cats on either side are labeled hydrogen, while the one in the middle is oxygen.
#Caturday. It's science.
08.02.2025 20:31 — 👍 676 🔁 53 💬 10 📌 3
A ginger stripy cat looks at you sleepily as he lays out on the windowsill, in the sunshine, and above a radiator. His front paw hangs down between the radiator and the wall.
Happy #Caturday from Pumpkin and the radiator.
Stay toasty everyone!
#CatSky #Cats
Jamie with a bunch of photoshopped furry microphones (tribbles) lining the edge of his hat.
I heard that's the trouble with tribbles 🤣
06.02.2025 16:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Once I've done some confined space training, it'll be me in there! 🤩
#ILoveScience #physics #science #STEM
Inside a larger vacuum vessel, resembling a tunnel, a technician is working. He's wearing a safety harness, head torch and nitrile gloves for some delicate work. He lies on his back and reaches up to adjust the inner parts of a particle accelerator that loom over him; the accelerator inner tubes, although made from a substantial amount of metal, appear to be floating above him in mid air.
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. 💪
