Dr Clara Nellist @claranellist Twitter profile

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Dr Clara Nellist

@claranellist

4 years

I have a joke about being a woman in physics, but you probably won't think it's funny until my male colleague repeats it 10 minutes later.

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As a bi person, I'm used to being accused of just not being able to make up my mind. That's why this Pride month, I'm partnering with wave-particle duality...

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When you unintentionally match with your experiment. #ScientistAndTheirExperiment

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First day as Assistant Professor of Physics at @IoP_UvA and @_nikhef ! Looking forward to many years of research in the @ATLASexperiment at @CERN , and teaching curious minds at @UvA_Amsterdam ! #scientist

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If you witness this happening in a meeting, the best way I've found to call it out is to say, "Thank you, I'm so glad you agree with [my / original person's] recommendation."

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My boyfriend is *shook* because the pockets in his new coat are fake (!) Please can you keep him in your thoughts at this difficult time. 🕯️

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Are you a man or a shoe? 😒

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My name is Clara & I work on the @ATLASexperiment at @CERN . I'm an #actuallivingscientist . I #DressLikeAWomen at work - hardhat & dosimeter.

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For when people ask me what I do. 💪 #WomenInSTEM

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8 years

Wow. You can clearly see the effect of the #NewZealand earthquake in the LHC beam orbit. Via @JohnJowett . #nzearthquake

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4 years

Need to quickly escape from an online meeting? Make sure you've packed your invisibility cloak! Use it well, #AcademicTwitter .

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@S_Insley_H I want to know what her out-of-office message is for today.

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Particle physicists vs the Standard Model

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4 years

@TheGoldMan25 @thenikkidiaries This is one reason. The way that Black people are reported when they speak out:

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Do you see the small difference in headlines. Why didn’t @JohnBoyega headline state he wins praise before focusing on the negative. The difference in reporting are the small things that lead to the big things!

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During the school, some of the students visited the grave of German mathematian Carl Friedrich Gauss. This is the photo they came back with:

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4 years

Hey scientists! Tell me about your research in one gif.

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The LHC is such a sensitive machine that it has to be corrected depending on the phase of the Moon!

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4 years

📸 #PhotoOfTheWeek We thought it had been a while since we last treated you with a picture of the Large Hadron Collider! Did you know that scientists have to account for the phases of the Moon when adjusting the particle beam? 🌙 Find out how:

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This is one of my favourite science accounts on TikTok right now! Video by @/big.manny1 on TT

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@Channel4News @Glamrou I am a particle physicist and I approve this message.

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I really appreciate getting messages like these and they are most of the reason I am on Twitter to talk about my work. The second part of the message quoted makes me sad though. I'm also not naturally good at science and maths. I don't think anyone is. [1/10]

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What people What think physicists we actually look like: look like 🎇

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What people What think physicists we actually look like: look like ✨

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Today is #WomenInScience Day! I am a particle physicist working on the @ATLASexperiment at @CERN , researching the top quark and investigating the nature of Dark Matter with Machine Learning. Science is for everyone! #IAmAPhysicist #WomenInScience #WomeninSTEM #WomeninPhysics

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I was fortunate to meet Peter Higgs in 2013 (days after the Nobel prize announcement). He was modest as he told a group of PhD students the history of the boson theory. Afterwards, I was very lucky to get my copy of the New York Times with the discovery signed by him.

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5 months

Sad to hear of the passing of Peter Higgs 😔

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I'm very happy to be able to share that in September I will start as an Assistant Professor at @IoP_UvA and with @_nikhef , still working on the @ATLASexperiment at @CERN !! 🥳 I'm really excited for this next chapter & I want to thank everyone who has supported me over the years.

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@MissRachelle @AGlasgowGirl @HarrenGWarding @DrJenGunter I sometimes had to switch covers on my sci-fi / action books with romance books, as they were used as openers for guys to hit on me on my train commute.

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6 years

@MatthewHanchard Please tell her I said hi! I'd happily have a chat with her on Skype if that's something you were comfortable with (but of course no pressure). Or I can send a video explaining what I do :).

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5 years

Happy #LGBTSTEMDay everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 Today is a day to recognise and celebrate the achievements of LGBTQ+ people in science, technology engineering and maths, and I am proud to stand among this wonderful group of people! #BiInSci #OutOfTheCloset

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It did give me a good opportunity to explain that scientists don't remember every fact all the time. Instead we learn where to find the information we need, how to evaluate it and then how to apply it appropriately.

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4 years

I GOT TO SEE THE COMET!!!!!!! I'm so happy I went out to try and look!! 😊 #NeowiseComet

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3 years

I built a gaming PC this weekend! ☺️

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2 years

Enjoying every last trip underground to the ATLAS cavern at CERN before we close it up to start running the LHC again later this year! #RestartingLHC

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4 years

@CARdinals_book @dr_ashwitt Sharing someone's idea with the correct attribution (in this case a retweet where people can see who wrote it) is the right way to do it. The bad way would be to copy and paste as though you wrote it yourself. Amplification is good, stealing isn't ☺️

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As a particle physicist with a PhD in the "smallest things in the Universe" I can confirm that this is 100% accurate.

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Whenever I give a tour at CERN and someone says, "this is probably a silly question" I always know that's going to be one of the toughest physics questions, but also one of my favourites of the day. Visitors always keep me on my toes! Keep asking the "silly" questions 😊

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@Astropartigirl I'm still advocating that if dark matter is a particle, we call it (or at least one, if it's many particles) the Rubin.

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@jonmbutterworth 😅 Amplifying women in science with the right citation is fine though ☺️

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@ggggmmpp Thank you for explaining my point back to me 😂

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1 year

OK, let's talk about it.

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Dr Clara Nellist

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3 years

So exciting that there are proton beams being injected back into the Large Hadron Collider today!! 🥳 #CERN

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4 years

I'm definitely not thrilled that this is going to be my most popular tweet ever. Says a lot about the frustrations of women in science that it's resonating so much.

Dr Clara Nellist

@claranellist

4 years

I have a joke about being a woman in physics, but you probably won't think it's funny until my male colleague repeats it 10 minutes later.

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Sad to hear of the passing of Peter Higgs 😔

Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Hello Men In Science! Thought for the day: what are you doing to support #WomenInSTEM today and every day? Replies are turned off because this is homework 😊

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I feel like Lise Meitner is pointing at the text in the tweet above this image and saying, "see the shit I have to deal with?"

The Nobel Prize

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The father of nuclear chemistry Otto Hahn and physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission. Hahn was awarded the 1944 #NobelPrize in Chemistry "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei" but Meitner was never awarded the prize despite receiving 46 nominations.

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2 years

I just made the last payment on my student loan!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

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4 years

I actually wrote that I am very passionate about science communication, so please at least finish reading the sentence before you send me your misogynistic hate, 'Passionate Logical Guy' 😒

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1 year

Hi physicists! I'm preparing a slide to show first year undergrads a diverse look at working physicists. As usual all top photos are basically Einstein/Newton, or if I search scientist I get chemists... If you're happy for your photo to be used, can you post it below? THANKS!

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A date for your calendars! The 3rd Run of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN starts on 5th July. Looking forward to it 😊 #LHCRun3

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2 years

I didn't realise when I agreed to give an online talk for New Scientist, that there would be a full page advertisment for it in the magazine! 😲😊

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3 years

Today I got to go inside ProtoDUNE!! I've wanted to visit this detector for years and I was so excited to hear that the liquid argon had been removed for a while. Thanks @Claire_Lee for the tour!! So fantastic to learn more about this experiment 😊

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4 years

@DrB_NDSU @hwahl16

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5 years

I'm very happy to announce that from Monday I will be starting a Radboud Excellence Initiative Fellowship in Nijmegen in The Netherlands! I'll be there for two years looking for Dark Matter with the @ATLASexperiment and developing Machine Learning. 📷: Bj.schoenmakers/wikipedia

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3 years

Another trip around the sun 🎈

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4 years

Look at this cloud chamber!!! Here you can see a radioactive source in the centre of a cloud chamber. Charged particles pass through the saturated gas, knocking electrons out of the atoms & creating ions. This then leads to tiny droplets forming, resulting in the trails of mist.

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this is what radiation looks like ✨

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4 years

Did you know that Black candidates for physics post-docs in the US are likely to be ranked lower (for an IDENTICAL CV) than a White candidate. Women are also ranked lower, which means Black women are hit double. #Strike4BlackLives #ShutDownSTEM

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2 years

Still thinking about the TikTok Live I did over the weekend where someone told me I can't be a very good scientist if I can't remember every element in the periodic table 😄 (someone was very keen to ask about "element 115")

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6 years

I am one of those #scientistswhoselfie . I do it because I hope it shows a more personal side to my research and I want to share my enthusiasm. It's not for everyone and that's OK. We shouldn't shame people for doing #scicomm differently.

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4 years

Happy #BiVisibilityDay ! 🌟

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5 years

CMS is red, ATLAS is blue, We're both searching for the fundamental particles, That make up us and the Universe, too! #AcademicValentines 📷s © #CERN

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4 years

This is a pretty awesome GIF!

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Congratulations to UCLA professor Andrea Ghez, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, for her pioneering research on the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. Full story: #WomenInSTEM

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It's my birthday! 🎉🎉 I'm working all day today 😅 but I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone for all of your support ☺️ Please have some of your favourite food or pet a furry friend for me ☺️

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@drbarryrubin @UHN I've been doing video meetings for over ten years, so consider myself a 'pro'. 1. The meetings always start a few minutes late so people can connect. 2. Cameras are only on if people want to have them on. Often bandwidth doesn't allow for this.

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My partner and I live in different countries and I'm pretty sure we're not going to see each other for a long time. I know this isn't the most pressing issue, but it's still 😔

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3 years

Have you ever wondered what these blue tubes are at #CERN ?

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4 years

I present to you: the LHC Shanty! #SeaShantyTikTok #LHCShanty @CERN

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"Hahaha, Warrior Nun... What nonsense is this?" *watches trailer* "Ok, I'm in." #WarriorNun

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#IAmAPhysicist studying the properties of top quarks and how they interact with heavy bosons (like the Higgs boson) using the @ATLASexperiment at @CERN . I am also a science communicator and advocate for diversity in science. #WomeninScience

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During my Quantum Field Theory exam I genuinely planned how I would leave the country and start over because I was panicking over not being able to answer a single question. Half an hour before the end, I managed to scrape enough together to *just* pass. Now I work at CERN.

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I was honoured to be among the recipients of the ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards for our team's Outreach work over the last two years! 🥳 Unfortunately, due to covid, I couldn't attend the ceremony in person, but happily the award found its way to me.

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Give it up for the recipients of the ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards! 👏 These exceptional collaborators were celebrated at an award ceremony held at @CERN . Learn more:

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4 years

I have a Higgs joke, but it's a bit heavy.

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I have a grant joke, but you won’t get it.

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As a young PhD student at CERN, I slept outside the auditorium to be in the room when the announcement of the Higgs boson discovery was made. I'm very happy to be back in the auditorium as part of the celebrations for #Higgs10 !

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And we’re off! #Higgs10 The Scientific Symposium to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the #Higgsboson discovery is about to start. Join the webcast live:

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2 years

Also, I explained that I'm a physicist, not a chemist and don't think about the elements much anymore 🙂

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4 years

@CA_AstroComm Hello! I got my PhD in particle physics and have been working on the ATLAS experiment at CERN for the last ten years. The second photo pretty much sums up my day-to-day work.

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5 years

My new laptop sticker arrived yesterday! I wanted something professional-but-fun to have on the front of my work laptop, so I covered it in photos of ATLAS and the LHC at #CERN , with cameos from ALICE, CMS & LHCb! What do you think? 👩‍💻

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CERN is looking beautiful today!

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#Iamaphysicist working on the @ATLASexperiment , researching the top quark and how it interacts with massive bosons, such as the #Higgs . Here I am at @CERN with the virtual version of my #scicomm self. #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #WomenScienceDay #WomenInScience

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4 years

Reporting for duty for today's #NerdyLockdownLooks : yellow 💛! This t-shirt perfectly describes my daily work: smash particles and the patriarchy (& more!)! 💪🏼 And yes, I put my yellow armchair on the balcony to enjoy a cup of tea in my fancy tea cup from my yellow tea pot 😄

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The @CERN LHC display dipole looking glorious in the autumn sunshine! 🤩

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2 years

Happy #DarkMatterDay !

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My Twitter is full of cautiously excited physicists! 😄☺️

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@hoaxeye I was also sceptical, so I tried it out. Here's our experiment:

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Just noticed I've hit 10k!! 🎉🎉 Thank you so much to everyone following me ☺️

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@claranellist

6 years

@JonathanSoReal @DenWill60 @markfarmerphoto @Kaepernick7 @Nike I will buy Nike because of the endorsement. I appreciate a company that risks sales for a good reason.

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1 year

I'm hiring a PhD researcher to work at the @IoP_UvA and with @_nikhef in top quark analysis with the @ATLASexperiment at #CERN ! Please share with potential candidates! Deadline to apply: 15th June

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A wild physicist appears!

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8 years

Dear science teachers. If your students would like to meet an #actuallivingscientist , I'd be happy to Skype with your class to answer Qs.

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4 years

I'm curious. What's your favourite Halloween costume you've ever gone as? Please share photos if you have them! Mine is probably the year I went as a severed head in a freezer. #HalloweenCostume

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What is the #HiggsBoson ? Well, I made a little video to help explain it for #Higgs10

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You know you're a particle physicist when you look at the base of your wine glass and see a particle detector with a broken magnet 😄 (I'm celebrating the end of my first day 😊)

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I worked in nightclub for four years and now I work at CERN doing machine learning to search for dark matter. Don't be a condescending classist AH.

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7 years

Here is my scary pumpkin for Halloween. 🎃 #Reviewer2 #HappyHalloween2017 #AcademicHalloween

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I've just been to see #BladeRunner2049 and now this question seems a lot more existential. How do I *know*?

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My only requirement for my summer holiday in August was that I wanted to sit on a sandy beach, sipping a cocktail. I probably should have been a little more specific... It was ~ 14°C in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland that day, with up to 35 mph winds. That wasn't going to stop me!

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It's the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Here I am after a long few days (years 😅) supporting my amazing colleagues to share their research, as well as working as a physicist in the ATLAS Collaboration. This is my favourite jumper for today! #WomenInScience

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3 years

Got my second vaccine dose yesterday! 🥳🥳

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5 years

Reminiscing that it's been five years and two days since I graduated with my PhD in Particle Physics from the University of Manchester! 👩🏼‍🎓👩🏼‍💻 #ThrowbackThrusday

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Fantastic news! Prof Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has been awarded a Breakthrough Prize for the discovery of radio pulsars & will donate the £2.3m prize find to fund women, under-represented ethnic minority and refugee students to become physics researchers.

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I want to believe. #HappyHalloween #NerdyLockdownLooks

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@drbarryrubin @UHN 3. Ha! No. I'm often in meetings all day, even over lunchtime. I'm eating if I don't need to talk and I always have drinks. 4. Correction: learn how to share the conversation and respect the chair of the meeting. 5. People are working from home. Interruptions will happen 🤷🏼‍♀️.

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@EstOdek Hello! I'm Clara, a particle physicist working on the @ATLASexperiment at @CERN . I use the smallest building blocks of the universe to uncover how everything works together and to find out what dark matter might be.

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Did you know that the proton is more charming than previously thought?

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