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20 May 2023
IoP APP is multidisciplinary and topics include but are not limited to:
- dark matter
- gravitational wave
- neutrinoless double beta decay
- cosmic ray physics
- nuclear astrophysics
- neutrino and gamma-ray astronomy
- multi-messenger astronomy
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IoP Astroparticle Physics group retweeted
20 Jan 2025
⏰ ONLY 48 HOURS LEFT TO REGISTER! ⏰
Don't miss out on our live webinar at 6 p.m. GMT / 3 p.m. ET on 22 January 2025, with speaker Eniko Zsoldos.
🔗 Register today: ow.ly/2fRz50UHBuj
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8 Jan 2025
The Moon as you’ve never seen it before: A stunning new book of lunar maps shows the long history of humankind’s fascination with the Moon.
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9 Jan 2025
DMUK meeting at King’s College London brought together researchers working on dark matter science in the UK. The event featured discussions on a wide range of topics, spanning both theoretical and experimental aspects!
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6 Jan 2025
New year, new... newsletter? How about signing up for our particle & nuclear digest?
Our highlights of research updates, must-read features and opinion pieces, sent straight to your inbox once a quarter.
Log into your account to sign up today! ow.ly/meSy50UbK4y
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27 Dec 2024
Say hello to our brave shift crew, got stuck at the Roque during a massive snow storm! Can you see them reflected in the mirrors in the second picture? They were forced to stay at the Roque because of the storm, we hope they got some rest and fun together! #theMAGICtelescopes
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IoP Astroparticle Physics group retweeted
4 Oct 2024
What do you think our lab’s director, Sean, is explaining here? 🤔💭
Suggestions welcomed in the comments... 👀
This week’s #PhotoOfTheWeek 📸 comes from a recent visit to our lab, following the #EarthSciences workshop that we hosted in York 🌍
#POTW
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IoP Astroparticle Physics group retweeted
3 Oct 2024
Our latest article focuses on bubble chambers and highlights the remarkable women employed to analyse their results.
Learn all about the 'scanners', the unsung heroes of bubble chamber analysis ➡ bit.ly/02ygb
ALT Woman standing with High Energy Physics laboratory. She is analysing bubble chamber film projected onto a surface.
ALT Woman in the foreground typing at a typewriter. Within the background there is a projection of a bubble chamber photograph. This photograph was taken in RHELs High Energy physics laboratory.
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IoP Astroparticle Physics group retweeted
4 Oct 2024
A new study suggests that poor female representation in physics persists due to established male physicists prefering to work with early-career male researchers: ow.ly/XgI950TCXmi
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30 Aug 2024
The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2024 is awarded to Dr Kate Shaw for making a substantial impact on improving equality, diversity and inclusion through education, outreach, communication and open data.
#RSMedals
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7 Sep 2024
Breaking news: The best time of the year to view Saturn is rapidly approaching! Tonight, Saturn will be at its biggest and brightest opposite the Sun. It's best viewed with a backyard telescope, which you can learn how to make in this article: ow.ly/F2ib50TeM4C
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9 Sep 2024
Astronaut Helen Sharman shares why food and drinks in space are her favourite part of astronaut life! 🚀🍽️
Explore space’s biggest questions with insights from top experts. Learn more at iop.org/SpaceAdventure #MimiSpaceAdventure
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26 Aug 2024
Today, at both TeVPA in Chicago and LIDINE in São Paulo, we announced our latest results: new world-leading constraints on WIMP #darkmatter! This limit is the combined analysis of our first 60 day run 220 additional livedays.
No signal yet, but we continue to close the net!
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10 Jul 2024
#IoPAPPHEPP2025 conference @Cambridge_Uni is coming! Today committee members from @IOP_APP @IOPHEP and local organisers met to plan of the next conference. Stay tuned!
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Stitching science! 🪡
Angelique, our communications placement student at @RutherfordApLab, used her amazing crochet skills to make mascots representing RAL’s six scientific departments.
Meet them in the thread 🔽
ALT Angelique, a young woman, sitting at her desk and smiling at the camera. Four crocheted mascots are on the desk and she is holding another in her hands.
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IoP Astroparticle Physics group retweeted
3 May 2024
Not sure what to do this #MayBankHoliday?
Enter our Eurekas science competition to be in with a chance of winning £1,000 plus £250 for your school.
It can be:
📝 a poem
🎨 a sculpture
⚗️ an experiment or something else entirely!
Find out more: theeurekas.co.uk
ALT Image of three students working on a cardboard rocket, with the text Unleash your inner physicist.
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IoP Astroparticle Physics group retweeted
3 May 2024
This #PhotoOfTheWeek is of Super-Kamiokande, a neutrino observatory located under Mount Ikeno in the Western Japanese mountains🏔.
Super-K is a Cherenkov detector, observing rings of light emitted by charged particles moving in ultrapure water.
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22 Apr 2024
"Neutrinos from Home" online conference will start tomorrow! (April 23, please register here)
neutrinos.cosmodiscussion.co…
During the next 2 weeks, this will bring together the neutrino and cosmology communities for talks (available on YouTube) and live discussions. See you soon!
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17 Apr 2024
Today is #NationalHaikuDay2024! 📜🖋
We asked our team to have a stab at writing some haikus – here's what they came up with! 👀
#Poetry #STFC #Haiku x.com/BoulbyLab/status/17805…
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IoP Astroparticle Physics group retweeted
17 Apr 2024
Congratulations to Dr Patrick Knights of @PP_UniBham for winning @IOP_APP's 2023 Early Career Prize!
7 Apr 2024
Congratulations Dr. Patrick Knights @PP_UniBham for the 2023 IoP APP early career researcher prize!
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Dr. Knights' contributions include R&D on spherical proportional counters for the NEWS-G experiment. Plenary at #IoPAPPHEPPNP2024
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