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
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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...
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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...
My first time business trip was a winter school in February 2017. I still remember the anxiety of going for dinner all by myself the first night.
What happened?
Absolutely nothing besides a lovely dinner.
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.
Thanks for linking a press release, wrote this quickly on the metro just thinking how happy I was seeing several women at this event
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 🧪
A pan of paella valenciana on a blue table
Perks of being a EU-projects consultant: getting to experience the local culture while attending consortium meetings
Very true! But definitely a much more complex system to digitally replicate. There is also a big project to create a DT of Earth. That would probably be a great way to model climate and other challenges to preserve our planet destination-earth.eu
Yes, that’s the idea. Of course not all testing can be done on the DT but some can and then you need to possibly “destroy” less real airplanes in the testing process
My understanding is if we can do a really good one we can cut costs and,most importantly, waste less material in testing certain structures (like airplanes). Like in this project caelestis-project.eu
Plus a bunch of other things I guess
"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...
Unless you cut ties completely (rare).
So the move to industry?
It’s not an event.
It’s a second-order phase transition.
/end 🧵
That’s how leaving academia feels.
Your contract ends, but projects linger: papers to revise, collaborations to close, responsibilities to hand over.
The “order parameter” (number of open projects) decreases bit by bit.
It approaches zero… but never suddenly.
Phase transitions (like liquid water freezing into ice) are classified by how an order parameter changes
First-order = abrupt
Like water → ice: symmetry shifts all at once
Second-order = gradual
Like cooling a paramagnet into a ferromagnet: magnetization builds up slowly as temperature drops 🧪⚛️
line graph showing number of open projects vs time after leaving academia. The line starts at some number and decreases in jumps, similar to a magnetisation curve (also noted in the graph). At the end, it reaches and stays at xero. This part of the graph has a smily face of a woman with dark hair and on top of her head the word "freedom" in neon blue. The line graph is in mustard yellow as is the title of the picture "Academia to industry: a slow transition". Everything is against a navy background.
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
I was also unsure of what I saw for a moment but the shape was clearly that of a soliton, so I did some digging to double check it good happen in open waters too. Glad you found it enlightening!
Finally someone as excited as I was!
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
And yes, my family looked at me weird when I excitedly told them about my sighting. Hope someone here shares my excitement 😁
No pictures (sadly), but a lot of excitement — and a story about how physics shows up when you least expect it.
More details on the blog 👉 clioagrapidis.com/2025/08/17/s...
Usually, solitons show up in canals or rivers where the conditions are “just right.”
That’s why I was so surprised to see a pair in the open waters of Skopelos gulf.
