Mary Slipper
@sliippr
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On bluesky now || beauty quark fan girl || PhD student and Bell Burnell Scholar @Edinburgh_PPE/@PhysAstroEd/@LHCbExperiment/@LHCb_UK || she/her || views my own
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined October 2016
And after 2024: The text books of the future remain to be written. Today's students will discover what will go in them. In the grand lottery of chance: it could be you. @slipper
Me in 2016: reads Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction Me in 2024: writing her PhD thesis in particle physics Last week I attended the Higgs Lecture at Edinburgh, given by Frank Close. He very kindly signed my original copy!
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Congratulations to Ryun O'Neil who successfully passed his PhD viva on Wednesday. Shout out to Emma and @sliippr for the amazing cakes! Ryun has now taken his talents to CERN for a Fellowship ๐ฅณ
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Me in 2016: reads Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction Me in 2024: writing her PhD thesis in particle physics Last week I attended the Higgs Lecture at Edinburgh, given by Frank Close. He very kindly signed my original copy!
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Had an excellent interaction with mum over the NYT Strands this morning. Exact quote: "Who the f*** knows that s***?" Answer: me and Holly (who were very excited about it)
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Wow. I raised more than ยฃ1000 for @CR_UK doing the Edinburgh #ShineWalk My friend Elise counted and I finished ~ 20th of more than 900 walkers! Thank you so much everyone for the support and donations <3
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Tonight I am doing the Shine Night 10k walk, raising money for lymphoma research In memory of my wonderful father. My dad passed away from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2002, just after my 3rd birthday. https://t.co/66vWc33sBw
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Start of the year meeting of the @Edinburgh_PPE group. Everyone is introducing themselves with one slide, including lots of cute pictures of cats ๐น We are from all over the world ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง๐ง๐ท๐ฎ๐น๐ฌ๐ท๐จ๐ญ๐ต๐ฑ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ท๐ธ๐ช๐ช๐ธ๐ฑ๐น๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ณ๐ฒ๐พ๐จ๐พ๐ง๐ช๐ช๐จ๐น๐ท๐ป๐ณ๐ช๐ช๐บ๐ธ๐ต๐ฐ
All-group meeting for @Edinburgh_PPE at Univ of Edinburgh for the start of the academic year. We have grown to 85 members! @MamaPhysikerin is giving the overview of the group's activities, and I am taking pictures and posting on social media. Sounds about right.
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Long time no tweet. Tried โThe Other Appโ but I havenโt got nearly the same connections over there. Time to come back?
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I think the time to abandon Twitter is here - you can find me on similar platforms if youโd like to ๐ฉต๐๏ธ
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Scientists closer to solving mystery of antimatter
bbc.com
The elusive substance holds the key to discovering how the Universe was formed.
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ยฃ4.99 is the cheapest but you have to watch adverts????? I hate it here
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The moment weโve all been waiting for - the temperature blanket is DONE from my 350 days in Geneva working at CERN!! It measures 247 cm long and 120 cm wide!! Iโm going to finish it off with a white border :))
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Come back home to find Fred has somehow misplaced every single pen lid from my pen box
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Fredโs just nearly cost me a fortune leaning on the baggage scaleโฆ
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