Prof Carla Faria
@carlafmfaria.bsky.social
Full Prof at UCL (Physics). Attoscientist (theory). Paraense, born in #Amazonia, Pindorama. BSc/MSc in SP, PhD in Berlin, many years in Germany & UK. #blackandSTEM (I descend from Indigenous people too). Own views. #ChildlessCatLady
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I wish all of you strangers a great holiday season with a festive enough picture. I will go offline soon, but not before leaving my best wishes. May 2026 be less weird than 2025, and treat everyone with more kindness. Take care!
Que absurdo. E a cara de pau ha' alguns meses, durante a #COP30 foi de matar. Isso tem que parar #SOSAmazonia
"Os 18 mil litros do fluido de perfuração que escaparam durante a perfuração no bloco FZA-M-59 na bacia marítima da Foz do Amazonas contêm substância tóxica o suficiente para impactar animais marinhos e o meio ambiente até sua degradação completa."
www.dw.com/pt-br/vazame...
www.dw.com/pt-br/vazame...
Vazamento provoca danos na fauna da Foz do Amazonas
Relatório sigiloso relata impactos de vazamento de fluido de perfuração da Petrobras no bloco 59. Empresa, com mais de 1.700 multas ambientais, terá que treinar melhor a equipe e ajustar equipamentos.
www.dw.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Que absurdo. E a cara de pau ha' alguns meses, durante a #COP30 foi de matar. Isso tem que parar #SOSAmazonia
Ainda falta revogar essa maldita lei, mas e' um começo. Fico insultada como a #Amazonia e' vista como uma colônia, seja por governos de direita ou de esquerda. E sim, estou de saco cheio de marxistas do sudeste falando no lugar das pessoas do Norte. E' uma farsa colossal!
#SaveTheTapajosRiver
#SaveTheTapajosRiver
Vitória! Do Tapajós vêm todas as nossas aulas de luta. Dissertem agora, marxistas do sudeste.
Governo Lula suspende obra na hidrovia do Tapajós após protestos de indígenas
Decisão sobre dragagem foi tomada para que haja consulta aos tapajós
📲 Leia mais na #Folha: mla.bs/18e9e03c
Decisão sobre dragagem foi tomada para que haja consulta aos tapajós
📲 Leia mais na #Folha: mla.bs/18e9e03c
February 10, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Ainda falta revogar essa maldita lei, mas e' um começo. Fico insultada como a #Amazonia e' vista como uma colônia, seja por governos de direita ou de esquerda. E sim, estou de saco cheio de marxistas do sudeste falando no lugar das pessoas do Norte. E' uma farsa colossal!
#SaveTheTapajosRiver
#SaveTheTapajosRiver
This destruction has been like this forever. #Amazonia is viewed as a colony to be plundered, also by many Brazilians. I was happy that the COP30 was in Belem, but I couldn't shake the feeling that our voices are never heard. What a farce!
#SaveTheTapajósRiver #RevogaDecreto12600
#SaveTheTapajósRiver #RevogaDecreto12600
"Indigenous peoples of Baixo Tapajós gathered in front of Cargill for dialogue with public agencies regarding the revocation and suspension of Decree 12.600 and suspension of dredging in the Tapajós River"
Additionally, 800+ Indigenous people are currently blocking the Santarém airport in Pará
Additionally, 800+ Indigenous people are currently blocking the Santarém airport in Pará
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
This destruction has been like this forever. #Amazonia is viewed as a colony to be plundered, also by many Brazilians. I was happy that the COP30 was in Belem, but I couldn't shake the feeling that our voices are never heard. What a farce!
#SaveTheTapajósRiver #RevogaDecreto12600
#SaveTheTapajósRiver #RevogaDecreto12600
Reposted by Prof Carla Faria
The Tapajós River is not just water, it is memory, food, culture, and life. Sending so much love with the Indigenous people of the Baixo Tapajós who are currently fighting against dredging and all projects that threaten their future.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The Tapajós River is not just water, it is memory, food, culture, and life. Sending so much love with the Indigenous people of the Baixo Tapajós who are currently fighting against dredging and all projects that threaten their future.
Bom dia 👇
"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
~ Maya Angelou🌸🌸🌸
#BlackHistoryMonth ❤️🖤💚
~ Maya Angelou🌸🌸🌸
#BlackHistoryMonth ❤️🖤💚
February 10, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Bom dia 👇
I have really enjoyed this outreach event. It was great to be a speaker in the Physics Undergraduate Seminar at UCL, and talk to so many enthusiastic students with great (and unusual) questions. Hopefully I could be of help!
January 20, 2026 at 10:59 AM
I have really enjoyed this outreach event. It was great to be a speaker in the Physics Undergraduate Seminar at UCL, and talk to so many enthusiastic students with great (and unusual) questions. Hopefully I could be of help!
Here are a few pictures from Goa, India, to clean up the timeline. We all need that from time to time 😊
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Here are a few pictures from Goa, India, to clean up the timeline. We all need that from time to time 😊
Had a great time at the 2025 IAMNOP in Delhi (plenary talk & session chair). It was great to see the pictures and meet the vibrant Indian Physics community. And yes, I look more and more like my paternal grandmother, lol.
January 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Had a great time at the 2025 IAMNOP in Delhi (plenary talk & session chair). It was great to see the pictures and meet the vibrant Indian Physics community. And yes, I look more and more like my paternal grandmother, lol.
When you are coming back from paradise and reality smacks you in the face. On Saturday, while waiting for my connection to Delhi. As a South American, this is particularly triggering. For more info see, e.g., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
When you are coming back from paradise and reality smacks you in the face. On Saturday, while waiting for my connection to Delhi. As a South American, this is particularly triggering. For more info see, e.g., en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
2025 was about starting a new research area, renewal in many ways, and reconnecting with my Amazonian roots. It brought success, recognition, help from unexpected places, nasty surprises from collaborators and the necessity to realign myself once more. Happy New Year everyone, despite everything!
January 6, 2026 at 11:42 AM
2025 was about starting a new research area, renewal in many ways, and reconnecting with my Amazonian roots. It brought success, recognition, help from unexpected places, nasty surprises from collaborators and the necessity to realign myself once more. Happy New Year everyone, despite everything!
I wish all of you strangers a great holiday season with a festive enough picture. I will go offline soon, but not before leaving my best wishes. May 2026 be less weird than 2025, and treat everyone with more kindness. Take care!
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I wish all of you strangers a great holiday season with a festive enough picture. I will go offline soon, but not before leaving my best wishes. May 2026 be less weird than 2025, and treat everyone with more kindness. Take care!
Reposted by Prof Carla Faria
Dear all, The #AttoFridays concludes on Friday 5th December 3pm London time with Dr Paris Tzallas on "Generation of optical Schrödinger "cat" states using intense laser-matter interactions and applications in non-linear optics". Register at quantumbattles.com/attofridaysp... or watch on YouTube
December 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Dear all, The #AttoFridays concludes on Friday 5th December 3pm London time with Dr Paris Tzallas on "Generation of optical Schrödinger "cat" states using intense laser-matter interactions and applications in non-linear optics". Register at quantumbattles.com/attofridaysp... or watch on YouTube
They are amazing & severely under-rated birds. I do online yoga with cats several times a week. It is not intentional in my case, but I am their tenant (or they view it this way)
Yoga with animals — goats, dogs and cats — has become popular in recent years.
But chicken yoga is another version, offered in a neighborhood where dozens of wild chickens roam the streets, courtyards and sidewalks.
But chicken yoga is another version, offered in a neighborhood where dozens of wild chickens roam the streets, courtyards and sidewalks.
Rescued chickens wearing diapers join monthly Florida yoga class
The chickens mostly walk around the room, cluck at one another and sit on the floor and yoga mats. Sometimes they lounge on people’s stomachs.
wapo.st
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
They are amazing & severely under-rated birds. I do online yoga with cats several times a week. It is not intentional in my case, but I am their tenant (or they view it this way)
Last #AttoFridays talk of the year - this Friday! Posters coming soon (we all have been insanely busy & run this on the side)
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Or watch on YouTube - Live chat open for subscribers!
www.youtube.com/@QuantumBatt...
Seven missing to 900
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Or watch on YouTube - Live chat open for subscribers!
www.youtube.com/@QuantumBatt...
Seven missing to 900
December 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Last #AttoFridays talk of the year - this Friday! Posters coming soon (we all have been insanely busy & run this on the side)
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Or watch on YouTube - Live chat open for subscribers!
www.youtube.com/@QuantumBatt...
Seven missing to 900
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Or watch on YouTube - Live chat open for subscribers!
www.youtube.com/@QuantumBatt...
Seven missing to 900
This was a good #AttoFridays talk from a fellow Latin American who has been working with us for a while (available soon on YouTube once we get the OK from her). We will have one more talk in this season and will come to an end. #WomenInScience #WomenInStem #LatinasInSTEM
Dear all, The #AttoFridays continues on Friday 21st November 3pm London time with Dr Lidice Cruz Rodriguez on "Trajectory-based methods for ultrafast quantum dynamics". More details below 👇Register at quantumbattles.com/attofridaysp... or watch on YouTube
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This was a good #AttoFridays talk from a fellow Latin American who has been working with us for a while (available soon on YouTube once we get the OK from her). We will have one more talk in this season and will come to an end. #WomenInScience #WomenInStem #LatinasInSTEM
It’s impossible to watch #cop30brasilamazonia without feeling deeply connected. My family carries Indigenous ancestry, even if our ties are complex, we cannot name our people & are middle-class city dwellers. Enough of plundering #Amazonia and treating ppl from the North of BR as outcasts!
November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It’s impossible to watch #cop30brasilamazonia without feeling deeply connected. My family carries Indigenous ancestry, even if our ties are complex, we cannot name our people & are middle-class city dwellers. Enough of plundering #Amazonia and treating ppl from the North of BR as outcasts!
Absolutely worth a read. It exposes the greenwashing at #COP30 and shows that Indigenous people are deliberately excluded from key decisions. #Amazonia is seen as a colony within BR, which has been plundered for centuries.
DAY 5 of COP30: Indigenous protesters blockade Cop30 summit entrance. Why? Let's dig into it. ⬇️
November 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Definitely worth a read - it's frustrating to see the greenwashing that is happening while the govt discussed oil drilling in the #Amazon Delta. #Amazonia has been plundered for resources and has been seen as a colony for centuries within Brazil. Indigenous ppl are left out of key decisions. #COP30
Cop30 was meant to be a turning point, so why do some say the climate summit is broken?
Cop30 was meant to be a turning point, so why do some say the climate summit is broken?
Swamped by lobbyists and hobbled by a lack of urgency, there are fears Cop could become a sprawling spectacle that betrays those who depend on it most
Thousands of diplomats, activists, journalists and lobbyists are gathering in the sweltering, tropical heat of Belém, at the mouth of the Amazon, for the Cop30 climate talks.
Since Brazil was awarded the hosting duties three years ago, hopes have been high that the Amazonian Cop – taking place in the country that hosted the Earth summit where the global fight for the climate first began – could be a turning point in the fight against climate breakdown. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It's important to shine light on Belem & #COP30, but when I see this it reminds me of how Indigenous people are mostly left out of key negotiations. Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, for instance, destroyed the Xingu River and was pushed through during a left-leaning PT presidency.
Mundurukus ocupam entrada da Zona Azul e exigem audiência com Lula; leia mais sumauma.com/liveblog/ao-...
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's important to shine light on Belem & #COP30, but when I see this it reminds me of how Indigenous people are mostly left out of key negotiations. Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, for instance, destroyed the Xingu River and was pushed through during a left-leaning PT presidency.
This Friday - he has been doing great work on #FEL (free-electron lasers)
Dear all, The #AttoFridays continues on Friday 14th November 3pm London time with Dr Vincent Wanie on "Novel light sources for ultrafast ultraviolet spectroscopy". More details below 👇Register at quantumbattles.com/attofridaysp... or watch on YouTube
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
This Friday - he has been doing great work on #FEL (free-electron lasers)
Reposted by Prof Carla Faria
Dear all, The #AttoFridays continues on Friday 7th November 3pm London time with Professor Graham Worth on "Simulating Photo-Excited Processes using Grids and Gaussian Wavepackets". More details below 👇Register at quantumbattles.com/attofridaysp... or watch on YouTube
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Dear all, The #AttoFridays continues on Friday 7th November 3pm London time with Professor Graham Worth on "Simulating Photo-Excited Processes using Grids and Gaussian Wavepackets". More details below 👇Register at quantumbattles.com/attofridaysp... or watch on YouTube
Hello all,
I am back online, after an award ceremony & invited talk at the #FIOLS in the US. It was an interesting experience that went more smoothly than it could have been (grateful for this). One needs to find time to celebrate one's victories. Great to be back in London with my family.
I am back online, after an award ceremony & invited talk at the #FIOLS in the US. It was an interesting experience that went more smoothly than it could have been (grateful for this). One needs to find time to celebrate one's victories. Great to be back in London with my family.
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Hello all,
I am back online, after an award ceremony & invited talk at the #FIOLS in the US. It was an interesting experience that went more smoothly than it could have been (grateful for this). One needs to find time to celebrate one's victories. Great to be back in London with my family.
I am back online, after an award ceremony & invited talk at the #FIOLS in the US. It was an interesting experience that went more smoothly than it could have been (grateful for this). One needs to find time to celebrate one's victories. Great to be back in London with my family.
Next #AttoFridays talk in 2 days. Still time to register (alternatively, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel; live Q&A is open to subscribers)
Dear all, The #AttoFridays continues on Friday 24th October 3pm London time with Dr Vasileios Balos on "From Hydrogen Bonds to Energy Flow: Insights from THz Nonlinear Spectroscopy". More details below 👇Register at quantumbattles.com/attofridaysp... or watch on YouTube
October 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Next #AttoFridays talk in 2 days. Still time to register (alternatively, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel; live Q&A is open to subscribers)
The #AttoFridays are back, on 10/10 at 3pm UK time. Our speaker will be Prof. Wendell T Hill (University of Maryland) & he will talk about "Rousing the quantum vacuum: ephemeral-pair dynamics on sub-attosecond timescales".
Register here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Below is an abstract & bio:
Register here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Below is an abstract & bio:
October 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The #AttoFridays are back, on 10/10 at 3pm UK time. Our speaker will be Prof. Wendell T Hill (University of Maryland) & he will talk about "Rousing the quantum vacuum: ephemeral-pair dynamics on sub-attosecond timescales".
Register here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Below is an abstract & bio:
Register here us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Below is an abstract & bio: