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⭐ [Closing] Royal Society Newton International Fellowship

📅 Imperial Physics EOI deadline: 8 January 2026

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December 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨 We’re hiring!

Join Imperial as a Postgraduate Student Administrator MSc and MRes

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🗓️ Closes: 5 January 2026

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December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Join Imperial as a Research Associate for ERC-Advanced project LUMINOUS

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🗓️ Closes: 31 January 2026

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December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Imperial scientists have been testing quantum-enhanced sensors for inertial navigation with the Royal Navy.

Unlike GPS, which doesn’t work underground or underwater, quantum sensors are super accurate, stable over long periods of time, and resilient to interference.

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December 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Big news from space! 🛰️@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's Magnetometer aboard NASA's IMAP has captured its first data 🚀Developed with @ukspaceagency.bsky.social support, MAG is already delivering data that will help protect satellites, astronauts and tech on Earth

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Imperial’s magnetometer on NASA’s IMAP Mission records successful ‘first light’
Imperial researchers celebrate a landmark achievement as NASA’s IMAP mission sends back its first data from space.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🚀Imperial's MAGIC magnetometer is heading to the Moon! Build for ESA's ERSA mission on NASA's Gateway Station, MAGIC will monitor space weather by measuring magnetic fields - helping protect astronauts & tech from solar storms

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Imperial’s MAGIC instrument prepares for Lunar Gateway mission
A new experiment, called the European Radiation Sensors Array (ERSA), will carry a Magnetometer built by Imperial physicists to orbit the Moon and mo...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🔎Imperial researchers in a record-breaking dark matter hunt!

Scientists from @imperialphysics.bsky.social have helped set new limits on dark matter and achieved a breakthrough in detecting neutrinos from the Sun’s core as part of @lzdarkmatter.bsky.social

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Dark matter search sets new limits and achieves neutrino breakthrough
Imperial researchers contribute to LZ’s record-breaking hunt for dark matter and its first observation of rare neutrino interactions
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December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🚨 We’re hiring!

Join Imperial as a Research Associate in Cloud Physics

📍 Ref: NAT02102
🗓️ Closes: 4 January 2026

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December 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🔬Imperial physicists help close neutrino mystery!

As part of the MicroBooNE collaboration at @fermilab.bsky.social, researchers have ruled out the existence of the long-hypothesised sterile neutrino - closing one of particle physics’ most enduring puzzles.

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Fermilab’s MicroBooNE rules out existence of an elusive sterile neutrino
Imperial researchers, as part of the global MicroBooNE collaboration, challenge the existence of the once-believed sterile neutrino.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Need something inspiring for your commute?🎙️

Imperial's Yasmin Andrew joined Brian Cox & Robin Ince on The Infinite Monkey Cage podcast to discuss ⚡️nuclear fusion: how it works, challenges to overcome and the future of clean energy.

👉Listen now: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Infinite Monkey Cage - Series 34 - Fusion – Ria Lina, Yasmin Andrew and Howard Wilson - BBC Sounds
Brian Cox and Robin Ince join forces to tackle the hot topic of nuclear fusion.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
⏳ Two weeks to go!

Interested in a PhD in Particle Physics at Imperial?

Join our Particle Physics PhD Open Day — 10 Dec 2025, in person or online! ✨

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November 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
☁️ How is human activity changing how cloud behaviour?

New imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social research, published in pnas.org, reveals surprising effects of pollution on nighttime marine cloud activity, challenging previous assumptions.

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November 25, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Interested in a PhD in Astrophysics at Imperial?

Join our Astrophysics PhD Open Day — 3 Dec 2025, in person or online! ✨

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November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
🚨 We’re hiring!

Join Imperial as a Research Associate in Topological Matter

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🗓️ Closes: 11 Dec 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! Join Imperial - Research Associate Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics

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🗓️ Closes: 15 Dec 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🚨 We’re hiring! Join Imperial as a Research Associate Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics

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🗓️ Closes: 14 Dec 2025

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November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Don't miss today's #FoNSMAD launch! ⬇️
All Imperial undergraduate students are invited to participate in the FoNS Make-A-Difference competition 2026!

Teams of students from all Faculties, will have the unique opportunity to showcase their creativity.

🗓️ Launch event 14.00, 12 November 🗓️

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November 12, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Our own Professor Andrew Jaffe joined Sean Carroll on the Mindscape podcast earlier this week to unpack his new book The Random Universe - and explained how randomness shaped the cosmos 🪐

🎧 Listen here: www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

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I talk about The Random Universe (the book, and the Universe itself) on [Sean Carroll's Mindscape. We cover epistemology, probability, quantum mechanics, cosmology and more. Sean and I were cosmology grad students at the same time, and it was a pleasure and an honour to spend time with him online.
335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe – Sean Carroll
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November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A fab evening at Imperial! 🪐

We held a special event to celebrate Prof. Michele Dougherty and her historic appointment as Astronomer Royal - brilliant turnout and plenty of engaged faces!

Read more: 🔗https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/271213/imperial-celebrates-professor-michele-doughertys-historic/
November 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🚀Last chance to sign up to the Fusion and Plasma Physics Careers Day next week!

Join us either in person or online for an exciting day of talks, networking and career insights.

📅 Bookings close at 09:00 on Monday 10 November

👉 Register here: lnkd.in/ezb9zBSV
🚨Calling all Physics Students! 🚨

Thinking about a career in fusion energy or plasma science? ⚡️

Come to our free careers day on Wednesday 12 November!

🎓 Talks, networking, careers advice
🌍 Open to students worldwide
📍 Attend in-person or online
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November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Fellowship Opportunities at Imperial Physics

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November 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A warm welcome back! ✨

MSc Applied Optics Class of 1975 returned to the Blackett Labs to mark 50 years since their time at Imperial - including a visit to Room 630, where they photographed as students📷

Discover how we can help bring your reunion to life⬇️
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October 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Don't miss FoNS Social Mobility Week exploring Social Mobility at Imperial and beyond

Sessions include 'how to network', a 'conversation on #SocialMobility at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, as well as a keynote with Professor Lee Elliot Major

Register now ⬇️

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October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Two experiments involving Imperial scientists have created the world's most precise measurement of the difference between the mass of two types of #neutrino

Read more here ⬇️

www.imperial.ac.uk/news/270453/...
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Interested in a PhD in Particle Physics at Imperial?

Join the Particle Physics PhD Open Day — 10 Dec 2025!

💫 Chat with supervisors
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🔗 Info & registration: www.imperial.ac.uk/high-energy-...

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October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM