Pippa Wells
@pippawells.bsky.social
Deputy Director for Research and Computing at CERN.
Opinions my own. She/her.
Opinions my own. She/her.
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Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy International Day of LGBTQIA+ People In STEM!
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
How are you celebrating it?
#LGBTQSTEMDay #PrideInSTEM
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![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
November 16, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The golden age of diversity and democracy in Oz.
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Interested in a fully funded PhD place in Experimental Particle Physics in Edinburgh?
We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).
More info: inspirehep.net/jobs/3080808
We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).
More info: inspirehep.net/jobs/3080808
INSPIRE
inspirehep.net
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Interested in a fully funded PhD place in Experimental Particle Physics in Edinburgh?
We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).
More info: inspirehep.net/jobs/3080808
We have fully funded studentships, including a specific scholarship for students from a Black heritage (including mixed Black background).
More info: inspirehep.net/jobs/3080808
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In which, as usual, prosody does almost all the indexical and semantic work at the same time and the lexical content is just along for the ride
whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing
October 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
In which, as usual, prosody does almost all the indexical and semantic work at the same time and the lexical content is just along for the ride
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People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children.
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
September 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
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This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
August 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
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What are the best books on the history of the internet? Particularly the early days in the 80s and 90s?
August 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What are the best books on the history of the internet? Particularly the early days in the 80s and 90s?
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#HelloSteph does #HelloKitty at @cern.bsky.social for #InternationalCatDay 😻
Iconic particle accelerator-themed merch #niche
#ILC #InternationalLinearCollider #UKatCERN
Iconic particle accelerator-themed merch #niche
#ILC #InternationalLinearCollider #UKatCERN
August 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#HelloSteph does #HelloKitty at @cern.bsky.social for #InternationalCatDay 😻
Iconic particle accelerator-themed merch #niche
#ILC #InternationalLinearCollider #UKatCERN
Iconic particle accelerator-themed merch #niche
#ILC #InternationalLinearCollider #UKatCERN
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If you must dream, dream big.
August 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If you must dream, dream big.
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It's been a hellish journey (read thread if you care), but my book Tories: The End of an Error is coming out at the end of August - it's been sent off to print.
You can pre-order here subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/tori...
And here's an excerpt
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
You can pre-order here subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/tori...
And here's an excerpt
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
Tories: The End of an Error – Byline Times Shop
Tories: The End of Error is the final – please God, let it be final – volume in the satirical trilogy that has catalogued every fib and fatuity of fourteen years of Tory rule. Russell Jones offers us ...
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August 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's been a hellish journey (read thread if you care), but my book Tories: The End of an Error is coming out at the end of August - it's been sent off to print.
You can pre-order here subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/tori...
And here's an excerpt
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
You can pre-order here subscribe.bylinetimes.com/product/tori...
And here's an excerpt
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Happy 50th anniversary @nikhef.bsky.social and here’s to another 50 years of collaboration in #ParticlePhysics. 🎂
Explore Nikhef’s rich history in the timeline. #nikhef50
Explore Nikhef’s rich history in the timeline. #nikhef50
Today, Nikhef celebrates its 50th anniversary. 🥳Originating from a working group of like-minded physicists in the 1940s, Nikhef is now a national partnership of six universities and NWO.
Have a look at our timeline to see our history! www.nikhef.nl/timeline-nik...
#nikhef50
Have a look at our timeline to see our history! www.nikhef.nl/timeline-nik...
#nikhef50
Timeline Nikhef 50 - Nikhef
Het Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica Nikhef bestaat dit jaar een halve eeuw. Voortgekomen uit een werkgroep van gelijkgestemde natuurkundigen in de jaren ‘40 is Nikhef nu een...
www.nikhef.nl
June 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Happy 50th anniversary @nikhef.bsky.social and here’s to another 50 years of collaboration in #ParticlePhysics. 🎂
Explore Nikhef’s rich history in the timeline. #nikhef50
Explore Nikhef’s rich history in the timeline. #nikhef50
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That week felt like a month!! On behalf of Heard Island, Happy Father’s Day to those brave souls sitting on eggs, sharing krill, or telling lousy jokes!
Photo: Peter Brannon
Photo: Peter Brannon
June 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
That week felt like a month!! On behalf of Heard Island, Happy Father’s Day to those brave souls sitting on eggs, sharing krill, or telling lousy jokes!
Photo: Peter Brannon
Photo: Peter Brannon
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Dear USA
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
June 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Dear USA
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.
Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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This is amazing 🤯🤯
June 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is amazing 🤯🤯
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Adam Ramsay recounts how his parents' adoption of beavers has transformed their upland farm into a rich, biodiverse haven for birds, mammals, fish and amphibians
The Magic of Beavers
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April 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Adam Ramsay recounts how his parents' adoption of beavers has transformed their upland farm into a rich, biodiverse haven for birds, mammals, fish and amphibians
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STOP what you are doing, find some headphones or a secluded location, and watch this. I am crying with laughter and admiration at an idea seen through to its (nearly) bitter end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3Q... Sound--as they say--on.
Hlavní nadraží Praha - znělka 02 (Dlouhá verze)
YouTube video by Pavel Jirásek
www.youtube.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
STOP what you are doing, find some headphones or a secluded location, and watch this. I am crying with laughter and admiration at an idea seen through to its (nearly) bitter end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3Q... Sound--as they say--on.
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Man Struggling to Change the Cover of a King Size Duvet. Bronze, 19th century.
March 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Man Struggling to Change the Cover of a King Size Duvet. Bronze, 19th century.
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76 new particles have been discovered at the LHC so far: the Higgs boson, 52 conventional hadrons and a bestiary of 23 exotic hadrons whose structure cannot reliably be explained or their existence predicted.
If you're sketchy about the 23...
cerncourier.com/a/a-bestiary... @koppenburg.ch
If you're sketchy about the 23...
cerncourier.com/a/a-bestiary... @koppenburg.ch
January 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
76 new particles have been discovered at the LHC so far: the Higgs boson, 52 conventional hadrons and a bestiary of 23 exotic hadrons whose structure cannot reliably be explained or their existence predicted.
If you're sketchy about the 23...
cerncourier.com/a/a-bestiary... @koppenburg.ch
If you're sketchy about the 23...
cerncourier.com/a/a-bestiary... @koppenburg.ch