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December is here, and so is the #MAPSAdvent2025 calendar! 🎄🗓️ From now until #Christmas we'll be sharing highlights from the year, great memories and festive images/stories ✨ Stay tuned and celebrate with us 🎅
On Day 9 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we bring attention to a unique collaboration between @bas.ac.uk & @es-ucl.bsky.social, where #Antarctic #ice undergoes a series of destructive crush experiments under the watchful eye of earthquake & rock physicist Prof Tom Mitchell: www.newscientist.com/video/249090...
Scientists crush ice cores to predict Antarctica's next big ice crack
Ice cores collected from giant Antarctic rifts are helping predict future calving events
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December 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
On Day 8 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're sending you a #ChristmasCard drawn with mathematical equations by our super-talented UCL Mathematics alumnus Hamid Naderi Yeganeh 🤩

#snowman #maths #mathematics #art #HamidNaderiYeganeh
December 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This year the Dean of our Faculty Prof Ivan Parkin celebrated his 60th birthday 🥳 On Day 7 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we’re sharing the celebratory Symposium where Prof Parkin presented his adventures & discoveries in #chemistry & #MaterialsScience: www.youtube.com/shorts/Msw4E...

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Day 7 #MAPSAdvent2025: highlighting the Symposium in honour of Prof Ivan Parkin’s 60th birthday 🥳
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December 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
#MAPSAdvent2025 Day 6 🎄 A festive surprise in the UCL Institute for Materials Discovery lab: tree-like zinc dendrites forming during microbattery research. Institute's own microscopic winter forest!

Image credit: Dr Monojit Mondal, Dr Naresh Nibagani and PhD student Sijin Liu.

#science #research
December 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#MAPSAdvent2025: Are you looking for original #Christmas #gifts? How about this Kairos aerator (perfect for red wine lovers) co-founded by our MSc Technology Management graduate, Jonah Lee? Many more to browse from entrepreneurs supported by @uclenterprise.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/enterprise/g...
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
On Day 3 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're looking back at the annual Technical Staff Showcase 🌎 Pictured are just some of the cutting-edge research and equipment from our amazing UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory and UCL Chemistry techs! Always inspiring ✨

@uclchemistry.bsky.social #space #science
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
On Day 2 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we look at a study which discovered that "#space #ice" is less like #water than we thought ❄️: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

@uclchemistry.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
December is here, and so is the #MAPSAdvent2025 calendar! 🎄🗓️ From now until #Christmas we'll be sharing highlights from the year, great memories and festive images/stories ✨ Stay tuned and celebrate with us 🎅
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
📣 In celebration of UCL's upcoming 200th anniversary, we're excited to announce 2 #scholarships for our new MSc Mathematics course worth £13,000 each (to be used toward tuition fees). Find out more on eligibility, deadlines & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

#maths #mathematics #study
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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A mysterious swarm of earthquakes that occurred near the Greek island of Santorini early this year was caused by molten rock smashing through Earth’s crust more than 10km below the seafloor, finds a new study involving Dr @seismo-steve.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
📢 Last call for applications to become a @uclmaps.bsky.social Digital Student Ambassador! We're looking for creative, confident, social media-savvy undergraduate and postgraduate (taught) students who are great at communicating their UCL experience with others: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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The first clear signal of a giant stellar eruption from a star beyond our solar system has been observed by an international team including Dr Hamish Reid @uclmaps.bsky.social using data from Europe’s powerful LOFAR radio telescope www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
Evidence of a massive stellar storm on a nearby star
An international team involving UCL astronomers has observed the first clear signal of a giant stellar eruption from a star beyond our solar system.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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UCL is 1st in the UK for sustainability in the QS Sustainability Rankings for the second year running! 🏆🌍

Thank you to our community for making this possible 👏

🔗 Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/nov/ucl-ranks-1st-uk-and-3rd-globally-qs-sustainability-rankings
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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🤩 CPS member Dr Paola Pinilla is based at the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey @uclmaps.bsky.social where she leads a research group of postdocs and students on the topic of planet formation ☀️🌀🪐
It's been an informative and inspiring morning here at our Early Career Event.

RAS Award winner Dr Paola Pinilla, data scientist Dr Robert Shore and geologist Professor Chris Jackson have been among the speakers offering advice and sharing experiences they've encountered during their careers. 🪐🖥️🌋
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Congratulations, Helen! 👏
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Ageing stars are surprisingly efficient at destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, suggests a new study by Dr Edward Bryant @embryantastro.bsky.social and Dr Vincent Van Eylen @uclmaps.bsky.social looking at nearly half a million post-main sequence stars using NASA's TESS satellite
Ageing stars may be destroying their closest planets
Ageing stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and the University of Warwick.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Join us for our upcoming in-person Undergraduate Open Event and find out more about studying at @uclrdr.bsky.social and @stsucl.bsky.social departments!

📅 Saturday 15 November
⏰ 10:30 am to 3:00 pm

Register your place and find out more: bit.ly/3X6zqYY.
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Spooky story time! 👻 Gather round the fire with student Maria and listen to 3 spine-tingling facts about space 🌌 Happy Halloween 🎃 youtube.com/shorts/3LE48...

#halloween #HappyHalloween #spooky #scary #SpookyStory #ScaryStory #SpaceFacts #space #astronomy
👻 3 Scary Space Stories 🌌 Happy Halloween! 🎃
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October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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A research team led by Dr Vincent Van Eylen @uclmaps.bsky.social is investigating a possible UK camera that would "weigh" Earth-like planets to help find life as part of a flagship NASA mission, the Habitable Worlds Observatory. Funded by @ukspaceagency.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...
October 24, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, which engineers at @uclmaps.bsky.social helped design and build, has made its first observations. The facility, with its 2,400 fibres, can unravel the light of 2,400 celestial objects simultaneously www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...
Incredible new telescope could change our understanding of the universe
The largest multi-object spectroscopic survey facility in the southern hemisphere, which UCL engineers helped design and build, has taken its first observations, marking the start of its scientific jo...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
From UCL #PhD student to Professor in #Materials #Chemistry and #Engineering at UCL Chemistry - learn about Guanjie He's research, industry collaborations and role in UCL's upcoming bicentenary: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

@uclchemistry.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk #UCL200 @uclenterprise.bsky.social
Professor Guanjie He
Guanjie He is a Professor in Materials Chemistry and Engineering in the Department of Chemistry at UCL.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM