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Cliò Agrapidis

@cagrap.bsky.social
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EU Project Consultant, Physicist, Mom, SciComm wannabe

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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Best way to know you’ve reached the German border when entering the country is entering a “Funkloch”: a hole in mobile data. No phone connection whatsoever. Never fails.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
News for those looking for European funding in quantum tech: 3 calls have been cancelled and moved to the EuroHPC JU work programme (tba) 🧪⚛️
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I had fun interviewing project partners from @udl.cat to learn more about thermal energy storage system and the innovation brought forward within the SUSHEAT project. Listen to our conversation if you want to learn how these are like batteries for heat, but not quite the same 🧪
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
UK Pauses Its Plan To Cede Chagos Islands After US Opposition 🧪🦑🌎 Sigh
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UK Pauses Its Plan To Cede Chagos Islands After US Opposition
By Suban Abdulla and William Schomberg LONDON, April 11 (Reuters) – Britain’s government said on Saturday it had put on hold its deal to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands – home...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 11/04/2026
Climate change is outpacing water conservation efforts in the Southwest. Cities like Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas have been having great success with reducing water usage. But climate change will produce severe shortages that demand management alone cannot solve.
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Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas offer a glimpse of the future
Cities have the best chance of reducing water use when people actively participate in water conservation, but even that might not be enough in the future.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.
Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Wanna hear a bit about my journey as a woman in science and beyond? Tune in to the latest #InnovationCast by RTDS. Bonus track: insights on being a woman in science communication by Nouhaila Bouhout 🧪👩‍🔬
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Decarbonisation needs real solution for industry. Changing the way we approach industrial heat means lowering CO2 emissions. Hear from industry leaders and scientific experts at the upcoming SUSHEAT webinar on March 10 10:00CET 🧪
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Bright side of spraining my ankle in the stupidest way (don’t text and walk downs stairs kids!) is that I picked up cross stitch again after a 2.5 years hiatus! Last time was just few hours before my water broke
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Even though I’m not doing active research anymore, I still support science. The SUSHEAT project is particularly close to my heart, bringing together different technologies to build a solution for industrial heat decarbonisation. And women are at the forefront of this new developments 👩‍🔬
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I woke up salty today, so I had to leave a comment on yet another post sharing “scientists and their world-changing ideas” and showing exclusively male scientists. It’s time men start noticing it too 🧪👩‍🔬
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RTDS Group @rtds-group.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Read about the latest developments in #EUFunding, #policy and #innovation in our new monthly #newsletter, authored by our EU project consultant @cagrap.bsky.social: www.linkedin.com/pulse/rtds-n... #SciComm #Research #Funding #Insights #HorizonEurope
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Business trips by yourself are weird. But here’s the truth • Nobody cares. Truly. No one is judging you for eating alone. • It’s time with yourself, not time by yourself. Reframing helps. • Walk like a local. No frantic map-checking. Just stroll with confidence, explore a shop, let the place unfold.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This week’s inauguration of the Ruby and Jade quantum computers forming the first federated hybrid quantum HPC infrastructure was amazing. The most incredible part? So many women leading the project and presenting key results 😍 ⚛️🧪
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
“My science is different” No, sir, yours is not science if you refuse to look at the actual evidence. (And if you don’t believe dyslexia exists) 🧪 www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Last month, I was lucky enough to celebrate my birthday at the Vienna quantum Tech days. I wrote about the key takeaways on the @rtds-group.bsky.social blog. Bringing research to the market is the main challenge for a quantum Europe. It’s also what RTDS does best. More here tinyurl.com/yjpkme8b ⚛️🧪
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Quantum Act 2026: Europe’s Next Leap Forward
This year's Vienna Quantum Tech Days offered a clear signal: Europe will take its next major step with the Quantum Act, due to be launched in 2026.
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EU Science, Research & Innovation @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu · 06/11/2025
(1/2) Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the first woman Nobel laureate and the only person awarded in both Chemistry and Physics, opened new frontiers in science. Her spirit inspires researchers through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme that supports excellence and collaboration across borders 🧪
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Perks of being a EU-projects consultant: getting to experience the local culture while attending consortium meetings
A pan of paella valenciana on a blue table
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2025
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Changing from academia to industry is often referred as transitioning. But how does this transition look like? From a physics point of view, I'd say it' a second order phase transition. 🧪👩🏻‍🔬 ⚛️ 🧵#AcademicSky
line graph showing number of open projects vs time after leaving academia. The line starts at some number and decreases in jumps, similar to a magnetisation curve (also noted in the graph). At the end, it reaches and stays at xero. This part of the graph has a smily face of a woman with dark hair and on top of her head the word "freedom" in neon blue. The line graph is in mustard yellow as is the title of the picture "Academia to industry: a slow transition". Everything is against a navy background.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
2-years-old are your best friend and your worst enemy all in one too-cute-to-handle package
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Even people who know that Substack is bad news still think of it as their only alternative. It’s not. @anildash.com lists some and makes a great point: call it your work. Your writing. Thank you for clarifying my thoughts even to myself, now I know how to counter argument to substack use
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
How to excite a physicist on a Greek island? 🌊 By spotting soliton waves! 🧪 ⚛️ 🧵
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Update on the anti-vax nominees on the Italian vaccine committee: the committee has been dissolved 🧪
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Paper accepted 🎉 Except… grant just ended and I’m out of funding… OA fees anyone? 🧪 #AcademicSky 🧵
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
There is much less fuss around this news than around any RFK related one (and it makes sense, in a way). Still, I find it very frightening that Italy has appointed two renowned no-vax supporters in its vaccine experts committee, an organism which collaborates with the WHO. 🧪🧵
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Discussions shape us. But papers do it too. For me, one that shaped the way I think was: 🧠 Introduction to topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions by Leijnse & Flensberg. I read it during my master’s thesis—10 years ago!—and it just clicked. 🧵🧪⚛️
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Did not have “toddler waking up with pink eye” on my July bingo card…
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
How do you navigate transitioning out of academia while also on vacation? I mean, how do you deal with those open projects very close to completion? #AcademicSky
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 03/07/2025
Former EU high representative Josep Borrell accused the European Commission and European Council of failing to act over crimes committed by U.S. mercenaries in Gaza.
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Borrell accuses EU institutions of inaction over Gaza
Brussels recently found Israel guilty of human rights abuses and plans to revisit its association agreement with the country.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Let’s remember that one of von der Leyen’s pony was killed in a wolf attack. Is the push for downgrading protection for wolves a coincidence? I doubt it. I wrote about it in Italian few months back, with my scientist view and some political glasses on top 🧪 medium.com/@cliagrapidi...
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I lupi in Europa: tra politica e scienza
Declassare i lupi da specie ‘strettamente protetta’ a ‘protetta’ potrebbe segnare un passo indietro per le politiche di conservazione.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
One thing we don’t talk about enough is how collaboration in academia is highly affected by personal priorities: maybe you’re making time to finish up something so your colleagues can take over and do their part, but when they do they are actually busy with something else #AcademicSky
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“An Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for 47 years, has no criminal record, and is married to a US citizen was detained by ICE as she gardened outside her New Orleans home.” ht: @timmiller.bsky.social www.nola.com/news/politic...
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Iranian immigrant who has lived in New Orleans nearly 50 years arrested outside Lakeview home
Federal agents arrested an Iranian woman who has lived in the United States for more than four decades outside her Lakeview home Sunday.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Today we had the online graduation ceremony, closing this year with @scicommtrento.bsky.social. It was bittersweet to see my classmates one last time all together after this very intense year. Congratulations everyone, let’s keep telling science stories #SciComm
Screenshot of zoom graduation ceremony with 18 smiling faces
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
What a list of accomplishments! What a barrier breaker! We should all celebrate Cecilia Payne 👩‍🔬🧪⚛️
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“To counter the new normal’s assault on normalcy, we must double down on our duty to know, to speak up and to remember“ www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve...
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We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality
We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our head in the sand and why we need to pull it out, fast
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adriana romer @adrianaromer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Innenminister Dobrindt will sich mit seiner Flüchtlingspolitik über geltendes Recht hinwegsetzen, andere greifen sogar Verwaltungsrichter an. Das ist inakzeptabel und untergräbt die Gewaltenteilung. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/dobr...
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Dobrindts Attacken auf Asyl-Richter sind inakzeptabel
Weil seine Migrationspolitik von einem Gericht gestoppt wird, stellt er es in Frage. Das ist gefährlich für den Rechtsstaat
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
1/7 This week, two women asked me why I studied physics. I said: “Because I liked it.” They were surprised. ⚛️👩‍🔬🧵
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Reviews are in for a manuscript. Both reviewers write "this is solid work, it should be publish as is. But first answer these questions", then proceed making the most unhinged requests that would require at least 6 more months of calculations and be enough for a second paper 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️ #AcademicSky
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Brent Peters 🌏 The Digital Global Citizen @thedigitalglobalcitizen.com · 18/05/2025
Today’s reason to learn another language: You will have a 1-on-1 conversation with someone in you new language at some point. It will be unexpected. It will change you forever. #langsky
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The produce box came with 4 beetroots this week. So today I made beetroot pancakes for breakfast, beetroot risotto for lunch, and beetroot chocolate cake for tea. If we all look pinker than usual, you know why 🫜
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 15/05/2025
Choose Science. Choose Europe. In 2025, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions will invest over €1.25B, supporting more than 10,000 researchers. A new Choose Europe for Science pilot will promote stable research careers across the EU. Explore the calls ↓
A black-and-white photo of Marie Skłodowska-Curie is featured alongside the EU flag. Bold text reads: “Choose EUROPE for Science.” Below, a caption says: “New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions pilot initiative.” The design uses shades of blue and turquoise with EU branding.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Let’s take something wrong and make it wronger 🧪👩‍🔬
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The irony of having posted this at 11:35pm is not lost on me
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Here is my cat to remind myself and everyone that resting is fundamental (and being this cute also helps) #catsofbluesky
A Siberian neva masquerade cat chilling on a big cat tree with a paw hanging out of the resting surface.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/05/2025
She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Today was probably my last day with my colleagues at the faculty of physics. I will be off most of the summer and exit academia as of end of August. Feelings are bittersweet, but I am excited of what’s ahead. #AcademicSky 👩‍🔬🧪
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I fell like @elenamilani.bsky.social might like this content. I raise you a “every time you used a 3D chart, was an opportunity to use a 2D one”
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Didn’t expect that me coming back to Warsaw would be accompanied by a terrible attack on the main campus and a toddler throwing up in the middle of the night, but here we are. Toddler is fine now, for those wondering.
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