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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
My first time business trip was a winter school in February 2017. I still remember the anxiety of going for dinner all by myself the first night. What happened? Absolutely nothing besides a lovely dinner.
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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
Thanks for linking a press release, wrote this quickly on the metro just thinking how happy I was seeing several women at this event
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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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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Very true! But definitely a much more complex system to digitally replicate. There is also a big project to create a DT of Earth. That would probably be a great way to model climate and other challenges to preserve our planet destination-earth.eu
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Destination Earth
Building a highly accurate digital twin of the Earth Join DestinE's community Destination Earth Destination Earth is a flagship initiative of the
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Yes, that’s the idea. Of course not all testing can be done on the DT but some can and then you need to possibly “destroy” less real airplanes in the testing process
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
My understanding is if we can do a really good one we can cut costs and,most importantly, waste less material in testing certain structures (like airplanes). Like in this project caelestis-project.eu Plus a bunch of other things I guess
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Home - CAELESTIS ✈️ Next Generation Aircraft
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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
Unless you cut ties completely (rare). So the move to industry? It’s not an event. It’s a second-order phase transition. /end 🧵
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
That’s how leaving academia feels. Your contract ends, but projects linger: papers to revise, collaborations to close, responsibilities to hand over. The “order parameter” (number of open projects) decreases bit by bit. It approaches zero… but never suddenly.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Phase transitions (like liquid water freezing into ice) are classified by how an order parameter changes First-order = abrupt Like water → ice: symmetry shifts all at once Second-order = gradual Like cooling a paramagnet into a ferromagnet: magnetization builds up slowly as temperature drops 🧪⚛️
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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 · 18/08/2025
I was also unsure of what I saw for a moment but the shape was clearly that of a soliton, so I did some digging to double check it good happen in open waters too. Glad you found it enlightening!
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Finally someone as excited as I was!
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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
And yes, my family looked at me weird when I excitedly told them about my sighting. Hope someone here shares my excitement 😁
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
No pictures (sadly), but a lot of excitement — and a story about how physics shows up when you least expect it. More details on the blog 👉 clioagrapidis.com/2025/08/17/s...
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Solitons in Skopelos
How to excite a physicist on a Greek island? By spotting soliton waves!
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Usually, solitons show up in canals or rivers where the conditions are “just right.” That’s why I was so surprised to see a pair in the open waters of Skopelos gulf.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The first soliton was spotted in 1834 by John Scott Russell, who chased one on horseback for 2 miles! He called it a “Wave of Translation.”
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Solitons are fascinating because they behave unlike ordinary waves: 👉 they keep their shape 👉 they don’t fade away 👉 they can even split into pairs of from trains
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Yesterday in Skopelos, the sea outside the harbor was so rough that no ships came in all day. But inside the gulf, I saw two smooth, solitary waves traveling without losing their shape. That’s the signature of a soliton.
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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 · 17/08/2025
Not fully up to me unfortunately
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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
Anyway, stay tuned for the physics breakdown while the OA fee drama hopefully sorts itself out 😅⚛️
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
And honestly… why is no one talking about this? I am sure I am not the only one transitioning to industry while projects are still pending and whose collaborators cannot cover OA fees alone!
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
For context: reporting period for this grant is 60 days.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
No, but really — how do you pay for a project funded by a grant that just finished? Can you still tap into publishing funds, or is that just wishful thinking?
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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
You can find more context in this article (in Italian). One more personal comment: I do not believe approving this nominations now is a coincidence. August is a holiday month in Italy, when people pay generally less attention to the news. Perfect time for this to go unnoticed. bit.ly/4fuNSm0
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Il governo ha nominato due medici scettici sui vaccini nel gruppo di esperti sui vaccini - Il Post
Il loro compito è proprio dare pareri scientifici: sulla scelta ci sono già diverse perplessità
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Paolo Bellavite publicly doubted the benefit to risk relation of COVID vaccines. His employer, the University of Verona, had to release an official statement underlining this was a personal opinion and not reflecting the one of the University.
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Cliò Agrapidis @cagrap.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Eugenio Serravalle wrote a book with Roberto Gava, who was radiated from the Ordine dei Medici (basically not recognised anymore as a medical doctor) in 2017 for his no-vax stances. Serravalle keeps spreading pseudo-scientific claims on vaccine safety.
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