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Dominika Vasilkova

@dragondodo.bsky.social
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Particle physicist by day, recreational mathematician and dragonologist by night. (She/her). I work on muon g-2 at the University of Liverpool and Fermilab!

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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Someone is having a BAD day…
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
aaaaaAaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Where the dragons live in the fantasy map on the wall!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Yes. A crow! Who knows what they might do unattended….
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Zeke, put the booze down!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Temperamental little shit star 🤣
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
🤣
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Ha ha oh no!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I hope @dragonsoflondon.bsky.social are aware of a migrant species in Hyde Park at the moment!
A fairground ride with a large red dragon decoration perched on top of the entrance, which is labelled ‘dragon’. It seems to be taking a quick nap!
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Peter Rowlett @peterrowlett.net · 05/12/2025
You know that curve in the pattern of light in the bottom of your tea cup? @steckl.es and I speak to @dragondodo.bsky.social about cardioids! New episode of the Mathematical Objects podcast.
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Mathematical Objects: Cardioid with Dominika Vasilkova
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a light pattern in a tea cup. Presented by Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett, with special guest Dominika Vasilkova. Cardioids in coffee cups – Cha…
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Professor Hamish McSporran @hamishmcsporran.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Hamish enjoying @bigmathsjam.bsky.social with his friends
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 18/11/2025
Beam Dump xkcd.com/3168/
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.
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Tag yourself I’m the seven headed sweet tea deposit
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
But garlic????
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
AAAAAARGG VAMPIRES
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Wheeee airtime!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
AVAIL!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
On PIZZA?! Noooooooo…..
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
#science 🧪
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We had a nice celebration with our group at Liverpool, my colleague and I teamed up to make this muon g-2 cake! Which, just like a muon, had a short lifetime…
Cake decorated with blue, red and green icing to match the muon g-2 experiment at fermilab. We did our best but it’s a bit shaky…
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Or watch an explainer video here, which I occasionally pop up in the b-roll footage of! youtu.be/6LAgV9j9ra8?...
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Final Muon g-2 Measurement at Fermilab
YouTube video by Fermilab
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Today we released our final (a_mu, EDM etc. still to come!) result from g-2, which you can read about here: news.fnal.gov/2025/06/muon...
news.fnal.gov
Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon
The third and final result, based on the last three years of data, is in perfect agreement with the experiment’s previous results, further solidifying the experimental world average. This long-awaited...
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
At a G4G past, Colin B and I had a great time filling the paper tablecloths at lunch with other regular polygon tiles variants, can recommend!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Found some truchet tiles out in the wild!
A photo of a pavement tiled in red and yellow with a regular truchet pattern arranged to make repeating bone shapes.
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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I saw this topology/knot theory trick on TikTok the other day: wrapping a rubber band around a donut… I mean a coffee cup.
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RealityMinus3 & Zeke Rat @realityminus3.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Ha ha ha no we're not @dragondodo.bsky.social
D and E onna same dinky coaster being PHOTOBOMBED by the lady behind us who did NOT UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT
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RealityMinus3 & Zeke Rat @realityminus3.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Here we are at Drayton Manor behaving nicely in public @dragondodo.bsky.social
D and E onna dinky, powered roller coaster smiling nicely as our parents taught us
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I can’t reply to them directly but: oyster mushrooms smothered in sauce anywhere you’d put meat, beech mushrooms stir fried or in scrambled egg, no idea about the lion’s mane!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Anaheim dragonspotting after the APS global physics summit
A green dragon created from string lights, the photo shows only its neck and head, rearing back and blowing red flame A fountain with a large metal dragon made of scraps in the centre. The dragon is stood on four legs with wings spreadThe head and neck of a gold Chinese dragon with fiery beard and whiskers, made from paper stretched over a frame The head of a Chinese dragon in a fountain, coloured bronze
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Sun! 😮
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Are you here or watching on stream?!
Main hall of the Pokemon EU championships, a large convention room filled with people and a giant pikachu hanging from the roof
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This is Persia, she is a cloud in a box
A white fluffy cat in a grey hamper
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Given the usual description is something like ‘half horse half man’, they’ve not specified anything about the horse half… (and now you’ve got the song stuck in my head, thanks 🤣)
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
They have incredible merch (and fudge too to be fair…)
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Persia was curious about her Lego doppelgänger but showed it who was boss
A white fluffy cat next to a Lego minifigure white fluffy cat that looks a lot like her 
The (real) white cat is curious about the Lego cat and sniffs it The cat is now swatting the Lego cat, which has fallen over.
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RealityMinus3 & Zeke Rat @realityminus3.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
this is my friend murray >squeak< >squeak< >squeak< i met him at fermilab a few weeks ago >squeak< he is a good bison >squeak< if you squeeze him , he says "murrrrrrrrrrrr " ! >eek< @dragondodo.bsky.social
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
He has a beautiful singing voice!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
I got whammed an hour ago by my own siblings!!! So I feel your outrage as it mirrors my own
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Bbbbbbboing!!!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN HAS BEEN WORTH IT JUST FOR THIS
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
WITH THE ORIGINAL DIRECTOR TOO… NEW MUSIC?? MORE STORY!! AAAAAAAAAAAA
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
OH!!!! OHHHHHHH!!!!!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
‘Feed me tuna or rocks fall everyone dies’
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
ZEKE’S COFFEE?!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
My colleague’s cat stole his chair while he took a brief break, so now we’re on an epic quest to overthrow the evil canine overlords #proofOfCat
A grey cat sits on a chair behind a GM screen for the TTRPG Mothership. The cat is clearly plotting mischief.
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Zeke! Put it down!
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
As much as I think #proofOfDragon is enough I can also do #proofOfCat , this is Persia, who loves to sit in this hamper that’s too small for her.
A white fluffy cat with a grumpy expression sits in a grey gift hamper, with her head and fluff spilling out A white fluffy cat lies down on a bedside table. She still looks cross.
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
*hrrrrr!*
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Indeed! The trackers were built in a clean room because they needed to operate well inside the vacuum where the muons live.
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Dominika Vasilkova @dragondodo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thread may be of interest to the #science 🧪 feed… (testing if this works!)
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