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Marcella Bona

@marcellabona.bsky.social
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physicist, londoner, wannabe dancer, wannabe photographer, linux user, she/her

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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I moved from Switzerland to the London East End.. I'm quite the asylum seeker.. 😅
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Help! Parton Community Council has 60 days to raise £70k to buy Parton Kirk (resting place of James Clerk Maxwell). They plan to turn it into a visitor centre celebrating our great hero! The other buyers could turn it into long-term storage 😬 Even £5 would help 🙏🧪⚛️ www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £70000 to Save Parton Kirk – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to Save Parton Kirk. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Noi lavoriamo per cercare di avere più donne nella scienza.. e intanto al mio paesello natio.. www.brasfestival.com/i-nostri-chef/. 🙄🙄 perché infatti le donne in italia non cucinano mica.. 😠
brasfestival.com
Chef – BRA'S
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ATLAS Experiment @atlasexperiment.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For more than a decade, ATLAS scientists at #CERN have been bringing particle physics to communities worldwide through live Virtual Visits. 🌍 The programme is now the focus of ATLAS's first paper dedicated to science education, communication and outreach. 🔗 atlas.cern/Updates/Brie...
atlas.cern
ATLAS publishes first paper on Public Engagement with Science
You can’t exactly take the ATLAS experiment on tour. At 7,000 tonnes and buried 100 metres underground at CERN, it’s not easy to move. So, for more than a decade, the ATLAS Collaboration has found ano...
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Addio Guccio 🥺
Francesco Guccini on the cover of the album "D'amore di morte e di altre sciocchezze"
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"One does not have to be an astronomer to know that optics matter." 😂
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Jon Butterworth @jonbutterworth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Important context and analysis regarding recent UKRI announcements of cuts to UK science capacity. lheurtier.github.io/STFCprio.html
lheurtier.github.io
The STFC Prioritisation Outcome: What the Numbers Really Mean
UKRI's 2.7% PPAN headline compares 2029/30 with 2025/26 in cash terms. A longer-run inflation-adjusted comparison points to a roughly 16% contraction since 2021/22.
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Pallab Ghosh @pallabg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
he UK‘s research funding agency @UKRI_News has received a record increase for funding Science by the government. Why then is it having to cut the budget of some of the most important labs in the country?🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK science research labs hit by £160m cut despite record spending
Some of Britian's biggest labs face cuts even though government science spending is at record levels.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
London's glorious today 😍
View over London with St Paul's Cathedral with the red arrows leaving a red white and blue smoke trail
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Clare Burrage @clareburrage.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Alongside the majority of my colleagues in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Nottingham, I have received a letter telling me I am at risk of redundancy. To my physics friends - please sign this letter to help us save our amazing School nottinghamphysics.github.io/Open_Letter/
nottinghamphysics.github.io
Save Nottingham Physics and Astronomy
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Lacking the mimosa flowers in UK, I opted for the delicious cocktail alternative.. happy women's day to everyone! 🌾🏵🌼🌻
A glass of a mimosa cocktail.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I'm still on time.. just coming out of a meeting down in the bowels of #CERN... happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!! #WomenInScience #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience #IDWGIS2026
Selfie of Marcella Bona with the background of a CERN underground corridor with some pipes on the ceiling.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Interesting episode at the passport control done at the gate at Geneva Airport when the guy whispered "conasse" as he was displeased by something about me, assuming I would not understand this fine French word.. one of the perks of knowing more than your passport language... 😬
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Will the whole building 104 at CERN be at the mercy of goblins if we still have Christmas decorations on? It could be fun 😆😂 #TwelfthNight
A Christmas tree in the open space of an office building at CERN
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Come and work with us 🤩
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter (island) 😅
Collage of pictures from Easter Island. Mostly landscapes with Moai.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Just had three interesting days at the Beyond the Flavour Anomalies 2025 workshop in Rome: agenda.infn.it/event/44057/ Good to see lots of friends and some nice #UTfit plots 😍. By chance, Nicola Cabibbo would have had his 90th birthday yesterday..
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Honoured and proud to be beta-tester of the amazing conference clock designed and built by @randomgenerator42.bsky.social.. looking forward to the upcoming summer conferences 😉
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
..and you can clearly see me in this picture waving my hand 😅
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Congratulations to us 13000 winners of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics! 🥳 breakthroughprize.org/News/91
breakthroughprize.org
Breakthrough Prize – Breakthrough Prize Announces 2025 Laureates in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics, and Mathematics
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@officialscalextric.bsky.social Carlos the caterpillar should visit the good site also!! 😅
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Hi I'm Marcella. I have a PhD but I don't know how to tie my shoes. 🤪 * had to stop three times during my #parkrun this morning 😬
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Ahead of the International Women's Day 2025, we organised an interesting, intense, enlightening and fun event, led by Professor Claudia Garetto.. www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/pce/iwd25/ Hopefully the first of a long series 🤩 Have a look at the contributions here: indico.ph.qmul.ac.uk/event/2234/
Poster of the event. It reads "Celebrate IWD with the women of QMUL Faculty of Science and Engineering. 5th March 2025, 15:00-17:00, G.O. Jones Lecture Theatre. It shows the profile pictures of speakers Jessica Agnew-Blais and Marcella Bona, and chair Claudia Garetto.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Jonathan Bailey and Royce Pierreson in Richard II at the @bridgetheatre.bsky.social 🤩😍
Jonathan Bailey and Royce Pierreson and all the company on the stage for the curtain call.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!! Greetings from the SPSC meeting at @cern.bsky.social 🤩
Marcella Bona (left) and Annapaola de Cosa (right) in front of a picture of the LHC tunnel. Taken at CERN in the main building (blg 500).
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Subsonica in London! 🥰 Not sure I've ever seen so many Italians in the same place in UK 😅
Subsonica in concert at O2 Kentish Town
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
recognising my absolute favourite place for fondue in Geneva.. vive Bains des Pâquis 😍
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Annapaola de Cosa asked ChatGPT for a dark shower representation 🤣
ChatGPT representation of a dark shower
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Dark Showers Workshop is kicking off now! See here indico.cern.ch/event/1470958/ 😎
indico.cern.ch
Dark Showers Workshop
Following up on the initial discussions during the Dark-showers session of the Roadmap of DM workshop at CERN earlier this year, we would like to organize a “distributed” workshop, with a first meetin...
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Fun day going around #CERN with our @qmulspcs.bsky.social students! I guided them in @atlasexperiment.bsky.social and at the data centre, but then I played the visitor at @cmsexperiment.bsky.social 🥰
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Claudia Ratti @claudiaratti.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
There is a very nice article on Physics Today about the many important contributions that Dr. Wu gave to physics, beyond her famous proof of parity violation experiment. A few examples include entanglement, angular correlations of entangled gamma-ray photons, and Bell inequalities.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Big #indico fan here... recently suggested its use for a faculty event organised by a mathematician and a biologist.. blew their minds 🤩
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Congratulations Nathan!! 😍 #ProudSupervisor
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I had An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail!! 🤣 @standupmaths.bsky.social @bechillcomedian.bsky.social @robeastaway.bsky.social @medcrisis.bsky.social @marinemumbles.bsky.social @helenarney.bsky.social @mmaarrow.bsky.social
Poster for the evening with Matt Parker and others
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
If you see this, post something green #teamlab #tokyo
Green giant bubbles
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Did my 35th #parkrun at Mile End today! In the meanwhile I'm waiting for my 25 t-shirt.. however the #evri courrier is terrible and I don't think I will ever get it.. 🙄
Mile end parkrun banner with some runners getting ready on the background
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Grateful to the lady who sold me at a significant discount her extra ticket for Macbeth with David Tennant (but unfortunately no Cush Jumbo) 😍 very intense performance 👏 www.haroldpintertheatre.co.uk/shows/macbeth
The Macbeths in their final bow on the stage (David Tennant and understudy Jasmin Hinds)
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ATLAS@QMUL @atlasqmul.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
New ATLAS analysis just out from our group: a first search for a possible charged Higgs boson decaying into a W boson and Standard Model Higgs boson 🥳 (spoiler!) No significant excess found, but new exclusion limits are obtained spanning masses up to 3.0 TeV 😎 atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS...
The mass distribution of W±h in the low-NN-score SRs (top) of the merged ℓ±ν bb̄ event categories. The term `Others' summarises events from tHjb, tWh, tt̄tt̄, and SM Vh production. The background prediction is shown after a background-only maximum-likelihood fit to data. The lower panels show the ratio of the observed to the estimated SM background. The shaded bands show the total post-fit uncertainty in the background. The expected signal contribution assuming mH± = 900 GeV, normalised to a cross-section times branching ratio (σsig × B) values of 1.8 pb, is shown as a dashed histogram.
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Age yourself with your first computer
SC-3000 computer (keyboard) from the 80s
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm going to claim a small victory.. at CERN Restaurant 1, we can now wash our reusable mugs! I suggested it to our CERN Users representatives and it actually happened!! 🥳 #LifeAtCERN
Mug washing machine installed at CERN restaurant 1
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Patrick Koppenburg 🐧 @koppenburg.ch · 18/11/2024
New most precise measurement of the neutral B meson lifetime by the @atlasexperiment.bsky.social ! arxiv.org/abs/2411.09962 👏🧪
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Marcella Bona @marcellabona.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Opening in here with grateful words for the amazing stranger who gave me his extra ticket for the exceptional Cure (@thecureverse.bsky.social) concert at the Troxy a couple of weeks ago 🤩
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Cliff Burgess @cburgescliff.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
1/N. Why antiparticles exist (a thread)
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