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eucliduk.bsky.social
Euclid UK
@eucliduk.bsky.social
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We're the UK-based scientists working on ESA’s Euclid space telescope, on a mission to map the dark Universe! 🔭 🌀 🏠 eucliduk.net
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 23h
#astro #scientist #STEM #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmology #space #science #research #Euclid
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 23h
"...‘how do you see your life in ten years from now?’ And I thought about it, and I described something like what I'm doing now! And I realize it now that my job actually is almost just like how I imagined it to be then.” (2/2)

- Konstantinos Tanidis (@ox.ac.uk)

#HumansOfEuclid 🔭🔬
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 23h
#HumansOfEuclid - Konstantinos Tanidis 🧵 (1/2)

“There’s something I have been thinking about recently. I remember before I started my academic career, during my Bachelor’s, I went to one of my astronomy professors and said I would like to start a project. And he asked me...
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 11d
@ec-euclid.bsky.social

#EuclidUK #DarkUniverse #DarkMatter #DarkEnergy #Space #Cosmology #Astronomy #STEM #Outreach #Edinburgh
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 11d
Its Doors Open Days at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social!

All weekend, find Euclideans at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and learn more about how the #Euclid mission will transform our understanding of the Dark Universe. 🌀🔭🌌 #ROEopen
A small crowd of people, including members of the public and University of Edinburgh scientists, chatting and standing around the Euclid pop up exhibition. This includes a large display of Euclid’s first mosaic, containing lots of stars and galaxies, in the background against the wall. On the right side of the room is a small model of the Euclid spacecraft, as well as tabletop activities. A small crowd of people, including members of the public and University of Edinburgh scientists, chatting and standing around the Euclid pop up exhibition. This includes a large display of Euclid’s first mosaic, containing lots of stars and galaxies, in the background against the wall on the left. On the right side of the room on the background is a large interactive gravitational lensing display on the projector wall.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 11d
The fantastic UK network of science and discovery centres needs your help to survive and thrive! Sign this letter urging the UKGov to stop excluding science from the financial support that is available for other museums, art galleries & theatres 🙏🧪🔭👩‍🔬🎢

👉✉️: www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter20...
Catherine having a laugh at the Aberdeen science centre with three girls playing with a powerful fan. Catherine chatting to an interested girl in front of an arch they've just built. Catherine and two kids looking earnestly at some marshmallows in a glass jar that is about to become a vacuum. Catherine looking through a giant lens. She has a mask on.
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 12d
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Euclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 22d
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) has published its 3rd edition of collected Space Law treaties and principles.

And we are honored that an #ESAEuclid image is decorating its cover:

www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourw...

#ESA #UN #Space #Science #Astronomy

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Cover of "United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs" booklet, "International Space Law, United Nations Instruments".
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 27d
"..., okay, I really like to see the stars and everything. Now that I am better with physics and math, etcetera, why not go for it?”

- Konstantinos Tanidis (@ox.ac.uk)

#HumansOfEuclid 🔭🔬

#astro #scientist #STEM #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmology #space #science #research #Euclid (3/3)
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 27d
"...And I was going at night, with some books and some binoculars, trying to see constellations and imagining what's happening there. I mean, I wasn't particularly very good at math and physics when I was very young, but I started to get gradually better. And then I realized..." (2/3)
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · 27d
#HumansOfEuclid - Konstantinos Tanidis 🧵 (1/3)

"“I was born in Thessaloniki, in Greece. When I was young in elementary school, yeah, I was obsessed with documentaries about astronomy and astrophysics. I was born in a city, but some weekends, I would go to the village of my grandparents...
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Sep 6
Sound advice! 🔭
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 25
#astro #scientist #STEM #astronomy #cosmology #tvhost #astrophysics #space #science #research #Euclid #telescope #observations #Bielefeld #Leiden #ecmeeting2025 #LeidenEntries (5/5)
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 25
"So, it shows you how important it is what we say to other people, right? Teachers are important."

- Cora Uhlemann, Professor in Cosmology at Bielefeld University.

#HumansOfEuclid

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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 25
"But what really drew me to cosmology was my master’s thesis supervisor. He was very motivating when he gave lectures. He basically said, if you do cosmology, you can calculate most of the universe. And I thought that was exciting, and all the different aspects of physics that go into this." (3/5)
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 25
"I was never thinking of being a physicist or anything like this. I do have to say both of my parents studied physics. But my mom was really against me going into physics!" (2/5)
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 25
#HumansOfEuclid: @cosmocora.bsky.social - Part 2 (1/5) 🧵

"I never wanted to be an astronomer - I don't have the story of, like, being fascinated by the stars when I was a kid. When I was 14 years old, I wanted to be a TV host...!"
Cora, wearing a blue, purple and black scarf, a turquoise top and navy blue coat, with black jeans, is standing to the left of a large model of the Euclid Space Telescope. There are lit up curtains in the background, as Cora is standing on the stage in the venue of the Euclid Consortium Meeting in Leiden.
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 22
@cosmocora.bsky.social 🕵️‍♀️
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 22
(5/5) #HumansOfEuclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social

#astro #scientist #STEM #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmology #space #science #research #Euclid #telescope #observations #WomenInSTEM #WomenOfEuclid #Bielefeld #Leiden #ECMeeting2025
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 22
(4/5) "But I think it’s exciting because you can learn new things but still bring in your expertise. I was quite surprised how people do benefit from your expertise even if you don’t know much about one of the other key aspects."

- Cora Uhlemann, Professor in Cosmology at Bielefeld University
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 22
(3/5) "I think it’s great to be motivated by theory, and to want to probe the early Universe fundamentally. But of course, in the end, we need to make the connection to actual data. So, I’m trying to go there, step by step..."
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 22
(2/5) "But it feels quite weird now because once I entered astronomy, I was the least applied person! I’m like, I don’t know telescopes? They were kind of closed book to me."
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 22
#HumansOfEuclid (1/5)

"By training, I’m a theorist. I come from quite a theoretical working group doing my PhD. There, I was used to being the most applied person just because I studied something that you could, at least in principle, observe - dark matter..."
Cora is in the foreground, wearing sunglasses, a blue, purple and black patterned scarf, and a turquoise top with an unbuttoned, dark, navy coat on top. The background is blurred because of the bokeh effect, but features Cora standing on a street in Leiden. There are bicycles on the left and the sky is blue with very little cloud. This is just outside of the venue entrance for the Euclid Consortium meeting.
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 18
We’ve got more #HumansOfEuclid for you to meet! 🕵️ 🌌

Get ready for the Leiden Entries, beginning this Friday, where we’ll feature some of the scientists we caught up with earlier this year at the @ec-euclid.bsky.social meeting. 🇳🇱
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Euclid UK @eucliduk.bsky.social · Aug 8
🍇 woah!