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#Graduate open events are taking place this Jan & Feb:
🟣 online open days;
🟣 in-person open evening;
🟣 risk, disaster & humanitarian careers event.

Browse/register now: bit.ly/4pt3PMM.

@uclrdr.bsky.social @stsucl.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social @statisticsucl.bsky.social @uclchemistry.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Thinking about studying Global Humanitarian Studies BSc at @uclrdr.bsky.social? Join us for a virtual information session this Thu 8 Jan highlighting the interdisciplinary approach to understanding #humanitarian action, #risk, and #disaster response: bit.ly/49n8ppV.
January 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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Wishing everyone happy and peaceful holidays! ✨🎄🎁
Thank you for following the #MAPSAdvent2025 calendar!

#Christmas #MerryChristmas #HappyNewYear
"Happy Holiday Season" neon sign on the arc at UCL's South Quad with people walking underneath it
December 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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On Day 24 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we share a selection of photos from the #Canadian #Arctic! 🐻‍❄️ Earlier this year an @es-ucl.bsky.social team went to Resolute Bay, #Nunavut, to test out a KuKa band #radar with different polarisations and a range of other equipment: cpom.org.uk/testing-kuka...

#snow #ice
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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On Day 22 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're sharing a few #snowstorm images from Professor @ilankelman.bsky.social (@uclrdr.bsky.social) during his research time in #Boulder, #Colorado, where he looked at stopping weather and climate from becoming disasters.

#snow #ice #weather
December 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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On Day 21 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're bringing the light! 🎄 An international team led by Dr @m-abdijalebi.bsky.social & Siming Huang (UCL Institute for Materials Discovery) developed durable #SolarCells that can efficiently harvest #energy from #IndoorLight: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/au...

#perovskite
Dr Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi holding a panel of solar cells optimised for indoor light
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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On Day 19 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're sharing examples of gravitational lenses that #Euclid #space #telescope, whose massive visible-light camera was built by a UCL-led team, captured in its first observations of the Deep Field areas 🌌

Image credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA.
A collage of fourteen by eight squares containing examples of gravitational lenses. Each example typically comprises a bright centre with smears of stars in an arc or multiple arcs around it as a result of light travelling towards Euclid from distant galaxies being bent and distorted by normal and dark matter in the foreground. In some rare cases the smearing is in a complete ring, creating a so-called Einstein Ring.
December 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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#MAPSAdvent2025 Day 18: Santa-saurus at @es-ucl.bsky.social exploring Haas TL-1 CNC lathe in the Instrumentation Development Workshop, which is used to manufacture components for the research labs! 🦖🎅
Dinosaur soft toy wearing a Santa hat attached to Haas TL-1 CNC lathe in the Instrumentation Development Workshop of UCL Earth Sciences department
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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On Day 16 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we highlight the discovery of #phosphorene #nanoribbons and their potential for next-generation #electronics (a study involving Professor Chris Howard of UCL Physics & Astronomy and Dr @clancylab.bsky.social of @uclchemistry.bsky.social): www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...
Individual phosphorene nanoribbons
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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On Day 15 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're sharing a mesmerising image of December's "cold" full #Moon, the final #supermoon of 2025, captured by Prof Raman Prinja 🌑 By the way, if you're looking for a #ChristmasGift for a young #astronomy lover, check out his latest #book "Wonders Of The Moon!" 📖
December's "cold" full Moon
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Day 13 of #MAPSAdvent2025 🪨 Former MSc Geosciences student Natalie Cheng & Prof @bridgetwade.bsky.social (@es-ucl.bsky.social) studied sediments under the microscope to reveal a layer of microspherules (pictured) from the #Chesapeake impact which hit eastern North America about 36 million years ago.
Microscope image of silica droplets, or microspherules, found in the rock
December 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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On Day 12 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we share some #BTS from The Royal Society’s documentary on #KathleenLonsdale filmed at @ucl.ac.uk & featuring Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS & Kathleen Lonsdale’s student Prof Mike Glazer 👩‍🔬

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwcf....
Kathleen Lonsdale’s student Prof Mike Glazer, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS Videographer, Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock and Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS looking at a journal Images of Kathleen Lonsdale laid out on a table
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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#MAPSAdvent2025 Day 11: “Graphie” at the London Centre for #Nanotechnology is feeling festive! 🎅 "Graphie"is a home-built system initially used for growing #graphene layers but repurposed into a vacuum chamber for high-temperature, solid state impedance #spectroscopy 💡

#Christmas #tech #equipment
“Graphie” at the London Centre for Nanotechnology "wearing" a Santa hat
December 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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On Day 10 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we share the work of our creative Digital Student Ambassadors! 😊 Get advice on starting university, exam tips, explore STEM power couples & more exciting content: bit.ly/48yMw6w.

#UniversityStudent #UniversityLife #UniStudent @es-ucl.bsky.social @uclrdr.bsky.social
A collage of MAPS Digital Student Ambassadors and some of their project titles
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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On Day 8 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're sending you a #ChristmasCard drawn with mathematical equations by our super-talented UCL Mathematics alumnus Hamid Naderi Yeganeh 🤩

#snowman #maths #mathematics #art #HamidNaderiYeganeh
Snowman drawn using mathematical equations by UCL Mathematics alumnus Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
December 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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#MAPSAdvent2025 Day 6 🎄 A festive surprise in the UCL Institute for Materials Discovery lab: tree-like zinc dendrites forming during microbattery research. Institute's own microscopic winter forest!

Image credit: Dr Monojit Mondal, Dr Naresh Nibagani and PhD student Sijin Liu.

#science #research
Tree-like zinc dendrites forming during microbattery research
December 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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#MAPSAdvent2025: Are you looking for original #Christmas #gifts? How about this Kairos aerator (perfect for red wine lovers) co-founded by our MSc Technology Management graduate, Jonah Lee? Many more to browse from entrepreneurs supported by @uclenterprise.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/enterprise/g...
Kairos aerator
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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On Day 3 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we're looking back at the annual Technical Staff Showcase 🌎 Pictured are just some of the cutting-edge research and equipment from our amazing UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory and UCL Chemistry techs! Always inspiring ✨

@uclchemistry.bsky.social #space #science
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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On Day 2 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we look at a study which discovered that "#space #ice" is less like #water than we thought ❄️: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

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Jupiter’s ice moon Ganymede, as captured by NASA spacecraft Juno Visual representation of the structure of low-density amorphous ice
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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December is here, and so is the #MAPSAdvent2025 calendar! 🎄🗓️ From now until #Christmas we'll be sharing highlights from the year, great memories and festive images/stories ✨ Stay tuned and celebrate with us 🎅
UCL Christmas tree
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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📣 In celebration of UCL's upcoming 200th anniversary, we're excited to announce 2 #scholarships for our new MSc Mathematics course worth £13,000 each (to be used toward tuition fees). Find out more on eligibility, deadlines & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...

#maths #mathematics #study
Student writing formulas on the glass board
November 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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📢 Last call for applications to become a @uclmaps.bsky.social Digital Student Ambassador! We're looking for creative, confident, social media-savvy undergraduate and postgraduate (taught) students who are great at communicating their UCL experience with others: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
Student recording a podcast
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Congratulations, Helen! 👏
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Join us for our upcoming in-person Undergraduate Open Event and find out more about studying at @uclrdr.bsky.social and @stsucl.bsky.social departments!

📅 Saturday 15 November
⏰ 10:30 am to 3:00 pm

Register your place and find out more: bit.ly/3X6zqYY.
November 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#WorldSpaceWeek 🌑 Prof Raman Prinja (UCL Physics & Astronomy) on the #SundayBrunch talking about the #moon, and his new book for the younger readers 📖 Watch on Channel 4 from 29:27: www.channel4.com/programmes/s....

Image: Channel 4 / Sunday Brunch.

#wsw2025 #SpaceScience #astronomy #universe
Professor Raman Prinja talking with the Sunday Brunch hosts
October 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM