Suppose that over the last few years, there's been an exponential rise in the amount of opium usage. It's especially prevalent among the youth. You've started to notice as you walk through airports and look at how people twiddle away their time, sneaking the occasional glance

📢Calling all Y12 students living in Oxfordshire, Berkshire or Buckinghamshire! The NQCC is supporting a quantum experience summer school this summer from 31st July to 4th August in collaboration with Department of Physics at University of Oxford⚛️ Find out more and apply here: physics.ox.ac.uk/engage/schools…

1/7 🧵 Thrilled to unveil AtomCloud, a Python package I developed during my PhD journey! It's designed to ease the fitting of atom cloud images with GPU acceleration. If you're handling complex, multi-function fits, this is for you. github.com/lucashofer/ato…

Save the dates! The 28th International Conference on Atomic Physics will be held at Imperial College London, 14-19 July 2024⚛️ Summer school: 8-12 July (Oxford) Satellite meetings: 22-24 July (Cambridge, Sussex), 22-25 July (Durham)

Come work with us in Cambridge on ultracold atoms. Open postdoc positions on optical quasicrystals and on developing Quantum Simulators with Strontium. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41624/ Applications close 15/8/23. Please Retweet! manybody.phy.cam.ac.uk Cambridge MBQD Cavendish Laboratory

It's that time of year again! The Noel group is hiring 🙃! We've currently got 2 postdoc positions open for people that are excited about #perovskites and materials synthesis...1/4

The Department of Physics at University of Oxford & Universität Hamburg team published in Science Magazine. We quench 2D Bose gases across the BKT transition and probe the relaxation dynamics with matter-wave interferometry; we found that the scaling behaviour is consistent with real-time RG theory. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

⚛️🔬Announcing an exciting new Physics competition! Prizes include new Physics equipment for your school and a fully-funded trip to CERN in Switzerland! Tap the link below to find out more: physicspartners.com/competition/

I am but a machine that takes in cheese and outputs quantum physics

Very excited to announce our experiment demonstrating the first actively controlled recall of semiconductor quantum dot photons from am atomic quantum memory is now published in Science Advances. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I'm really excited to share our recent work interfacing a quantum dot single-photon source with an atomic quantum memory, which is now published in Science Advances. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📢Applications for the NWSN Summer School are open! forms.office.com/e/860vgUwVec If you're a Year 12 student from the North West & are interested in science, you can apply to spend a week in Oxford, taking part in a huge range of science activities! Deadline for applying is 17.05.24

The PI's contribution to the paper x.com/PamelaWelt/sta…

Last week we met up in Birmingham for our most recent consortium meeting! We had an interesting three days discussing experiment updates, and sharing ideas and future plans. Thanks to all who joined, especially our guest speakers and the organisers from the Uni of Birmingham team!

There's too much going on in our research teams to cover in our consortium meeting discussion sessions - so for the first time we've had a poster session for our students and postdocs to showcase their projects! Congratulations to poster prize winner Ollie from Uni of Birmingham!

Presenting the North West Science Network Summer Residential Class of 2024! 🥳 It's been another great year of science, and it was a pleasure to host so many brilliant aspiring scientists at Corpus! #science #outreach #uniofoxford

AION team members (past and present!) from almost all our cold atom labs have had a great time at ICAP2024 this week!

Me after folding the laundry…

We need a Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares for science. Gordon going into struggling labs, revealing the horrors lurking in fridges and file drawers, calling a postdoc a donkey.

Do a PhD in a field you are passionate about and you’ll never work a day in your life, because there are no jobs.