From the birth of CERN to the latest scientific ventures - here's a short history of the #UKatCERN ⚛️ #CERN70

Really enjoyable visit to LIP in Lisbon. Exciting detector developments for particle physics and much more. Joined by ⁦UK in Portugal 🇬🇧🇵🇹⁩ HMA ⁦Lisa Bandari 🇬🇧🇵🇹⁩ to discuss 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 science collaboration. Thanks to the wonderful LIP team for taking time to discuss their work.

Really happy to see the launch of #RICHeS bringing together the humanities and science - a great example of UKRI driving genuinely multidisciplinary research.

Just welcomed attendees to the ⁦Science and Technology Facilities Council⁩ National Laboratories Research Conference taking place across four sites: ⁦RAL⁩, Daresbury, ⁦⁦Boulby and here at the ⁦UK Astronomy Technology Centre⁩ at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. As always, stunning views from the Higgs Centre.

In Paris today for the annual bi-lateral discussion on science collaboration between ⁦Science and Technology Facilities Council⁩ and ⁦CNRS 🌍⁩ Nucléaire et Particules. A really interesting and constructive discussion about mutual scientific interests. The views were also pretty good…

Celebrating with the ⁦UKRI Infrastructure team following my last time chairing our advisory panel. I am incredibly proud of what we have achieved over the past 6 years, establishing an amazing investment portfolio of over £2.5Bn for large research and innovation infrastructure.

Yesterday, Lord Vallance, Minister for Science, joined us at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory to open the National Quantum Computing Centre, which is jointly sponsored by Science and Technology Facilities Council and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. I remember back in 2018 when we first discussed having the NQCC at RAL - fantastic to see the dream become reality!

Great tour of the GANIL facility near Caen in Normandy. Huge progress since my previous visit 18 months ago. The SPIRAL 2 accelerator (pictured) is really impressive. Big thank you to colleagues in France 🇫🇷 and the GANIL team!

Events were held last week at the British Embassy and Università di Roma Tor Vergata to celebrate 4⃣0⃣ years of partnership between Italy and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, a 🇬🇧 world-leading centre for research at the Science and Technology Facility Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Celebrating 44 years of The Black Album 🦇 Epic and dark in equal measures.. Mr Vanian entices the Damned into the shadowy desolation of what would become known as goth. Re-live both anniversary albums through our Discography playlist here: open.spotify.com/playlist/6j7li…

[Press Release] CERN Council selects Mark Thomson as next Director-General, starting in 2026 Professor Thomson’s five-year mandate will begin on 1 January 2026 Find out more: home.cern/news/press-rel…

Congratulations to UK physicist Mark Thomson on becoming the CERN DG. His biggest job will be to persuade Cern members to pay £12bn for a new even larger supercollider to discover the particles that make up 95% of the missing mass of the Universe. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Huge congratulations to Mark Thomson on being elected DG CERN 👏 CERN is at the forefront of global scientific endeavour and I am delighted that the UK 🇬🇧 is working with our European partners to drive excellence in particle physics and shape our shared future together.

Congratulations to @profmarkthomson, who will be the next Director-General of CERN, the world's leading particle physics facility. The UK is proud to be one of CERN's biggest backers. We look forward to even more breakthroughs under Mark's tenure. home.cern/news/press-rel…

.@profmarkthomson's election is great news for CERN. He has the has the credentials, experience, and vision to ensure that CERN remains at the cutting edge of progress - delivering breakthroughs that will improve all our lives

Hugely honoured to have been selected as the next Director General of CERN. CERN is an incredible organisation where scientists from Europe and beyond have come together to uncover the mysteries of the Universe - incredibly exciting!

New giant particle collider 'right option for science': Next #CERN chief phys.org/news/2024-11-g…

Going 1.1km underground: great to host John Sarrao, director of the SLAC Linear Accelerator Centre, at Science and Technology Facilities Council Boulby Underground Laboratory in North Yorkshire. We saw the impressive progress with excavation of a space for a very large new facility. Talked about Dark Matter and much more...

Going underground (again). On Tuesday we were delighted to host members of the UK Research and Innovation Board at Science and Technology Facilities Council Boulby Underground Laboratory in the North East of England. Discussed the search for Dark Matter and the wide range of multi-disciplinary science opportunities at 1.1 km underground.

In Lund today for the European Spallation Source Council ⁦⁦ESS⁩ . It will be my last council meeting after more than six years, so it was particularly pleasing to see the fantastic progress with this flagship European neutron source project.