"... on it working. It was kind of a nerve wracking, knowing that your future basically depends on the success of this launch.

So, it was like, me on the rocket." (2/3)

#HumansOfEuclid 🔬🔭

The image is a head and shoulders portrait of a man wearing a brown woolly jumper, thick rimmed glasses, and a name tag. He is smiling, standing outside in the sunshine looking at the camera. There is a courtyard visible out-of-focus behind him.

#HumansOfEuclid - Giuseppe Congedo (Edinburgh University) 🧵 (1/3)

"I was in Italy on holiday at the time, but we watched it on YouTube, and it was really good fun. My children loved it. Everyone in the family followed it.

But I was a bit nervous because I knew that my contract depended..."

"...We've seen some hints from DESI, but hopefully Euclid will answer that question once and for all." (3/3)

#HumansOfEuclid 🔬🔭

#astro #scientist #STEM #astronomy #cosmology #tvhost #astrophysics #space #science #research #Euclid #telescope #observations #Leiden #LeidenEntries #ecmeeting2025

The image shows a man wearing glasses, a wool jumper, jeans and a conference name tag, smiling and looking at the camera. Behind, out of focus, is a sunny terrace outside a conference venue, filled with attendees chatting.

The image shows a man wearing glasses, a wool jumper, jeans and a conference name tag, smiling and looking at the camera. Behind, out of focus, is a sunny terrace outside a conference venue, filled with attendees chatting.

#HumansOfEuclid - Giuseppe Congedo (Edinburgh University) 🧵 (1/3)

"I really hope Euclid will find something really new and change cosmology in an instant. But I do have a strong prior belief in [the standard model] Lambda-CDM. I think most of us have a fear that Lambda-CDM might be..."

"..., where, like, either you do winter sports, or you don't do anything all winter. I'm gonna be there for a few years so I decided this was the opportunity. And I also like jigsaw puzzles. I only have analogue hobbies - I don't look at computers when I'm out of the office!” (3/4)

#HumansOfEuclid

A young woman with light-brown hair and an eyebrow piercing, dressed in a black metal-band-style hoodie featuring pictures of cats stands in front of parked bicycles and a street sign. The background is out of focus.

A young woman with black hair featuring red highlights. She is wearing glasses, a grey jumper and lanyard with 'Euclid' written on it. She is smiling and looking at the camera. Behind her is a canal and beyond that brick buildings out of focus.

#HumansOfEuclid - Carolyn Mill & Elena Silvestre Roselló 🧵 (1/4)

“Yeah, being from Scotland, it's just so easy to just get immersed in the landscape. My dad started bagging Munros [Scottish peaks > 3000ft] when he was younger. And as soon as I could reliably carry my own rucksack, I joined him..

"...You say hello to someone, and they are like, 'oh that's cute, you're trying to speak German'. Wait… what was the question? Why did I do astrophysics?”

- Carolyn Mill (Bielefeld) & Elena Silvestre Roselló (Innsbruck)

#HumansOfEuclid (3/4)

The image shows two young women standing on the street in Leiden, mid conversation and smiling. It is a cloudy spring day and they are wearing conference name tags.

#HumansOfEuclid - Carolyn Mill & Elena Silvestre Roselló 🧵 (1/4)

“I was choosing my bachelor thesis, randomly picked one and yeah, now she's my PhD supervisor! I could have ended up doing anything. Before that I was tempted to do translation. Like, I speak Catalan, Spanish and English..."

- Carolyn Mill (Bielefeld) & Elena Silvestre Roselló (Innsbruck)

#HumansOfEuclid

#astro #scientist #STEM #astronomy #cosmology #tvhost #astrophysics #space #science #research #Euclid #telescope #observations #Bielefeld #Leiden #ecmeeting2025 #LeidenEntries (4/4)

#HumansOfEuclid - Carolyn Mill & Elena Silvestre Roselló 🧵 (1/4)

“I realized when I was doing my physics courses, I really started enjoying it when I first encountered cosmology in my final year. It just really clicked..."

"...‘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 🔭🔬

#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...

"..., 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)

#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...

"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

(4/5)

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.

#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...!"

(5/5) #HumansOfEuclid @ec-euclid.bsky.social

#astro #scientist #STEM #astronomy #astrophysics #cosmology #space #science #research #Euclid #telescope #observations #WomenInSTEM #WomenOfEuclid #Bielefeld #Leiden #ECMeeting2025

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.

#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..."

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. 🇳🇱

Thanks again to @esa.int and @sussex.ac.uk for creating and supporting the exhibition, and all the #HumansOfEuclid across the UK that have taken part and shared the #DarkUniverse with tens of thousands of people this weekend!

@ec-euclid.bsky.social

#ESAEuclid #EuclidUK #STEM #Outreach

Some of the Euclid team at the Euclid exhibit. Five people are standing together smiling for the camera. One person is knelt in front of them, also smiling for the camera. Behind them in the background is a spiral galaxy, one of Euclid’s images displayed on a huge screen.

It’s Day 3 at the the @goodwoodrrc.bsky.social #FestivalofSpeed Future Lab.

Our #HumansOfEuclid have had an early start, back and ready to share the mysteries of the dark Universe all over again! 🌌🕸️

Looking good team! I'll be there tomorrow, helping out the #HumansOfEuclid! If you're at the Goodwood #FestivalOfSpeed, come and learn more about the Universe! 🔭🧪🤩

A wide shot of part of the Euclid exhibition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. In the foreground are lots of people wandering around the exhibit. On the left is a huge screen displaying a Euclid image. The exhibition is held in a large black tent, which drapes from the top of the image.

Researcher Dr Will Roper is on the left, talking to Astronaut Tim Peake featured on the right. They are in the Euclid exhibition, seen in the background. In particular they are looking at an interactive screen of a Universe simulator called Swift.

Thanks to support from @esa.int and @sussex.ac.uk, #HumansOfEuclid from UK universities are at the Goodwood #FestivalOfSpeed!

Today, Astronaut Tim Peake dropped by to learn about more about the Dark Universe. If you’re visiting #FOS near Chichester this weekend, be like Tim and come say hi!

Video Credit: SpaceX
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#ESAEuclid #EuclidUK #HumansOfEuclid #MappingTheUniverse #RocketLaunch #BlastOff #DarkMatter #DarkEnergy

On this day, at this time, 2 years ago, #Euclid was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, toward its home at L2 - a gravitational sweet spot in our Solar System that’s 1.5 million km away from us on Earth.

Let’s look back at how some of our UK #HumansOfEuclid felt that day… #TBT 🚀

…but mostly what I’m doing now is
snowy landscapes with Northern lights. I
really like working with light and shadow.”

- Gavin Leroy (Durham University)

#HumansOfEuclid

@ec-euclid.bsky.social

- Gavin Leroy (Durham University)

#HumansOfEuclid

We’re making a huge map of the largest structures in the universe and it’s a map of something we can’t see directly, like a map of a cosmic ghost…

- Gavin Leroy (Durham University)

#HumansOfEuclid

...I don't know what it was. I've always loved the stars. I'm also a big science fiction fan. Maybe these things just combined and made me want to know more about what's out there."

- Elisabeth Sola (@cambridgeastro.bsky.social)

#HumansOfEuclid 🔭🔬

...It’s the feeling of discovery and exploration. You’re seeing things which no-one has ever seen before."

- Elisabeth Sola (@cambridgeastro.bsky.social)

#HumansOfEuclid 🔭🔬

#astro #astronomy #scientist #STEM #research #Euclid #cosmology #astrophysics #science #womeninastronomy #womeninSTEM