"Happy Holiday Season" neon sign on the arc at UCL's South Quad with people walking underneath it
Wishing everyone happy and peaceful holidays! ✨🎄🎁
Thank you for following the #MAPSAdvent2025 calendar!
#Christmas #MerryChristmas #HappyNewYear
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
#MAPSAdvent2025 Day 23 🎄 Tune in to Royal Institution's Christmas Lectures on 28th, 29th and 30th Dec presented by Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, the leading space scientist & an honorary research associate of UCL Physics & Astronomy: www.rigb.org/christmas-le...
@rigb.org #Christmas #XmasLectures
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
Dr Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi holding a panel of solar cells optimised for indoor light
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
On Day 20 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we show off some of our brilliant academic and professional staff in this year's Spotlights! Browse through and learn more about their role and work at UCL and activities outside of it: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
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.
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.
Dinosaur soft toy wearing a Santa hat attached to Haas TL-1 CNC lathe in the Instrumentation Development Workshop of UCL Earth Sciences department
#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! 🦖🎅
#MAPSAdvent2025 Day 17 🎄 Sneak peak into multidisciplinary Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL East that's used by MSc Sustainable Chemistry students: www.youtube.com/shorts/XYdwk...
@uclchemistry.bsky.social #chemistry #lab #laboratory #UCLEast #StudyUCL #sustainable #sustainability
Individual phosphorene nanoribbons
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...
December's "cold" full Moon
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!" 📖
On Day 14 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we are throwing it back to graduations - it's always one of the most memorable events of the year 🎓 www.youtube.com/shorts/hrfMh...
Microscope image of silica droplets, or microspherules, found in the rock
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.
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
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....
“Graphie” at the London Centre for Nanotechnology "wearing" a Santa hat
#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
A collage of MAPS Digital Student Ambassadors and some of their project titles
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
On Day 9 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we bring attention to a unique collaboration between @bas.ac.uk & @es-ucl.bsky.social, where #Antarctic #ice undergoes a series of destructive crush experiments under the watchful eye of earthquake & rock physicist Prof Tom Mitchell: www.newscientist.com/video/249090...
Snowman drawn using mathematical equations by UCL Mathematics alumnus Hamid Naderi Yeganeh
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
This year the Dean of our Faculty Prof Ivan Parkin celebrated his 60th birthday 🥳 On Day 7 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we’re sharing the celebratory Symposium where Prof Parkin presented his adventures & discoveries in #chemistry & #MaterialsScience: www.youtube.com/shorts/Msw4E...
@uclchemistry.bsky.social
Tree-like zinc dendrites forming during microbattery research
#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
On Day 5 of #MAPSAdvent2025 we look back at one of our favourite summer events - #undergraduate #OpenDays 🤩 www.youtube.com/shorts/p1s6H...
#UCLOpenDays #OpenDay #StudyUCL #campus #study #class #lab @uclchemistry.bsky.social @uclrdr.bsky.social @es-ucl.bsky.social
Kairos aerator
#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...
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
Jupiter’s ice moon Ganymede, as captured by NASA spacecraft Juno
Visual representation of the structure of low-density amorphous ice
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...
@uclchemistry.bsky.social
UCL Christmas tree
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 🎅
