STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So people who don't know me that well, I've got to talk about how I got to CFC, so I'm a physics with astrophysics, master student at the University of Manchester, so about to go back and do my 4th and final year, and I'm here on the investor basement scheme.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But when I applied to studies I knew I wanted to do something in communications and media, so I always try to fit that in that alongside of my degree. So I was the Scientific Union, which is the biggest student paper in the Uk. And that's a lovely photo of some of the editorial team on the side, and I was just a really great way to both develop my writing skills
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and learn how to work in a big team to communicate the last, as we want to get across
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and alongside that I did a little bit of work as a freelance researcher. If you want to know anything about history of unity boxing. I was hated to learn that I might remember some of it. And I also did. I worked as a little bit of voiceover artist for a travel app, and because I'm a nerd, I ran society
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: so so the sort of experience that I tried to use this year I was originally looking for some summer work experience, and my friend Christina thought that this was a summer placement sent it to me, and I decided it looked way more interesting than any of the summer work experience I found. So I'd like to take a year out and came here.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So one of the main areas of my work was on our social media accounts. This is probably the area I was least confident in when I arrived.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But it's a really important role within communications really to increase awareness of the work of the department. Amongst 3 main audiences, so general public, the international political community and within Scfc itself so.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and social media is a really excellent way to help us do that.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So when I arrived, X was our sole social media platform, and we'd launched our account in 2,018. I say, we're about 2,046 followers now. So that's increased solely over the year.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: but after Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022 there was an overall drop in engagement across
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: pretty much all accounts, but including se departmental accounts. And so that was kind of the environment position in the higher right into
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and analytics out which we don't do at CFC, so I'm unable to kind of provide more detail. But that basically paints a picture of a world where we might need to start thinking about alternatives, or at least additions to X moving forward. But this year it's still remaining a very useful way to communicate with general public, and we have had some boosts relatively. Well.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: what do we post on X or a whole variety of stuff? We do updates on department, and we also try to provide content that's useful or educational in other ways. So one of the things that my predecessor
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: passed on to me was in terms of doing half of the visits birthdays. So yeah, on the birthday of
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: since you talk about them, their work.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: how it feeds into our work today, and it gives us an excuse to talk about their science, and also a great way to remind people that scientists are people. They have lives outside of their science, and we can talk a little bit about that as well. So this was our most successful ones with Raymond Page.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So this is just some of the tweets from the thread. But we talked a little bit about that graphic, and this was the post that did really well. So I actually likes the fact that he talked about how a common driving fluid really useful in science. And this is the kind of stuff that tends to run social media. It's the kind of
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: the feel of Diy science, even when it's in a very non. It's in a completely on Diy setting.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So that was about 41,000 views
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: on axe.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: We also do some things that are more fun and something that I call me education. So when the Barbie film came out last year. We use that as an opportunity to talk about the old Barbara experiment for Bob.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: No, nobody taught me these compliments. National compliments day, which clearly means I don't follow the expert closely enough, or you just don't agree with them. We talked about
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: this was our most successful meme of the year. So this is to do with the June experiment, because when the June film came out I could no longer find any pictures of the June hospital. This weirdly went very well on Frontex. They weren't mad for it. I didn't quite know what happened.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: With the translation. But yeah, in general, we got like 11,000 views. What I like about this is that I actually, genuinely do think it is education. You do learn some facts about neutrinos. You might hear about the June experiment when you've never had it throughout it before, and because June hashtag was trending a lot of people who saw it never see particle physics.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And this was probably my favorite new. I really began to question but
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: again, some education people now learn about.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and also allowed us to link to our website where we talk about Nhcv, so I help from our website. And one of its
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: one of the things I use it most for is, including further information that can't fit into more on acts like this.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But as I mentioned X. Was looking a little future reference, looking a little bit uncertain. So when I arrived and I discussed alternative platforms. That we could
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: just really kind of shore up the social media future. So we chose Linkedin, and that was pitched to the Central Communications team who approved it. And then we launched it in August 2023. So we've now reached
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: more than that now, but over a thousand followers. Despite the restrictions induced by the election, so we weren't able to post for entire month before the election which really has a negative impact on how much our post visible
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: after that as well, because the way the Linkedin algorithm works prioritizing people texting regularly. So you can see a little bit of a drop there. But you can see that our levels remain relatively steady, obviously with the massive peak when we launch
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But yeah, I think hopefully, we can reach over 2,000 people by the end of the year.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so just a little bit more analytics. Well, another part of the role of a student is to kind of yeah, trying to set how we're doing. So one metric is impressions, which is the number of time the post is visible for at least 300 ms, with at least 50% of the post in view. So it's very specific and doesn't necessarily mean that everyone read the post
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: but you can see that we have reached over 72,000 people over here, which I think is a fun metric, because it just really goes to show why social media is so important. We are never going to run an outreach event. 72,000 people attend, and obviously those have a far
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: deeper impacts on people that attend them in terms of just people we can talk to. That's why social media is so important. The more meaningful statistic is probably the engagement rate
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and the kind of average engagement rate. It depends who you talk to but it's ranging between 3 to 4%. And so, as you can see, we're pretty consistently above that which is also something that I've noticed kind of virtually is just really valuable about dating is that people do seem to be really engaged in a way that perhaps they're not
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: onyx or in other ways that we ought to be good.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So one of the things that we focus on on Linkedin is careers and people? So I always try to answer the 3 key questions. What's it like to work in particle physics? How can I work in particle physics and relate to that what are some jobs in particle physics? I might not have.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So some example projects
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: one, that I did to find my own place and some of the other consumers in this room. So it really didn't do that bad job. You hear a bit more about that later.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I also worked on the project office, so some people might know
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: rather not everyone knew who they were and what they did. So we did a feature on Linkedin. Where on Monday it talks about what project this does on the Wednesday we focus on David and Hannah.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So what they do all day, and they like to do outside of work, and how they came to work for the office, you know, on Friday, and saying, Okay, thanks. Happy.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I also did a video about with Julia and Ben about what it's like to work in New England.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and also interviewed past summer patient students to give people a general impression of what it feels like to work at Cmc. In the summer, because I find that when you read a job, you might get a pretty good idea of what you'll be doing, who you'll be doing it with, and where you'll be going.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: but not necessarily whether you'll really be able to do the job. Whether there'll be people like you there. And yeah, and how we find it. So that's why I think videos can be really useful to show
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: so as I mentioned I made a video with the other communication students about what it's like to be a Pom student. And so I thought I'd spend a little bit of time talking about some of the internal collaborations I did with communications people. Across. Scfc, so one of the 1st things I did was contribute to medium. So medium is a book site.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And it's known for being read deeply, so it focuses on the amount of time on site as the key metric rather than the number of viewers, and we began publishing on there in 2,023. And so that's led by Ben Gillend, who is one of the senior science director at Cnc. And that we published feature articles are aimed at making our science.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So my 1st article, to Mark, start Matt today discuss the history of dark matter, and how that relates to its current research at a really basic level.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But the main people I worked with main communications people, I work with the other comm students. So this is actually our video on the side works. This is my attempt at a diagram explaining it. So we basically have our central communications team who are within strategy planning communications.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And they
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: we we. There are also distributed small smaller companies in other departments across CFC, and they work with central communications, central communications work with them
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: to
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: to share our work. So in general, departmental social media websites talk more in depth about the day-to-day work of departments, essential cops focus more on the big projects.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so there were 2 students in central ponds.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: That was a happy student and a student in Isis and outreach, and then one student in all the other departments. But I know that their makeup looks slightly different now. But we were really able to work well together, on various projects, but also as a great source of sharing knowledge and sharing resources and learning from each other. So obviously, it's really useful.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So after the day in the life of the Pom student, the 1st project we worked on was for our outlaws. This was coordinated and appreciated by the central communication student. And so, for people who haven't met Pat
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: have brought that with me.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So this is papa. A dark hat to represent a dark matter pom, pom on the top.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Freaking represents the collision event and the really useful thing. The thing that makes perfect the other mastrots is these interchangeable box. So I have more in here, and you can use it.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Make various hadrons and show. I'd say, children. Adults also find it useful. Different ways that particles can be made up. So
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: there were. There was a mascot for each department or most departments across from the Backington laboratory. And the idea was that we hide mascots throughout the map for people to find, and they've been posted on social media to engage with us that way. So on Monday we post the zoom in picture like this of where and then Wednesday, a picture of all surrounding context, and Friday a review and so again
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: at Christmas
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: we brought them all together. So Pat was wanted for highly valuable information about the universe. Just very awesome.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And the great thing about mascots, I think, was that they could be used for other outreach activities, and used in feature to teach children about how to articles, and also the digital hats, as it were, can be reused in different formats. So the main one was this tonic.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But I right, and it discusses what particles are, what parts are, what the Lhc is and what past physicists do. So I don't know if I can skip through here.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Eventually you get to
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: lovely Julie, who agreed to teach her, meet her, talk a little bit about what she does for her job.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and we were also able. I was able to make some lovely slippers for our local week. But people can show you just how much they really love that. So yeah.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So we worked on a couple of other projects. A lot of them really focus on what I call center everyone. So making sure people know that stem is for them, and highlighting underrepresented groups within stem. So for women's stem History day. And it was a project coordinated by Elizabeth, who's the Isis outreach student where we all mostly wrote articles about women from history that
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: impacted the work of our department in modern day in some way. And so I wrote about Lisa Magna, who was probably best known for not winning the Nobel Prize for the Nobel Prize Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. And that several was before she had even.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so, yeah, in this, in the article which you can't read it since therapy on the sites afterwards, it goes through kind of her history. She was of Jewish heritage, and so forth. The work in Sweden for most of her career.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And yeah. So that was just. It was great to be able to read about whole variety of different women in science and effort, showing that we do recognize the work these scientists that best into the research we do today.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And then the second project that I worked on is to do with steam. If you haven't heard of it is to do with integrating the arts more into set. And the basic idea who was the marketing basic student in bid
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: with that she would interview scientists from across Sdfc, including me, to talk about how our creative hobbies or backgrounds improves the work of Scfc and really promote the idea that it's important for everyone to have a variety of education and access to the arts.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: It doesn't mean you have to go on to be a musician. It has an impact on all industries. And so I took a little bit about my background in songwriting, music, and other forms of writing.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So one of the things I was really fortunate to be able to do was visit son. So
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: this figure it's not seem to be working
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But I traveled to serve in November. I also brought Pat with me Pat's photograph with many scientists. It was the highlights for all of their careers, sure, and through that I produced the video.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I had a museum article about my experience touring around the large huddle like that.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So the one other project I wanted to talk about is the student media day, that Iran. So when I was a student journalist, I was always really jealous because my friends in the food and theatre and music section for all these cool invitations, and science never gets any. So I decided I would invite some local student science and technology editors
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: to come to talk about and hear more about our research. I worked with the other Comp students and some other proms
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: people to make that possible. So they received a tour of the r. 1 of Thailand and they also attended some talks from our graduate team. So the aim was really tell them as much as possible about the careers opportunities we have here at Scfc. And so they can go back and tell their student audience.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So we have 10 entities in total from the scientists from New Oxford, Ucl. The spark in reading Cambridge fast through Cambridge and the ball from Warwick
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and so it did actually in the end produce only 2 articles, but that's still widely of our audience. So spark and reading a more traditional piece where they went through tour that they received from Ralph, and talked to a little bit more about us
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and in this article she wanted to incorporate the things that she'd seen into an article she was already writing about cosmic rays, giant microscopes, and work.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But I the thing sorry if I can just
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: say one thing extra that I thought was really valuable about. This is not just the articles that were produced, but but most of these people want to go on to be science journalists, and if at the very beginning of their career, the 1st science or invite they received was to us, they will hopefully be more willing to come back and see us in the future, and more willing to create the science to do in the future. So it's really starting at that grassroots level.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I'm trying to yeah.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So I'm now going to kind of move on from common slightly to talk about the outreach and the item for sharing that we do in PP,
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: so the main what is ordinarily the main event within particle physics
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: at the partial physics department is our masters.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And I made a video. So I wouldn't have to talk about master classes earlier this year. And so I quickly
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: quit me.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: What the likelihood is
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: fun.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: is it? Just audio. It's it's also video
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: depending on your loss.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: No talk.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I will tell you some of the stuff. So the original students. It brings them to site. It brings row into their classrooms via zoom
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and talk to them about possible physics, and particularly the work that we do with some so this year. It was slightly reduced numbers, because Apollo, the week and the prep. We had to do for that but we had 3 in person days and one online day, and about 600 students attended online and over 400 attended in person.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and I spoke to so many students that day on the video that basically they either confirmed their own testing or for some even dissuaded them from going into banking. I know we need. And I think just getting to see things in person, and also meet other particle physicists when a lot of them will never
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: is really useful, as well as the knowledge that they gain from the lectures, and how that can feed into their a level exams the year after.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: there are no more videos. That's fine for me. So I'm going to talk about I'll open week So
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: holiday from week. The last one was in 2,015. There was a bit of a gap a bigger gap than planned, I believe, because of Covid.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and over 10,000 people attended over one day for members of Ekr
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: to the smaller day 2 days for schools. I bumped into my old biology teacher on site. I had not noticed, but that was great. One day, and the main public day.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So we were based in the business center. And so we had a lot of space to fill with all kinds of exciting books. I could have included so many photos, but I did slightly limit myself.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So I thought I'd talk a little bit more about the exhibits that I particularly worked on, and how they worked
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: so as promised. I am now going to talk about the logo. I think
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: almost everyone in this room helped in some way to build the Lego particle detectors.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So I 1st started this project when Jens our former interim debt director, walked into my office and notable. I just said Lego.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and of course I am going to need some more information to build some models of Cms. At Atlas that are available on filter and password that were designed by Atlas in the past.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and that was as a form of team building and also a team building, but also to then be used at our local teacher. Because the great thing about Lego is it does not really deteriorate all that quickly. I used to pay Lego at my gran's house. That had been around since
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: my my mom was like batful so the Lego detectors were roughly 20,000 pieces each, and that's a scale as if a Lego person was a real person. So I ordered all of the pieces of Lego brick and some second hand sights. Winston buys from Lego, Reddit, Lego Reddit amazing. But
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and then an apples away. Day following that, a huge team got together to build the Lego protectors. So I have included the photo at the bottom of some of my friends and my boyfriend building the Lego protectors as proof that you should just never know Comms people. It's a terrible idea. You will be drawn into all kinds of crazy progress.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But it was a really fantastic work of collaboration.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and at the end we've got these 2 lovely Lego detectors. So I think the highlight of how it open for me was really, when I was actually just looking round with my family. And when I was in the control center room there was this 3 year old who was asking increasingly confusing questions.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and after speaking through with his mom, I realized that he was absolutely certain that we build rockets and nothing that his mom said or I said would dissuade him that we made rockets, mum? She she went. Well, he doesn't really know.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: you know. If I tried to explain, why don't we go back to basics. And do you have a picture?
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And I said, Well, does he like letters? He absolutely loves letter? So 1st of all, we took him to see this small model of the entirety of Lfc. Which I did not make before I arrived, and then he wanted to look at these in more detail.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Not only did we persuade him from the idea that we made rockets, as you can see, that those are not rockets. He also yeah got his 1st introduction at 3, for how the chapters at the Nhc works, and that really just validated for me that it was worth the time that we spent putting those attackers together.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So one of the other exhibits that I worked on was Cassie, which is the conceptual accelerator supporting scientific, inclusive education.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: It's now the most in the bank calculated.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and aims to remove barriers that can prevent blind and partially sized learners from engaging with science.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so this is something is something that I'm really passionate about. I have a family friend who's blind. He's a chemistry, a level, I think. 2 years ago he was the only blind or visually, visually impaired student in the whole of the Uk that year to take chemistry a level, because there is this misconception that is ongoing, that it's just too hard to teach blind people science, which is not true.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so Cassie was created by Corporate Institute and Chris Edmonds from Liverpool, as well as a teacher for the visually impaired other organizations. To create a resource that could be brought into schools and into events like public
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: to make that accessible.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: What it has is a kind of somewhat unintended consequence. It's just also made possible visits earlier to easier to learn for all people, particularly children. Introducing another sense into learning, makes them far more likely to recall the information.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: what is Cassie? Well, it's
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: hey? Yes.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: symbolic model of accelerator, and it's a little bit like the lx. 6 ish in the middle. It has these light strips which represent the elements of light collision event. And it's also really useful because a lot of vision head people do have some degree of vision for light and color. And so that will kind of be a form of visual simulation for them.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so these metal bars around the outside allow people allow people with vision to move around the outside by themselves, from station to station, and then they created a whole variety of resources primarily to do with
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: what if a particle.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: how do we use magnets in the Lhc. And how to use the accelerators in the Lhc, and so they produce. They produce 3D tactile models and audio resources to help communicate that
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and so one of the things that they also started to do this year is introduce a form of
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: active learning from Liverpool would make children pick a card with a basketball physics concept on it, and then at this house in a competition, and
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: they were then able at the end of that activity and go around the tactile blind to really, quite effectively communicate to me exactly the concepts that they've learned. So it actually was a really great way. And it's probably one of the more in depth activities that we did, and giving children an overview of the entirety of the Nhc.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And other accelerators around the world.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: One of the other exhibits I worked on was to do with bubble chambers. So I'm just going to talk a little bit about what bubble chambers are, and how I learned about them. So they're an early form of particle detector which allow you to view the paths of electrically charged particles. They're invented in 1,952 by John Grazer.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And we had multiple role changes around that work with the Nimrod accelerator juice,
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: views of them. Let's
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: all of these useful every time. So that Alex. Excuse me. Useful
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: curving pictures of the possible interactions.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So how are these pictures produced?
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Well above? Chamber is normally filled with liquid hydrogen. One electron. And this liquid is put under intense pressure, which allows it to be heated up to the boiling point without boiling. And then what happens is that the piston is dropped which dramatically reduces reduces the pressure and leaves liquid really unstable.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: They're really easy to make work.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And what then happens is that when a charged particle enters the chamber, it ionizes the hydrogen
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: which then recombines and releases energy that causes the liquid to boil at that point.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so, as that happens over and over again, forms a visible path which is photographed by in this version. There's just one camera, actually the one that one of the ones we had around 3 cameras. So you get more of a 3D. View of what was going on.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so, as I mentioned this, produced reels and reels of film. So each experiment captured hundreds of thousands of photos, and they all needed to be scanned and analyzed. So that yeah, digitize the parts of the articles effectively. And this was really skilled work really high levels of concentration, which meant that shifts were limited to just 4 h. And so this made it.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: It's certainly ideal to fit around childcare commitments, which meant that almost all of the scanners were local mothers.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so with help of I was able to find some content from the Rao apple, and also George Thomas, who used to
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: from the Bowl Chamber group. But what I couldn't find was the names of almost any scanners. They were essential to the work, but because they weren't credited on scientific papers. There was no list of the scanners that worked in, or scanners who worked in any of the many labs around the world.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But using an entire using yammer our internal network, I was able to find these photos.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: of scanners. And I then posted those on a local Facebook group Facebook group and said, Is this you? Is this your mom? Is this your aunt
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: did any of those people work for scanners at any point, and 2 scanners were in contact with me, who are both nighttime supervisors, and they were able to give me a whole bunch more info about scanning work, and
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: bunch of stories that are going to be in a medium article that will be released soon. But I thought I would just say my favorite story, which is what Janet Smith told me, which is about the time they tried to find someone other than local mothers that finds tried to hire a bunch of local male students
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: having started doing monkey balls from the ceiling left the sound lab in a complete state
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: required for the next day, and they never again tried to find a students, all of which would be allowed to be included in the rechart.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So this is just yeah. Some more moments of a scalability, and but of some more, the work that they used to do.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And so
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: all this information about Bubble Chambers, I want to take an outreach visit. And this is actually how I started finding out about them. In the 1st place, we had lots of old reels above the chamber, though in storage, and then asked if I would make an exhibit that could be interactive and artistic and use up some of this film.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So we, I decided that the general public would build a modern reputation of collision events a bit like this, photographs of hundreds, thousands of villages. And so
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I knew that all of these lines could be easily made by the rules of film. But I needed to find a way to suspend Mini rules of film and after digging I found the screen. So here they normally used to grow hedges but also accidentally perfect for bubble chamber. Interactive art projects. I don't know if they knew that when they were inventing them so
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I wound reels of film around here.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and then I needed a frame to suspend it from. So, after looking at lots of different types of frame, I settled on a Geo visit dome climbing frame aimed at young children because it's designed to be built by parents. So even me, with my terrible diy skills could put that together with the help of my 2 students.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So this was the frame that we built it took quite a long time to wind, which is why people might found the day before my cage, doing nothing but reading them up. But what we did was suspended this from the middle fishing wire and members of the topic, unstuck it like that.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: pull it out, suck it to the edge.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and as you can see them doing that.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and that eventually created something that looks a little bit like this. So I struggle next to it as well, and it basically resemble the collision of them. But what I found most useful about it is that we were right in the center when we came in.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And it forced people to stop and look. If I had a poster about the work of the scanners
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: would probably have walked straight past it. But because
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: This did take a little bit of time to do the children to climb in
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: without. I've been able to have really great chats with them and their parents about bubble chambers and about the work in a way that I just wouldn't have been able to without something that looks quite so much. I think it's fantastic.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Oh, sorry as I've gone
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: little bit of time left, I thought I'd talk about the outreach training that I received this year as well, and so I could share some of that. That I went to before I went on Harvard Open week.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So I went to the European Science Engagement Association Conference. You see.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: which aims to bring together public engagements all over Europe. And it was really amazing to work in so many different contexts. So this year's conference was hosted by any State University, Georgia. In May. People can keep an eye on geopolitics. You might have known it was not a tremendously peaceful time to be in to be in Georgia, but it was
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: really useful. But it's amazing. I ate a lot of ducklings. It's not the main thing I learned, but it was good side effects.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: so I thought I would share kind of my 2 favorite sessions and takeaways from that. So one of my favorite sessions was this dialogue workshop, which
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: included Dennis Nelson, who is member of Irish Farming staff, and so really my very former science advisor, son.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and I think my top 3 takeaways from that. It was really it was a 2 h long conversation. It was amazing to sit there and listen to these people who are such experts in science and dependency discuss what they learned throughout their careers. But yeah, I would say the top 3 were, the science can bridge gaps between nations.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: It's a universal language which can be used to tackle global challenge challenges through evidence based policy making and collaboration. And again, for information. So you can find more about that online. But just that work.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: it's just very long game. But yeah, basically just bring people together
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and really didn't balance around together to just try and solve problems.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And the second, I bet my favorite talk was a completely different one. So it was by David prices in that way and did we did. We've made lots of craft types activities. It was really interactive. It was really fun. And I think my top 3 points from that was the effective outreach does not need to be expensive. They both specialize in making resources that can be made from there by house
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and honestly, even less than that, if you have the things in your house already. The second thing was to narrow the focus of your outreach activity to one key science concept. You want people to learn.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and that is something I really did try to spring when I was just talking to people with information, or I could tell them one thing I realize I'm breaking my own impression of science, even if they learn nothing.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: because if they leave with a negative impression science. I'll never want to learn about any more science again. So that was really their whole aim is that people have fun, enjoy it. Want to go back and learn more.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So alongside communications and outreach talk a little bit more about other sciences. Research. I did. Specifically research, I did into the history of the world. Wide Web.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So just a quick catch up you might not know while my work at sun, and to try and make easier for the collaboration to
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: discuss something, to share data all over the world, and it was opened up to the public in 1,991. But really that was primarily part of the business. We were the early adopters. But yeah, and I think that this is a fact that the general public seems to have forgotten. I think
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I am, I would say the last generation to be taught I see, by people who still found the web, exciting and unusual, new even. I don't remember a world before the Web.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I think that for that reason people would also forgotten history, and I think that it's a really important part of communicating is important that it can have these unintended consequences from technology technological developments. But basically, my
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: research into web history was that, remember that we had made the 1st ever Uk website? Sorry, I should say that's a very cheap investment in the Uk. So I wasn't able to firmly confirm or deny this. I think it may have been history.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: The top, the 1st 3 websites, as far as I can tell for us Leeds and Durham University.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Jamie and me. I think that leads probably beat us. I think that we probably second. It's like what Darren might say, but I think that that is my understanding of long term. People think differently. I'd be very glad to hear
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: but there's a medium article coming up. Sorry. This is an article coming out soon. Where I talk to a very frequent farmer.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Fun enough to talk to me and really think about how the development of the early web, the lessons that we can learn from that when we think about new technologies today. So things like AI. How can we encourage development with new technologies? How can we respond well to them when they arise at individuals?
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And how can we avoid becoming like my mom, who told me when she used Web for the 1st time, she said to the whole office sadly, this will never take off.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I think that that's pretty much everything I have to talk about. I'm very willing to take notes.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: other questions.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: great representation. Thank you very much. Great. My question is about 300 ms
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: where it comes from.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Oh, goody, any questions? Yes.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Yeah. I mean, basically, the thing with social media analytics is they want
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: to give you the impression that your voice is doing well.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So 300 ms say half the post is maybe not enough for a second
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: side by side. You're doing really. Well, it's like drilling yours.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So I think that the main way that's why it's so useful.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I was. Gonna say, I think I agree with your mum.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I mean those. Those are sooth
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: in early websites. We all thought it was about
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: any other questions a little Spanish answer.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: really like the initiative where you invited lots of like editors from magazines and such. What? Why, do you think there was just like a couple of articles? That's kind of surprising.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Yeah, I think. You have a lot of different commitments your priorities normally do. One of them came out, one of them published in June.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: But I think that the lesson I kind of learned that is, potentially I should be my expectations slightly clearer on the day I should have said nobody.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: and maybe giving them some kind of timeframe. But that isn't too difficult when dealing with other kinds of journalists, so we kind of retreat them like journalists rather than student journalists, but maybe we should give them a little bit of extra push. I I also think I should have sent out at least one more email reminder every month down the line, saying.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: you're still welcome to ask me any questions.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So it's not too late. Might be another helpful email. 3 months down the line, maybe. Say, you don't mind if it's late, but we really would love to see it. Yeah, I'm sure it's hugely valuable, anyway. But no, yeah, that was definitely something that I
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: yeah, I I felt I I found it. Let's kind of figure out what?
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: okay, yeah. I just wanted to say. I'm very, very impressed. I think it's really an excellent sense of stuff that you've been doing. So. 1st of all, want to thank you because I think it's such great profile and range of stuff that you've done digging into the history and also getting the balance of
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: the kind of serious and educational with the the fun side of it. It seems to be very, very well balanced, and I had a couple of specific questions. One was about the student media day, and whether you thought about that as a national event. So you know, making it a blanket invitation across the board. I guess that might need some funding to support it. And is that something that you think would work?
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I think. Possibly I I think that the thing with that. So we have basically no funding for this event. So people funded their own journals throughout. And the issue with that is that student journalism across the country, as with all any form of local journalism, is severely underly on
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: the University supporting them. Many can't on their travel to our annual conference, let alone additional trips. So I think that it definitely has potential to be National Academy, particularly because we have sites across the Uk but that would take
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: funding, I think, basically to enable people to come.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: because even with this event I felt slightly uncomfortable about that question. Variety of timescales. So some things, you know, we get results quickly, or
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: another thing, for very long term progress. What's been the philosophy behind? How you communicated those different aspects. Do you have any best practice advice on that for your successor in terms of engaging people in what can be very long term projects with, you know, long term, substantial gains, but not the necessarily.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Yeah. So I think there are 2, 3 parts back. I think the 1st is encouraging
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: department to talk to us when they have made what they might view as a small game.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: If people only come to you when they discover the next. I think the other thing is to look back. One of the reasons, I think, looking back, the history of things that have been produced decades ago is really important.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: And also
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: think. Sometimes we just scared to get tell the general public should be should be prepared to talk about timescales, even when they might change. We need to communicate to them why things take so long.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: What? Yeah, what we're doing along the way to move those things happen.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: It's
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: so.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Any other questions
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: it's quite generic questions. I apologize. And it's sort of along those lines of in your year here.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: What sort of applause
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: in terms of what you've learned, what sort of things as physicists can we do to help someone in this role?
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Other things that we can do to help make your life easier for better. Yeah. So, responding to things like that again, if you think it's too small, send it to us, anyway.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: We can help you decide if it's too small, or if it needs.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: you know, to communicate it. But often it isn't often. It's really interesting to people. I think. One thing that scientists
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: all scientists at the top of business. But yeah, in fact.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: just because you are surrounded by other scientists, you know basics of what you're doing, and when you show what you're doing doesn't mean that the rest of the world does. They know so little about information is then valuable. And so I think that would be. The main thing is never be.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Yeah, never think anything's decent.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: It comes to us often.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Any other questions.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: So of interest. How much time did you spend writing your articles and stuff
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: really dependent? My main issue is kind of making sure. I I often wrote an article alongside doing lots of other things. Take longer. I would say
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: articles in these weeks. Bubble chambers a lot longer, because I was interviewing lots of different people practicing that information, looking at archive
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: thanks for reading various books.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: those projects we are ongoing for months, really in the background. Another work. But never taking up most of my books, if that makes sense, that was
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: is, that is, that like a common thing that you students have to do like normally like produce article outfit as well? Or is that something that just because of your skills to have previously been working at that.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: I think it really depends. I think I wrote less articles than I expected to, because I wanted to kind of improve on the skills. I think
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: the thing that makes epdee different. And my role different to all of other con students is that full time consultant? We have slightly more limited resources. So I got to a bit of everything. It's only a bit
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: of everything. I think, but I know that they are. I think.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: one of the most important elements that we have in Sdfc. And because the students are based within departments.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: we know we often know the most about
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: the articles.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: The most bad topics for us was that makes sense from a more centralized perspective.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Is there a last question?
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: It's not such a question. I would just like to say that
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: thank you for such a good talk, and I think you've done very well this year. I think you've achieved a lot, and I think you'll go far.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Thank you.
STFC-RAL-CR03 R61: Yes.