Thread by @RaoOfPhysics

Today marks seven years since I arrived at @CERN to work for @CMSexperiment. This is what I looked a few days after I first got here. 1/n

To celebrate these seven years, here are some of the things I've done since Day One: 2/n

… helped organise #ResearchersNight 2012 at @CMSexperiment:

… guided student groups on @CMSexperiment visits…

… guided my friends, family and strangers from @reddit on @CMSexperiment visits…

See for example:

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… guided multiple Virtual Visits to @CMSexperiment (mostly from India)…

For example: cds.cern.ch/record/2277362…

… went on multiple safety tours of the @CMSexperiment cavern, located ~100m below ground…

… helped announce the discovery of the #HiggsBoson to the world on 4 July 2012…

… celebrated the #NobelPrize awarded to #Higgs and Englert the next year, for the discoveries by @CMSexperiment and @ATLASexperiment…

… celebrated the fifth anniversary of the #HiggsBoson discovery by getting a @CMSexperiment #Higgs event tattooed on my arm…

#HiggsStories

… made a much-loved and much-retweeted animated GIF on miscommunication of science, using the example of the #HiggsBoson discovery…

… launched #HangoutWithCERN with @stevengoldfarb and @katekahle among others…

See: cern.ch/hangouts

… facilitated all of CERN's official @reddit_AMA sessions…

Here are the participants of one of them.

… made a few videos showing the inside story of the #HiggsBoson's discovery…

… went down to the #LHC a few times, including for a #HangoutWithCERN session and a VIP visit…

… coördinated & hosted CERN's first-ever Facebook Live…

#WhatsUpLHC

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Video: cds.cern.ch/record/2254677…

… witnessed the first #13TeV collisions at the #LHC…

… helped run the social media for the first-ever @TEDxCERN…

(Yup, I rushed this text+screengrab image all those years ago.)

… started a PhD at @SciCommsUWE and made my first poster presentation at @CERN…

… and thanked @CERN's two million followers for following us…

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… among many, many other things including producing tonnes of articles, press statements, photos and videos…

It's been one hell of a ride so far, and I hope there are many more years to come. :)

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