Lachlan Milligan

(New!) PhD Student in Experimental Particle Physics. Interested in Sci-Comm alongside other much more boring things.

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

Amazing news for dark matter research in Australia: $35m awarded for a new dark matter Centre of Excellence led by Prof. Elisabetta Barberio, right here at @unimelb. Future looks bright for physics in Australia! ✨

https://t.co/VQlNVsf0NV

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

@MrKRudd Love your stuff, Kevin. I would absolutely love a signed handball #kevin2027

[Alan Duffy @astroduff]

On behalf of the university partners and tireless efforts by the industry community leaders I want to thank @JaclynSymes and @RD_Vic @VicGovAu for making possible a Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory that explores dark matter and many experiments beside!

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

It really was a successful week.

[Cate MacQueen @cmqcentaurus]

A wonderful end to a wonderful week! The @SciMelb #workexperience week was a major success. The kids all received their completion certificates and developed some really great #posters

Looks like we’ve got some upcoming #particlephysicists 💙

@LachMilligan @unimelb

[Cate MacQueen @cmqcentaurus]

What happens when you place irradiated #smokedetectors above our #cloudchambers

Beautiful puffs of smoke through the #isopropylvapour

#workexperience #particlephysics @unimelb @SciMelb

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

Ending this very rewarding work experience week with what was a more relaxing activity: the scienceworks planetarium!

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

Managed to get some cloud chambers working today for the @SciMelb #particlephysics work experience program with @DTMarcantonio and @cmqcentaurus. The particle tracks are really clear!

[Cate MacQueen @cmqcentaurus]

The #aftermath with our #dryice was also very fun! Thanks @LachMilligan and @DTMarcantonio for this! @SciMelb @unimelb #workexperience #particlephysics

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

Staring at stuff in the sky for year 10 work experience, and telescopes for schools with @astrobarney @JunkMatter @GrantApplctns

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

Printing work experience booklets for the @SciMelb year 10 work experience week. Feeling sorry about all the trees that have been sacrificed for this 😭 (and this is only a third of the books!)

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbScicomm Yiting using some statistical analysis to understand early human migration, out of Africa and into the parts of the world we all populate today! An application of coolmaths™, that seems much less dry than the pure and applied maths i studied 😬

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbScicomm @JordanSLWC
Some really sick research on our gut bacteria protecting us from gastro 🤒🤮 if he could help me avoid getting this sick I would be super happy.

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbScicomm @KayaBMoore
Why do only male birds sing in some species, but both male and females sing in others? 🤔 Interesting research I'd really love to know the answer too! I wish I could listen to songs for my work🎶🎵. One thing for sure, I still can't sing 😬

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbScicomm @jonathanvnlay
Who knew that looking at the eyes is a diagnostic tool for Alzheimer's
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This is important for avoiding invasive procedures like cerebrospinal fluid analysis (scary!😱) important work on a disease that affects many! 👩‍🔬

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbScicomm @m_hendleyy
Talking about improving treatment for sufferers of ovarian cancer. 💊🧬
Using immunotherapeutic drugs! Some really important research here, on cancer that affects and unfortunately takes the lives of too many women. Definitely not immune to this work!

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbScicomm @eb_rocchi
Talking about gonad differentiation in different animals 🙊 and particularly in the fat-tailed dunnart, in order to study the development of its offspring with the use of invasive procedures! Very interesting and uh... Unique research! 🍒

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbScicomm @alice_nicholl
Talking about making a national Park to help conserve our unique wildlife 🐻🐶🐨 who knew that so much work went into it! It seems like computing (to help prioritise park sections) has seeped into this research field too! 💻 Noble work from Alice!

[Laura Town-Hopkinson @lauratownhop]

Okay, all these physicists are turning me to the dark side, how do I switch to a physics masters? @a_ritter_darkly's assymmetric dark matter models are mind blowing: using mirror higgs' fields to build model parameters sounds UNREAL! #unimelbscicomm

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbscicomm @a_ritter_darkly
An outnumbered theorist finally gives his talk on the theoretical component of my research 🧠🧠 The theory is really interesting but there's so many, I reckon Alex's theory sounds the most natural! His talk definitely made me feel symmetric today

[Lachlan Milligan @LachMilligan]

#UniMelbscicomm @jiyuch
Talking about trying to get AI to be able to read text and language! Maybe I can use this in the future to do my readings for me 🤔 the application to clinicians is a really interesting and important application!! 💉💊