I have experience with facilitating dialogues between the scientific community and the wider public in addition to advising on issues of accessibility in education.

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Beyond the Buzz: How Generative AI Can Empower Disabled Science Journalists and Build a More Inclusive Future

Science Journalism Forum, October 2025

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the landscape of science journalism. While its potential to streamline research, summarise complex findings, and assist in multimedia content creation is undeniable, so too are the risks. Generative AI can easily propagate misinformation, reinforce societal biases, and dilute the authenticity of journalism and science communication—particularly when used without transparency or critical oversight. Given this, how can we effectively and ethically utilise generative AI as a tool in the arsenal of technological assistance available to journalists?

In this talk, I’ll share insights from using generative AI ethically, creatively, and accessibly—with a special focus on how these tools can empower science journalists with disabilities. Drawing from my own experience as a physicist, science journalist, and disabled content creator, I’ll explore how AI can reduce barriers in the profession: enabling clearer workflows, assisting with speech and text generation, and levelling the playing field for those historically excluded from the newsroom.

Rather than treating AI as a threat to science journalism, I argue that we can shape it into an inclusion amplifier—if we build it, use it, and teach it responsibly. 

Code, Consciousness, and Connectivity: Artificial Intelligence Meets Psychedelic Therapy

Global Psychadelic Week, November 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) and psychedelic therapy represent two of the most transformative frontiers in modern science, each poised to redefine mental healthcare and the exploration of consciousness. In this talk, Dr. Claire Malone examines the powerful synergy between these fields, showcasing how AI is revolutionizing psychedelic medicine through innovations such as virtual reality-assisted therapy, real-time physiological monitoring, and AI-optimized clinical trials. By leveraging these technologies, treatments are becoming more personalized, efficient, and widely accessible, paving the way for new standards in mental health care.

Anatomy of a Particle Detector

Christmas IOP talk at University of Leeds, December 2025

Particle detectors are to particle physicists as telescopes are to astronomers. They allow us to open a window into the inner workings of the Universe at the smallest length scales to understand it in terms of its fundamental constituents. But how exactly do they reveal to us the properties of the subatomic world in such extraordinary detail and with such remarkable agreement with theoretical predictions?

Claire MaIone will explore these incredible feats of engineering, with a particular focus on the ATLAS experiment at CERN. To digest the enormous flow of data produced by the collisions, ATLAS uses an advanced “trigger” system to tell the detector which particle interactions to record and which to ignore. Complex data acquisition and computing systems are then used to analyse the collision events recorded. Claire will conclude by looking to the future at what new technologies particle detectors are employing so that we can continue exploring the subject of the building blocks of our universe in ever greater detail.