Come and work with me! The Austron is hiring a chemistry focused beamline scientist on the MX beamlines! Get in touch if you are interested 💎🧪👩🔬
#ozchem
careers.ansto.gov.au/job/Melbourn...
Expressions of Interest now open for the next Australian Powder Diffraction workshop. Being held at the Synchrotron (Clayton, Melbourne) - it's the perfect way to get into powder diffraction analysis! $200 course fee (including accommodation) www.ansto.gov.au/whats-on/pow...
Could this be my finest moment?
'"Your average space billionaire probably doesn't give a rat's arse about future generations," she said'.
I'm not sure I was expecting this to be quoted!
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A map of Australia and New Zealand with pins indicating the location of a primary school that have received a Crystal Explorer Kit.
We've raced past 500 schools and now well over 650! Look how spread out those locations are. We're really happy that our Crystal Explorer Kits are reaching remote primary schools all over. #BraggYourPattern
And of course now anyone can flood Bluesky with their custom patterns... add the tag #FourierTiler so people don't miss any and can find them back! And of coruse, let's saturate #Braggyourpattern as well 😏
Ha! indeed, that is rather exotic behaviour but as an experimentalist I'm always sceptical until it's seen outside of a computer...
🚨New paper in Icarus🚨 Using neutron diffraction to chart the phase solid behaviour of the (not so) simple alkanes.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
BIG THANKS to the @ccdc.cam.ac.uk team for new funds for our next big outreach project!!
Hi, if you're a student or postdoc, living in the US, going to #IUCr2026, we at the American Union of Crystallography want to give you money.
New deadline: May 1st.
aucryst.org/auc-student-...
Detail of a bronze sculpture showing triangles joined in an aperiodic pattern, reminiscent of a glassy atomic structure.
#BraggYourPattern Seoul Edition #3: detail of a bronze sculpture at Ewha Womans University. amorphous in a way, crystalline in another... Depending on the wavelength ✨
Image of a cricket game in progress, there is a green hill behind the ground.
On holibobs in NZ, of course I am watching cricket. Amazing day for it at the basin reserve #NZvSA
A shark fin shaped rock on Mars from the Perseverance Rover. Taken with MastCam-Z on Sol 1817. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Right! Good I checked 😂
Yeah, perhaps I should write ‘footy/rugby ball’
A model of a C70 molecule, made of plastic atoms and bonds. Those representing carbon are black and are joined by grey bonds. The structure is oval overall
Writing instructions for a C70 structure from our Crystal Explorer kits. Australians... am I ok to say that the result 'will be closer to a footy ball than a soccer ball' (translating from my UK raised brain footy=oval ball) #BraggYourPattern
The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.
Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️⚧️
How to make your own robot!
A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org.
Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky
doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...
Job alert! Denisse Leyton and I are hiring a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow position (up to December 2028) at The Australian National University.
Application deadline is 12 April 2026
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...
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A wall of rectangular stones, well packed despite having all different size, larger at the bottom, gradually smaller towards the top. Many light grey, some sand-yellow with a rose hue.
#BraggYourPattern Seoul Edition #1: it must have taken an incredible patience to make this packing masterpiece decorating Sungnyemun Gate 🌺
Yesterday, Ellyse Perry became the oldest player to take a wicket in a women's T20I for Australia (35y 140d).
Remarkably, Perry now holds the record for being both Australia's oldest and youngest wicket-taker in the format, having taken 4-20 aged 17y 90d on debut against England in 2008.
The Romans were clearly on to something #BraggYourPattern
We just crossed the milestone of the 500th school to sign up for their crystal explorer kit!! #BraggYourPattern
Petition EN7775 - Make part-time PhD students' stipends tax exempt
This simple petition to make the lives of many Australian PhDs better was presented to the House on 27/10/25. By Parliament rules, "a minister is requested to respond to a petition within 90 days." I guess they don't care? @jasonclaremp.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social
www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Match report from the #WNCL final, was a really entertaining game.
Well, that was emotional! Congrats to Queensland on winning this year’ #WNCL
Four people wearing cricket inspired t-shirts
Good representation of @leaguetees.bsky.social tees at the #WNCL final
CRICKET:
QLD have set NSW a massive 333 to win the WNCL title.
Grace Harris and Georgia Redmayne put on 192 runs for the 3rd wicket and both scored centuries against a NSW attack which struggled at times in the field.
📸Getty/Robbie Stephenson
Players taking to a cricket ground, two batters in blue and a fielding team in maroon
One last time Healy takes to field for NSW #WNCL, they need 333 to retain the Ruth Preddey Cup #NSWvQLD
I’ll hopefully tell you after Wednesday!!
Ha! Yeah I was considering that, actually doing an initial experiment at the synchrotron on the MS7 first (can UV knock out the unbonded water) then MS11 next!
