Hey #scicomm folks!
I am looking for a diverse crew to represent their fields with their head shot and a fun fact they like from their field of study, but SPECIFICALLY:
-a geologist/volcanist or gemologist
-a zoologist
-astronomer
-a paleontologist
-a structural engineer
We applied Advanced Crystal Harvesting Instrument aka a longer spoon and determined that it is indeed a sucrose.
A fragment of the Garnet Room from Granatium museum, consisting from hexagonal tiles.
#BraggYourPattern from Granatium museum in Austria, a fragment of the Garnet Room wall.
@ansto.bsky.social MX beamline workshop.
Bottom lines - match your crystal size to your beamline!
Dont shoot a moving target. Wait for the loop position to stabilise.
Rasterize to find your xtals.
You need training to use MX3!
All pins in puck must be the same!!
Our paper on the instrument, beautifully named Wombat, is now published doi.org/10.1107/S160... @japplcryst.iucr.org - We're currently also open for experiment submissions - deadline 16th March neutron.ansto.gov.au
Image of patterns in the sand in the intertidal zone. The sandscape fills the image, and there are regular wave patterns in it. For a sense of scale there are two white shells in one of the divots in the sand.
Yes I'm the weirdo that goes to the beach for the patterns #BraggYourPattern
Yellow robot with googly eyes and a tiny pink cowboy hat
Getting the beamline ready for x-rays to come back next week, so of course had to make a tiny pink cowboy hat for the robot. Coming soon will be a whole hatrack of hats depending on the mood of the robot 🤠🤖💎
Current read: The Mercy of Gods by James SA Corey.
Asks the eternal question , what if you were stuck with just your lab mates during the alien invasion?
A title image describing a recently publish scientific paper. The title is To help publicize your article, Crystal structure of diacetylene unveiled by X-ray and neutron diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and periodic DFT' and there is a brief description of the paper that reads 'The crystal structure and thermal expansion behaviour of diacetylene were determined via diffraction methods and supplemented by spectroscopic techniques. The similarities to acetylene's structure and implications for Titan in situ exploration are discussed.' There is also an image that depicts the crystal structure and its unit cell
📢 One less molecular mystery - the crystal structure of diacetylene is solved, published in @iucrj.iucr.org today! Fantastic work by Larissa, and also I think will be the first structure deposit in @ccdc.cam.ac.uk from wombat! Read the OA paper here journals.iucr.org/m/issues/202...
Call for Papers: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Chemical Science (Australia & New Zealand)
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a collection that elevates Indigenous knowledge systems in chemical science. Please share widely with colleagues and networks.
Of interest to the #OzChem community?
Oooh, maybe? But which on button?
Three photos side by side- left has a crumpled up piece of paper towel, middle shows the word NO written on the paper towel, right has screws that were wrapped in the paper towel
A tale in three parts- I was doing the end of year beamline clean and found paper towel to throw away. It was strangely heavy. Unwrapped it to find the word "NO" written on it. Unwrapped it further to find some screws. Where they come from or why they are "no" remains a mystery 🤔 🤦♀️🕵♀️
5 hrs of baking and 3 types of biscuits later 🍪🎁
It's Christmas biscuit baking day! 🎄🎄🎄
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Children’s book in front of plant. Book looks like a composition notebook with red title „X-ray crystallography adventures!“ subtitle: cat & elephant‘s sugar crystal mystery. Two cartoons of a cat in a lab coat and an elephant in baking gear are on bottom right.
Thrilled to announce publication of the crystallography children’s book illustrated by undergraduate Justine Wong!
You can buy it here for $15: meitneriumpress.com
50% of profits will support undergrad education at the Cal Poly Pomona Crystallography Co-op.
#chemsky #chemchat
I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/...
#Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry
Are you a PhD/honours student in the Sydney area working with X-ray/Neutron techniques? Great (and very friendly) opportunity to present your work at the Australian X-ray Analytical Assoc's student day coming up on the 20th Nov www.eventbrite.com/e/axaa-nsw-s...
🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...
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Chemdraw shenanigans #chemsky
4 people standing. Three have certificates
Table full of food
Classroom full of people
Third and final day! Refinements, cifs and lots of delicious food 🍰Congratulations to the brilliant flash talks winners! Now time to sleep 😴
Group of people standing outside near a barbeque
Classroom full of people with lecturer at the front
Workshop day 2: splitting into protein and chemical crystallography streams, beamline practicals and beautiful weather for a bbq 🌞 Also 40 absolutely brilliant flash talks in 40 min- astounded by all the amazing science people are doing! 💎👩🔬🧪
Aw, thank you 😊
Interpenetrated dodecahedrons made out of lolly cubes and toothpicks
Stuart Battern standing in front of slide with 2025 Chemistry Nobel Prize winners on it in lecture theatre
Day one of our 2025 Crystallography Workshop! Featuring a special pop-up talk from @sbattenresearch.bsky.social about this year's chemistry Nobel Prize, and outreach training where everyone could make their own lolly crystal structure 🍭💎 @crystallised-cricket.com #BraggYourPattern #OzChem
My first MOF (or coordination polymer - it had both alright!) paper 🥰 I learnt a healthy respect for silver and did some fun ligand synthesis for this work that I did in my Honours year
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
It didn't collapse overnight! Some defects were introduced, which will probably result in peak broadening in the PXRD. Also a passivation surface layer has been added and surface absorbed atoms
Layer 3 done! Will it collapse overnight? Probably. Did i have fun? Most definitely! 😂
Layer 2 done- added some reinforcement and this must be a flexible MOF, because the guests are structurally integral
One layer of chocolate and vanilla cake arranged like a mof
Making a MOF cake in honour of the Nobel Prize. Wish me luck! (Already some rotational disorder in some of the ligands)
