The first time a teacher told me to justify my text I wrote an additional conclusion on my report. What she really meant...

Like something out of Star Trek 🛸 Salt crystals forming in & on the edges of an air bubble that was suspended in a salty solution under my 🔬Looked like a “snow globe in space” with giant buildings growing on it; definitely a unique sight. #Crystals #MondayMood #Food #Research

Protein crystals? Oh yes, protein crystals.

Successfully entered the world of Science Comedy last week. This better not awaken anything in me (it definitely has).

I was gutted when I found out about this talk by Rodney Mullen at the The Royal Society too late to get tickets. But now it's up on youtube and definitely worth a watch, if you're a fan of skateboarding or not. Absolutley fascinating. youtube.com/watch?v=2c3aXb…

No more Christmas only Spooky Season

Do I know anyone out there who works at Astex in Cambridge? I have a question for you.

Double conformation anyone?

I may have spent too much of my Sat writing code to show rotating 3d models of every crystal structure in the #CSD ever collected at the #aussynchrotron for Open Day tomorrow😳😵‍💫At least they are pretty

That feeling when you get to the bottom of a paper you're reviewing, see your name in the acknowledgements and know you've just wasted 2 hours of your life.

Litterally just absent mindedly did this to a plug and suddenly all the vacuum pumps for the X-ray generator sprang to life.

Before seeding | After Seeding

My contribution to Methods in Enzymology with Katerina and Joachim is available online: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… European XFEL

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Reanimating bases from the broken pin graveyard today.

$540 worth of bases recovered from the pin graveyard.

Excuse me sir... The scritches appear to have stopped. This must be a mistake.

Love it when an Oxford Bus Company bus leaves early instead of waiting until the scheduled departure time so your left waiting for 30 minutes for the next bus. This is where the bus was at 19:22 when it should have been where I am.

This account will be left here for posterity but will no longer be used actively, unless there is a significant change in the direction of the community/ management of the site. You can find me where the skies are blue under the same username. Have a parting crystal picture