The end of a very long productive cycle is thankfully here. What are we still doing in R80 at this time?

Offspec now has the next generation of ISIS data acquisition equipment (DAE3) installed for testing.

It's been a busy day! Nick Clegg came to visit ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and the huge amount of work to repair the RF seems to have worked.

Offspec's first event mode experiments have now been done. It's a brave new world!

We've just finished our most complicated experiment to date. Event mode NR + in situ FTIR + QCM. What fun!

I write about how JE Gordon's The New Science of Strong Materials influenced my early life book-power.com

Offspec is hiring! If you have what it takes, or think you might: isis.stfc.ac.uk/vacancies/inst… Feel free to email me or Rob.

.ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is celebrating 30 years this month, they've produced 12g of neutrons over that time, sounds cute but is actually epic

ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Neutron training course: 16-25 June 2015 neutronsources.org/index.php?arti…

Once more, is there nothing magnets cannot do? >>> news.sciencemag.org/chemistry/2014…

ISIS are recruiting 13 Instrument Scientists. Apply now before 6 January: ow.ly/FTjOz ow.ly/i/7WlXe

The letters have gone out, thanks for lots of great proposals! ISIS is waking up, get ready for beamtime ISIS Neutron and Muon Source :)

Have I got your preferred and no-way dates for the next few cycles yet? You snooze you, aeh, run over Easter...?

3 perils of science communication: CorrelationNOTcausation; Cherrypicking; Sensationalism by Dorothy Bishop Silvia Paracchini bit.ly/1JyOt0l

Pioneering magnetoelectric imaging on I06 shows promise for mobile data storage bit.ly/1LgVAw8

Nice paper on voltage control of perp. magnetisation in Ni/BTO. Not OffSpec but my samples :) Diamond Light Source doi.org/10.1002/adma.2…

Magnetisation profile in doped topological insulators? EPL highlight 2014: iopscience.iop.org/0295-5075/107/… Nice data from Polref ISIS Neutron and Muon Source

First beam to TS2! Much, much more soon to follow.... Bring on 2014/3 :)

Hello flat magnetism fans, a new MOKE system is currently making its way to our characterisation labs! #Nanomoke3

First real users tomorrow after the long shutdown.... Exciting :)