Despite having my job for almost 4 years now, I have never got around to decorating my office. Decided to get started with this little drawing of a pin- maybe I should make a series of all the different types? 🤔💎

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June 27 >> Stuttgart Science Festival - "Quantum at Karls" We were at the Karls-Gymnasium for a afternoon of science workshops and mini MAXI Science Talks to bring our research in the city 😎 Here to the full article:https://www.fkf.mpg.de/8996314/2026_Science_Festival_Quantum_at_Karls?c=8608137

Some really cool work done to trap PFAS in cages- with very fun crystallography done on MX1/2 😍💎 #ozchem www.ansto.gov.au/news/researc...

Join us at the 42nd Ore & Mineral Analysis (OMA) Workshop in Perth on 26 June, where Bryn McDonagh from #ATAScientific, will be presenting on the critical role of particle characterisation in mining and mineral processing. events.malvernpanalytical.com/W260526-OMA-...

Sometimes people are following me for a while and don't realize I have a podcast If that's you, hi! I make @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! If that sounds like something you might like, give it a follow? And if you think your followers might like it, give an RT?

Surprised and delighted to have been awared this. Thanks to @acs.org Catalysis. Special thanks to those who contributed to the paper Adelaide University especially Matthew Podgorski who lead the experimental work. doi.org/10.1021/acsc... axial.acs.org/organic-chem...

Reminder that one of the best #scicomm tools is still a USB microscope. #BraggYourPattern

Join us for the FIRST combined meeting of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand + the Australian X-ray Analytical Association: Crystal36-AXAA 2026 29th Nov-2nd Dec 2026 - in the beautiful Adelaide Hills town of Hahndorf. 🍻 Register & submit abstracts for early bird savings!

Regos open for Crystal36-AXAA2026 in the gorgeous Adelaide Hills 😍💎 We will be planning some fun outreach around the conference, so get in touch if you want to take part! #ozchem #BraggYourPattern

‘My whole scientific career, and that of many others at Nottingham, was based on the quality of the technical staff that we had,’ says former head of chemistry Steve Howdle. www.chemistryworld.com/news/notting...

Calling all crafty crystallographers! Are you going to #IUCr2026? Would you like to have a craft meet up in Calgary? Laura Folkers (at @stoenews.bsky.social) and I are looking to organise a gathering, all crafts welcome! Please fill in the EOI form so we can include you forms.gle/wpTpe4WVsdtY...

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...

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...

#chemsky, give me a hand sharing this, if you can.

I may or may not have purchased a Bluetooth speaker for my lab when I got my job. It has not been connected by my students. My Sony discman, with speakers and aux cable, Devourer Of Batteries, lies in the top drawer of my filing cabinet, biding its time, waiting for its moment.

#BraggYourPattern Seoul Edition #3: detail of a bronze sculpture at Ewha Womans University. amorphous in a way, crystalline in another... Depending on the wavelength ✨

Alexander Borodin co-discovered the aldol reaction and composed really good music too. 🎶 Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0U... This recording by Sorbonne University choir and orchestra feels appropriate for such a scientist :) #chemsky

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

#BraggYourPattern Seoul Edition #1: it must have taken an incredible patience to make this packing masterpiece decorating Sungnyemun Gate 🌺

Attention crystallographers and X-ray Analysts of Australia and New Zealand!! The SCANZ/AXXA conference this year will be in my beautiful home state of South Aus (I'm not biased at all 😉). Save the date! 💎 #BraggYourPattern #Ozchem

Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist, would be nominated for the Nobel 8 times, but you probably know him for his most famous invention, which never made him a penny, developed to hold ultra-cold liquified gases. You probably own a "Dewar vessel," but you know it as a Thermos™. Let's talk about it.

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.

#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

Yes I'm the weirdo that goes to the beach for the patterns #BraggYourPattern

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?

📢 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?

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 🤔 🤦‍♀️🕵‍♀️

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. 😡

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... /bot

Chemdraw shenanigans #chemsky

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...

Making a MOF cake in honour of the Nobel Prize. Wish me luck! (Already some rotational disorder in some of the ligands)

Just a little humble brag. Here's me getting my PhD with my supervisors - Bernard Hoskins and newly minted #NobelPrize Laureate Richard Robson. So thrilled for Richard, and thinking also of Bernard tonight (who passed away many years ago but was a crucial collaborator of Richard's). #Chemsky #ozchem

I'm really happy to see that MOFs got the Nobel prize, & that they picked these 3 scientists, who really drove the field. Especially Richard Robson, whose visionary paper showed the first synthesis & predicted the design & functionality of these materials #ChemNobel #Chemsky @rsc-pormat.bsky.social

Fantastic to see one of my chemical heroes, Richard Robson, winning the Nobel Prize for coordination frameworks (MOFs), together with Kitagawa and Yaghi. #ozchem

This is a fantastic day for Australian chemistry. First Australian chemistry Nobel prize since John Cornforth in 1975, but Richard Robson's work is at least as impactful. #ozchem

Been hoping for this for years!! Congratulations Robson, Yaghi, and Kitagawa- all founders of a field I'm very proud to be part of!! #OzChem