The next instalment in the Saints Talk series will be from our very own Dr Graham Bruce. He's will talk about their toxic project. For details on how to register, please click on the link below. @grahamdbruce.bsky.social www.st-andrews.ac.uk/develop-2/sa...

Grateful to have been included in a Feature in ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ focussing on "fake spotters", available online today. This gives an overview of our work to tackle counterfeit spirits using laser spectroscopy, which we hope to see in use very soon! observer.co.uk/style/featur...

DEFORM-Net out in npj Artificial Intelligence — an #open-source, unsupervised deep learning tool for full-field displacement estimation in microscopy videos with #ImageJ #FIJI plugin. Led by Philip Wijesinghe & Soloman Warsop — huge congratulations to the whole team! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

More context for our work on detecting poisonous 19th century books, via the University Collections blog: university-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/02/24/p...

Recent work by Graham Bruce and University Libraries and Museums on finding poisonous 19th Century books is now featured in the exhibition ‘Poisonous Books – dangers from the past’, at the Wardlaw Museum until 23rd March. Entry is free for all. @grahamdbruce.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to speak to The Saint student newspaper recently about our work in whisky authentication: www.thesaint.scot/post/a-toast... For research articles, see doi.org/10.1039/D0AY..., doi.org/10.1364/OE.4... and doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...

Its Calcutta Cup week, so time to dust off this old classic youtu.be/WIpu1Kmhq94?...

New paper, with colleagues in Adelaide and Nottingham: doi.org/10.1088/2515... The developmental potential of a mammalian oocyte can be inferred from the motion of a particle optically trapped in the extracellular matrix! This has important potential implications for fertility research.

If you are in the St Andrews area, our current project on detecting arsenical pigments in Victorian books features in this fantastic exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum!

Delighted to have received funding from this Accelerator. Our team @uniofstandrews.bsky.social will be delivering impact in the heritage sector: deploying a new tool to detect arsenical pigments in 19th Century books in collections across Scotland.

Here we go! I'm advertising two PhD projects in the School of Physics & Astronomy! One is all about developing new ways to model open quantum systems: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/phd-projects... The other is about disorder and many-body localisation: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/phd-projects... Just ask for more info!

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