The guilty pleasure of seeing a zone with tens of peaks during an electron diffraction dataset while knowing that it's the perfect recipe for multiple scattering problems... but not caring for now because it just looks awesome ⚡ #crystallography

Little question for #CompChemSky folks: I need a routine tool to determine the point group sym of a bunch of atoms (not necessarily connected with bonds) and I saw VDM has a cool plugin for it, but it's not behaving for my xyz files (although the loading looks ok). Anyone has experience with this?

I'm sure I've said this before, but if you're still not following the Bluesky-created "Best of Follows" feed, you really should. I check mine daily. IMO it's what a "trending" feed really should look like, and it nails it in a way that Twitter never really could. bsky.app/profile/did:...

🧪 The countdown to IUCr2026 is officially on. The Call for Abstracts opens October 1, 2025, & this is your opportunity to share your discoveries on the global crystallography stage. Stay informed and get the details first at 👉 iucr2026.org Let science, structure, and scenery collide.

Join us on a new episode of the #MOFCast as we launch #MPIF: think #CIFs for syntheses - designed to make MOF synthesis reproducible. Share this post!🙏 Visit www.mpif4ever.com and come look at poster #38, session 1 at #EuroMOF! #science #podcast @euromof.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-mofcast/...

That's beautiful (and useful) Frank!🙌🏻

I used the semester break to make some progress on the space group diagram project: now all space group diagrams of the trigonal crystal system (space groups no. 143 - 167) are complete! They are available as PNG, PDF, and PPT at: crystalsymmetry.wordpress.com/space-group-... Enjoy!

This is awesome! #crystallography

Day 3️⃣ of our science communication best practice examples ft. EU4MOFs MOFcast is a new podcast hosted by Ocean Cheung addressing materials science. As this network experiments with a new medium they make their science accessible: bit.ly/4bocESK #SciComm #COSTactions #MOFs

Any diffraction-frame-geek knows a program to bin .cbf files? I mean reducing the pixel count, not merging adjacent frames (so merge2cbf or stuff ike that does not help) -- sth that does not involve coding a program for it 🙏 ... I'd be surprised if there's nothing already

Let's do one to match disordered structure to diffuse scattering patterns. I'm serious 😶

Players match protein targets with drugs in this game developed by RCSB PDB and @ccdc.cam.ac.uk

Another piece of what made Twitter beautiful is here... neutron (quasi)Laue patterns with that calming blue colormap 🫶 🌟 Glad to have you here @drmpblakeley.bsky.social !

He knew 🍃 #crystallography #totalscattering #老子

You can now add people to a Starter Pack directly from their profile. Starter Packs make it easy to recommend accounts to follow. They already drive nearly 20% of all follows on Bluesky!

WANT publishorperish.games

Ok from now on I need to be careful when I claim "nothing is periodic in nature" -- I'll keep saying it nonetheless 🍃 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodi...

Yet another nerdy hazy I've just found... Have a hoppy weekend! Cheers

Come join our team! We have a PhD position available on noncovalent interactions in COFs. The position is part of the BEAM graduate school. (Details in the alt text)

📣Scholarship program of the European Crystallographic Association for PhD students or young post-docs working in any field of crystallography!!! Apply before October 15, 2025!!! More info: ecanews.org/blog/2025/09...

"Good day Sir, here are today's options. Would you like anisotropic peak broadening, diffuse streaks, superstructure peaks, or twinning?" "Yes, please" #Crystallography #totalscattering #TheCuteLittleCrystal

Wow... it seems that the Fourier force is strong in this Gnome! Happy 10th birthday, little friend from @rigakuoxfordxrd.bsky.social #ROD10atECM #Fouriertransform #crystallography #ECM35

"Success for all", from his University's motto to a life that changed everyone else's... Today's #ECM35 starts with a lecture filled with emotions and anecdotes by Isabel Usón, remembering George Sheldrick #crystallography

Excited to be in Poznań for #ECM35. Would have also loved to go to Lviv as originally planned. 🇺🇦 Interested in COFs? I'd be happy to see you at my talk on Wednesday.

Interested in a PhD in materials, electrocatalysis and structure characterization? You want to dive into research & be part of a young, motivated group environment? And you don't mind grey & windy weather in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 a couple of months/year? Apply right here: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

If you are in Poznan for #ECM35 and you are interested in crystallography teaching, come to St. John Cantius Senior High-School, where Max von Laue studied in 19th century. Demo sessions and hands-on- tutorials on crystallography for students and teachers. Info: gig03eca.wixsite.com/gig03eca/gig...

The 35th European Crystallography Meeting is approaching fast, and so is the incredibly disordered session (in a good way 🙂‍↕️) I and @hannabostroem.bsky.social will chair! Come meet our awesome invited speakers Emily Meekel and Martin Schmidt, as well as our selected contributors! 🌟 🙌

I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think my electron density might be haunted. 💎👻💀

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

REQUEST What YouTube accounts should we add to our monitoring? We manually follow YouTube accounts in order to detect research linked in their description fields. So we don't follow everything, you see. Send us your suggestions! #AltmetricThis

Luckily (hopefully) chemists don't judge books by their cover... but crystallographers won't help noticing it 😑

Carolyn P. Brock: Can Z, the number of formula units per unit cell, be a fraction? A report of the IUCr Commission on Crystallographic Nomenclature ##CommissionReport##Z##NumberOfFormulaUnitsInTheUnitCell... ##IUCrhttps://journals.iucr.org/paper?S2053273325007053

Calling all chemists and polymer scientists! We are seeking your feedback on new recommendations for classifying and defining polymerization reactions—a chance to help shape the language of our field. Read the provisional recommendation here: iupac.org/recommendati... #chemsky #polymers @iupac.org

Congrats @jiyeonkim.bsky.social and co-authors for this beautiful, elegant study! I thorougly enjoyed reviewing it and discovering this new side of #MOFs 🌟

An awesome #TotalScattering initiative is unfolding in the protein #Crystallography world! As usual small molecule folks like me will have a lot to learn from our macromolecular colleagues 😊

Please retweet! We are looking for highly committed scientists with an individual scientific research career plan. You will work in an excellent consortium and have top research conditions. Work share is 80-20, that is you have one day per week to work on your own ideas.

Just came across this message on an open access version of article I found. This is a great idea! I think for those of us that have wide access to articles, it's very easy to forget that many people (both scientists and laypeople) don't have this luxury

Come work with me! The synchrotron is hiring a *permanent* MX beamline scientist with chemical crystallography experience. If you like crystals and fixing things, this is the job for you! 👩‍🔬🔧💎🤖 australian-nuclear.contactrh.com/jobs/12/4355...

Oh man this entire website is a gold mine... I'm totally going to lose myself for a while in the 'visualizations' section 😶

Woot, worked out how to update my handle to my new domain! Exciting plans are afoot!

Well at this point, time to dust off this one bsky.app/profile/stec...

(2/2) Then I noticed something interesting. Root of 'Diffraction' is latin 'frangere', 'split'. Crystals split X-rays, but when light is "purely" reflected, it does not split, does it... etymology, once again, saved the day. 🍵

While getting rid of all the times I distractedly said "Bragg reflection" in a review I'm writing, I've looked if anyone published anything on arguably the most popular misnomer in crystallography (diffraction ≠ reflection), finding nothing but blog discussions among frustrated physicists... (1/2)

Jürgen Richter-Gebert was one of the keynote speakers at Bridges. He spoke about the iOrnament software he wrote for the iPad. I just downloaded it and made this design in 50 seconds. Wow!

"Unique among scientists, she's remembered for something that happened to her, at the expense of the magnificent things she actually did."

Crystallography legend Rosalind Franklin was born 105 years ago today. In addition to her seminal work on the structure of DNA, in her tragically short life she did foundational work in the structure of viruses and coal. tinyurl.com/3ehmkpsz #WomenInSTEM #ChemSky #BioSky #HistSci 🧪⚛️

I have the feeling that the key word here is 'paracrystalline'

We have an opening in our institute at #EPFL for a tenure-track assistant professor position. Please repost... www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

PD Alert! 📢 We're hiring a 2-yr fully funded postdoc in automated MOF synthesis at DTU in Copenhagen! 🇩🇰 You'll help build our new lab and join a fun, collaborative team of chemists, engineers & physicists. #chemsky Apply here 👉https://shorturl.at/qqCKt

THREAD Impostors In January 2025 @digital-science.com's own @mcintold.bsky.social published a fascinating run-down of fake authors and impostors over the years. We explore the attention these pretend individuals have received over time. Her Substack is linked at the end. Strong recommend.