I FOUND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY WRAPPING PAPER! mathsgear.co.uk/collections/... #Crystallography #ChemChat #Chemistry

You can find most of the mods here: mod.io/g/openxcom If you want something Vanilla+, the Final Mod Pack is great. If you want a massive expansion on everything, conceptually, The X-Com Files is what you want. And 40k: Rosigma is an ever-expanding Warhammer total conversion featuring EVERYTHING.

The Canadian National Committee for Crystallography will be hosting a Codding Lecture in support of early career crystallographers on Nov 5 at 1 PM EST. Strain and Defect Analysis in InSb/GaAs Heteroepitaxy with a Novel 3D Reciprocal Space Approach by Trevor Blaikie. xtallography.ca/index.php/co...

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

On March 12, 1930, while flying a Fairchild KR-21 biplane trainer on a demonstration flight, he lost control of the aircraft and crashed. He was killed on impact. Over 50,000 people, including an honour guard of 2,000 soldiers attended his funeral. 🧵 11/12

His injuries from 1918 left his legs and left arm with limited mobility. In 1924, he became the acting director of the RCAF. After he left the RCAF, he became the first honorary president of the Toronto Maple Leafs. In his last years, he struggled with alcoholism. 🧵 10/12

Wounded and bleeding, he crash-landed inside Allied lines after shooting down four planes. Barker was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions. Still recovering, he could barely walk a few paces to receive his medal at Buckingham Palace on March 1, 1919. 🧵 7/12

In September 1918 he was given command of a training school and a 10-day roving commission in France to get up to date on combat techniques. On Oct. 27, 1918, the 10th day of the roving commission, he attacked 15 German planes in a dogfight over Canadian lines. 🧵 6/12

This was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in The Snows of Kilmanjaro. In March 1918, Barker earned the Distinguished Service Order. From May 1916 to September 1918, he flew 900 combat flying hours and shot down 46 aircraft and balloons. He then Transferred to RAF HQ. 🧵 5/12

William George Barker is the most decorated serviceman in the history of Canada. For his service in the First World War, he received the Victoria Cross, DSO & Bar, Military Cross & Two Bars and more. This is the story of a Canadian hero. 🧵 1/12

Tomorrow they come...

I love that the key art here showcases the true linchpin of the dwarven defense plan: That goose in the far bottom-left.

It appears my post yesterday wasn’t groundless. I would STRONGLY encourage everyone to contact Epic Games and ask them to deny this rumor and express your opinion about Harry Potter. The only contact information I can find for now is: [email protected] If anyone can find better…

Odin: *jumps on top of me* Me, sounding exactly like an NPC standing in a puddle of poison: ow. oof. ow. ugh. oof. uff. ow

Bluesky feed is like ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ cute kitty! ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ [adult content] ------------------ we're doomed ------------------

OMG @wizardofdocs.bsky.social made me stuffed shell pasta. I"m having trouble moving due to all the cheese and I"m in heaven. I married the right person.

My parents gave @wizardofdocs.bsky.social and I a little money to start a savings account after the wedding and trying to find a bank that doesn't invest in fossil fuels and has a local location is terrifying. I've only ever been with two of the biggest banks in Canada and ahhhhhhhhh

"War is hell." Ethel Merman cameos as the lieutenant who thinks he is Ethel Merman in Airplane! (1980)

Kid, doing some chemistry-related homework for middle school science: "Dad, what is the name of group 14?" Me, a chemistry PhD: [looks at the periodic table] "I... don't know."

Terminal Directive - Android: Netrunner by Adam Schumpert #cyberpunk #scifiart

DEEP PHIL LORE: My friend and I got double banned from the Santa Cruz Boardwalk's dime toss booth by both the booth operators and our parent because we won too much goddamn crap. And, boy howdy, was it craaaaaap. Like, ashtrays that shattered because they got too much sun.

Canadians will count and recount ballots as often as necessary to be confident in election results. I just didn’t expect to be doing it over minerals??

Aaah, nice! I was holding off on playing Fallout London until they released their big 'DLC' update. Adds a whole mess of sidequests on top of polishing up what was already there And it's live now. Apparently they've figured out a launcher option for FO4 on Steam too www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZx...

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This is a point I feel people miss when it comes to actions like this. "Moreover, I feel that the University administration’s actions have placed my long-term safety at risk by sending the message that harassment and bullying are effective means of having a professor put on leave."

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

The whippet heard that we were doing northern working class stereotype discourse again and has decided to wait it out by pretending to be an Afghan hound instead.

📰 New study: Drone footage measured 272 dugongs across 18 countries. Larger populations were generally plumper; small, endangered groups were leaner. Socioeconomics matter—wealthier areas & MPAs link to healthier dugongs and human pressure lowers condition. More: dugong.cms.int/news/global-...

I find it funny that I used to follow a bot that posted all edits to WIkipedia made from congress IP addresses. There were two types of edits: 1) The most BORING edits about congresspeople (They joined this committee June 20XX, not July 20XX) 2) The nerdiest shit on like obscure Star Trek pages

My fellow #FourierTransform enthusiasts, here's a new entry in my collection ready for you, nr. 56! The real-space picture is an intersection of two tilings of squares, one tilted by 43°. Moiré pattern? Definitely related 💯 As always, you can find the high-res pair at behance.net/specialdefects

13: If they d on't have a queer orgy in the Starfleet Academy show, they're wasting the premise.

8: the collapse of the Romulan empire following the supernova makes no sense. Yes, evacuating a capital planet is going to be a massive, decade-long undertaking, but, like, the Romulans were more than capable of relocating their military and government locus to a planet within their borders.

6: Lower Decks did what all good adult animation does: take a satirical premise, then build it's own identity on that framework.

4: Starfleet is a military organization. Granted it's more the ideal of what military service could be, with a monomaniacal focus on R&D, which is very much part of the US military's purview, and restraint in use of arms.

2: contrary to how a lot of people think of it, Star Trek is more vibes over hard science. Specifically, the vibes of reconciling high clean values with the dirty reality of human reality.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Product and Engineering finally getting to the bottom of who’s responsible for this mess…

Does anyone have a good, reasonably up-to-date review of cryo-EM uses and methodology for (relatively) high-resolution protein structure determination? For someone who doesn't have a cryo-EM background.

These are individually hand painted watercolors, not prints. Lack of reproducibility is part of the point.

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

The most frustrating thing about the whole kerfuffle about if this or that causes autism is that most of the framing, even the medically accurate ones, still frame it as a BAD thing. I love my autism, my hyperfixations bring me joy on a level most neruotypical people can't understand.

uggg. Asthma attack this morning bad enough that I used my inhaler FOUR times (normal is two). Tried to go to work, and had to stop and go home as I was so out of breath I got dizzy. Now those inhaler doses are wearing off and I feel SO FUCKING TIRED. :(

This morning, during some chaos, this zipped by on one of my feeds. Maybe it was here? Hard to overstate how much this made my day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-...

Venmo me one thousand dollars and I'll watch your pets after the rapture. This fee is unfortunately non-refundable.

Your regular reminder that trying to 'cure' autism or queerness is as medically implausible as 'curing' left-handedness, aversion to coriander, or not being able to roll your tongue. They are part of normal human variation and will keep showing up in every population in roughly the same proportions.

I recently became fascinated with the Dove Foundation, a non-profit that, once upon a time ~25 years ago, reviewed video games based on their suitability for Christian families Here is, as far as I can tell, a complete list of all 77 games that received the Dove Seal of Approval

A pair of 99.9985 kHz crystals from an HP3571A spectrum analyzer, part of a 5-stage filter that set the IF bandwidth. They are simply gold-plated flat plates packaged like vacuum tubes. Made by Northern Engineering Laboratories, Burlington WI.