Let’s meet at SAS2024?
Hey all, The SAS2024 conference will be upon us in a few weeks. It’ll be an excellent opportunity to meet many of you again. Please […]
Your input needed: calling all grazing incidence scatterers…
Hello everyone. My colleague Anja is working on an attempt to get a standard operating procedure in place for grazing incidence scattering experiments. This will […]
Capacity restrictions resulting in MOUSE operation limitations – what will we still accept?
Despite the high degree of workflow automation, a high-throughput lab like the MOUSE lab would always require at least two full-time permanent researchers. Two (or […]
The first five MOF synthesis libraries are online
Our RoWaN automated synthesis platform has been used to perform over 1200 ZIF-8 syntheses, each with slight variations in the experimental procedure. We went to […]
Should we even be subtracting interacting solvents? Part 1: the considerations
[A note because I cannot stand being imprecise in terminology: what is commonly called “Solvent” in scattering, is better expressed as: the dispersant medium, i.e. […]
SAS2024 in Taiwan – final deadline approaching
If you have a chance to travel to Taiwan this autumn, you’ll be able to enjoy the SAS2024 conference! It has been two years since […]
Turn your measurement files into NeXus (or NeXish) with this somewhat universal translator…
One persistent problem in the X-ray scattering community is the lack of data interoperability. This is exactly what kicked off the CanSAS collaboration 40 years […]
A month of MOUSE with Moeez
During the last four weeks, we’ve had a guest visiting the lab from the University of Washington. Abdul Moeez, a Ph.D. student in Prof. Lilo […]
Work in Progress: the structure of squid “bones”
Besides the ongoing instrument migration efforts, we are also continuing work on “real” science. One of these involves the backbone of squid (called a squid […]
Steps for “liberating” the MOUSE from its original control system.
Regular readers will know we are in the process of migrating away from the last vestiges of the original SPEC-based control system on our (already […]