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Introducing Ultima Ratio: a high-res, multiscale 3D-FFT approach for simulating scattering, diffraction and PDF

2023-04-25 Brian Pauw 0

The FFT is a powerful approach to simulate scattering patterns: feed it a realistic electron density map, and you get an accurate scattering pattern out […]

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An “open-source” safety interlock

2023-04-13 Brian Pauw 0

Recently, we’ve had to tighten up safety on the MOUSE, in particular for connecting high-power 230V electrically heated stages inside the sample chamber. Since radiation […]

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Leaving Agadez (a city in central Niger) via the departure gate on the Route Nationale 25 (N25) in the direction of Tahoua and Niamey. Vincent van Zeijst - CC BY-SA 4.0

Farewell to my partner in crime: Dr. Glen Smales.

2023-03-30 Brian Pauw 0

My colleague and scientist extraordinaire, Dr. Glen Smales, has been key to the successful operation of the MOUSE lab for the last five years. During […]

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Data Analysis Round Robin available on the ArXiv

2023-03-21 Brian Pauw 0

While we wait for the referee reports to come in on the Data Analysis Round Robin paper submitted in January, I’ve put the preprint manuscript […]

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three-year post-doc position available on (GI-)XS

2023-02-22 Brian Pauw 0

Hey all, I’ve a three year post-doc position for grazing incidence X-ray scattering now open for applications! It’s for a H2020 project on developing antimicrobial […]

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Removing tedium in data processing using Rundeck

2023-02-13 Brian Pauw 0

By now, we have developed a quite extensive data processing pipeline whilst maintaining a high rate of samples on the MOUSE instrument. To stave off […]

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Data Analysis Round Robin: Presentation video online, and paper submitted

2023-01-13 Brian Pauw 1

How much does the researcher affect the analysis of small-angle scattering data? To find out, we sent four corrected, ready-for-analysis datasets to participants, and investigated […]

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Same instrument, double the efficiency. Here’s how.

2022-12-01 Brian Pauw 0

It’s been almost five full years since we started keeping detailed operational statistics on our X-ray scattering machine. It’s also been a little more than […]

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Presentation – how to run a (lab) SAXS instrument efficiently

2022-10-03 Brian Pauw 0

Just in case you haven’t subscribed to my YouTube channel; I uploaded a presentation of mine which I presented at the 2022 SNI conference in […]

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Looking at something else: Robotics in the lab

2022-06-24 Brian Pauw 0

So with our MOUSE instrument churning through an unprecedented number of samples, we’ve got to keep it well fed, preferably with consistent sample series. That’s […]

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