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Online talk next week on scattering and synthesis metadata

2025-05-01 Brian Pauw 0

Hey everyone. Things’ve been rather hectic in the lab of late, hence the radio silence. Nevertheless, a small announcement: on the 9th, I’ll be giving […]

Putting the band back together… For data corrections!

2025-03-26 Brian Pauw 0

In a couple of months, I will be joined for a week by a small group of amazing people, to set up the foundation for […]

Maintenance time: tidying the power supply, zeroing slits, and first steps with Ophyd.

2025-03-19 Brian Pauw 0

Last week we spent a few days not measuring samples, but instead doing a few maintenance tasks that have been looming for a while. Let’s […]

MOUSE performance 2018-2024

2025-03-04 Brian Pauw 0

Operational statistics are a good way of getting insight on the health of the lab. Let’s take a look at how the MOUSE did in […]

Crystallising Polymorphs of Fat with Cropped Sawtooth Temperatures

2025-02-19 Brian Pauw 0

Our latest MOUSE collaborators, Ph.D. researcher Julia and Master’s student Keelin, are particularly excited about watching fat melt and resolidify. Not for a lack of […]

Need rapid heating/cooling? Developing a simple cross-over flow system..

2025-02-04 Brian Pauw 1

We have a user coming next week who’s interested in cooling their samples as fast as possible. This rapid cooling has a drastic effect on […]

Restoring the automated data processing pipeline, now with HDF5Translator goodness

2025-01-28 Brian Pauw 0

Now that we’ve squashed most gremlins from the new EPICS-ified set-up, we are starting to obtain our datafiles again in the thousands. So far so […]

One hour of me talking… for you!

2025-01-09 Brian Pauw 0

In case you like what I’m saying and would love to hear more from me, I appeared on the “Your friendly physicist & other nerds”-podcast […]

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Fixing science: a new approach for trust?

2025-01-01 Brian Pauw 0

“How can I find out what the good papers in a field are”, asked a student at my last Dark Side of Science talk. That […]

The final step: SPEC no more

2024-12-10 Brian Pauw 2

You might remember us starting this “instrument control software migration” project a while back, where we were slowly experimenting with moving bits and bobs into […]

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