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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

A few years back, I refactored the McSAS analysis software to enable multicore processing and re-histogramming, amongst other improvements. As McSAS3 was command-line only (so […]