post-truth and science: a battle already lost
yes, it’s my yearly rant about the state of society, please feel free to skip if you’re interested in small-angle scattering. It is essentially a […]
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No post this week, because…
Dear readers, I must apologize in advance for there being no post this week. This Wednesday, I have a workshop to lead, for which preparation […]
Reviving forgotten tools: a Q Nomogram
A while ago I stumbled across the Nomogram idea. A Nomogram is a graphical way of displaying mathematical relationships. I managed to construct one of […]
Tidying up the USAXS electronics
While messes of wires spread over multiple desks allows complete freedom to play, eventually things will have to be put into a shipping-ready package. Here’s […]
Round-Robin down the greasy pole…
The increasing disillusionment amongst young scientists with the current academic publishing environment are crystal clear in my Twitter streams. This multi-tweet missive by Prof. Erin […]
It is the year that will be (2017 edition)
Happy new year everyone. Now, before we get started, it seems that scientific bloggers may be dangerous in Germany: Leonid Schneider has been sentenced by […]
It was the year that was (2016 edition)
And what a year it has been. Politically, and from a global perspective, it has been an absolute disaster with but a few moments of […]
How not to do SAXS
I never knew the stress at the end of a year could be this high (application forms to fill in, articles being submitted, five projects […]
Moving away from pneumatics in the USAXS instrument
A while ago, we had a meeting in our lab to evaluate the current state of the USAXS instrument, and whether it needs modifications. We […]
A new Dawn.
DAWN has been a software package with a rocky start (at the break of dawn). The software is designed for handling Diamond’s NeXus data, and […]