capillary self-absorption paper highlight, and new video
Dear scatterers, Those of you who have been reading this weblog for a while now, may remember the calculation of the sample self-absorption correction for […]
Presenting for Scientists – video
If you give bad presentations, you can kill people. If you want to find out why, and get some tips on presentation techniques (the ones […]
New video online- presenting observability
Dear readers, First of all, a merry end-of-year thingie (insert name here) to all of you. Last week, I presented a short 15-minute talk at […]
Detail-preserving 2D binning, part 1: the appetizer
(Sorry about the hiatus, there’s been a period filled with that noblest of Japanese traditions: paperwork!) If you want to do fitting of a 2D […]
A compact pneumatic fibre tensile stage – publication
It is with pleasure that I can announce the publication of another fibre-related work, right here (The electronic reprint will be made available after December on […]
More statistics and change of job
Hello dear readers, As a followup on my previous story, a colleague of mine sent me this paper that helps explain the standard deviation, standard […]
Everybody hates statistics…
Everybody hates statistics [1]… … but it can be of major importance in our small angle world. While very few papers on small-angle scattering […]
Changing jobs…
Dear all, I will be heading off again into the world of anisotropic scattering after a two-year stint in isotropic scattering. I will be working […]
Join the SAS session at the MRS-J conference in Yokohama, Japan! (19-21 December)
There is an upcoming conference in the Japanese city of Yokohama, mere minutes from Tokyo. At that materials research society conference, one particularly fine international […]
Careful when using Molybdenum radiation sources
Just a quick heads-up. There’s a chance of 0.5% low-energy contamination when using molybdenum or silver radiation sources, even when using focusing devices, according to […]