corpus.blog
41554 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0bd9e-aac3-726f-b0cb-08d0a576d715", "title": "15x faster McSAS3, and a Porod-slope background addition", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4915", "published_at": "2026-09-14T08:04:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb23bf0d9", "title": "Positions available: post-doc at BAM on operando SAXS/WAXS/XAS, and junior professorship at uni Duisburg-Essen", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4909", "published_at": "2026-09-04T08:31:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb3026958", "title": "First batch of capillary holders (version 2.4) available in the BAM webshop", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4887", "published_at": "2026-08-18T12:35:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb36ce200", "title": "Taking time off", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4882", "published_at": "2026-07-08T07:08:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb3736949", "title": "Hot off the press: grilling composites in the beam", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4849", "published_at": "2026-05-26T12:28:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb3deb9fd", "title": "Teaching and Trouble building binaries", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4842", "published_at": "2026-05-03T10:49:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb47be29b", "title": "Suite dreams: the code we own.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4801", "published_at": "2026-04-01T15:58:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb4e1da15", "title": "“Department Queue”: benefits of a Bluesky queue server", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4783", "published_at": "2026-03-17T10:59:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb56ece64", "title": "Designing an in-situ 1200˚C mini-tube-furnace, and the value of open hardware licenses", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4768", "published_at": "2026-03-04T11:18:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb5b96eb3", "title": "Bluesky on the MOUSE: a first look", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4738", "published_at": "2026-02-10T14:48:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0879c-447e-7311-82d6-5c3fb616c316", "title": "McSAS3+GUI article preprint available", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4728", "published_at": "2026-02-03T07:49:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d610bf1b0", "title": "#OpenToWork – Adding the MOUSE lab to your funding proposals?", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4715", "published_at": "2026-01-27T13:38:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d61a238cf", "title": "“Move carefully and fix things” for all our machines: MoDaCor", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4682", "published_at": "2026-01-12T15:16:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d62303839", "title": "Apologies for the radio silence..", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4666", "published_at": "2025-12-13T09:18:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d631450ab", "title": "Correcting for transmission/absorption part 2… trouble ahead", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4530", "published_at": "2025-11-04T13:45:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d63683898", "title": "How to reproducibly synthesize ZIF-8: AutoMOF paper available on ChemRxiv", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4581", "published_at": "2025-10-16T15:08:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d6424e3d7", "title": "Help speed up the fastest* USAXS in the world: a 3-year post-doc position at Diamond I22", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4560", "published_at": "2025-10-08T10:08:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d647e49fb", "title": "Trouble analysing your data? A GUI and usage videos for McSAS3 are now available", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4474", "published_at": "2025-09-16T09:06:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d6519aefe", "title": "New batch of flow-through capillary holders: interested?", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4472", "published_at": "2025-09-09T15:56:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb4e-e9f4-71e8-a7fd-841d657c55f4", "title": "First MoDaCor code camp", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4440", "published_at": "2025-08-17T12:33:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f18df6a49", "title": "MOUSE flatlining: copper source down", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4469", "published_at": "2025-07-22T05:59:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f19db683a", "title": "Correcting transmission factors, part 1: the issue", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4453", "published_at": "2025-07-03T08:41:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f1a859b7a", "title": "Dreaming of a better future: my vision for a holistic scattering beamline", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4419", "published_at": "2025-05-28T10:20:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f1b102980", "title": "Online talk next week on scattering and synthesis metadata", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4407", "published_at": "2025-05-01T16:04:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f1bc39dcc", "title": "Putting the band back together… For data corrections!", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4380", "published_at": "2025-03-26T09:37:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f1c5f8a4a", "title": "Maintenance time: tidying the power supply, zeroing slits, and first steps with Ophyd.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4367", "published_at": "2025-03-19T07:09:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f1d3f5338", "title": "MOUSE performance 2018-2024", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4353", "published_at": "2025-03-04T12:56:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f1e308b21", "title": "Crystallising Polymorphs of Fat with Cropped Sawtooth Temperatures", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4303", "published_at": "2025-02-19T08:56:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f1f23fbad", "title": "Need rapid heating/cooling? Developing a simple cross-over flow system..", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4292", "published_at": "2025-02-04T15:02:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb58-8759-7057-a7d4-c70f1ff29789", "title": "Restoring the automated data processing pipeline, now with HDF5Translator goodness", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4266", "published_at": "2025-01-28T14:31:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef233e62c", "title": "One hour of me talking… for you!", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4249", "published_at": "2025-01-09T16:30:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef32bcd23", "title": "Fixing science: a new approach for trust?", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4233", "published_at": "2025-01-01T15:04:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef40e5104", "title": "The final step: SPEC no more", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4208", "published_at": "2024-12-10T16:36:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef425a0fc", "title": "WIP: A user interface for McSAS3", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4199", "published_at": "2024-11-29T10:07:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef47820c9", "title": "WIP: Exploring analytical scattering models interactively with the SasModels Explorer", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4187", "published_at": "2024-11-20T09:46:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef4e0a76b", "title": "WIP: Refactored LiveFT educational tool", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4178", "published_at": "2024-11-14T08:31:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef5c6b49a", "title": "Let’s meet at SAS2024?", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4163", "published_at": "2024-10-14T14:04:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef67f3e94", "title": "Your input needed: calling all grazing incidence scatterers…", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4153", "published_at": "2024-09-13T12:19:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef74ed37a", "title": "Capacity restrictions resulting in MOUSE operation limitations – what will we still accept?", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4144", "published_at": "2024-07-19T13:33:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb60-bcaf-7272-93d2-689ef7945183", "title": "The first five MOF synthesis libraries are online", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4120", "published_at": "2024-06-05T13:32:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e2d09908", "title": "Should we even be subtracting interacting solvents? Part 1: the considerations", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3866", "published_at": "2024-05-17T14:09:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e2e6a361", "title": "SAS2024 in Taiwan – final deadline approaching", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4104", "published_at": "2024-04-24T10:54:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e3326385", "title": "Turn your measurement files into NeXus (or NeXish) with this somewhat universal translator…", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4087", "published_at": "2024-04-04T12:30:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e3fe2321", "title": "A month of MOUSE with Moeez", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4082", "published_at": "2024-03-21T16:39:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e4192dde", "title": "Work in Progress: the structure of squid “bones”", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4065", "published_at": "2024-03-05T13:15:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e4f6cc66", "title": "Steps for “liberating” the MOUSE from its original control system.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4053", "published_at": "2024-02-23T13:22:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e586e6c5", "title": "A Winter School, Italian style…", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4040", "published_at": "2024-02-12T09:31:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e65c3a00", "title": "Designing and building a pluripotent temperature (PID) controller", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4024", "published_at": "2024-01-30T15:28:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e708045c", "title": "MOUSE operational statistics 2018 – 2023", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/4015", "published_at": "2024-01-23T10:57:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb66-f0da-701d-a2a6-72b7e7c0d925", "title": "Happy new year! And plans for 2024..", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3992", "published_at": "2024-01-09T07:40:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b6634965b9", "title": "The MOUSE is back in (“friendly user”-)operation, but plenty of work lies ahead.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3975", "published_at": "2023-12-21T09:57:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b663c6d5a9", "title": "Adding a motor controller to the MOUSE step 2 – towards replacing SPEC.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3961", "published_at": "2023-12-12T07:56:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b664234662", "title": "Motor controller madness – a tale as old as time", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3934", "published_at": "2023-11-29T10:56:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b66517f5f6", "title": "Avoid these issues when designing synchrotron experiments…", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3876", "published_at": "2023-11-21T13:53:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b66531071b", "title": "Talk on lab automation and synthesis data structure online", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3844", "published_at": "2023-11-14T12:49:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b6655cfb33", "title": "Data Analysis Round Robin, now published!", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3841", "published_at": "2023-11-07T08:09:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b66612a0ef", "title": "A convenient grazing incidence (GI) sample holder", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3847", "published_at": "2023-11-01T08:34:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b666e3cea4", "title": "CanSAS 2023 – where are we going?", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3787", "published_at": "2023-10-24T07:27:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b66722a2c7", "title": "How to structure synthesis metadata intelligibly? An example from 1200 syntheses on RoWaN.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3720", "published_at": "2023-10-16T10:53:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6b-535c-707c-ad75-a6b66796065c", "title": "Why most machine UIs are terrible for science and business, and one easy step to fix it! (it’s not what you think!)", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3696", "published_at": "2023-09-25T08:14:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b14-7099-85b7-9ec2298aa6ac", "title": "The Superb Swiss Scattering Scene", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3668", "published_at": "2023-09-11T08:07:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518c517a83", "title": "Unnecessary Grazing Incidence Traditions? (Not) putting the surface at the center of rotation", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3609", "published_at": "2023-09-05T07:47:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518d1c0c48", "title": "SAXS on a boat?", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3604", "published_at": "2023-08-28T08:42:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518d352196", "title": "Paul Ewald’s treatise on Fourier Transforms for crystallography and more", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3600", "published_at": "2023-08-08T16:30:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518dc68015", "title": "Traceable, trustworthy science: tackling metadata holistically", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3574", "published_at": "2023-07-20T11:28:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518e2292d3", "title": "The impossibility of improving diffraction data: a tale of a field stuck in a chicken-and-egg problem", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3560", "published_at": "2023-06-14T15:35:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518e4a408c", "title": "Introducing Ultima Ratio: a high-res, multiscale 3D-FFT approach for simulating scattering, diffraction and PDF", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3544", "published_at": "2023-04-25T08:50:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518e9a32e6", "title": "An “open-source” safety interlock", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3528", "published_at": "2023-04-13T11:05:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518ee613a1", "title": "Farewell to my partner in crime: Dr. Glen Smales.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3513", "published_at": "2023-03-30T13:56:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb6f-3b15-7372-8668-63518f29ea84", "title": "Data Analysis Round Robin available on the ArXiv", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3518", "published_at": "2023-03-21T13:07:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b09ccad3", "title": "three-year post-doc position available on (GI-)XS", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3502", "published_at": "2023-02-22T09:16:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b1283f56", "title": "Removing tedium in data processing using Rundeck", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3483", "published_at": "2023-02-13T13:20:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b228176a", "title": "Data Analysis Round Robin: Presentation video online, and paper submitted", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3472", "published_at": "2023-01-13T10:17:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b2decbc9", "title": "Same instrument, double the efficiency. Here’s how.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3451", "published_at": "2022-12-01T14:53:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b35032a0", "title": "Presentation – how to run a (lab) SAXS instrument efficiently", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3436", "published_at": "2022-10-03T14:32:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b3d1afda", "title": "Looking at something else: Robotics in the lab", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3398", "published_at": "2022-06-24T07:49:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b45be130", "title": "USAXS Updates", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3391", "published_at": "2022-06-10T10:07:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b4f9dc48", "title": "Skip! A way to ignore diffraction peaks in a McSAS3 fit", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3369", "published_at": "2022-06-03T12:51:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b5cf4ca6", "title": "A dense dataset – nanoparticle composites", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3323", "published_at": "2022-05-10T12:15:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb72-e8d4-724e-97b2-a180b64a164d", "title": "SAS2021/2 – going for remote attendance.", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3318", "published_at": "2022-04-14T13:29:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e253f2a114", "title": "Data analysis round robin – deadline extension until 24th of April", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3314", "published_at": "2022-04-04T16:45:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e2543c9cff", "title": "Reminder: Data Analysis Round Robin, deadline end of March!", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3309", "published_at": "2022-03-09T08:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e25508b96b", "title": "MOUSE performance exceeds 50% in 2021!", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3288", "published_at": "2022-02-21T10:53:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e2555df6c8", "title": "Data Analysis Round Robin", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3274", "published_at": "2021-12-06T17:09:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e255abcba0", "title": "Better with Scattering 2021 – online introductory X-ray scattering workshop", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3266", "published_at": "2021-09-16T10:37:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e2566e6c0d", "title": "USAXS in the MOUSE: proof-of-principle results", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3230", "published_at": "2021-08-19T09:02:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e256bf79d4", "title": "Monster paper and accompanying dataset finally out (open access)!", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3224", "published_at": "2021-07-05T10:57:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e257a5e47e", "title": "Public lecture on the Dark Side of Science", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3213", "published_at": "2021-06-20T12:18:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e257fe4030", "title": "MOUSE breakdown and subsequent upgrades: USAXS integration, more motion, a hot stage, and moving forward with a transition to EPICS", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3192", "published_at": "2021-05-12T13:29:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb76-30e0-72be-969e-74e258c9f7ab", "title": "Online double lecture on Wednesday 28th of April, 06:00 UTC", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3187", "published_at": "2021-04-26T11:43:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964b882539", "title": "What was it like for the MOUSE in 2020? Stats time!", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3175", "published_at": "2021-04-19T15:24:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964bac2032", "title": "2020 Paper #3: nano-boehmite in a composite", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3147", "published_at": "2021-03-15T09:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964c413ffc", "title": "Secrets of Scattering: Sample Selection", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3157", "published_at": "2021-03-01T09:20:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964c4be051", "title": "2020 Paper #2: Self-assembled helices", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3141", "published_at": "2021-01-22T14:02:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964cc0e19a", "title": "2020 Paper #1: 3D-printed gold and silver nanoparticle composites", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3137", "published_at": "2021-01-04T11:30:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964d1b81db", "title": "Poster: “The Bells and Whistles: a workflow to get excellent experiments out of (lab) X-ray scattering instruments”", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3123", "published_at": "2020-09-30T07:07:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964d97c26b", "title": "What was it like for the MAUS in 2019 (and the first half of 2020)", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3098", "published_at": "2020-07-22T12:11:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964da3d000", "title": "LOL: Lots of Lectures", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3088", "published_at": "2020-05-20T08:25:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964e68a21e", "title": "Better with Scattering lectures are coming to you online…", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3073", "published_at": "2020-04-01T09:37:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb79-77ca-71e1-a2ae-8b964f0839d4", "title": "New online lecture series: #theLightStuff", "url": "https://lookingatnothing.com/index.php/archives/3064", "published_at": "2020-03-24T10:01:02+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
Back to lookingatnothing.com
Blog · corpus.blog/blogs/lookingatnothing.com/posts

lookingatnothing.com

lookingatnothing.com

2026

15x faster McSAS3, and a Porod-slope background additionoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Positions available: post-doc at BAM on operando SAXS/WAXS/XAS, and junior professorship at uni Duisburg-Essenoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
First batch of capillary holders (version 2.4) available in the BAM webshoporiginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
Taking time offoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2026
Hot off the press: grilling composites in the beamoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
Teaching and Trouble building binariesoriginal ↗
3 May 2026
Suite dreams: the code we own.original ↗
1 Apr 2026
“Department Queue”: benefits of a Bluesky queue serveroriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026
Designing an in-situ 1200˚C mini-tube-furnace, and the value of open hardware licensesoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2026
Bluesky on the MOUSE: a first lookoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2026
McSAS3+GUI article preprint availableoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2026
#OpenToWork – Adding the MOUSE lab to your funding proposals?original ↗
27 Jan 2026
“Move carefully and fix things” for all our machines: MoDaCororiginal ↗
12 Jan 2026

2025

Apologies for the radio silence..original ↗
13 Dec 2025
Correcting for transmission/absorption part 2… trouble aheadoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2025
How to reproducibly synthesize ZIF-8: AutoMOF paper available on ChemRxivoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2025
Help speed up the fastest* USAXS in the world: a 3-year post-doc position at Diamond I22original ↗
8 Oct 2025
Trouble analysing your data? A GUI and usage videos for McSAS3 are now availableoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2025
New batch of flow-through capillary holders: interested?original ↗
9 Sept 2025
First MoDaCor code camporiginal ↗
17 Aug 2025
MOUSE flatlining: copper source downoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2025
Correcting transmission factors, part 1: the issueoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2025
Dreaming of a better future: my vision for a holistic scattering beamlineoriginal ↗
28 May 2025
Online talk next week on scattering and synthesis metadataoriginal ↗
1 May 2025
Putting the band back together… For data corrections!original ↗
26 Mar 2025
Maintenance time: tidying the power supply, zeroing slits, and first steps with Ophyd.original ↗
19 Mar 2025
MOUSE performance 2018-2024original ↗
4 Mar 2025
Crystallising Polymorphs of Fat with Cropped Sawtooth Temperaturesoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2025
Need rapid heating/cooling? Developing a simple cross-over flow system..original ↗
4 Feb 2025
Restoring the automated data processing pipeline, now with HDF5Translator goodnessoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025
One hour of me talking… for you!original ↗
9 Jan 2025
Fixing science: a new approach for trust?original ↗
1 Jan 2025

2024

The final step: SPEC no moreoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2024
WIP: A user interface for McSAS3original ↗
29 Nov 2024
WIP: Exploring analytical scattering models interactively with the SasModels Exploreroriginal ↗
20 Nov 2024
WIP: Refactored LiveFT educational tooloriginal ↗
14 Nov 2024
Let’s meet at SAS2024?original ↗
14 Oct 2024
Your input needed: calling all grazing incidence scatterers…original ↗
13 Sept 2024
Capacity restrictions resulting in MOUSE operation limitations – what will we still accept?original ↗
19 Jul 2024
The first five MOF synthesis libraries are onlineoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2024
Should we even be subtracting interacting solvents? Part 1: the considerationsoriginal ↗
17 May 2024
SAS2024 in Taiwan – final deadline approachingoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2024
Turn your measurement files into NeXus (or NeXish) with this somewhat universal translator…original ↗
4 Apr 2024
A month of MOUSE with Moeezoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2024
Work in Progress: the structure of squid “bones”original ↗
5 Mar 2024
Steps for “liberating” the MOUSE from its original control system.original ↗
23 Feb 2024
A Winter School, Italian style…original ↗
12 Feb 2024
Designing and building a pluripotent temperature (PID) controlleroriginal ↗
30 Jan 2024
MOUSE operational statistics 2018 – 2023original ↗
23 Jan 2024
Happy new year! And plans for 2024..original ↗
9 Jan 2024

2023

The MOUSE is back in (“friendly user”-)operation, but plenty of work lies ahead.original ↗
21 Dec 2023
Adding a motor controller to the MOUSE step 2 – towards replacing SPEC.original ↗
12 Dec 2023
Motor controller madness – a tale as old as timeoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2023
Avoid these issues when designing synchrotron experiments…original ↗
21 Nov 2023
Talk on lab automation and synthesis data structure onlineoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2023
Data Analysis Round Robin, now published!original ↗
7 Nov 2023
A convenient grazing incidence (GI) sample holderoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2023
CanSAS 2023 – where are we going?original ↗
24 Oct 2023
How to structure synthesis metadata intelligibly? An example from 1200 syntheses on RoWaN.original ↗
16 Oct 2023
Why most machine UIs are terrible for science and business, and one easy step to fix it! (it’s not what you think!)original ↗
25 Sept 2023
The Superb Swiss Scattering Sceneoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2023
Unnecessary Grazing Incidence Traditions? (Not) putting the surface at the center of rotationoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2023
SAXS on a boat?original ↗
28 Aug 2023
Paul Ewald’s treatise on Fourier Transforms for crystallography and moreoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2023
Traceable, trustworthy science: tackling metadata holisticallyoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2023
The impossibility of improving diffraction data: a tale of a field stuck in a chicken-and-egg problemoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2023
Introducing Ultima Ratio: a high-res, multiscale 3D-FFT approach for simulating scattering, diffraction and PDForiginal ↗
25 Apr 2023
An “open-source” safety interlockoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2023
Farewell to my partner in crime: Dr. Glen Smales.original ↗
30 Mar 2023
Data Analysis Round Robin available on the ArXivoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2023
three-year post-doc position available on (GI-)XSoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2023
Removing tedium in data processing using Rundeckoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2023
Data Analysis Round Robin: Presentation video online, and paper submittedoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2023

2022

Same instrument, double the efficiency. Here’s how.original ↗
1 Dec 2022
Presentation – how to run a (lab) SAXS instrument efficientlyoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2022
Looking at something else: Robotics in the laboriginal ↗
24 Jun 2022
USAXS Updatesoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2022
Skip! A way to ignore diffraction peaks in a McSAS3 fitoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2022
A dense dataset – nanoparticle compositesoriginal ↗
10 May 2022
SAS2021/2 – going for remote attendance.original ↗
14 Apr 2022
Data analysis round robin – deadline extension until 24th of Apriloriginal ↗
4 Apr 2022
Reminder: Data Analysis Round Robin, deadline end of March!original ↗
9 Mar 2022
MOUSE performance exceeds 50% in 2021!original ↗
21 Feb 2022

2021

Data Analysis Round Robinoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2021
Better with Scattering 2021 – online introductory X-ray scattering workshoporiginal ↗
16 Sept 2021
USAXS in the MOUSE: proof-of-principle resultsoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2021
Monster paper and accompanying dataset finally out (open access)!original ↗
5 Jul 2021
Public lecture on the Dark Side of Scienceoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2021
MOUSE breakdown and subsequent upgrades: USAXS integration, more motion, a hot stage, and moving forward with a transition to EPICSoriginal ↗
12 May 2021
Online double lecture on Wednesday 28th of April, 06:00 UTCoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2021
What was it like for the MOUSE in 2020? Stats time!original ↗
19 Apr 2021
2020 Paper #3: nano-boehmite in a compositeoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2021
Secrets of Scattering: Sample Selectionoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2021
2020 Paper #2: Self-assembled helicesoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2021
2020 Paper #1: 3D-printed gold and silver nanoparticle compositesoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2021

2020

Poster: “The Bells and Whistles: a workflow to get excellent experiments out of (lab) X-ray scattering instruments”original ↗
30 Sept 2020
What was it like for the MAUS in 2019 (and the first half of 2020)original ↗
22 Jul 2020
LOL: Lots of Lecturesoriginal ↗
20 May 2020
Better with Scattering lectures are coming to you online…original ↗
1 Apr 2020
New online lecture series: #theLightStufforiginal ↗
24 Mar 2020
Next