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2026

Poster on MoDaCor for NOBUGS 2026original ↗
30 Sept 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
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