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Alun

@alunashton.bsky.social
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Head of Science IT at @psich 🇨🇭. Science and puters by day but garden and if I'm lucky farm when I can. Gwreiddiau dal yng Nghymru. My views.

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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
How it started, how it's going, the day before returning to work....
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Fabulous walk today straight from the house. Knackered! Lost all my fitness over the autumn travelling with work and the obligatory autumn heavy cold.... Thank god it was mostly downhill after the peak where the panoramic photos were taken!
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 09/10/2025
#5232, the magazine of the PSI, is out! ✨ This issue is all about the art of quantum physics. 📖 Our magazine is available online: English: www.psi.ch/en/news/5232... German: www.psi.ch/de/news/5232... French: www.psi.ch/fr/news/5232... #Quantum #ResearchAtPSI #FutureTechnologies
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Chicago, bean there now......
Chicago skyline
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CCP4 @ccp4mx.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Registration for the #CCP4SW 2026 is now open! Being held as hybrid event with in-person at EMCC, Nottingham, UK between 7-9 January 2026. This year's topic is Ligands in Focus: Decoding Ligand Binding in Modern Structural Biology. Find out more at studyweekend.ccp4.ac.uk
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Think I must have missed the red bit, though always impressed how well the phone takes photos....
Moon...
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 04/09/2025
PSI is now computing with Merlin-7 – a virtual cluster on the Alps supercomputer at CSCS in Lugano. Flexible, energy-efficient, and ideal for AI, materials research, and more. 💻💧 #PSI #Merlin7 www.psi.ch/en/news/medi...
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Merlin-7: New model for high-performance computing
An innovative computing cluster is ushering in a new era of computer-aided research at PSI.
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Exciting day ahead with the #EnhanceR 2025 symposium supporting #rse in Switzerland.
Presenter and slide
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Mark Basham @markbasham.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This is a really exciting role working with me around some really exciting technologies and scientific data. Please feel free to get in touch if you would like more info.
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 08/05/2025
An international team of scientists observed dynamic topological Hall effect in the material Fe₃Ga₄ at room temperature. This makes it practical for potential everyday applications such as more efficient electronic devices. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 24/04/2025
New results from the MEG II experiment were presented today at the @psich.bsky.social! The search for the decay of a positive muon into a positron and a photon continues… Read more: www.psi.ch/en/cnm/news/...
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James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Keep American meat out of Britain
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The Rosalind Franklin Institute @rosfrankinst.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
📣 We're hiring a Senior Scientist in Electron Ptychography! Join our team to lead innovative research in electron ptychography and push the boundaries of high-resolution imaging. For further details and to apply: zurl.co/c0hzE
"We're Hiring - Senior Scientists in Electron Ptychography" On a yellow background
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A massive congratulations, as well, to all the Controls and Science IT (CaSIT) groups who have been working behind the screens, I mean scenes, to get this all going! 🎉
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Mark Basham @markbasham.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The @rosfrankinst.bsky.social is currently looking for a 50% secondment in AI to work with me and everyone at the Franklin. Please pass on the info to others who might be interested, and please do get in touch if you would like any more information. www.rfi.ac.uk/latest/call-...
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Call for Strategic Partnerships - RFI
The Rosalind Franklin Institute are seeking to make a new 5-year joint appointment in each of two key strategic areas for the Franklin, Structural Biology and Artificial Intelligence, collaborating wi...
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 21/03/2025
Thom Mason, Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory was at PSI to discuss how they are responding to evolving national priorities and the rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 17/03/2025
🎉 The PSI spin-off Araris Biotech AG has been acquired by Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., for $1.14 billion – a great achievement, making it the first PSI spin-off to reach the exclusive 🦄"UNICORN" level! #Unicorn #ResearchAtPSI #TechnologyTransfer #FromResearchToMarket #PSISpinoff
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A superlative milestone
PSI spin-off Araris Biotech AG achieves valuation at unicorn-level!
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 13/03/2025
Using operando neutron imaging and diffraction, researchers at PSI could follow how lithium moves inside ultra-thick graphite electrodes in real time. #LithiumIonBatteries #BatteryResearch #NeutronImaging advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 06/03/2025
Join the PSI & Park Innovaare Career Fair on March 20, 2025! 🔬 📅 When? March 20, 2025 | 10:00 – 16:00 📍 Where? PSI | Park Innovaare 🏢 Companies: ABB, AXPO, Bain, Hilti, Cross-ING, Dectris, PSI Founder Fellowship
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 25/02/2025
From a quarter of a lap to a million – it takes a whole team to perfectly bring electrons back to the storage ring at the Swiss Light Source SLS. www.psi.ch/en/news/psi-...
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SLS 2.0: How to start up a particle accelerator
The electrons are back: after its upgrade, the Swiss Light Source SLS is starting up again, step by step.
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Even sofa rugby is not good for ones health.... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Garmin watch showing how stressful international rugby is!
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 18/02/2025
As part of the #EURAD-DONUT project, an interdisciplinary team led by PSI published a study on #machineLearning to enhance simulations for #nuclearWaste with a focus on geochemical calculations, the major computational bottleneck in reactive transport simulations. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
We hope to have some student openings this year in our department so please submit to the PSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory and Data www.psi.ch/en/hr/job-op...
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Summer Students in Scientific Computing, Theory and Data
The Paul Scherrer Institute PSI is the largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences within Switzerland. We perform cutting-edge research in the fields of future technologies, energy...
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 07/02/2025
PSI physicists have teamed up with Google to build a new type of digital-analogue #quantum #simulator that can be used to study physical phenomena with unprecedented precision and flexibility.
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Unique quantum simulator opens door to new research
PSI physicists have teamed up with Google to build a new type of digital-analogue quantum simulator.
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 07/02/2025
Finishing your Bachelor's or enrolled in a Master's? Unlock your future in science! 🚀 Apply for the PSI Summer Student Programme by Feb 28, 2025! 🔬✨ ➡️ www.psi.ch/en/summerstu... #STEM #Research #Internship
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 24/01/2025
23 January 2025 - a day to remember: The electrons are back at the #SwissLightSource #SLS! 💫 With this, SLS is well on track to resume operation in summer 2025. Congratulations to the entire #SLS 2.0 team on this major milestone! 👏 #UpgradingSLS #LightSourceScience #MoreBrilliantLightForResearch
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 20/01/2025
Researchers at PSI and leadXpro have leveraged a photoswitchable caffeine derivative to study ligand dissociation from a G protein-coupled receptor. This breakthrough is a crucial step in advancing our understanding of drug-receptor interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Photoswitch dissociation from a G protein-coupled receptor resolved by time-resolved serial crystallography - Nature Communications
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are critical drug targets that undergo conformational changes upon ligand binding. Here, authors developed photochemical switches for the adenosine A2A receptor and...
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Mark Basham @markbasham.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Back to work after a really good holiday break, and lots of exciting things happening already! It reminded me we currently have an open #ResearchSoftwareEngineer #RSE position in our #AdvancedResearchComputing group at the #RosalindFranklinInstitute. #Job opportunities.rfi.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
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About The Rosalind Franklin Institute - Rosalind Franklin Institute
The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a new national institute, announced in 2017 by the UK government, dedicated to bringing about transformative changes in life science through interdisciplinary resear...
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
We had a "kind of white Christmas" in our bit of Switzerland, I think it's the first since we have been here. It didn't snow but the snow that fell a couple of weeks ago persisted and the last few days it's been foggy and freezing all day. The place has transformed into a magical winter wonderland!
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Yesterday morning, a colleague (Phil Willmott) took this photo of the SLS @psich.bsky.social. But instead of pending warning, by yesterday evening some great progress was made on the SLS 2.0 upgrade and the progress of the beam towards the upgraded storage ring 🤐. Great work by all involved! 2025 🥳
SLS at dawn 19/12/24, by Phil Willmott
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Ok I'm biased but..... x.com/AlunAshton/s...
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
When you change country, it doesn't matter how much you enjoy or embrace it, some things just stay confusing, and I'm ok with that! www.newlyswissed.com/how-the-swis...
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How the Swiss St. Nicholas tradition works - Newly Swissed Online Magazine
While we have already covered one Swiss Samichlaus tradition, we would like to introduce you to a more historical way of celebrating Saint Nicholas...
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
After a week in Atlanta #SC24, it's back to Switzerland and @psich.bsky.social tomorrow with great new insights. The weather was warm, but the welcome in the Georgia Aquarium was warmest, "Croeso" a diolch! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸🇨🇭
Snowy Switzerland Wing view Atlanta sky view Croeso!
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Robert Henschel @roberthenschel.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Last day of #SC24. If you are still in Atlanta, please consider the Interactive HPC workshop, Room B-315, today 8:30 to 12:00. www.interactivehpc.com
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Interactive and Urgent HPC Workshops and BoFs
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 22/11/2024
Aeroradiometry can be used to detect radioactivity on the ground from the air – in real time! A fascinating insight into the annual measurement flights of the NEOC together with PSI. www.psi.ch/en/news/psi-...
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In the flying laboratory
Every year, the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC), with the support of PSI, carries out measuring flights to determine the radiological situation in Switzerland.
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
When I left for Atlanta (~20oC) #SC24 last Saturday, Switzerland was still warmish, but last night... I'm not prepared....
Snow scene from security camerasSnow on green waste bin
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Tim Farron @timfarron.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
If you want to know why so many farmers are protesting, please read this. This isn't just about inheritance tax - though for many that was the final straw. Broken promises, huge cuts to funding, appalling trade deals - the Conservatives and now Labour have betrayed our farmers.
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PSI Paul Scherrer Institut @psi.ch · 19/11/2024
With the SLS 2.0 upgrade, experiments at the #SLS will achieve up to 1,000x the previous performance level, resulting in a substantial increase in data production 💾. Huge kudos 👏 to our support team and #IBM for installing new Storage Scale Systems 6000. @alunashton.bsky.social
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We're gearing up to welcome #SLS2.0 data here at @psich.bsky.social . Thanks to #IBM!
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Delighted to be at #sc24 here in Atlanta and give an invited talk in the XLOOP workshop. Thanks to all who stated awake 😉 and a great exchange! (I was leaning over a banister, I don't usually 😁!) wordpress.cels.anl.gov/xloop-2024/w...
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Mark Basham @markbasham.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Applications are currently open for the #PhD program at the #RosalindFranklinInstitute, and there are lots of opportunities to pursure projects in #ComputerScience and #Physics as well others. Check out projects 17-19 for opportunities to work with me and my team. www.rfi.ac.uk/phd-project-...
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PhD project areas - Rosalind Franklin Institute
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 06/11/2024
Our first post on Bluesky? It could only be one thing 👀 Are you missing the blue skies and lighter evenings this week? It’s been grey and overcast for many… But will it be more of the same for the next 10 days? Find out in our latest YouTube video 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cgwz...
A beautiful photo of the sun shining through clouds which sit above calm waters.
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Alun @alunashton.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
@jacobfilik.bsky.social seems I've had an account for a while! But not sure how much I will use yet!
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