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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I'm currently at LCLS in Stanford, anyone got a lead on where I might find a #SynchrotonMug to add to my collection? I know they exist. I've seen pictures!

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Finally, a detector suitable for the new SynchroGnome beamlines. A giant leap forward in tiny science. #ROD10atECM #ECM

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I don't have a Crystallography themed hat, so I guess I need to get one made out of something edible.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Why would we bother guessing anything else?

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

It's actually in P 21 21 21, but we can still meet up for that beer if you spot me at the conference.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Who are you wagering? Becuase I know the answer already 😉

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Made it to Poznan for the European Crystallography Meeting. Looking forward to presenting at the Science Slam on Thursday with the help of my cat Rosalind. #Crystallography #ECM35 #StructuralBiology #ScienceCommunication #SciComm #ScienceSlam

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think my electron density might be haunted. 💎👻💀

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Said goodbye to the @dectris.bsky.social Pilatus 6M the other day with one last #DetectorSelfie featuring beamline scientist Sofia. Collected some data to 0.87 A to give it a proper send off. Not sure how many images it has taken on I24 but it is very deserving of a rest.

2 people, a woman wearing glasses and a man with a beard, taking a picture in the reflective surface of a photon counting detector.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Taking bets on if this is crystalline or not. We'll find out next week on @diamondlightsource.bsky.social's VMXm next week with the help of @adamcrawshaw.bsky.social.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The electron microscope can't believe you just said that.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

After 2 weeks of antibiotics twice a day Nori (left) now has a clean bill of health. Kili (right) is clearly pleased about this too.

A light yellow and grey cockateil and a dark grey peid cockateil put their heads together. One has their beak wide open. Both have very orange cheeks.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I was minding my own business watching a music video when suddenly I see @thewarningarmy.bsky.social have managed to crystallise themselves. So I thought I'd see if they diffract, and they do! #Crystallography #TheWarning #Crystal #Diffraction

A regular repeating pattern of Ale, Pau, and Danny from the rock band The Warning. Effectively forming a 2D crystal of the band members.

$The reulsting diffraction pattern of the crystallised members of the warning. A Grey background with white spots in a regular repeating pattern.$

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

If this #crystal space group isn't P3 or P6 I'll eat my #crystallography hat. It also reminds me of a tiny allen key.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

I don't see a major and a minor groove, and there are fewer that 4 bases per turn.

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Changes in PDB IDs are coming that will require use of PDBx/mmCIF file format... will you be ready? #MayThe4th Resources are available to help: www.wwpdb.org/docume...

Him: Structures in PDB format
Her: Do you mean mmCIF and not deprecated format, right?
Him:
Her: RIGHT?

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Happy #StarWars day from Nori and Kili. May the fourth be with you.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Pretty successful draft at the local game store. Won the event and got a chonky dragon. #MTG #MagicTheGathering

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Blue copper crystals on a silicon chip.

A black silicon chip with regular etched square holes covered in blue/purple crystals.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I made Ojer Axonil spell slinger group slug and it has quickly become one of my favourites. First mono deck was Gisa Glorious Resurrector.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

¡Olé! ¡Olé! ¡Olé! WARNING! Had a great time watching #TheWarning at Brixton last night.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

It's a protein called Isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1). No salt crystals here.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Did someone say protein crystals? Someone probably said protein crystals.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

What are the Rolling Stones doing in my electron density?

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This is Kili. Their interests include screaming and eating broccoli.

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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Post dog.

A large shaggy white dog sits next to a dog bed. He's giving his dogface.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

A purrfectly normal envelope to have slid under my office door as a Crystallographer.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Hmm, looks orthorhombic primitive to me.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Had a lot of fun at the London final of #FameLab yesterday. Unfortunately as the runner up I won't be at the national final, but I did win the audience vote! Thanks for the kind words and advice from the judges @robinince.bsky.social, @funsizesuze.bsky.social, and @catherineloveday.bsky.social.

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The Spike Feeders @spikefeeders.com · 28/03/2025

IF YOU WANT TO WIN THE PRECONS WE PLAYED, REPOST THIS POST! We're giving them away inside a @gamegenic.com CARDS LAIR PRO 1000+ CONVERTIBLE! We'll pick a winner on Monday, March 31 at 12pm CT. Must follow us and @gamegenic.com to qualify.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It is digital, so as long as I don't print it out we're all good.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

From now on, if you're not wearing the appropriate PPE while using a Sharpie in the lab I'm going to have to have words with you. For safety.

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Sam "The Mug Guy" Horrell @drhorrell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I'll be presenting at the London #FameLab final in a few weeks! If there are any Londoners looking for an evening of accessible science talks you can get (free) tickets here. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-fam...

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London FameLab Final

Experience the excitement of the London FameLab Final! Enjoy engaging science talks as contestants compete for a place in the UK Final.

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Charles Bayly-Jones @charlesbj.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Sigh... the "protein folding problem" ≠ "structure predicition".

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